Does Santa Clause exist?

[Mew]

Does Santa Clause, the mystical mascot of Christmas, exist? You decide! :tgrumble:

[ZariusTwo]

Are your decorations still up or something?

[Mew]

Maybe......

[plastroncafe]

Wait...is that bad? Because I've still got my tree up and everything.

[Cure]

Does Santa Clause, the mystical mascot of Christmas, exist? You decide! :tgrumble:

My answer depends entirely on what you believe.

[ZariusTwo]

Wait...is that bad?.

Not in the slightest. I know some that don't take them down 'till spring has sprung.

[Peanut]

Wait...is that bad? Because I've still got my tree up and everything.

Woof for real!? I always end up taking my down New Year's Day, cause my cats inevitably have the bottom half of the tree 3/4 destroyed by then and I can't stand to look at it anymore.

Also, hell yeah Santa is real! Who gave me all those presents, Meow?

[plastroncafe]

Woof for real!? I always end up taking my down New Year's Day, cause my cats inevitably have the bottom half of the tree 3/4 destroyed by then and I can't stand to look at it anymore.

Totally for real. Both the tree and the fact that it's still up and fully decorated in my living room. As are all the other Christmas decorations. They'll probably come down this weekend, only because I'll have the time then and not so much later in the month.

What can I say? I'm a tacky broad who loves twinkly lights.
In fact, one of the few strands of single colored lights is going up in my bedroom as soon as they come down in the living room.

[Candy Kappa]

Of course Santa is real, who else eats the oatmeal and drink the beer we set out for him. (or milk & cookies)

[snake]

Yeah. He's a pretty cool dude, too.

[Mew]

Well I am Ice Cream Kitty's long lost brother.....but I do talk to Santa.

Who wants to join the Santa Clause fan club? Its in the Social Groups!

[Candy Kappa]

I video filmed Santa once.... He flipped me the bird after handing presents to my little bros.

[Mew]

Well then.
When I filmed him, he splashed the hot cocoa I put out for him at the camera.
Sad.

[Donnieangelo]

Well then.
When I filmed him, he splashed the hot cocoa I put out for him at the camera.
Sad.
Did the camera get damaged?

[Turo602]

Santa is dead. He's in my basement.

[Peanut]

Santa is dead. He's in my basement.

Your basement or Walter's basement?

[Turo602]

Your basement or Walter's basement?

Why, are we living together or something? Because that'll be news to me.

[Candy Kappa]

Probably both.

[Mew]

Donnieangelo,no. Santa fixed it as my Christmas gift.

[snake]

Santa is dead. He's in my basement.

Damnit. I want my presents this year!

[Cure]

Turo is Mrs. Clause's jilted lover.

[Jephael]

Okay, who's the scrooge who voted Santa doesn't exist?! I'll have you know he happens to be a close, personal friend of mine!!!

[Donnieangelo]

Donnieangelo,no. Santa fixed it as my Christmas gift.
Well, that's a relief.

[Mew]

Well, that's a relief.
Yeah! I don't have it now, though.

[Turo602]

Damnit. I want my presents this year!

Well, breaking and entering is a pretty serious offense and I reacted.

[Donnieangelo]

Yeah! I don't have it now, though.
Oh, I see.

[Lethal Lullaby]

Hail Satan- I mean Santa. >//u//<

[DarthRaphael]

Wait. . What? You made a poll for this?

Of course he is. The spirit of St Nick is alive in all of us if you look for him.

[snake]

Well, breaking and entering is a pretty serious offense and I reacted.

Fair point. Did you atleast get the sack?

[Mew]

Yes, I make polls for everything. They're kind of my thing.

[Mew]

Hail Satan- I mean Santa. >//u//<
Lets reach an agreement. Satan Clause?

[Donnieangelo]

Lets reach an agreement. Satan Clause?
That's exactly what I thought!

ALL HAIL PLANK...*cough* SATAN CLAUS!

[snake]

Lets reach an agreement. Satan Clause?

Krampus kinda fits that role.

[Powder]

Santa didn't get me anything this year, so I am struggling to believe, man.

[snake]

Santa didn't get me anything this year, so I am struggling to believe, man.

Turo shot him, so no more presents for awhile.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Of course he does- just ask Virginia! Turo shot him, huh? So THAT'S why I got nuthin this year!!

[IndigoErth]

Of course he does. At least in the month of December.

[DarkFell]

Of course he does. At least in the month of December.
What does he do with the remaining eleven months of the year? Hide from unhappy kids that didn't get what they wanted the previous Christmas?:P *Just kidding.*

[IndigoErth]

:lol:

"But I wanted the red fully loaded $500 child-sized Lamborghini!"

http://i.imgur.com/v29T3Iz.gif

[AT-Man]

The Yule Goat is real.

[pandaderek]

Possibly, but, he doesn't show up to my place, anymore. I think he's still upset from my dad finding a loophole in his system...his system, where you take your kid to see his minions, shopping mall Santas, and pay them $10 to find out what your kid wants for Christmas. My dad found out that he could take me to the store and have me pick out what I wanted and made me wrap my own presents, saving $10 (true story).

[Ninjinister]

Yes, I have it on VHS.

[Jester]

Yes, I have it on VHS.

DVD for me. In a box set with its sequel.

[Mew]

DVD for me. In a box set with its sequel.
Blu Ray. In a 3 disc box set.

[BubblyShell22]

I don't believe in Santa Claus and haven't since third grade. As for your question, you have to find the answer out for yourself on whether you believe he exists or not.

[Mew]

Peoples, Santa Clause is in my basement, screaming in agony because my Midget Minions are beating him with their whips.
Don't worry! Jack Skellington is Santa now.

[Shiro Kame]

Never believed in him as a kid, not starting now.

[Mew]

Never believed in him as a kid, not starting now.
But why?
Why anything?
The He-Man cartoon was just a big commercial for Mattel.
Why! Why! Why!

[snake]

I don't believe in Santa Claus and haven't since third grade. As for your question, you have to find the answer out for yourself on whether you believe he exists or not.

Never believed in him as a kid, not starting now.

What the **** is wrong with you people?

[FoxBoxKid]

He exists in the hearts of those who believe in him. :lol: Other than that, not likely.

[Jester]

Mr.Meow, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Mr.Meow, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth and knowledge.

Yes, Mr.Meow, there is a Santa Clause. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Clause! It would be as dreary as if there were no Mr.Meows. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Clause! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Clause, but even if they did not see Santa Clause coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Clause, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Clause. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Mr.Meow, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Clause! Thank God he lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Mr.Meow, nay 10 times 10 thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.



Come on...someone had to do it. :D

[Prowler]

Yes, I have it on VHS.

Scott Calvin. A name I'll never forget. :lol:

[sdp]

I was wondering when people took down their Christmas decorations, for the past few years I've taken them down the first of January but technically its the 12 days of Christmas so it should be done on the fifth, then again I don't think of Christmas as a christian holiday and after Christmas I just don't feel like seeing decorations up. I put up my decorations the first of December or late November but never before Thanksgiving.

[IndigoErth]

Our tree was packed up a few days ago. I still have one little display to put away, other than that it's pretty much done with.

[Mew]

My tree is still up.
Is that bad??!

[Prowler]

I was wondering when people took down their Christmas decorations, for the past few years I've taken them down the first of January but technically its the 12 days of Christmas so it should be done on the fifth, then again I don't think of Christmas as a christian holiday and after Christmas I just don't feel like seeing decorations up. I put up my decorations the first of December or late November but never before Thanksgiving.
I always set up my tree pretty late. Usually in mid-December. And then put it way on New Year's Eve or early January. As a kid, my parents always set the tree in December 1st and then put it way in January 6th.

[Donnieangelo]

My tree is still up.
Is that bad??!
My tree is still up too.

[BubblyShell22]

What the **** is wrong with you people?

We grew up. My mom took me aside one day and told me Santa wasn't real and that it was the parents who put out the presents. She told me not to tell my friends though because she said it was up to their parents to tell them that, so I never did and let them believe as long as they wanted. My sister found out when she saw my mom putting my brother's Hot Wheels race track together. I'm surprised she didn't tell me herself, but I think Mom told her not to. I'm surprised she even listened considering she doesn't listen to anyone now when they tell her something.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

And maybe that's why. Sounds like her faith was shattered, poor thing.


As for when we take down our tree, I took everything off/out from under it, but the tree itself is still up, and I haven't yet put all the ornaments back into storage as I have to rearrange the closet to do it and just haven't felt the inclination yet.

[snake]

We grew up. My mom took me aside one day and told me Santa wasn't real and that it was the parents who put out the presents. She told me not to tell my friends though because she said it was up to their parents to tell them that, so I never did and let them believe as long as they wanted. My sister found out when she saw my mom putting my brother's Hot Wheels race track together. I'm surprised she didn't tell me herself, but I think Mom told her not to. I'm surprised she even listened considering she doesn't listen to anyone now when they tell her something.

Growing up means you can't have fun with Christmas?

[Powder]

We grew up. My mom took me aside one day and told me Santa wasn't real and that it was the parents who put out the presents. She told me not to tell my friends though because she said it was up to their parents to tell them that, so I never did and let them believe as long as they wanted. My sister found out when she saw my mom putting my brother's Hot Wheels race track together. I'm surprised she didn't tell me herself, but I think Mom told her not to. I'm surprised she even listened considering she doesn't listen to anyone now when they tell her something.

Wow, why would your mom just tell a blatant lie like that? :ohwell:

I'm sure she's gotten coal ever since.

[Jester]

Wow, why would your mom just tell a blatant lie like that? :ohwell:

I'm sure she's gotten coal ever since.
I know in my case I flat asked.

My poor sister walked in on "Santa's Helpers" (my dad and I) working on her Barbie house.

[DarkFell]

Growing up means you can't have fun with Christmas?
I'm grown up. I like to have fun with Christmas. So do my parents. I think its a choice.

[IndigoErth]

I don't recall ever actually being told. Think I just simply got old enough that the rational thinking started kicking in a little and realized those rumors that Santa isn't real were probably true.


Although I still laugh over the time before then, when I just HAD to peek in the middle of the night, trying to be super quiet so my parents wouldn't hear me up... then saw that I'd gotten my would-be bike and just couldn't stand it, I HAD to sneak into my parents room and tell them. :lol:

Realizing a few years later that the only thing I accomplished was letting them know I was up sneaking peeks.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Heh, I joked earlier about wondering why he never showed up this year, but truth be told, I've known the truth since I was eight, when my dad let it slip. He mentioned the bike "they" had gotten me for Christmas, when it had been a gift from "Santa". I called him on it immediately, and he admitted the truth. Still got gifts from "Santa" for years after that, though!

[Leo656]

Not gonna lie, I was heavy into it until I was about 10 simply because we were pretty poor and yet, somehow, there'd be a ton of stuff under the tree every year, so "Santa" was actually the easiest explanation at the time, it seemed.

Turns out my Dad was simply friends with a lot of drug dealers and just sort'a hopped on the "money train" a few weeks before the holidays every year. THAT is a hit you don't want to take at any age. I think I was almost 18 when he told me most of my presents over the years were bought with coke money, and that was for me much worse than figuring out there was no Santa. Like, in between I just figured Dad borrowed money or called in some favors every year. Nah, Coke Presents. I mean, yeah, now it all makes perfect and total sense - how else is someone suddenly going to magically get like, 5 grand a couple weeks before Christmas? - but for someone who's pathologically opposed to that kind of thing it still kind of makes me feel bad. :ohwell:

I'm no longer involved in the tree pageantry - my wife's parents do all that and never ask us to participate - but one year when I was a kid, we actually left the tree up, fully decorated, for over a year. :lol: There was a lot of really bad stuff going on and we just never got around to it, and by like September we were all like, "There really is no point in schlepping boxes around three times in four months" so we just left it. I think we usually used to take it down in early January and one time I remember it was February. I also had a friend whose family would sometimes leave their tree up all year but just take the decorations down. That was kinda funny.

[pandaderek]

I guess, as you get older, your view on Santa becomes more symbolic...which is kind of the point of a lot of religious stories. He is taught to be someone who's real, to something that represents a feeling of joy, from reward...both, deliver the same results, just, different ways of delivery (and one way to waste cookies and milk). Although, I'm not saying he doesn't exists, either...I'm, just, saying that is my experience with Santa.

[neatoman]

Of course Santa exists! To say otherwise would be blasphemy and those who deny his glorious existance must be [insert suitable christmasy metaphor for stoning here] to death!
I was going to write "snowballed" but then I had to google to see if it was a sex act, it was...

Does everything that sounds innocent enough need to be slang something sexual? Dick means penis, **** means penis, willy means penis, wang means penis, beaver means vagina, clam means vagina, cherry means vagina, cookie means vagina, etc...

I'm sick of finding out that so many words have an alternate sexual meaning!

[Amaranthus]

Christmas exists in Belgium. But on Christmas, we get stuff like underwear and coupons. We have another holiday called Sinterklaas, where little kids get toys and stuff. Once you're a certain age you just get money for Sinterklaas. I hate holidays.

[Mew]

I think Santa is a penguin.

[evan2000]

Christmas exists in Belgium. But on Christmas, we get stuff like underwear and coupons. We have another holiday called Sinterklaas, where little kids get toys and stuff. Once you're a certain age you just get money for Sinterklaas. I hate holidays.

Isn't that the last name of Leonardo's voice actor in the 2003 series?

[Amaranthus]

I think Santa is a penguin.

Penguins are from the South Pole though.
Get your facts straight.

[Mew]

Penguins are from the South Pole though.
Get your facts straight.
Oh.
Then China should ship them everywhere, like everything from the Dollar Store, and even the store itself.

[IndigoErth]

Think it wasn't until my younger sister was mid to upper teens before we gave up some of the traditions. Still had dad reading The Night Before Christmas and even putting out the cookies and milk just because of the tradition and fun. By then I was largely already over it (or pretended to be), but glad it kept on that long.

Leaving something for Santa's reindeer didn't go past the age of actually believing, but we used to do that too. Parents used to stop by a store that sold animal feed and get a bag of alfalfa pellets. Left a pie tin of it on the door step. Who knows how that many reindeer managed to get at it without tearing up the bushes and whatnot, but the pie tin was always largely empty in the morning. With a little spilled of course. lol :D

[BubblyShell22]

Growing up means you can't have fun with Christmas?

You can have fun if you find fun in it, but I don't and I don't see the point in believing in Santa Claus as a thirty-one-year-old woman. That would be very weird. But whatever.

Powder: My mom didn't lie to me about Santa not existing. I just learned he's not real and that's it.

[AT-Man]

Of course Santa exists! To say otherwise would be blasphemy and those who deny his glorious existance must be [insert suitable christmasy metaphor for stoning here] to death!
I was going to write "snowballed" but then I had to google to see if it was a sex act, it was...

Does everything that sounds innocent enough need to be slang something sexual? Dick means penis, **** means penis, willy means penis, wang means penis, beaver means vagina, clam means vagina, cherry means vagina, cookie means vagina, etc...

I'm sick of finding out that so many words have an alternate sexual meaning!
I'm with you on this one, it is crap.

[BubblyShell22]

Whatever, guys. Believe what you want, but I refuse to believe in it.