• Does Santa Claus exist? Is Santa Claus Real?
• Kids all over the world want to know!
• It may just be one of the big philosophical questions in life
…
• Quotescoop.com to the rescue! Read this & judge for yourself.
• Warm Santa humor … incl. selected Santa Claus jokes &
quotes!
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Does Santa Claus Exist?
Is Santa Claus real? Nobody (apart from a very few, select
people) knows, but a lot of people do a lot of believing.
Some (often younger people) believe he is indeed real; some
(often older people) believe that he isn't real.
Who is right? The young folks? The old folks? Neither? Both?
Does it even matter?
Or … is it one of those BIG questions in life – right up there
with 'Why are we here?' and 'Who am I?' and 'What is the meaning
of life?'
Quotescoop.com has done some research and some thinking and a
tiny bit of guessing, and if you read this article you'll find
out more, so you can judge for yourself.
TThere's nothing sadder in this world than to awake
Christmas morning and not be a child.
~ Erma Bombeck ~
Who Is Santa?
Santa Claus is an overweight Caucasian guy with a long white beard,
dressed in funny red clothes who is fond of children. No, not in
the nasty way – not as far as Quotescoop is aware. He just loves
to give children presents and does so every Christmas eve.
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white
dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
~ Dick Gregory ~
Is Santa Real?
Well, Rumor Has It …
… that' he's alive and drunk in Philadelphia. However, the
same thing has been said about Elvis and W.C. Fields,
respectively, and look how true THOSE rumors turned out to be!
So let' rule that rumor out right from the beginning, shall we,
and look at some much more interesting rumors – and facts! The
question 'Is Santa Claus real?' deserves an answer, and perhaps
after reading this you can give it!
Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven
times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early.
And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be
seeing six or seven.
~ W.C. Fields ~
Does Santa Claus Exist?
Well … He HAS Lived a Long Time
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Nobody knows exactly how old Santa Claus is. But he IS old,
that's for sure.
Some say that before he became Santa as we know him, he may have
been Saint Nicholas of Myra, a 4th-century Greek Christian
bishop of Myra (now Demre) in what is now Turkey. If this is
correct, Santa is approx. 1700 years old.
Surely, if he wasn't real we wouldn't STILL be talking about
him?
So, how did he survive for that long? We don't know, but we
presume it has something to do with the way he lives. Okay, so
maybe he eats and drinks a bit much, as witnessed by his ample
belly, but this only shows his great taste for all the good
things in life!
We all know that Santa has a deep belly laughter which he uses a
lot. (Ho, Ho, Ho!). And laughing is notoriously good for you.
This has even been proven scientifically. Also, he obviously
loves what he does, which is really good for your health, too.
Of course not working more than one day a year and hanging out
on sunny Bermudan and Thai beaches the rest of the year is
probably good for you, too.
And a secret but persistent rumor has it that Mrs. Claus is in
fact a 'Tantrica', a master of the art of using the physical
union between two people for spiritual purposes – which is also
said to be a very life prolonging practice – in addition to
being rather pleasurable.
All in all we think Santa has reached his ripe old age in good
health for one simple reason: He loves life!
Is Santa a real guy?
Well … He Has Set Himself Up With a Sweet Deal
Depending on how you look at it Santa Claus has either the
best or the worst job in the world.
It's like this: Since Santa employs an unspecified number of
elves to help produce (and gift wrap) all the presents, he
really only has to work one day a year.
According to persistent rumors Santa spends the other 364 days
of the year relaxing with Mrs. Claus in his various homes and
summer vacation cottages in places like North Pole, Greenland,
Canada and Lapland, Finland – plus of course (less known)
Thailand, Fiji and the Bahamas.
His non-polar haunts are less well known, because when recently
shaved and stripped of his somewhat gaudy red robes and instead
running around in sunglasses and trunks on a sunny beach, he's
really hard to recognize.
Mrs. Claus is another story, of course, but since nobody (other
than Mr. Claus) knows what she looks like with or without
clothes, it doesn't really matter.
Is Santa Claus Real?
Well … the Level of Stress that One Day a Year Suggests
that He Must Be Resilient
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So, Santa only works one day a year and has romantic getaways
all over the world. Doesn't that sound ideal?
It does, but perhaps it isn't.
For one thing he's probably bored out of his skull from having
nothing to do 99.5 percent of the year, and for another that one
day a year is a real drag!
The one night when millions of people around the globe are
having a cozy time Santa has to work his butt off.
In fact some people have claimed that if Santa was ever alive,
he's dead now because of the incredible amount of stress he's
under that one single day a year.
For instance Santa Claus has to bring gifts to somewhere between
100 million and two billion children (depending on whether he
delivers to non-Christian children or not, and depending on how
many of those children have been 'good').
(For the record: Quotescoop.com is of the opinion that all
children are inherently 'good' and we believe that Santa feels
the same – which of course only adds to his workload).
Even one billion gifts, though, seem like rather a lot. But the
hardships don't end there.
Does Santa Exist?
Well … He Does Do Logistics Really Well
The houses that Santa has to visit are scattered all over the
globe.
At the equator the circumference of the Earth is 24,901.55 miles
(equalling 40,075.16 kilometers). So that's quite a distance.
And not all houses are placed on the equator – or indeed
anywhere near it.
But Santa, for all of his old fashioned appearance, has GPS, of
course.
Is Santa Real?
Well … He May Have a Secret Identity …
At each house he has to squeeze his jolly, but overweight
body down a narrow chimney (presuming there is one – otherwise
he may have to circumvent the burglar alarm, too), eat the goods
left for him, leave the presents for the kids and crawl back up
the chimney (dirty, slow work) and restart his flying sleigh to
go to the next house.
Just like other superheroes Santa most assuredly has a secret
identity. Now we have a hint as to what it may be: On regular
days he probably pretends to be a chimney sweep!
Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You
say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and
flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You
sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?
~ Tom Armstrong ~
Is Santa the real deal?
Well … He Does Have a Really Neat Sleigh
The
sleigh, of course, is one tough vehicle, because it has to carry
between, say, 100 million and ten billion gifts (depending on
the number of children he has to give presents and how many
gifts each kid gets). Assuming each present weighs about a pound
on average … well, you do the math.
And Santa himself is a real pack rat, for being able to fit all
those presents into one sleigh.
Does Santa Claus Exist?
Well … He Does Keep Some Pretty Tough Company
And the reindeer are pretty tough, too, for being able to
carry all that weight. Or … there are a lot of reindeer.
Since one normal (non-flying) reindeer can pull approx. 300
pounds (approx. 136 kilos) of weight, in order to pull his
sleigh with, say, 2 billion gifts (one for each kid under 18 on
Earth) Santa would need between 3 and 4 million normal reindeer.
Of
course Santa only has 8 to 10 reindeer total, so obviously each
flying reindeer has the power of maybe half a million normal
reindeer.
Think of when next you meet a reindeer with a red nose. That old
Rudolph is not the kind of reindeer you'd want on your bad side!
Is Santa for Real?
Well … He's IS Clever
Since Santa is so old he has had a lot of time to think.
Thus, he has figured out that if he travels the globe the right
way around (east to west) on Christmas eve, he will actually
gain time because of the different time zones, giving him an
effective 31 hours instead of the usual 24 hours.
This still means, though, that he has to work his rare, cool
(gene manipulated?) flying reindeer overtime, because while
normal reindeer run at maybe 15 miles per hour (approx. 25
km/h), well, Santas reindeer have to run at, say, between 2.5
million and 5 million miles per hour (approx. 4 million to 8
million km/h) to get all the houses covered.
This, of course, explains why so few people have in fact seen
Santa Claus: he's moving too fast to be seen.
Does Santa Claus exist?
Well … He Does Seem to Have Access to Some Really Advanced
Technology
Now, under normal circumstances travelling at that speed
would mean an awful lot of air resistance.
In fact the front reindeers would heat up to the point of
vaporization in a fraction of a fraction of a second, and the
second set of reindeer would reach that point in two fractions
of a fraction of a second – with and Santa and his sleigh and
all the presents immediately following.
Since kids still get Christmas presents, Santa must still be
operating.
So, clearly he has found a way around this problem.
Quotescoop.com's best guess is: superior technology.
Now, Santa started his work many centuries ago, so the last and
perhaps biggest question is this:
Where did Santa get this kind of technology at that time?
Short of asking him ourselves (which is hard, given the speed he
travels at) there's no way to know. We'll just have to give an
educated guess: either time travel or alien technology.
Which one of those it is, that's … well … a matter of
belief.
Santa Claus Humor:
A Hand Picked Santa Claus Joke
The 4 Santa Related Stages of Life!
Stage 1: You believe in Santa Claus
Stage 2: You don't believe in Santa Claus
Stage 3: You start looking like Santa Claus
Stage 4: You are Santa Claus
More Santa Humor:
Three Santa Claus Quotes
Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a
year.
~ Victor Borge ~
Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you
won't find it under a tree.
~ Charlotte Carpenter ~
Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas?
You know … the birth of Santa.
~ "Bart Simpson" ~
Even More Santa Claus Jokes
What do you call people who are afraid of Santa
Claus?
Claustrophobic.
What do you call the fear of getting stuck in a chimney?
Santaclaustrophobia
Why was Santa's little helper depressed?
Because he had low elf esteem.
What does Santa call reindeer that don't work?
Dinner.
Who likes to drink reindeer milk every morning for breakfast?
A baby reindeer.
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