2006-12-09 16:03:38 · 21 answers · asked by Oh Dee! 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Bad behavior
2006-12-12 17:21:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Children used to love getting coal from santa.
Coal has many uses:
Most prefferably, children liked to keep warm in the winter months. They would throw the coal into the furnace.
Other ways children used coal was in art, school pencils, and even in make up base.
Plus, if they ever over dosed, they could drink the charcoal and it would serve medicinal purposes.
Santa knew what he was doing in giving out Coal.
Now a day's,
Children use coal as sidewalk chalk
war paint
& most commonly while firing up the bbq grill.
-We wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year.
Be good or Santa may just bring you coal this year.
2006-12-09 16:08:45 · answer #2 · answered by notescafe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Santa would leave a lump of coal for all those kids that didn't behave the right way.
2006-12-09 17:31:05 · answer #3 · answered by King 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
back in the day coal was given to bad kids. but the reason it was coal becouse back in the day homes were heated by coal an the coal that fell off the truck would be placed in the stocking becouse it was free lol thats what my mom always told me
2006-12-09 16:12:24 · answer #4 · answered by rodeogirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
seriously, i wish he'd bring me some coal, because heating a house is expensive right now!
but, i think that stems from when men used to work in coal mines all day and come home covered in soot and dirt. coal wasnt appealing to kids, so parents would tell them the santa/coal story to keep them in line.
2006-12-09 16:12:18 · answer #5 · answered by hellion210 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, if your good, over time that piece of coal will turn into a diamond.
You may have been bad now, so here is a piece of coal, and if you do good, then that peice of coal will turn into a diamond.
2006-12-09 16:06:49 · answer #6 · answered by caveman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heh Sticks and crap? Like crap as in 'stuff' or "the dog crapped"?
I got a lump of coal one year, but it wasn't from Santa ;)
2006-12-09 16:12:20 · answer #7 · answered by Shokur 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
R T
It is to stoke up the fire in the fire place because Santa will Not be coming down the chimney this year you been naughty again
2006-12-10 04:56:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they deserve it...
In some European cultures, there's a bad Santa (Knecht Ruprecht in German) that comes around with St Nick on a special day and he gives them sticks and crap, too, if they've been bad.
2006-12-09 16:06:09 · answer #9 · answered by Ultima vyse 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coal was to show kids thathey didn't deserve anything of value. he doesn't leave coal any more, its not politically correct, now he leaves frozen dog poop!
2006-12-09 16:07:22 · answer #10 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋