how would he slide down the chimneys? lol
2006-12-20 16:55:45 · 18 answers · asked by bo_dela 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
really who cares
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2006-12-20 18:19:34 · answer #1 · answered by nicname 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, Santa is always fat but what about Mrs. Claus? Some movies portray her as old and fat while others show her as thin, pretty and a little bit hot. And, really what does she do there at the North Pole? I mean, don't they have elves to do the cooking and cleaning? And you know Santa doesn't want cookies the rest of the year. Maybe she just is there to keep Santa warm on those cold nights. Or, maybe, it would have been weird to have a grown man living alone with a hundred elves. People would talk.
2006-12-21 02:26:51 · answer #2 · answered by jillo4113 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like many others, I had always assumed that Coca-Cola was responsible for the modern chubby, red-and-white-suited Santa Claus, but this is not so. Barbara and David P. Mikkelson note that this image of Santa Claus was already established as THE Santa Claus before Haddon Sundblom, the artist commissioned by Coke made his drawings in the 1930s. The man-sized, red suited Santa was actually popularized in 1885 by Louis Prang, a Christmas card artist. By 1927 this Santa was the standard. All Coke did is make Santa even more popular, and use him to sell a lot of drinks, to a lot of children.
Before this, Santa appeared in a variety of shapes, sizes and suit-colours. By some accounts he was tall, by others he was elf-sized (the latter actually makes some sense). In the 1822 poem "An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" (AKA " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas") he rides in "a miniature sleigh [with] eight tiny reindeer". This small size would have made it easier for him to get down the chimney. Interestingly, this poem is the first account of this unique entrance by Santa. Small Santa = easy chimney fit.
But now that Santa is the jolly old fat man that he is, a bit of magic powder and wishful thinking is all he needs to squeeze himself down the old chimney.
2006-12-21 01:45:24 · answer #3 · answered by Jake j 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The image is of an old, jolly person, who we see in our minds eye is "fat and jolly". With a belly like jelly, that shakes when he laughs, Ho ho ho..
Santa has to have a way into the house, so at first, he was coming in windows. Then the windows started getting locked, so he entered thru the chimney, most of which were large fireplace type chimneys back then.
Stoves and smaller pipes came later.
Anyway, it is all 'imaginary' like fairies, elves, etc.,
So... Merry Christmas..
2006-12-21 01:12:13 · answer #4 · answered by scrubbag 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Magic is how he slides down the chimney! The saying is fat people are happy! Jolly St. Nick!
2006-12-21 00:59:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Santa supposed to have a big belly! :D And, i would think he should just use the front door or something if the people didn't have a chimney. And if they did have a chimney, maybe the reindeers pushed him down with their hooves. :D
2006-12-21 00:59:46 · answer #6 · answered by ? 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the whole santa thing started in the fiftys and the guy who started it just wanted him to be fat i guess and hes magic, thats why he can go down the chimney so well
2006-12-21 01:08:51 · answer #7 · answered by spike 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Graphic stereotype just as blondes are dumb sexy bombshells, Brunettes are bookish and serious. Geeks are nerdy and ill kempt, etc etc etc. ad nauseum. Fat men are trustworthy, loveable, fatherlike, warm, caring, happy, The North Pole is cold and he needs the extra layers of fat, especially riding in an open sleigh in winter ( Picture driving a harley in December in the artic cold). How he gets down chimeys is a mystery which he can not tell us for the protection of our homes from those who would steal the secret to rob us.
2006-12-21 01:05:28 · answer #8 · answered by fancyname 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
santa is fat because of all the milk and cookies he is consuming on x-mas.... and he slides down the chimney using magic.. some chimenys would be too small for ne one to slide down no matter how skinney he or she is. so he uses elf dust (pcp) and magically breaks an entry into your house.
2006-12-21 00:59:08 · answer #9 · answered by DonkeyPunch 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it comes in with "Jolly, old St. Nick" we just assume hes a big ole chubby man. I mean a skinny Santa would not look as good. Actucally hes not FAT hes just kinda big and round but he is agile cause he has to get into all the houses somehow.
2006-12-21 00:58:35 · answer #10 · answered by sportlvr45 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
he gets down the chimney cause hes magic
2006-12-21 00:57:42 · answer #11 · answered by jennifer m 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋