Advocacy & Safety - There is no Santa Claus!

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew you would do this to me! How can I go on now? Who will I ask now for all my new gear?

Wait a minute.... if I ask my wife she will buy it all now right?

huh?

No Santa??? Well actually, I am responsible for his absence. He didn't bring me what I wanted for Christmas so I chased him away with a baseball bat. Last I heard he commited Hari Kari.

Oh well, time to buddy up to Hanukkah Harry.

Servus!

Wait a minute... if the IS no Santa Claus, then who was that fat guy in the Father Christmas outfit eating cookies and swilling down my congac last December?!?!

Hey ridealot...

If your wife is anything like RangerGirl, you'll be getting a mid-sized lump of coal in your stocking around the holidays!

I find it ironic that my father-in-law is named Claus, is jolly, enjoys giving gifts, and has a white beard!

Hehehe...

Servus!

The lump is only mid-sized due to the fact that she spent the budget on shoes... :D

I guess it could be worse...don't know howright at this moment, but I'm sure it could be!

"Si le père Noël n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer."

"If Santa didn't exist, he'd have to be invented."

(With apologies to Voltaire.)

As long as I maintain my high Fiber diet I'll always know that Mr. Hankey will be around to bring me presents...

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There is one word alone that can describe my feelings about this.

Ick.

Yes, Virginia, (& Pete) There is a Santa Claus
Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
Dear Editor,

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O'Hanlon


Virginia, 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, Virginia, 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 of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. 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 Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. 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 external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! 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 Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. 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, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

Originally posted by Dirtgrinder
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever
"Not only is there a Santa Claus, but here I am to prove it."
--Miracle on 34th Street

I am Santa Claus. I wrap the gifts. I go out and buy the tree. Yes, Santa Claus exists, and here I am to prove it.

That's a classic--and a lovely one, too. Thanks!

You don't want my four year old son to cry if he knows that Santa, doesn't exist. would you

Originally posted by JonR
That's a classic--and a lovely one, too. Thanks!
Your Welcome.
Kinda gives you a warm fuzzy, don't it?:)

Santa Claus gave my my first bike, if it wernt for santa, i probly wouldnt have this website, i wouldnt be replying to this thread, i would have never known Pete Clark (is that a good thing? ;)) i would have watched TV tonite instead of riding my bike, i would probly weigh in at 300lbs, and never show off my lycra to the world... thank you, santa . . .

Sometimes I think Joe is Santa.

But no, I guess not--he posted his photo--too skinny...

Originally posted by Ba-Dg-Er


Tell her she can buy me the Colnago C-40 okay?


What size? I will ask but no promises, You will be lucky if you get colonge! How good have you been?

Originally posted by Ranger
Hey ridealot...

If your wife is anything like RangerGirl, you'll be getting a mid-sized lump of coal in your stocking around the holidays!

Yep that is about it. Every year I ask for the same thing and she always replies " Unless it is black and will burn for a long time you aren't getting it" All well....

Originally posted by Ranger
I find it ironic that my father-in-law is named Claus, is jolly, enjoys giving gifts, and has a white beard!

Ranger's father-in-law IS Santa!!!!!!! :dance:

If I remember correctly, and it has been a LONG time, Santa brought me my first bike, too! Santa Claus does exist and I will loosen the QR of anyone who says otherwise!

Originally posted by RainmanP
If I remember correctly, and it has been a LONG time, Santa brought me my first bike, too! Santa Claus does exist and I will loosen the QR of anyone who says otherwise!
Rainman I totally agree with with you, what will my 3 year old son think, if he knew that "Santa Doesn"t Exist"

okay, now Pete, them's fightin' words! Santa does exist! Okay, so I've been way to bad to get anything lately, so I can let ol' Santa slide, and he doesn't need to get my kids anything, cause he knows that we can provide for them.

In summation, he simply exists. :D

Hey Badger, Merry Christmas man!!! Here's your Colnago C-40!!!! Ho ho ho:D :D :D

http://sumtercap.homestead.com/files/C40gold_.jpg

Originally posted by fubar5
Hey Badger, Merry Christmas man!!! Here's your Colnago C-40!!!! Ho ho ho:D :D :D

http://sumtercap.homestead.com/files/C40gold_.jpg
That is a very nice mean machine

WOW Starting right now I'M going to be a very good boy, and see what Santa will bring me!

Originally posted by Ba-Dg-Er
Sweet... it's even the 00F frame color! Thanks Fubar... I assume thats a picture you took at your house so you can go ahead and overnight it to me! :)


USPS or Fedex? huh huh, in your dreams buddy:irritated

Originally posted by fubar5



USPS or Fedex? huh huh, in your dreams buddy:irritated
Fubar5,
Dreams are free the only thing in this world that is free

Originally posted by Ba-Dg-Er
Go ahead and use FedEx... make sure to overnight it so I can ride it this weekend!

I'm sorry badger, I would if I could, but I am barely sqeezing in a bike for myself.

By the by, what does a C-40 run for price wise?

and that is Plus Tax, don't forget "Uncle Sam"

I'd rather crash my good old Nishiki than one of those, thank you! Imagine how you'd feel....

Originally posted by Ba-Dg-Er
I wouldn't even want to race it. I would be ashamed coming in anything other then first.
Well that's the Price you will have to pay, if your riding that kind of Bike, you should alway be on top the the world when you race

Originally posted by Ba-Dg-Er
$3800.00 frame only.

The record build kit is another $1800.00.

Holy smokes!!!!!:eek: :eek: That is expensive. I would be ashamed to come in anything but first too!!!! Hell, I'd be scared to death of scratching the paint. I would, and I would make everybody else, wear super soft lint free gloves before touching it. And it would stay in a safe,in my room, under lock,key,security cam,and shotgun.:D :D

OK, I'm a little late on this one, but I'm just wondering how you people go when you're trying to explain to an intelligent 4 year old how it's possible to pass four Santa Clauses in one block?

:confused:

Chris

Fortunatly, I don't have to just yet, but the thought of it terrifies me.

There IS a Santa Claus. Several years ago, I saw a poem which was derived from the classic "A Visit From St. Nicholas," which is better known as "The Night Before Christmas."

"... when what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a miniature cyclist with a 19-inch gear ... " etc. etc.

Originally posted by Chris L
I'm just wondering how you people go when you're trying to explain to an intelligent 4 year old how it's possible to pass four Santa Clauses in one block?

:confused:

Chris

Those are his helpers, that's what we used to tell our children :)

Kevin S.