Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

Jimmy Paterson · **Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus -** 12-23-2004, 07:16 PM

[quote:22aba]Yes, Virginia, 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:

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 scepticism of a sceptical 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!!!!

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Duke_of_Ray · 12-23-2004, 07:23 PM

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[DAS REICH] Blitz · 12-23-2004, 07:24 PM

Quite the story... dance:

ninty · 12-23-2004, 07:26 PM

I didn't read it, but when I was houseboating a few years back, we were on this boat full of chicks, and one of the chicks was named virginia. Actually she wasn't a chick, more like a whole bird or like a genetically modified bird that weighs 300lbs. She'd get in the hot tub and all the water would flow out so we used to sing, "meet virginia, shes as big as the state." etc just like the song by Train. it was pretty fun.

Duke_of_Ray · 12-23-2004, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ninty9

I didn't read it, but when I was houseboating a few years back, we were on this boat full of chicks, and one of the chicks was named virginia. Actually she wasn't a chick, more like a whole bird or like a genetically modified bird that weighs 300lbs. She'd get in the hot tub and all the water would darin out so we used to sing, "meet virginia, shes as big as the state." etc just like the song by Train. It was pretty fun.

Sounds pretty mean. annoy:

bukdez · **Re: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus -** 12-23-2004, 07:35 PM

[quote:e3f01]Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.[/quote:e3f01]

[img]http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/11-02/santa-drunk.jpg[/img]...

Mr.Buttocks · 12-23-2004, 07:41 PM

We love you Santa Claus! happy: cry:

Duke_of_Ray · 12-23-2004, 07:42 PM

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":c12d7]We love you Santa Claus! happy: cry:[/quote:c12d7]

Mr.B will you be Santa Clause one day?

Pyro · 12-23-2004, 07:42 PM

Ah, the lies we tell kids.

Mr.Buttocks · 12-23-2004, 07:56 PM

[quote="Duke_of_Ray":8bfd8][quote="Mr.Buttocks":8bfd8]We love you Santa Claus! happy: cry:[/quote:8bfd8]

Mr.B will you be Santa Clause one day?[/quote:8bfd8]

God willing, yes. dance:

Nyck · 12-23-2004, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Pyro

Ah, the lies we tell kids.

stfu watching a kid open presents from santa fucking owns your ass.

OMFG A BIG FUCKING LIE....

shut up

Duke_of_Ray · 12-23-2004, 07:58 PM

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":f8033][quote="Duke_of_Ray":f8033][quote="Mr.Buttocks":f8033]We love you Santa Claus! happy: cry:[/quote:f8033]

Mr.B will you be Santa Clause one day?[/quote:f8033]

God willing, yes. dance:[/quote:f8033]

Tell me, and I will leave you some cookies, but if by some miracle I have a wife stay away from her! Unless you give me like 80 karma points!

Pyro · 12-23-2004, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Nyck

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Originally Posted by Pyro

Ah, the lies we tell kids.

stfu watching a kid open presents from santa fucking owns your ass.

OMFG A BIG FUCKING LIE....

shut up

might as well tell em jesus is the son of god as well.

Nyck · 12-23-2004, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Pyro

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Originally Posted by Nyck

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Originally Posted by Pyro

Ah, the lies we tell kids.

stfu watching a kid open presents from santa fucking owns your ass.

OMFG A BIG FUCKING LIE....

shut up

might as well tell em jesus is the son of god as well.

were you ignored as a child...christ your so depressing

Pyro · 12-23-2004, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Nyck

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Originally Posted by Pyro

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Originally Posted by Nyck

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Originally Posted by Pyro

Ah, the lies we tell kids.

stfu watching a kid open presents from santa fucking owns your ass.

OMFG A BIG FUCKING LIE....

shut up

might as well tell em jesus is the son of god as well.

were you ignored as a child...christ your so depressing

nope, but i never understood why kids needed bullshit like the easter bunny and so on to feel special.