Merry Christmas

See many more very funny comics by Matthew Inman

Parents are in an uproar after a teacher in a British primary school told a room of crying seven-year-olds:

"It’s your parents who leave out presents on Christmas Day!"

The substitute teacher at Blackshaw Lane Primary School has been disciplined.

The class of 25 students became rowdy talking about Santa Claus, and the teacher blurted out that he did not exist to try to calm the students.  Instead many students started crying.

"My son came home and said that his substitute teacher had told the class that Santa doesn’t exist," one father said.  "I thought it was wrong.  He was distraught about it.  He’s only seven-years-old and it’s part of the magic of Christmas to him."

Read More at the Daily Mail

Everyone knows that Santa Claus delivers gifts to millions of children around the world each Christmas.  But a closer look at the Claus stories reveals that perhaps Santa is more myth than man. 

DailyCognitition lists seven important Santa statistics such as:

1.  No known species of reindeer can fly.

4.  To keep his pace, Santa’s sleigh must move at 650 miles per second or 3,000 times the speed of sound.

6.  A sleigh weighing 321,300 tons traveling at 650 miles per second would create enormous air resistance and heat up the reindeer the same way that spacecraft burn upon entering the earth’s atmosphere.  The lead pair of reindeer would need to absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy, per second, each.  In short, they would instantaneously burst into flame and vaporize.

Santa must indeed be magic, because only a magic man could withstand these incredible forces of nature.

See more at DailyCognitition >>

The word “Christmas” originated as a compound meaning “Christ’s mass.”  It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038.  “Cristes” is from Greek christos and “mæsse” is from Latin missa. 

In early Greek versions of the New Testament, the letter Χ (chi) is the first letter of Christ.  Since the mid-16th century “Χ” has been used as an abbreviation for Christ.  Hence, Xmas is often used as an abbreviation for Christmas.

Adapted from Wikipedia

Christmas is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that honors the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.  Christmas is celebrated throughout the world by both Christians and many non-Christians as a secular, cultural festival. 

Modern Christmas customs include gift-giving, church celebrations, and the display of various decorations, including the Christmas tree, lights, mistletoe, nativity scenes and holly.

Santa Claus is a popular mythological figure associated with Christmas.  He brings gifts on Christmas Eve night to children around the world on a sled pulled by flying reindeer.

Adapted from Wikipedia