What about Santa Claus

Hey everybody,

I'm back once again for my next Christmas post. OK, so far in this series we have covered my Pig's Point of View about how I celebrate Christmas, and Christmas with four letter words. Next up for today's subject: Santa Claus. That right folks, I want to talk about the fat man himself. The very one who has the ability to break into our homes on the night of Christmas Eve, eats all our cookies and claims he was there just to leave our children presents.

I've been asked many times by the young and old if I believe in Santa Claus, to which I am always proud to announce “Hell yeah I believe.” How could somebody not believe in Santa Claus. The dude ROCKS. I know there are some of you out there in internet land that don't believe Santa exists and you may think I am a silly pig for believing in him, that's OK, I'll let you do that. But let me ask you one question about him. Why do so many people love him so much?

Historical Point of View

Santa Claus is not the real reason for the season and thanks to today's commercialization of him, it is hard to think of Christmas and not think of Santa Claus. I'm not here today to sway your opinion one way or another about Santa Claus. I'm just here to offer a little bit of insight as to the mystery behind this elusive Spirit of Christmas. There is a ton of written history about Santa Claus and his origin. We know that he is a man of many names such as Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Sinterklaas, Papa Noel and Kris Kringle. To help answer the question of why people love him so much, we will have to get just a little bit of history about him. Santa Claus has always been more than just a legend. There is recorded history about Saint Nicholas as far back as the year 300, in the town of Myra, Turkey, there lived a young bishop of the Christian church called Nikola. Nikola was known for his generosity of giving to people who needed help. Nikola always wanted to help people but he didn't want them or any one else to know who it was that helped someone out. So to keep himself anonymous, he would wait until people were asleep and drop money donations down the people's fireplace at night. No one knew for sure who it was that would help others in need. It wasn't until Nikola was arrested by the emperor Diocletian, who didn't like the church. Nikola spent 10 years in jail until the emperor's death. After Nicola's return to Myra, so did the secret gifts. It was his generosity that earned him the sainthood of St. Nicholas

The feast of Saint Nicholas was a special day set aside on the anniversary day of his death, December 6. The celebration of St. Nicholas's Day begins on the night before, when Before the children would go to bed, they placed their shoes by the fireplace or on a window ledge outside their houses. Saint Nicholas would come by in the middle of the night after everyone had gone to bed and fill the good children's shoes with presents and cookies. The legend of St. Nick and his generosity spread throughout the other parts of the Christian church and continued through the years into different European countries who then began to celebrate their own legends of St Nick.

It wasn't until 1822 when American author Clement Clarke Moore first described what St. Nicholas, AKA, Santa Claus looked like in his famous poem “Twas the Night before Christmas...” The poem became an instant classic, but still we had only heard about Santa. It wasn't until 1863 when Thomas Nast drew cartoons that showed us what Santa looks like. From there, the popular legend of Santa Claus grew all throughout North America, Canada and European nations into what we know of him today. There is a lot more history on Santa available, there is just not enough room here to post it all. If you are interested in learning more about the big guy in the red suit, I would suggest doing a google search and starting with wikipedia, there you will find a vast wealth of information on the elusive Santa Claus.

OK, moving on now, we all know that Santa Claus is real. It just depends your ethnic background on which version of his story you may wish to follow. But now it is my turn to tell my take on the big guy and let you see why I think so highly of him every Christmas. I have so many good reasons to like him so I condensed them down to the top ten. Ready? Here goes:

The Pigs Point of View on Santa Claus

These are my top 10 reasons of why I still believe in Santa.

1. Santa has one cool ride. Anyone who can drive a sled powered by 8 reindeer with enough horsepower to fly around the world in one night. All this while wearing a red coat and hat singing 'Joy to the world' and never has a problem with parking. That dude has my vote.
2. He is the one guy in this world who never has to buy a new suit. Think of the money he saves that way.
3. He can break into someone's house in the middle of the night undetected by homeowners, security systems and alarms, guard dogs and the nosy neighbors next door. Plus he has never been arrested for breaking and entering by the cops. That is one slick dude, I have to give him 2 thumbs up on that one.
4. Not only does he keep track of all the good little girls and boys, he always keeps track of ALL the naughty single girls and ALL the nice single girls too.
5. He is the only one I know who can eat ALL those cakes, cookies and pies, then drinks gallons of milk, hot chocolate and whatever else is left out for him to enjoy in one night without gaining a single pound or having diabetes.
6. Santa Claus has been known to please any woman, he can do it with jewelery, cars, sexy lingerie, perfume and not get busted by Mrs. Claus. The dude really knows how to work the system.
7. He can walk into any party uninvited, be welcomed with open arms and walk out with a date or girlfriend without even trying. He really makes me so jealous.
8. He is great with kids, both young and old. He leaves present for them and even little pigs like me. Although I could have done without the self-help book on table manners two years ago.
9. He has more legends, stories, movies, songs and TV shows written and preformed about him than anyone else.
10. He is sought after by more business owners because he can walk into any store, sit down and sell more product or items just on his recommendations alone. He is big money.

Yeap, Old Santa Claus is a man of many talents, the things that he does, no one else could never do. (especially that dipstick they have on the Dos Equis beer commercials) I know now, that as long as there is Christmas, the spirit of Santa Claus will always live on, especially in my heart.

Ride Hard or Stay Home my friends

Pig