Is it almost that time of the year again?
Posted on 10/14/2012 4:58:40 PM PDT by dead
It’s a holiday classic Mayor Bloomberg would love.
A sanitized version of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” edits out all references to Santa Claus’ pipe habit — and critics say it’s yet another example of political correctness run amok.
A one-woman vice squad — self-published Canadian author Pamela McColl — kicked St. Nick’s butt habit in a new version of the beloved poem about “the night before Christmas.”
McColl deleted two verses — “The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth/and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath”— and hired an illustrator to redraw Santa without his pipe and halo of tobacco haze.
“No one can backtrack now,” McColl crowed to The Post. “Santa has stopped smoking, and 2012 is the year he quit, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.”
But not everyone is celebrating Kris Kringle going cold turkey after 189 years.
“Leave my story alone! This change is not officially sanctioned by the North Pole,” said Nicholas Trolli, president of the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas.
Critics wonder if the meddling willl stop at a smokeless Santa.
“Maybe they should talk about the fact that he’s also overweight and that he probably drinks,” griped Jackie Blackwell, “chief elf” and owner of a Canadian Christmas store.
Literary-minded critics accuse McColl of censoring history...
(Excerpt) Read more at newyorkpost.com ...
Voice on phone: "Tommy, he's gone."
Jimmy Conway: "What do you mean gone?"
Voice: "He's gone and there's nothing we could do about it."
Conway smashes phone on hook.
Nothing?
You have a very limited imagination Ms. Liberal Soul Garbage.
And your knowledge of history sucks, too.
Is it almost that time of the year again?
argh
A Visit From Obama
T’was the night before elections,
And all thru’ the town,
Tempers were flaring
Emotions ran up and down.
I, in my bathrobe
With a cat in my lap,
Had shut off the TV,
tired of political crap.
When all of a sudden,
There arose such a noise,
I peered out my window,
Saw Obama and his boys
They had come for my wallet,
They wanted my pay
To hand out to others
Who had not worked a day!
He snatched up my money,
And quick as a wink,
Jumped back on his bandwagon
As I gagged from the stink.
He then rallied his henchmen
Who were pulling his cart.
I could tell they were out
To tear my country apart!
On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Acorn, on Pelosi’
He screamed at the pairs!
They took off for his cause,
And as they flew out of sight,
I heard him laugh at a nation
Who wouldn’t stand up and fight!
So I leave you to think
On this one final note...
IF YOU DON’T WANT SOCIALISM,
GET OUT AND VOTE !!!!
Awesome scene!
OMG! Outrageous! And we are the intolerant?
That's where you're wrong, biotch. You don't own the image of Santa, and I'll draw him smoking a doob as big as his thumb if I want. So take your PC crap and stuff it up your chimney.
I knew a niece of the author that wrote the original. Excuse me while I go rewrite some Emily Dickinson and Robert Louis Stevenson. I might even rework some classic hymns while I’m at it! Don’t you just love revisionist history /sarc
..but it would be OK in the PC world if it packed with MartJ.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
All hell will break loose in liberal la la land.
Tiny Tim Chestnuts.
‘nuf said
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