Many of you know that Cookie Monster now eats cookies as a “sometimes” food. 
Now, I am as much against rising child obesity as the next intelligent superluminal particle. It is a problem, especially in developed countries like Canada. But this … this goes too far!
The Christmas season is now upon us, and it has got me thinking (yes! 
). Santa really isn’t all that different from Cookie Monster; he’s this jolly old fat man who likes to eat cookies, yet he can still fit down a chimney even after all of that food. It suddenly occurs to me that if society manages to tone down Cookie Monster, then Santa Claus is the next logical target.
Anyone for “slim Santa”? A Santa Claus who advocates eating healthy food? Coca-Cola probably wouldn’t buy into it (you do know what’s in Coke, right? 
) but I‘m sure that tons of advocacy groups would have a field day. Slowly we’d see our cultural perceptions of Santa Claus shift from jolly old fat man to young, middle-aged multi-racial male with an average income and mixed religious background. 
On the bright side, this means that the employment industry for mall and department store Santa Clauses will experience an increase in potential employees. 
I might just go start a petition to stop this. I would, but Santa Claus and Cookie Monster are both telling me to go eat more cookies.
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They‘re having a vote, in Nova Scotia I think, to see what they prefer Christmas to be called. It’s ******* CHRISTMAS for goodness sake. Just call it Christmas. There’s nothing wrong with Christmas. You get presents. =)
Anyways, I don’t mind the rising obesity thing. Some fat people are really really cool. Let me name some that I think are purdy cool: The Notorious BIG, Winston Churchill, SANTA CLAUS, Obelix, Winnie the Pooh, and I think Buddha…
I really hope that they don’t take away santa claus. For some people he is like an idol, a freind when there are no other’s around. Or was that just me?…. it wasn’t… I was never here. um… ya
well I never really wanted to be like Santa Claus, I don’t know anyone who really does. He is a fat man all dressed in red and wher’s a funny hat and hangs out with little people. Then he slides down chimney’s and most likely gets stuck a lot. anyways that’s all I have to say about him. He’s pretty cool, even though he was made by the coca-cola company.
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Cookies are good! you must not stop eating cookies!
ban those cookie haters!
I will sign a petition to stop those cookie haters!
Saturday, December 3, 2005 at 12:21 PM