OT -- Reindeer Games...

A Christmas joke from my 5-yo granddaughter:

If the one with the red nose is Rudolph, what's the OTHER reindeer's name?
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Olive. (If you don't "get it" right away, sing the song...)

I'd go back to talking about nipple creams and feeling like a boob...........

Remember, when baby cries, give bust in mouth.

OK, Blitzen, Dancer, Dasher, Vixen, Prancer, Comet, Donder, Cupid!!! If I spelled therm right!!!

Now if Santa only has 8 tiny reindeer which one stayed home when Rudolph went to light they way????????

Jerry

6PtStar wrote: If I spelled therm right!!!

You spelled the names right...but got "them" wrong!

Now, to your question: Santa was diagnosed with OSA after a significant weight gain (some silly poem convinced millions of kids to leave fattening cookies and milk for him!!!). Anyway, to haul Santa's fat a....um..."figure" around (along with his new CPAP machine) required the addition of another steed--a magnificent reindeer named Rudolph (who obviously has a severe mask fit problem!) As a token of gratitude for Rudolph's efforts to bring OSA into the limelight, millions of CPAPers today proudly sport red noses in his honor. And now, like Paul Harvey, you know the rest of the story...

LinkC wrote:

6PtStar wrote: If I spelled therm right!!!

You spelled the names right...but got "them" wrong!

Now, to your question: Santa was diagnosed with OSA after a significant weight gain (some silly poem convinced millions of kids to leave fattening cookies and milk for him!!!). Anyway, to haul Santa's fat a....um..."figure" around (along with his new CPAP machine) required the addition of another steed--a magnificent reindeer named Rudolph (who obviously has a severe mask fit problem!) As a token of gratitude for Rudolph's efforts to bring OSA into the limelight, millions of CPAPers today proudly sport red noses in his honor. And now, like Paul Harvey, you know the rest of the story...

OK, so this is a TRICK question and I BIT!! You did say it was Christmas Joke, I am still waiting for the PUNCH LINE! As an old Texas boy I was always told you did not want to have an odd number of animals (deer, mules horses, etc)in a harness rig to pull a wagon or sled.

Jerry

As an old Texas boy I was always told you did not want to have an odd number of animals (deer, mules horses, etc)in a harness rig

Well Santa is from the North Pole, that's in Canada eh, not Texas. We don't care what reindeer do in their bed rooms as long as they are consenting adults.

6PtStar wrote: OK, so this is a TRICK question and I BIT!!You did say it was Christmas Joke, I am still waiting for the PUNCH LINE!

"Olive the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names..."

Actually it was Santa's backup light "Ambrose the amber bottom antelope!

LinkC wrote:"Olive the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names..."

OH!!!!! Okay!!!

Jerry

Y'all need to stay out of the eggnogg.

And everyone in Texas knows that Santa uses mules down here as we usually don't have any snow. And that ain't no bull.

Lisa

Actually, "Olive" may not be too far off. I'd been hearing for the last couple of years that for reindeer to have antlers at Christmas time, they would have to be female. After reading this, I decided to check that out.

From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeer

Both sexes grow antlers, which (in the Scandinavian variety) for old males fall off in December, for young males in the early spring, and for females in the summer.


Santa Claus's reindeer

Main article: Santa Claus's reindeer

In the Santa Claus myth, Santa Claus's sleigh is pulled by flying reindeer. These were first named in the 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", where they are called Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder, and Blixem.[26] Dunder was later changed to Donder and—in other works—Donner (in German, "thunder"), and Blixem was later changed to Bliksem, then Blitzen (German for "lightning"). Some consider Rudolph as part of the group as well, though he was not part of the original named work referenced previously. Rudolph was added by Robert L. May in 1939 as "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".

Another Wiki entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus%27s_reindeer


Den

OT, but related: On Sunday, while working at the zoo, I got an interesting phone call. It was a lady looking for deer poop. We get calls like this all the time, especially from folks looking for lion or tiger poop (they use it to keep deer out of their gardens). I explained to her that she should call back in a few days, as the poop would be mixed with the heavy snow we had just received. In discussing it further, I found she was just looking for a few handfuls of especially reindeer poop (Reindeer can be legally farmed here in Nevada, and make for very good eating)(Deer poop is typically little round balls about 3/8 inch in diameter). I told her that our deer were fallow deer. She said that in the end it didn't matter, because she wanted to scatter it in her yard on Christmas eve to convince her kids that Santa Claus really had visited.....