Funny Father Christmas Pictures

Funny Father Christmases Pictures and Jokes

Will and Guy think that the plural of Father Christmas should be Father Christmases (and not Fathers Christmas).

• Father Christmas in Training for Christmas Day
• Guy and Father Christmas - A personal reminiscence
• Funny Father Christmases Pictures - Relaxing
• Father Christmas Race
• Other names for Father Christmas - Santa Claus

Funny Father Christmases Pictures

Father Christmases in Training for Christmas Day

Father Christmas Relaxing After the Big Event

Father Christmas Drinks Will and Guy's Mulled Wine

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Guy and Father Christmas - A Personal Reminiscence

As a boy of about five, I was taken into the big city to meet with Father Christmas.  He had his elf grotto in the big department store.   My mother and I had to queue, but eventually I reached Father Christmas and he asked me, 'Guy what would you like for Christmas?'  I dumbfounded, then I surprised my Mother by saying: 'Nothing'.

Footnote 1
Well for the next fifty years, when asked, 'What would you like for Christmas Guy', I repeated the same record: 'Nothing'.  Amazingly, nobody listens, and have to say that every year I get the most delightful presents.

Footnote 2
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple

Santa Claus computing his present list

A modern Santa hard at work on his keyboard -->

Question:
What's the best Christmas present a child could get?

Answer:
A broken drum - you can't beat it!

Father Christmas Opens His Own Presents

Other names for Father Christmas

The personification of Christmas can be traced back to the Puritans in the early 1600s.  Possibly it was Ben Jonson who first created the name 'Father Christmas' in December 1616

20 years later, Thomas Nabbes, refers to Father Christmas as 'An old reverend gentleman in furred gown and cap'.  Other common names from this period were Lord Christmas and Sir Christmas.

Names for 'Father Christmas' in over 20 Other Languages

Coca Cola and Santa
Haddon Sundblom made the character of Santa popular in 1931.  As an illustrator from Chicago, USA, Sundblom designed a Coca-Cola advertisement which contained an image of Santa with a red suit and a white beard.  Since then Santa has been a major part of Christmas in the UK and the USA.  However, while children today can recognise Victorian Santa pictures easily, they be surprised to see older pictures showing Saint Nicholas (Santa) in green or blue attire.

The Ideal Funny Father Christmas

• Father Christmas must be at least 5ft 10in – It looks incongruous if the child is bigger than Father Christmas.
• Father Christmas should smell of Old Spice and peppermints. (Brandy or Whisky is a no-no)
• The white beard should be stuck to the face with glue.
• He should have the full red suit, which fits properly.  See picture opposite.

Funny Father Christmas Pictures - Working? or Relaxing? 

Father Christmas Skiing

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Santa Claus Waterskiing

Santa Claus on Holiday!

Funny Father Christmas Race

The 4.5-mile race took place in Newton in Powys reports the BBC. The town currently holds the world record for the world's biggest Santa gathering.   What surprises me of the Santa Claus picture is that they are all wearing Santa hats.

Organisers are hoping it will have broken another world record this year - for the number of Santas yo-yoing at the same time. The annual Santa run is organised community transport charity Newtown & District Dial A Ride.

Jo Corfield, one of the race's organisers, said; 'The Santa Run started just because we were on our last legs and wanted one event that would be a good fund-raiser and keep us going.'

'Since it's grown into the biggest event that Newtown hosts and we estimate it brings £150,000 into the local economy in just one day.' The first Santa across the finishing line was Darren Hisscock from Aberdare in the Cynon Valley who completed the course in 18 minutes.

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