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[carbonfrozen]

what's a Santa Claus and what does he have to do with all these fancy lights people keep stringing up

[Attached is a picture of some random house decorated with Christmas lights. There's a neon Santa Claus on the rooftop. It's a very old neon Santa Claus, significant portions of his body, sled and reindeer are just not lighting up.

Did we also mention that it's late at night and Han Solo's bored out of his skull?]

why does he need a sled and whatever those things are

they're reindeer right??

[So bored.]

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[carbonfrozen]

and we do celebrate we just don't have a specific day set aside for celebrating stuff

at least not one that's common to the whole galaxy

[carbonfrozen]

they're worse

and they take the littlest things so personally, drop their cargo once and they put a bounty on your head

[littlemissfutility]

so like earth
i don't think there are any holidays EVERYBODY celebrates
but a lot of people celebrate christmas in america so we have lots of decorations for it

[carbonfrozen]

all right

how

[doubleblind]

Magic. [You can almost see the jazz hands, even over text.]

[articulations]

So you DON'T want me to come over.

I haven't left. My communications have been done mostly in private. But thank you.

[bespin]

Sure you are. And when was the last time you slept?

[vanto]

Personal experience, huh? I believe they call that "karma" for breaking the law and smuggling for the Hutts.

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[kanyounot]

Help a blind guy out.

What's a "reindeer".

[exceptionalthief]

That's the American god of corporate greed. Don't stare at the lights, they'll hypnotize you into spending all your money on gifts everyone will hate.

[Guess who else is bored?]

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[ghoulking]

He doesn't truly exist, it's just a story for the holiday.

The reindeer sort of have their own story too.

[ewenique]

you don't need a hacker, necessarily. that is a particular branch of skills testing programs capabilities. if you contact one of the universities they will probably have an expert to connect you with.

they probably also work harder and in more ethically questionable conditions. the pressure and precision would be considerable.

[onlydoubts]

Something like, he brings presents to children, I think?

Not sure about the reindeer. Or the lights, but they're nice looking. The little ones, I mean.

[reek]

I know nothing of how others worship their gods. Where I come from, men are drowned to honor their god. Others pray to trees.

[ He doesn't believe in any of it himself. ]

[carbonfrozen]

yeah somebody already said that

apparently they're magic reindeer that can fly

[carbonfrozen]

well now this one I gotta hear

[ghoulking]

They are eight, called Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder and Blixem.

The last ninth reindeer is called Rudolph, who has a red nose that shines, but that made him an outcast. However, a night with much fog, Santa Claus realized Rudolph could guide his sleigh with his shiny nose and thus he became the head reindeer of the sleigh.

[fettering]

its my religion kind of!

you dont have anything like christmas/santa where youre from?

[onlydoubts]

is that how he flies from house to house?
sled pulled by flying reindeer

cause that's

ridiculous

[carbonfrozen]

all right what is he because I'm getting fed up

is he the spirit of christmas

is he a saint

is he a symbol of capitalism

is he a god of corporate greed

make up your damn minds

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[carbonfrozen]

they're a little like tauntauns but with four legs and the tusks aren't tusks they're on top of their heads instead

[carbonfrozen]

don't take it up with me I'm not the one who thought it up

talk to that Marya they probably know who you can blame for it

[carbonfrozen]

how the hell did they manage without him before in bad weather because flying reindeer and a sled and no lights sound like one hell of an accident waiting to happen

[carbonfrozen]

not good enough for me

[carbonfrozen]

sure come on over I've got plenty of coffee that needs drinking anyway and they're doing a rerun of the show Luke's on

don't mention it