Posts Tagged ‘Santa’
Ho, ho… Got ya!…
The most widely recognized and embraced folklore by young children is Santa Claus – a plump, white-bearded and red-suited gentlemen who delivers presents to ‘good’ children at Christmas time. To young children, the arrival of Santa Claus on Christmas Eve is an event filled with joy. Indeed, it is the culmination of days filled with great anticipation and expectation.
The Santa Claus Detector is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a children’s device capable of providing selective illumination to signal the arrival of Santa Claus. This is particularly important to young children, providing reassurance that the child’s good behavior has in fact been rewarded by Santa Claus.
U.S. Patent Number 5523741: The Santa Claus Detector, issued in 1996 to Thomas Cane in San Rafael, California.
Via Gerard Vlemmings, The Presurfer.
As we remember that letters to the North Pole take an extra 19 cents in postage, we might also recall that it was on this date in 1928, in Clinton, Iowa, that the clip-on tie was invented.
Bad Santa…
For more merriment, see Sketchy Santas. (And for another real treat see the masterful Terry Zwigoff film memorialized in the title of this missive.)
As we make a list and check it twice, we might celebrate Virginia’s (the state’s, not the doubting young girl’s) ratification of the Bill of Rights. As the tenth consenting state (of 14 at the time), Virginia pushed the first ten amendments to the Constitution past the two-thirds necessary to take effect; and on this date in 1791, they became law.
(Congress had actually passed 12 amendments in 1789, and sent them to the states for ratification. As to the two amendments not adopted, the first concerned the mechanics of the population system of representation, while the second prohibited laws varying the payment of congressional members from taking effect until an election intervened. The first was never ratified, while the second was finally ratified more than 200 years later, in 1992.)
The Bill of Rights (source: National Archives)
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