The clever idea of giving Santa a family and a Rosebud-like backstory turned into this noisy, bloated, humorless comedy.
There was a line for Santa and a line for the women's bathroom, and one woman, after asking me a thousand questions already asked, which is the line for the women's bathroom?
But for many years there was no general agreement about what Santa should look like: Among the oddities in Shirley's 6, 000-volume collection are a Santa dressed in colonial garb, and a thin, balding Santa dressed in brown.
He is determined not to take any sick days and will even be working on Christmas, sporting a Santa costume at a local residential home.
"It was 85 or 90 degrees and I'm in a Santa suit with a pillow in my belly and landing on a small section of beach, " he recalls.
The fire broke out as students from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) were holding a freshers' ball, the Diario de Santa Maria, a local newspaper, reported.
There was even a space to write what we wanted Santa to discuss, and a note saying Santa wouldn't scold or discuss topics that would make the child feel bad or sad.
In bohemian Santa Teresa, Solar de Santa is a magnificent blue-shuttered colonial mansion with balconies and a deep verandah.
Obviously, Santa has a quite unique business that no one has managed to replicate.
For most individuals, Santa brought a cornucopia of electronics, gift cards and items to exchange or return.
That sums up Christopher Brereton, co-founder of PictureHealing, a Santa Monica-based company with a low-cost do-it-yourself mobile app builder for nonprofits.
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That's why I'm asking Santa for a new Nexus from HTC.
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Santa, a savvy manager, was clearly engaged in a clever rebranding exercise.
And as if that weren't enough, we've got an appearance by a very familiar looking Santa Claus and a special holiday animation.
Tracking Santa is a tradition that kids and adults around the world have enjoyed for over 50 years, thanks to technology powered by NORAD.
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Kids are very observant, especially when Santa makes a guest appearance.
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Still, it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that the repercussions of the present crisis will be made much more far-reaching if it precipitates the sort of panic that took hold after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in 1979 or the oil leak off Santa Barbara a decade earlier.
Yesterday, I wrote a post about my meeting with Liquipel, a Santa Ana, California company that offers a way to waterpoof mobile device.
His beard clearly wasn't real, and he looked younger than the first Santa, but he impressed Gabby with a Santa's Workshop backdrop and lighted tree.
Last year, Almonte testified that a Santa Muerte statue prayer card, found with a kilogram of methamphetamine in a couple's car in New Mexico, were "tools of the trade" for drug traffickers to protect them from law enforcement.
The collapse occurred after a Union Pacific train struck the side of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train at a rail intersection, Walter said.
Recently, assailants smashed a life-size statue of La Santa Muerte in a South Texas cemetery.
The annual event brings several four-person Santa teams from around the world, dressed from head to toe in red and white, to compete in holiday-themed competitions, like chimney climbing, snowshoe obstacle course relays and Santa Clauben, an event where each team must crawl under a giant Santa hat and pick up gift-like packages along a course dotted with hay bales and pine trees.
But since his election Pope Francis has been living in a simple two-room suite in the Domus Santa Marta - a hotel-style residence built by Pope John Paul II next to St Peter's Basilica.
Many Netflix users had to scratch those plans to gather around the laptop for "It's a Wonderful Life, " "A Christmas Story" or "Santa's Slay" (the 2005 classic starring former wrestler Bill Goldberg as a deranged Santa demon).
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