A Message From Santa

Jon Page jonpage@attbi.com
Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:07:56 -0500


[Its a little know fact that each year Santa works in a different location
  --- oh yes, I know -- North Pole and all that.  But, in order to keep his
whereabouts a secret, the jolly ol' elf moves around the country.  As luck
would have it, he's in Florida this year and the following news bulletin has
just been issued by 'you know who'. ]

Dateline: North Pole

Ho Ho Ho,

Hello out there, all people of the world.

This is Santa and I just wanted to let you know that Christmas may be a
little late this year. See after checking all the boxes and tallying them up,
I found some problems with the results.

The first result showed:
428,534,120 Good
428,523,119 Bad

The second result showed:
428,534,119 Good
428,523,120 Bad

So you see, I can't, with good faith, go out and deliver presents while
knowing I could have made a mistake. Maybe Little Johnny was good for
once, then again, maybe not. So, I have enlisted the help of all my
elves and the Mrs. to help do a recount. We hope to have this finished
up by 5pm on the 24th of December, but there is a possibility that it
might take longer.

You see the tally cards were not quite clear to me, although I made them 
my-self,
I forgot what they meant. You know, Good...and Bad??? And the check marks I
used were not all the same, some went left, some right, some were just a mark.
Some went through both boxes, and some didn't even have much of a mark on them.
I'll leave it up to them to decide what I meant.

So if you wake up on Christmas morning, and there are no presents under 
your tree,
at least you can tell the kids the story.

Thank you for your patience and understanding in these times,

Holiday Cheer,

Santa 



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