Comments on: Carving a Climbing Santa

By: Anita Clue

Anita Clue — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:20:30 +0000

Sounds like a job for time and super glue. Sorry about your heart Aaron.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:03:56 +0000

He can’t fix a broken heart. I’m still waiting for my card.

By: mike d.

mike d. — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:15:40 +0000

I’m terrible at the game ‘apples to apples’

By: Anita Clue

Anita Clue — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:06:34 +0000

That’s true Jes Saint. Nobody likes to talk about the fact that elves are used as slave labor either. You think the big guy ever shares those cookies? I’m starting to think he deserves to get stepped on. And maybe Olive spiked Rudolph’s egg nog and put him up to it. I still hate to think of Rudy doing something to underhand (though technically it would be more overhand) but one does wonder.

And Olive does have a history of subversive “blame the boss” ranting. She probably went into some diatribe about how Santa fosters competition and discord between reindeer who should all be part of one big happy herd.

Never trust a man who wears red all the time and creeps around with a sack full of stuff in the night. Only working one night a year–what a loafer!

By: Roland

Roland — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:29:11 +0000

Wow, awesome. Climbing, kung fu, MS Paint art, cooking, wood carving… is there anything Mike D can’t do?

By: Jes Saint

Jes Saint — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:38:57 +0000

I maintain that Rudolph is only employed part-time, on “foggy” Christmas Eves. He spends the normal years either holed up drinking egg nog, dodging hunters, or polishing his weapons collection and plotting his revenge on “Olive”. I just don’t buy that he got over all that trauma because he got to be lead reindeer once, and it wasn’t because they had a change of heart, but rather because they needed his nose. I know people don’t like to talk about the darker side of the story, but there it is.

By: Anita Clue

Anita Clue — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:32:13 +0000

I believe Rudolph has an incorruptible heart. Therefore: he was framed. I submit that the true culprit was Olive (the other reindeer) who used to laugh and call him names. (though I love your theory about his childhood trauma making him desperate for approval)

I defer to your greater knowledge of Bumble.

By: Ryan Schenk

Ryan Schenk — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:46:40 +0000

Yukon Cornelius put him up to it. He has been planning a coup d’etat ever since he discovered silver and gold beneath Santa’s Workshop. He will use the brute force of the Bumble to enslave the elf population in his secret underground caverns to mine gold, while turning on the Bumble itself, forcing it to haul carts of precious metals from the underworld on a cog railway.

By: Ryan Schenk

Ryan Schenk — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:40:05 +0000

Rudolf is younger, and is easily manipulated by the other reindeer, due to a childhood of ostracism and a burning desire to be a normal reindeer and not a misfit. It was Rudolf, but maybe he was set up by the others.

By: Anita Clue

Anita Clue — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:04:01 +0000

That’s awesome Mike!

I don’t think Rudolph would do that, Ryan. I could see one of the other being jealous and pulling that, but not Rudolph. Better to have Santa using a reindeer’s antlers to help him climb. They’d still be on the reindeer of course.

By: Ryan Schenk

Ryan Schenk — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:39:41 +0000

Probably because I know nothing about rock climbing, I thought he was falling off, clinging for dear life. You need a disgruntled Rudolf to be up on top of the chimney, about to step his cloven hoof into Santa’s hand. “Reindeer game this, Santy Claus!!”

By: Jes Saint

Jes Saint — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:05:19 +0000

That is so cool! I wish I could make stuff like that.

By: mom

mom — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:22:10 +0000

It’s GREAT! I love it! Thanks, Mike!!!