More pulling myself into the Yule spirit by my bootstraps:

[capri0mni]

As if the Kerfuffle between Shakespeare and the Earl of Oxford weren't enough

The woman who did this page is fairly obsessed with the idea that Moore is a usuper. Her detailed arguments make my eyes glaze over (that could be because it's nearly 4 am), but I am quite amused by the Victorian illustrations -- They seem to have random numbers of "coursers" pulling the sleigh, and none of them are actually domesticated carribu, but stags.

I say, with the increased world population in the last two and half centuries, the Winter Gift Granter needs a bigger team, these days, anyway. What do you say we up the number from eight nine to thirteen -- one for each of the days from Christmas to Epiphany?

If I put a decorative sleigh with thirteen reindeer stags on my lawn, next year, it would also mess with my neighbors' heads, I bet... (if they noticed at all). ;)

[ETA: for the record, the names of the eight reindeer (as first published) were: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder and Blixem]

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[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

According to Beaver and Steve, Santa only needs two reindeer:

http://www.beaverandsteve.com/index.php?comic=321

My favourite bit is the location of Santa's secret base though, heh.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yay, Crows!

(crows were my mother's self-declared totem animal. I love crows)