After church, our family took a walk over to my grandmother's house. She's 388 years old and is too sick to get out of the house these days. She was very glad to see us and we all enjoyed some hot chocolate, gingerbread cookies, caroling, and sharing family stories.
My grandmother (whose name I forgot to mention: Tinselberry Miffletins, nee Snowbread) lives very close to the Clauses' mansion on Poinsettia Place. Actually, she and Mrs. Claus are pretty close friends. They play Boggle together every Tuesday and once in a while will travel to New York or London or Paris or Tokyo for a weekend trip to see the sights and occasionally get some Botox.
My grandmother loves New York the best - especially taking the walk down 5th Ave. and looking at all the amazing window displays. Here's a few pictures from their NYC Christmas getaway trip a few years ago when they stayed at the Plaza hotel.
This first one is very interesting. It's an Alice in Wonderland theme in a storefront window on 5th Ave. You are looking directly into the window, but it looks like you are looking down from above!!
Is Miss Sweetcheeks likely to be accepting offers to promote different elf athletic companies or fast food chains?
I will have to find this out from the source herself (which is kind of scary because I am REALLY nervous to talk to her - especially now that she's even more popular than she was the day she rescued Mr. Wubblegump) BUT, rumor has it that not only has North Pole Athletic Club (obviously local) been in contact with her, but also Lululemon Athletica and LittlePeopleMeet.com have both sent representatives to the North Pole to begin negotiations for endorsement contracts. Pretty exciting! I will really have to pluck up the courage to go talk to her and verify this scuttlebutt (that is a real word, for the record). I'll try to do that tomorrow. I have a female cousin, Toffeebells Garland, who works in the bakery and may be able to ask her for an interview on my behalf. So, I'll get back to you!
Wish me luck,
Fritz
I understand that one of your elves has made millions by capturing the energy of the northern lights. Would you please tell us how this actually works.
ReplyDeleteWell, the rumor you heard is only partially correct. There was an elf who had been working on this concept in the mid 1800s. His name was Blitzenbee Silverflakes. Recently, Top Secret North Pole files were released showing that Nikola Tesla arrived at the North Pole by the special request of Santa Claus to work on this project with Mr. Silverflakes. By 1893 (just a year before I was born!) they had built several large brushless alternating current induction motors very similar to the ones he built in the United States. See Wikipedias article on Rotating Magnetic Fields. Electricity is created as the natural motion of the aurora borealis acts as a sort of rotating magnetic field, allowing the current induction motors (floating high in the atmosphere, tethered to the earth by long, thick cables) to generate electricity. Since Santa Claus funded the entire endeavor, he owns the patent, and neither Tesla or Silverflakes made very much money - well, they did - just not as much as they could have. Santa Claus has since developed the North Pole energy industry and is now a major player in the circumpolar region for energy production of all varieties, selling much of the excess energy to Canada, Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
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