For ten years now, I've been writing letters from Santa to my young relatives. To mark this decade, I wanted to include something really special, and after a lot of research into his workshop’s size, location and layout, I'm confident that this checks out. Hope they like it!
A timely reminder that back in 2001, all the most sensible adults in the room thought osama bin laden lived in the fucking technodrome.
[From The Times, Nov 29th 2001]
Not usually one to do punch-up BUT sticking Saddam in a mockup of Osama's lair seems like a perfect example of someone getting and not getting the gag simultaneously.
Northern Canada could never support that level of infrastructure. And, cannonically, Santa is Canadian. For real, he has a mailing address and official citizenship
The "secret exits guarded by steel doors and polar bears" bring to mind brutal elf sweatshops as well as Tim Burton's failed Superman movie, neither of which fills me with good tidings of great joy.
