Funny Father Christmases Pictures and Jokes
Here is Will and Guy’s selection of Father Christmas photos in a variety of outfits and amusing situations.
Father Christmases in Training for Christmas Day
Will and Guy think that the plural of Father Christmas should be Father Christmases (and not Fathers Christmas).
Father Christmas Relaxing After the Big Event
Father Christmas wears a Red Suit, so he must be a communist. And he sports a beard and long hair, so he must be a pacifist. What’s in that pipe that he’s smoking? Arlo Guthrie
Mr and Mrs Santa Claus Pics
Father Christmas Drinks Will and Guy’s Mulled Wine – Now You Know Why Santa is Red!
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark. Dick Gregory
Guy and Father Christmas – A Personal Reminiscence
As a boy of about five, I was taken into the big city to meet with Father Christmas. He had his elf grotto in the big department store. My mother and I had to queue, but eventually I reached Father Christmas and he asked me, ‘Guy what would you like for Christmas?’ I dumbfounded, then I surprised my Mother by saying: ‘Nothing’.
1Well for the next fifty years, when asked, ‘What would you like for Christmas Guy’, I repeated the same record: ‘Nothing’. Amazingly, nobody listens, and have to say that every year I get the most delightful presents.
2I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple
Santa Claus Computing his Present list
A modern Santa hard at work on his keyboard –>
Question:
What’s the best Christmas present a child could get?
Answer:
A broken drum – you can’t beat it!
Father Christmas Opens His Own Presents
Letters To Santa
Dear Father Christmas,
You can send me one of everything from the boys’ section of the Sears catalogue. But nothing from the girls’ section. I can’t wait for Christmas to come.
Kent
Other Names for Father Christmas
The personification of Christmas can be traced back to the Puritans in the early 1600s. Possibly it was Ben Jonson who first created the name ‘Father Christmas’ in December 1616
20 years later, Thomas Nabbes, refers to Father Christmas as ‘An old reverend gentleman in furred gown and cap’. Other common names from this period were Lord Christmas and Sir Christmas.
Coca Cola and Santa
Haddon Sundblom made the character of Santa popular in 1931. As an illustrator from Chicago, USA, Sundblom designed a Coca-Cola advertisement which contained an image of Santa with a red suit and a white beard. Since then Santa has been a major part of Christmas in the UK and the USA. However, while children today can recognise Victorian Santa pictures easily, they be surprised to see older pictures showing Saint Nicholas (Santa) in green or blue attire.
