To all the BBH family and their families

[MightyGiants]

Merry Christmas!

May you and yours enjoy happy and safe holidays

[DaveBrown74]

Rich,

Ditto back to you and yours, as well as all the other members here. I hope this holiday season is a joyous and peaceful one for all.

[Ed Vette]

Merry Christmas!

[EDjohnst1981]

Merry Christmas all.

[Bill Brown]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Bill

[T200]

Merry Christmas!

[Giantleap56]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May all your loved ones and Giant wishes come true. 

[Beaverchops]

Merry Christmas

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[kartanoman]

On behalf of my entire family, to each and every one of you, and yours, I wish you all a joyful and blessed holiday in your tradition, and may it be filled with love, laughter and, above all, safety in your celebrations.

Peace, and joy this holiday season!

[LennG]

 Happy Holidays to all, in whatever manner you choose to celebrate them. Peace and Good will to all.

Just don't drink and drive and come back to us safe and sound.

Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus

Dear Editor:
I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so."
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O'Hanlon
115 West Ninety Fifth Street

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, VIRGINIA, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance, to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not; but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, VIRGINIA, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

[From The Sun, September 21, 1897]

[ozzie]

Merry Christmas to one and all. Here's wishing everyone enjoys a safe, fun day with family and friends!

[Hadron]

Merry Christmas!

[BluesCruz]

Merry Christmas

May Santa give us a pass from Lincoln Financial futility

[Ed Vette]

Ha!

[Jolly Blue Giant]

Merry Christmas to all of you and may the New Year bring GIANTS blessings