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December 23, 2007

And you thought your job sucks

By Thoreau

Try selling Christmas trees in Iraq.

Still not as bad as Santa’s job, though.  If he tries to make any deliveries in Iraq it’s likely that he’ll be identified as a hostile aircraft and shot down.

Posted by Thoreau @ 3:54 pm, Filed under: Main

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8 Responses to “And you thought your job sucks”

  1. Comment by Davebo —
    December 23, 2007 @ 5:39 pm

    Try smuggling one in to Saudi Arabia!

  2. Comment by Gary Farber —
    December 23, 2007 @ 6:26 pm

    Silly man, the military-industrial complex long ago embraced Santa.

  3. Comment by Gary Farber —
    December 23, 2007 @ 6:33 pm

    The snowmen in Baghdad are interesting, though. It’s not my impression that Iraqis get a lot of experience with making snowmen.

    But, hey, the kids in Bethlehem wouldn’t have had much more, either. It does happen, certainly. Just not often.

    But from this:

    “Some of the educated people know the story of Santa Claus,” said the shop owner, who owns a toy and trinket store in the Karada neighborhood. “Most consider Santa Claus a source of joy for the children. They know that he comes from the chimney. They know that because of the American movies.”

    Yeah, not exactly a long and deep tradition.

  4. Comment by Rob —
    December 23, 2007 @ 7:47 pm

    Yes what a foolish man! He said nothing about Coca-Cola the real reason for Santa Claus!

  5. Comment by Tom Scudder —
    December 24, 2007 @ 10:13 am

    I see this hasn’t been linked yet. Merry Christmas!

  6. Comment by Barry —
    December 24, 2007 @ 10:25 am

    Jim, I was unable to access that article – registration was required, and Bugmenot failed (I think that they have a new barrier to intercept Bugmenot’s).

  7. Comment by Gary Farber —
    December 24, 2007 @ 9:45 pm

    I can’t recall the last time Bugmenot worked for me, but I’m sure it wasn’t in 2007. I figured it was a great idea in its time, but that it was, alas, long since defeated by almost every site it was useful at.

  8. Comment by fester —
    December 26, 2007 @ 11:26 am

    Well as long as Santa is flying Turkish colors, the American military will let him violate Iraqi airspace, and seeing that the original St. Nicholas was the Bishop of Myra which is in Anatolia, so he lived in modern day Turkey.

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