Santa's a Nazi?

[pokerfan]

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,749340,00.jpg

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German chain of shops has removed miniature wooden Santa Claus figures from its shelves and destroyed them after customers complained it looked like they were giving the stiff-armed Hitler salute that is outlawed.

Josef Lange, a spokesman for the Rossmann chain that has 1,200 outlets, told Reuters Friday the figures depicting Father Christmas with his right arm stiffly upright toward the sky and holding a sack in his left hand upset some customers.

"We were astonished by the reaction," Lange said. "It looks like he's just pointing up to the sky and we were surprised that anyone saw the so-called 'Hitler salute' in that. But we responded and had the entire inventory removed and destroyed."

[cwydro]

1. he was probably just calling Donner and Blitzen

[rug]

2. It was Blitzen and Kriegen.

[cwydro]

3. GOOD one!

:applause:

[Robb]

8. VERY good!

I bow before your superior funnypantsedness. :patriot:

[SOteric]

4. Of course Santa's a Nazi. Why else would we launch a war on Christmas?

:shrug:

[Redstone]

5. No, he works for the NSA. He sees you when you're sleeping..." and all that?

Redstone

[baldguy]

6. Santa is a corporate industrialist.

Why do you think he's based at the north pole? International Territory, that's why - no labor laws, no safety or anti-pollution regulations, no zoning ordinances. He keeps the elves in bondage slaving in his sweat-shops 24/7 for the whole year to make his crap. When they tried to unionize in the '70s, he moved 20% of he manufacturing to Korea and tossed the "surplus elvin resources" out in the snow.

[WhollyHeretic]

7. He also runs the world's biggest sweat shop

How do you think he makes all those toys for free?