Sometimes All You Can Do Is Laugh

Girl sitting on Santa’s lap: “Do the ones on the naughty list really get a lump of coal in their stocking?”

Santa: “Oh no…they get a bailout…”

Those were the lines in a recent editorial cartoon by Jimmy Margulies (11/27/08). Sometimes all you can do is laugh.

Thanks to rummuser, EVA, SpaceAgeSage and Maya for commenting on last week’s post.

6 comments ↓

#1 bikehikebabe on 12.14.08 at 1:17 pm

Such a shock for Santa! He only has inexpensive gifts.

#2 Evan on 12.14.08 at 7:42 pm

If I spend my time not listening to customers and go broke, do you think the government would give me billions too?

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#3 Jean on 12.14.08 at 8:13 pm

bikehikebabe,
My family’s vision of Santa was like that too. I wonder if that’s true of everyone.

Evan,
Unfortunately you would have to be “too big to fail”.

#4 rummuser on 12.15.08 at 12:15 pm

What a joke! Fantastic. I intend using it widely. Thank you.

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#5 Jean on 12.20.08 at 11:33 pm

rummuser,
I’m glad you liked it. :)

#6 Armen Shirvanian on 01.03.09 at 1:59 pm

That sure is a way to bring reality into a fictional story. The bailouts are on the back of the minds of the majority of people in the US, mostly as they wonder if they were swindled or assisted. Uncertainty leaves a topic processing in our minds.

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