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Mrs. Claus opens "The Year Without a Santa Claus" by claiming the eponymous year took place "before you were born". Seeing as the movie was released in 1974, this means the year must have been before then.

Bounding this on the lower end is the presence of ice hockey - mentioned by Heat Miser - and the use of telephones. Ice hockey was invented in 1875, while Alexander Graham Bell built the telephone in 1876, meaning the year must post-date these. These figures give a range of approximately 100 years during which Santa may have taken his holiday.

Yet, narrowing this further is the presence of a December calendar counting the 1st to a Wednesday. Between 1876 and 1974, only the Decembers of 1880, 1886, 1897, 1909, 1915, 1920, 1926, 1937, 1943, 1948, 1954, 1965, and 1971 started on a Wednesday.

But still this can be narrowed further.

When Santa set out that Christmas Eve, we see what appears to be an almost full Moon in the sky. Within the years listed, only 1920 had a full Moon on Christmas.

Ergo, 1920 was the year without a Santa Claus.

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b0nkcreat

it’s so polite of mice to make such a polished entrance to their little hidey holes in the wall of some stranger’s house. how do they do it

b0nkcreat

his little 3” rodent ass went to home depot for this. look at him. he sanded those edges to the entryway DOWN. he put in the WORK. and inside the house? an absolutely spectacular setup. he’s got a rug. he’s got a LAMP. who is selling this small of furniture. did he have to make it himself? did he steal from a polly pocket set? How is his pillow that small. HE’S GOT FINE CHINA ON THE TOP SHELF

tiikafiredancer

He definitely made his furniture himself! The bed is a sardine tin (that rolled headboard is the rolled up lid!) and the nightstand is an empty spool of thread. The lampshade is a thimble. The broom in the next room uses a matchstick for a handle! The fine china looks like it might be a bottle cap (the plate) or maybe the cage from a champagne bottle (the large bowl). What a resourceful little guy!

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luckyblackcatxiii

More old-ish art (almost out of the thick of it, but I want to replenish this blog with more ‘recent’ art after it gathered dust for so long)!

Out of the blue, I got inspired by Hans Holbein the Younger’s woodprints of the Danse Macabre that I decided to make them into washi tape! But I really liked how each came out individually that I had to show them off in a larger format. This project ended up being a lot of fun <3

edsrosetattoo

This is the best idea in the history of film.

oneheadtoanother

absoluteconceptofbeauty

does anyone hve any sin recommendations i just fell from the garden of eden five seconds ago

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Weed then sodomy

i cannot recommend wearing fabric of mixed materials enough

beardedmrbean

gotta love the mics

salvadorbonaparte

I told my students they're allowed to be creative and don't have to be factual when writing about themselves in German because I keep getting questions like "what if I don't have roommates or what if I don't have hobbies" and I'm like guys just make something up! Have fun! I won't fact check you!

So now I am grading homework where a student is claiming to be from North Korea and his hobby is tax fraud

salvadorbonaparte

I fully believe that as long as it's grammatically correct, coherent and answering the question students should be able to write whatever the hell they want. I don't care about their actual hobbies and the names of their siblings.

salvadorbonaparte

One of my students is writing about a ghost he "interviewed". The ghost is called Walter and died in 1865 . The ghost has ghost friends.

This is making grading homework significantly more fun.