Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mobs of eager Christmas shoppers entered department store aisles as fast as The Santa Corporation's line of products expanded, and as the company grew and the ingenious elves kept finding better and more efficient ways of making presents, the land's standard of living grew, too. No citizen of Santaland, as it came to be known, ever needed to worry about food or shelter after The Santa Corporation hit its stride...
There was also some political opposition to the corporation's holiday inflation, but the company made heavy contributions to the campaigns of any Exalted Poobahs who would support a longer Christmas. And The Santa Corporation also had friends in the executive office of the Grand High Hoozie of the Land--friends who could make things very difficult for any dissident groups opposing the extension of Christmas. The Hoozie used his palace guard to infiltrate pro-Noel organizations; one Hoozie aide had a placard hanging on his office wall bearing the inscription, "When you've got them by the Christmas balls...
...changes, and filed suit in Hoozie court, claiming that he still held certain key patent rights to aerial reindeer sleighs. But The Santa Corporation retained elves who specialized in festive law, and anyway, elf-scientists working at the corporation's North Pole South Building in one of the land's commercial centers had already advanced mystical sleigh technology beyond the rudimentary level old Claus had once achieved. In a last-ditch effort, wealthy holiday preservationists organized a Jolly Old Elf Legal Fund, but their $100-a-plate dinners helped only their consciences...
Finally, the company became so efficient that no one ever had to work, and it became Christmas every day of the year. The company's sales of metal-and-plastic Christmas trees then rose very high, because in a land where it was always Christmas living trees had a way of turning brown before the holiday was over...
...land became choked and glutted with the unwanted and untouched presents that kept coming out of The Santa Corporation's plants by the truckload. And while the company kept spewing out holiday paraphernalia like a merry-go-round with no brakes, the Clausists erected a tremendous monument outside the gates of the comapny's main factory. They built high and strong an image of Santa Claus, the long-dead manic sleigh jockey who had become their symbol. And on the pedestal of the figure, they inscribed a long-forgotten and poorly-understood poem that one of the ancients had written...