Word: reindeer
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...startlingly different world. Vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere were covered with ice. Across the ice-free parts of Europe and Asia, consisting largely of tundra and great treeless steppes, herds of mammoths, bison, reindeer and horses freely roamed. For long periods, winters were cruelly cold, and even in summertime the average temperature was 12° to 15° C (54° to 59° F.). Still, under these difficult conditions, during a period of 25,000 years before the dawn of civilization, the Ice Age Cro-Magnon people not only thrived, but created a surprisingly sophisticated culture that totally...
...strips. Weidenbaum's walls are adorned with comics and editorial cartoons roasting everything from the ban against saccharin to the rising Matterhorn of forms to be filled out. In one strip, a weary Santa Claus complains about "all the environmental impact statements I gotta file for these flying reindeer...
...WILL BE TORN DOWN AND REPLACED BY A NEW 44-STORY COOKIE. The back of Santa Claus' sleigh bears the bumper stickers REGISTER COMMUNISTS, NOT FIREARMS! and LET'S GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N. "That's funny," observes a lady as he goads his reindeer skyward. "For some reason, I always thought of him as a liberal...
...mean a conglomerate of ambitious, clean-shaven young elves, each with a Masters in Business Administration. Old Santa, realizing that things had gotten out of hand, railed once again against the 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...
When the verdict came down, Santa had the rights to Rudolph the Reindeer's shiny red nose, and the corporation had everything else. It was an odious decision, but those were odious days. The corporation offered Rudolph a lucrative salary if he would remain with them. It posed a difficult decision for Rudolph, but the prospect of eating moss at chic restaurants and wearing all the latest antlers finally won him over. Santa was crushed. He died a broken and lonely...