SINTERKLAAS!
http://www.sinterklaas-centrale.nl/a...s-2005-018.jpg
Sinterklaas.
Your santa claus is actually a rip-off of this dude :) The names kind of look alike. His actual name is 'St. Nicolai' (sint nicolaas). There is an old myth about a saint giving poor children in a village pieces of gold by letting his servants go in the house through the chimney. However we dutch raped the story, so now it's an old man from spain (no idea why) and he has a hoarde of helpers, called 'zwarte pieten' -black 'joes',
piet is just an ordinairy name like joe in the netherlands. Some people were bitchy about it being racist and all, but people seem to have forgotten that his helpers are actually black becouse of the chimneys, not becouse they are negro. (not that they are, I think they are not).
And lets not forget that in the original book of charly and the chocolate factory the workers were little black people too! : )
Anyhow, sinterklaas rocks, he gives kids a bunch of presents every 5th of december. And he's in town (country) like 2 week before that, so people have alot of random occasions to bomb people with 'peppernoten' (kind of a kookie, only cooler).
http://www.noworriez.nl/images/pepernoten_2.jpg
After all this, how can you ignore the GREATNESS OF SINTERKLAAS :D
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