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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: Duncan Head on October 04, 2017, 01:23:31 PM

Title: Quest for the body of Santa Claus
Post by: Duncan Head on October 04, 2017, 01:23:31 PM
Seriously - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/04/santa-claus-tomb-may-have-been-uncovered-beneath-turkish-church-saint-nicholas
Title: Re: Quest for the body of Santa Claus
Post by: Imperial Dave on October 04, 2017, 02:10:14 PM
just so long as they dont find 8 buried quadrapeds with antlers alongside him
Title: Re: Quest for the body of Santa Claus
Post by: Tim on October 04, 2017, 03:27:04 PM
If they find Santa really is dead how will I explain to my wife where all these wargames goodies arrive from in December...?
Title: Re: Quest for the body of Santa Claus
Post by: Imperial Dave on October 04, 2017, 03:58:20 PM
Quote from: Tim on October 04, 2017, 03:27:04 PM
If they find Santa really is dead how will I explain to my wife where all these wargames goodies arrive from in December...?

remember the voices......the voices told you to do it.......  ::)
Title: Re: Quest for the body of Santa Claus
Post by: Erpingham on October 04, 2017, 04:49:25 PM
Quote from: Tim on October 04, 2017, 03:27:04 PM
If they find Santa really is dead how will I explain to my wife where all these wargames goodies arrive from in December...?

They won't find his body.  As a Time Lord, he regenerates.
Title: Re: Quest for the body of Santa Claus
Post by: Dave Beatty on October 05, 2017, 05:13:53 AM
Wait a minute.... I saw his bones in a church in Bari in like 1997...
Title: Re: Quest for the body of Santa Claus
Post by: Duncan Head on October 05, 2017, 08:47:21 AM
Quote from: Dave Beatty on October 05, 2017, 05:13:53 AM
Wait a minute.... I saw his bones in a church in Bari in like 1997...

The article suggests that the Italians nicked the wrong corpse.
Title: Re: Quest for the body of Santa Claus
Post by: Tim on October 05, 2017, 12:24:20 PM
They should have asked the Venetians to get it for them...
Title: Re: Quest for the body of Santa Claus
Post by: Duncan Head on December 06, 2017, 08:37:48 AM
And apparently the radiocarbon dates fit .... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42239197

The next question is whether the Bari bones come from the same body!
Title: Re: Quest for the body of Santa Claus
Post by: Patrick Waterson on December 06, 2017, 08:40:36 AM
No problem for modern science: DNA test the bones and the current Santa, and see if they all match. ;)
Title: Re: Quest for the body of Santa Claus
Post by: Imperial Dave on December 06, 2017, 08:53:34 AM
dont tell the children!