Quest for the body of Santa Claus

[Duncan Head]

Seriously - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/04/santa-claus-tomb-may-have-been-uncovered-beneath-turkish-church-saint-nicholas

[Imperial Dave]

just so long as they dont find 8 buried quadrapeds with antlers alongside him

[Tim]

If they find Santa really is dead how will I explain to my wife where all these wargames goodies arrive from in December...?

[Imperial Dave]

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....... 

[Erpingham]

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.

[Dave Beatty]

Wait a minute.... I saw his bones in a church in Bari in like 1997...

[Duncan Head]

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.

[Tim]

They should have asked the Venetians to get it for them...

[Duncan Head]

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!

[Patrick Waterson]

No problem for modern science: DNA test the bones and the current Santa, and see if they all match.

[Imperial Dave]

dont tell the children!