Thursday, December 27, 2007

Santa Turf

















When the Gann family Santa went down to the family room to fill stockings, she noticed something curious. Two of the stockings-- Roz' and Joe's-- already had presents in them. These appeared to be from China. How was this possible?

Leonard Li offered an interesting hypothesis. He thinks the unidentified presents were placed by the Chinese Santa Claus, who arrived earlier, because China is thirteen hours ahead of the U.S.
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