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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

News This New Found Photos Blog, Sketchy Santas, Is the Best Kind of Holiday Cheer

Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:56 AM

Last week, to make sure we all marked that important fall turning point from Thanksgiving towards Christmas, I directed you towards Crappy Santas, a funny site of less than cheerful Santa Claus toys, statues, ornaments and signs found in malls, window displays, trees and the like. That photo blog looks a lot less funny now in light of Sketchy Santas, which simply, nostalgically, and with infinite delight features some of the most cheerless (or disproportionately cheerful, as pictured) men ever to don Santa suits.

Some are in malls, others are featured in family portraits, some are totally WTF, and still others are of the home-made variety, appearing in living rooms with visiting relatives' screaming children who, now grown up, had the good humor to submit their childhood pictures to the user-generated photo blog. There are so many great photos on there going up almost every hour, but if I had to pick a favorite, it would be this one right after the jump.

Someone had a little too much eggnog. (NextRound)

Tags: Crappy Santas, found photos blogs, Sketchy Santas, Santa Claus, too much cheer, Mall Santas, Bad Santa, holidays, Christmas

        
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i was just looking at the Sketchy Santa blog while listening to Stockhausen and I had a weird, misty "Don Draper clicking through the Carousel moment." Also, I am drunk. Also.

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Posted by Jonny Diamond on December 8, 2009 at 10:34 PM

There's also www.CreepySantaPhotos.com - that site has been around a lot longer than Sketchy Santas

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Posted by RudyN on December 10, 2009 at 4:40 PM

Yeah, but it's not nearly as concise and entertaining as Sketchy Santas, which is perfect.

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Posted by Listator on December 11, 2009 at 2:10 AM

I don't know ... I checked out Sketchy Santas and it is definitely hilarious, but the pictures that you've got captured in this one post, had me laughing so hard I almost threw my back out.

Here's a link to our funniest Santa photo:
http://www.theamazingtrips.com/2007/12/bac…