# Choose new animals to pull Santa's sleigh **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547 "2007-12-19T03:02:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/41 "2007-12-19T15:07:31Z")
The June Taylor dancers. Think of the patterns. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/42 "2007-12-19T15:10:44Z")
The supreme court justices… sans robes. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/43 "2007-12-19T15:54:22Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] You’re not by chance remembering [skywhales](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVmKhNG6S3o), are you? [/QUOTE] No, these were computer animations for commercials, though I think there was a film short out there too. It had flying Blue Whales, and I think also dolphins. I will try to find it. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/44 "2007-12-19T16:02:55Z")
Pigs, flying pigs Or Chihuahuas, lots of them ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/45 "2007-12-19T16:14:49Z")
Ok, here’s [one of the artworks](http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t254/SomeonesKiller/Fantasy/Whales.jpg) from the 80s I was speaking of, there were also dolphins like this, usually pink or purple and put on school folders. I also remember computer animated whales and dolphins though, swimming (floating/flying, but making swimming movements) in the air that would have been in the 90s. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/46 "2007-12-19T16:24:35Z")
Don’t forget the flying whale sequence from _Fantasia 2000_. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/47 "2007-12-19T16:26:13Z")
Lions. Lions with red bows around their necks. ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_of\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@Sock\_of\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_of_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/48 "2007-12-19T16:57:36Z")
Enraged mutant armadillos. Heck, enraged mutant ANYTHING. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/49 "2007-12-19T17:15:13Z")
Ferrets! Proud stately animals, resplendent in their little harnesses, each one with a tiny jingle bell on their collar. What a majestic, magical sight as they scurry and weasel their way across the night sky! Also, children on Santa’s ‘naughty’ list awaken with a neat little dollop of ferret poop on their foreheads. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/50 "2007-12-19T17:22:19Z")
Pumas _::tips hat to Smothers Brothers::_ ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/51 "2007-12-19T17:28:09Z")
Polar bears would be cool. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/52 "2007-12-19T17:29:00Z")
Howzabout the ladies from that Robert Palmer video? ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/53 "2007-12-19T17:37:17Z")
[QUOTE=Sunrazor] Pumas _::tips hat to Smothers Brothers::_ [/QUOTE] Just make sure Santa knows not to yell “Chocolate!” when he falls in the vat of pumas. I suggest the pink fairy armadillo: > **[Google Search](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=pink+fairy+armadillo&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2)** ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/54 "2007-12-19T17:47:57Z")
I was thinking ermines or weasels. Don’t you know that polar bears were used by the White Witch of Narnia (at least in the movie)? ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/55 "2007-12-19T18:10:01Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] I was thinking ermines or weasels. Don’t you know that polar bears were used by the White Witch of Narnia (at least in the movie)? [/QUOTE] Nope, never saw it. but that is another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/56 "2007-12-19T18:17:22Z")
[QUOTE=Sunrazor] Pumas _::tips hat to Smothers Brothers::_ [/QUOTE] Beware of Foaming Rocks! ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/57 "2007-12-19T18:21:07Z")
[Badgers?](http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/58 "2007-12-19T18:23:19Z")
[Six to Eight black men](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUHTDrca4s) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/59 "2007-12-19T18:24:54Z")
[QUOTE=Madd Maxx] Nope, never saw it. but that is another thread. [/QUOTE] Fine. Santa can console himself with that when the evil polar bears turn in their traces, rip the Jolly Old Elf open and eat his viscera while he yet lives: “Oh, but that is another thread!” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547/60 "2007-12-19T18:32:38Z")
Hey, she’s not the only one to use polar bears to pull something. What about Frank Frazetta’s **Silver Warrior** (He’s so tough, he doesn’t even use reins): > **[Forbidden Planet - ForbiddenPlanet International](https://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/?main_page=popup_image&pID=31467)** > > Who are we? What do we do? 17 stores in the UK and Ireland selling a huge range of toys, collectables, graphic novels, comics, sci-fi, movie and TV merchandise since 1975. Can’t get out to one of our stores or … Continue reading → Or the Valyrie with the eyepatch in those RumpleMinz ads. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-new-animals-to-pull-santas-sleigh/430547.md?page=4)