# Did your parents tell you Santana was real when you were little? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999 "2013-12-10T18:33:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/121 "2013-12-11T22:33:55Z")
Mine never did. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/122 "2013-12-11T23:03:33Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Well _that_ blows.☹ Don’t think I didn’t notice that. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/123 "2013-12-11T23:11:20Z")
Yes, Virginia, there is a Sanity Clause! Thanks, **twicks** and **Idle**. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/124 "2013-12-11T23:13:22Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > We pledged to believe in Stan in school: > “I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the Republic of Richard Stans” I led the pigeons to the flag when I was in school. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/125 "2013-12-11T23:27:39Z")
You know that guy across the street your parents always waved to? They told you he was Stan. You were really naive to think that was true. Or were you? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/126 "2013-12-11T23:50:23Z")
Please stop making these threads as separate topics. …Adding to the one already made, as the others were. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/127 "2013-12-12T14:52:54Z")
Inspired by a \*\*Czarcasm \*\*thread. [[George Santayana](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana), 1863-1952, was allegedly an American philosopher best known for saying “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”] If so, do you feel that doing so enriched or diminished your childhood? If NOT, do you feel your childhood was enriched or diminished? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/128 "2013-12-12T14:59:42Z")
And… another one. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/129 "2013-12-12T15:34:24Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Inspired by a \*\*Czarcasm \*\*thread. > > [[George Santayana](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana), 1863-1952, was allegedly an American philosopher best known for saying “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”] > > If so, do you feel that doing so enriched or diminished your childhood? > > If NOT, do you feel your childhood was enriched or diminished? Yes. Please feel free to ignore this thread if it annoys you! ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/130 "2013-12-12T22:20:24Z")
Did your parent tell you [Santa Annas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds) were real when you were a child? ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/131 "2013-12-13T05:45:43Z")
We need a “did your parents tell you Sartre was real” thread. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/132 "2013-12-13T16:35:12Z")
When did your parents tell you that Santa left the North Pole and was moved to MPSIMS? …evidently repeatedly… “Come back Santa! Santa! Where Are you…?” ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/133 "2013-12-13T23:11:51Z")
Of course Santana is reall, but he’s in the wind. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/134 "2013-12-14T01:58:33Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Of course Santana is reall, but he’s in the wind. Well, all we are is dust in the wind. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/135 "2013-12-14T04:14:36Z")
My parents wouldn’t have known Santana from a hole in the ground. I had to learn about them from my friends at school! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/136 "2013-12-14T05:13:55Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > [Satanta, Kansas - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanta,_Kansas) > > 😃 😉 😛 I wondered what happened to my thread! It got whooshed. Really, Santana and Satanta are not the same thing, although I suppose Santana could do a show in Satanta. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/137 "2013-12-14T15:22:37Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I wondered what happened to my thread! It got whooshed. > > Really, Santana and Satanta are not the same thing, although I suppose Santana could do a show in Satanta. Too bad Santini couldn’t sit in with them, but he’s an orthopedic surgeon now, using the pseudonym [Scott Powell](http://www.scottpowellmd.com/SLIDESHOW/slideshow.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/138 "2013-12-14T16:39:41Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Well, all we are is dust in the wind. We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/139 "2013-12-14T16:41:41Z")
> [@seal\_cleaner](#): > > They only spoke of Devadip. In my house, we didn’t even have onion dip. I had to find out about Santana in _down beat_ at the tender age 13. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/140 "2013-12-14T22:34:39Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto It does look like Africa. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999.md?page=8)