# How did you first find out about Santa Claus? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-first-find-out-about-santa-claus/380841 "2006-11-17T16:12:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-first-find-out-about-santa-claus/380841/21 "2006-11-18T02:05:51Z")
I’m also the youngest of six, and it’s pretty well accepted that I was a (happy) accident. By the time I was born, my oldest sister was 18 and at college, and my nearest sister was 5 1/2. Thinking back, for all the tormenting did to each other, they left me alone to figure out Santa Claus. And eventually I got old enough that I could tell Santa and my parents had the same wrapping paper. It didn’t really bother me. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-first-find-out-about-santa-claus/380841/22 "2006-11-18T03:05:04Z")
By the time I was about seven I suppose the sheer ridiculousness of the whole thing had become apparent to me. Plus I saw Mum and Dad scoffing the bikkies and beer left for Santa and then Dad tossing the grass for the reindeer back into the garden. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-first-find-out-about-santa-claus/380841/23 "2006-11-18T03:09:28Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] By the time I was about seven I suppose the sheer ridiculousness of the whole thing had become apparent to me. Plus I saw Mum and Dad scoffing the bikkies and beer left for Santa and then Dad tossing the grass for the reindeer back into the garden. [/QUOTE] scoffing = scarfing = eating? bikkis = biscuits = cookies? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-first-find-out-about-santa-claus/380841/24 "2006-11-18T03:35:33Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] scoffing = scarfing = eating? bikkis = biscuits = cookies? [/QUOTE] Yes Scoff=eat. I’ve never heard the “scarf” version. Bikkies=biscuits ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-first-find-out-about-santa-claus/380841/25 "2006-11-18T04:19:09Z")
Santa…_isn’t real?_ **Sniff** Tell me it isn’t true! You’re lying, all of you, lying!!! There is a Santa Claus, I know it! We just have to _believe_. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgonzola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@Gorgonzola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgonzola)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-first-find-out-about-santa-claus/380841/26 "2006-11-18T05:13:24Z")
There [_is._](http://www.newseum.org/yesvirginia/clipping.htm) ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-first-find-out-about-santa-claus/380841/27 "2006-11-18T05:17:30Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] Yes Scoff=eat. I’ve never heard the “scarf” version. Bikkies=biscuits [/QUOTE] Thanks! I was unaware of the “scoff” version! It does seem to be related. scarf 3 Pronunciation (skärf) tr.v. scarfed, scarf·ing, scarfs Slang To eat or drink voraciously; devour: “Americans scarf down 50 million hot dogs on an average summer day” George F. Will. [Variant of scoff2.] scoff 2 Pronunciation (skf, skôf) v. scoffed, scoff·ing, scoffs Slang v.tr. To eat (food) quickly and greedily. v.intr. To eat greedily. [www.thefreedictionary.com](http://www.thefreedictionary.com) ---
**Author:** ![LucyInDisguise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucyindisguise/32/18064_2.png) [@LucyInDisguise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucyInDisguise)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-first-find-out-about-santa-claus/380841/28 "2006-11-18T18:59:46Z")
[53 year old grandfather voice] Wait … What are you all saying? No Santa Claus? [QUOTE=Gorgonzola] There [_is._](http://www.newseum.org/yesvirginia/clipping.htm) [/QUOTE] Thank You, **Gorgonzola** , I always knew it was so. [/53 year old grandfather voice] Lucy _(Only beat me by ----\>this\<----- much.)_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-first-find-out-about-santa-claus/380841.md?page=1)