# Stranding a little girl on a roof?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 7, 2000, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458 "2000-12-07T10:43:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2000, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/1 "2000-12-07T10:43:21Z")
I just saw **Frosty the Snowman** for the first time in years, and at the end, Santa is going to take Frosty to the North Pole so he won’t melt, right? Then he drops the little girl off on the **roof!** of her house and takes off (literally)!
How did that little girl get off the roof of a 2 story house??
This is gonna bug me for a while… I can tell…
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### Author:  [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2000, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/2 "2000-12-07T10:47:27Z")
She didn’t.
She died up there.
No one realized it either until weeks later when the smell became unbearable.
No one knew how she got up there so they assumed it was a suicide attempt.
Many after-school specials were made about it and kids in the local schools got to take a break from Social Studies and Math to talk about their feelings of someone so young not wanting to live.
The house was eventually put up for sale but because of the history, it didn’t sell so they tore it down and put up a “Little Girl from _Frosty the Snowman_ Counseling Center for Troubled Kids”.
They do great work.
You should donate some money.
It’s finals week. I am terribly sorry. I am not myself.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2000, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/3 "2000-12-07T10:59:35Z")
Damn, **evilbeth** , I was hoping that the fire department was called or something…
BTW: from _MY_ side: it’s finals week, but I’m the Prof.! And the final for my class was Monday! And my grades are finished and turned in to the university! And I don’t have to teach another class until Feb.! If it weren’t for a business my friend and I are starting, I’d have the next 3 months off…
\*Prof. Astro kicks back, cracks a beer and contemplates the unfairness of life… 🙂
**Study hard, and good luck on your finals!!!**
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### Author:  [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2000, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/4 "2000-12-07T12:16:30Z")
You have finals too?
Astro, you’re the enemy.
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### Author:  [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2000, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/5 "2000-12-07T13:23:57Z")
Astro is the enemy.
Not only do my finals go until the 15th I have to be back in class at teh beginning of January.
I used to think Astro was okay.
Seriously, as long as you aren’t my O Chem prof, you’re probably okay.
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### Author:  [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2000, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/6 "2000-12-07T13:32:10Z")
Good Lord.
“the beginning of January”
“t-h-e”
I swear I can spell sometimes.
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### Author:  [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2000, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/7 "2000-12-07T15:48:00Z")
HEY !! “teh” is MY typo! Look at a LOT of my posts.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2000, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/8 "2000-12-08T06:25:15Z")
I didn’t have to _take_ the final… just proctor, and I couldn’t finish grading until it was over…
So…_YAWN! STREEEEEETCH!!_ how goes the studying? HAAAAHAAAAA AAHHHH HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!_ **snort** _ AAAAAAAHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
😛
_Prof. Astro ducks and runs for cover, pursued by mad packs of wild-eyed students weilding textbooks and calculators_
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### Author:  [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2000, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/9 "2000-12-08T06:41:06Z")
Damn, talk about a hijacked thread! Go study, already!
Santa just didn’t think about the little girl not being able to go down the chimney like he can. You can’t blame him, it’s a busy time of year for elves.
Don’t worry, the little girl just jumped down, making a big hole in the snow. Her body assumed the shape of an accordian for a few moments, then she walked into her house. She was fine once the scenery changed.
Try and remember that this all takes place in Cartoonland.
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### Author:  [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2000, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/10 "2000-12-08T07:11:30Z")
Didn’t she live in one of those special TV/movie houses that had gables with windows? Kids on TV are always climbing out onto the roof.
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### Author:  [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2000, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/11 "2000-12-08T10:58:01Z")
she had some Santa magic still around her & slid down the chimney without disturbing the fire, spreading soot, or peeking at her presents…well, OK, I _know_ the last one is improbable, but poetic license here?
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2000, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/12 "2000-12-09T14:37:33Z")
> [@](#):
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> Damn, talk about a hijacked thread! Go study, already!
Sing with me, won’t you?
(sung to the tune of **It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To** )
_It my thread, and I’ll hijack if I want to!
Hijack if I want to! Hijack if I want to!
You’d highjack too if it happened to you!_
😛
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### Author:  [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/13 "2000-12-09T16:05:22Z")
Actually, what Santa failed to realize was that the bitter cold had already killed her. Any movements of hers that he experienced were simply nerve impulses, up to and including coherent speech.
_That’s_ why no one found her until she started rotting.
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### Author:  [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/14 "2000-12-11T05:16:37Z")
_Thank You, **Dark Lord Davidson** _!
I think I told all of you that the little girl died. Do _not_ go ruining my story!
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### Author:  [@What\_fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_fire)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/15 "2000-12-11T06:56:18Z")
Little girls in snowsuits think they can bounce in the snow, so she jumped.
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### Author:  [@avacado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/avacado)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/16 "2000-12-11T07:29:21Z")
Maybe when Santa came back by to fulfill the greed of the kids in her neighborhood, he realized his mistake (Santa’s not as young as he used to be) and dragged her down the chimney with him (remember, he just dropped her off, not delivered toys to her house).
Or maybe she started a new life up there, catching birds for food, singing lonely little songs to herself and spying on the neighbors. You can still hear her singing sometimes…
Or maybe she poured some water out of her pink Barbie My First LiquorFlask, which instantly froze, forming a ladder, which she climbed down.
Just kidding, Santa. Still bring me stuff, 'kay?
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### Author:  [@avacado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/avacado)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/17 "2000-12-11T07:33:19Z")
By the way, how was _Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer_ animated? I was trying to describe it to my girlfriend (she’s somehow never seen it), and all I could think of was “it’s like claymation, but fuzzy.”
Anyone know?
And did anyone see MadTV’s spoof a few years ago? It was hillarious.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranding-a-little-girl-on-a-roof/44458/18 "2000-12-11T10:38:44Z")
**avacado** I think the technique they used to film Rudolph is called “stop-motion photography” or something like that… I’m too lazy to look it up right now… but I _think_ what they do is have all of these puppets or dolls, pose them the way they want, take a picture…and move them _ever so slightly_, take another picture, etc. At the end they string all of the pictures together and add a soundtrack…
Didn’t see the **MadTV** (I’m geographically disadvantaged) spoof, but I wish I had…