# What rotten things do Reindeer do to Rudolph? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921 "2013-11-14T18:16:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/21 "2013-11-15T15:17:40Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Sometimes known as The Donner Party. awesome 😛 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/22 "2013-11-15T15:40:37Z")
> [@](#): > > …not letting him join in any reindeer games… Not only that, but the other 'deer forced poor Rudolph to watch a certain Ben Affleck movie. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/23 "2013-11-15T15:49:06Z")
They wouldn’t let him go to school, so he was elf taught. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/24 "2013-11-15T15:54:31Z")
Tightened his harness a little bit each day, until he went on a diet thinking he was fat. Wet his harness blanket and put it in the freezer. Hung up a tarp on the practice field, then pulled it down when Rudolph and Zoey were nuzzling behind it. Sent love notes to Stormella (or any Disney villainess) and signed them from Rudolph. . . . trying to think of all the things Hawkeye and BJ did to Charles. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/25 "2013-11-15T16:14:30Z")
Put on hoods and burned a cross on his lawn for being different. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/26 "2013-11-15T17:01:04Z")
> [@brownMouse](#): > > Put chili powder in Rudolph’s magic flying dust. That would explain the red nose, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![kapntoad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@kapntoad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapntoad)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/27 "2013-11-15T18:37:47Z")
“Annoyed he always gets harnessed directly behind Blitzen after taco night.” “Started the rumors about Dancer and Prancer. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.” “Why did Vixen reindeer-zone me?” ---
**Author:** ![turtlescanfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@turtlescanfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtlescanfly)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/28 "2013-11-15T20:57:50Z")
Put his hoof in a bowl of warm water while he was sleeping. ---
**Author:** ![ruh-roh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ruh-roh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruh-roh)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/29 "2013-11-15T21:47:41Z")
Got Rudolf drunk and then took him to the tattoo parlor for a nice target tattoo, as in Gary Larson and “Bummer of a birthmark Hal”. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/30 "2013-11-15T21:57:10Z")
Cut off his penis, sold it to a Chinese herbalist. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/31 "2013-11-16T00:24:49Z")
On-line dating profile lists “attracted to elephant seals”. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/32 "2013-11-16T00:25:46Z")
Called up a pizza joint and had 20 large anchovy and whale blubber pizzas sent to his place. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/33 "2013-11-16T00:32:58Z")
Even his girlfriend was a bitch. Remember the song? “Olive the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names.” ---
**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:** [November 16, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/34 "2013-11-16T01:40:31Z")
[Rudolph’s Revenge](http://images.bimedia.net/images/rubes4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/35 "2013-11-16T02:09:00Z")
The other reindeer gave him the wrong answers in one subject of the school finals. > **[Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Archives - Common Sense Evaluation](https://commonsenseevaluation.com/tag/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/)** So he \*\*did \*\*go down in History. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/36 "2013-11-17T10:57:37Z")
Told him to deliver some presents to the deer farm (or deer abattoir )… Changed their plates to a fake “RUDOLPH”, put on a fake red nose, and went speeding past the speed camera and through the red lights. Planted a dummy Mrs Rudolph in the field with Rudolph. (might even prepare Mrs Rudolph somehow. "Just do a pee here and … now hide ! " ) ---
**Author:** ![Gilbert1984](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Gilbert1984](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilbert1984)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/37 "2013-11-17T20:10:19Z")
Just inform the TSA that some called **Rudolph the Red** nosed reindeer intends to transit US airspace on the night of 25 / 26 December. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/38 "2013-11-17T22:38:46Z")
The other 'deer got together and gave Rudolph the worst present ever: a Bumble action figure that didn’t bounce. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/39 "2013-11-17T23:10:18Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > The other 'deer got together and gave Rudolph the worst present ever: a Bumble action figure that didn’t bounce. ☹ Similarly–showed Rudolph the toy bird that couldn’t fly that got pushed out of Santa’s sleigh. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921/40 "2013-11-17T23:31:59Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > I think there is a Far Side cartoon where some deer taped a sign on another deer’s back that had a bulls eye and “Shoot Me” on it. “Bummer of a birthmark, Rudolph…” All showed up one Christmas Eve wearing battery-operated red noses. “What? You think you’re special?” Untied all of themselves from the harness, and the harness from the sleigh, so when Rudolph took off at a dead run, they all were standing in the snow laughing. Then they tied an anchor to the sleigh. Then they put a JATO unit on it so it would pass Rudolph. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rotten-things-do-reindeer-do-to-rudolph/673921.md?page=3)