> Now that the holiday season is upon us, i feel it a proper time for anyone to share any funny, remarkable, intersting, entertaining, or inspirational Christmas stories he might have.

This is only slightly funny, but unlike most of my stories, it happened.

The first year I taught 7th grade, the kids wanted to go all out decorating for Christmas. So I suggested a nice big Santa Claus for the large bulletin board at the end of the room. We used a slide projector to trace an outline of the old feller on white paper, almost life-sized.
Then we got out the tempra paint, in this case dry powder. Before I knew what had happened they had mixed *all* of the white and red paint in large containers. A few ounces of each would have been enough, but we had half a gallon. We had hardly started when someone stuck a brush full of paint into the white. So we wound up with a Santa wearing a red suit trimmed in pink. He was a hit. I think everybody in the whole school dropped by to see him.
Howard