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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
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 Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:29 pm Post subject: NORAD tracks Santa |
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My husband recently took a tour of the NORAD installation inside Cheyenne Mountain. They recounted this story to him:
One Christmas in Colorado Springs, Sears was having a little promotion where they advertised a telephone number kids could call to track Santa on his trip around the globe dropping off presents. The telephone number on the advertisement was misprinted, and on Christmas Eve a gadzillion kids ended up calling some colonel at NORAD inside Cheyenne Mountain asking where Santa was!!! After some head-scrathing they figured out what happened and decided to play along.
The next year they set up a "Track Santa" website and have been doing it ever since 
http://www.noradsanta.com/index.php |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I had forgotten about that. CBC would broadcast Santa's position as tracked by NORAD every Christmas Eve. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| When I was a kid we still had operators who connected you on the telephone. We could call Mrs. Santa and tell her what we wanted for Christmas. I remember worrying that she would forget to tell Santa to bring me Lincoln logs. |
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TheFonz
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Location: North Georgia
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| Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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It is comforting to know my tax dollars are being well spent. 
Merry Christmas to all! |
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