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Is This OK? Dad Uses Photoshop to Trick Daughter Into Believing ‘Ewoks’ Are Real

Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:00am by Liz Klimas
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Father Convinces Daughter of Star Wars Ewoks Existence Using Photoshop

(Photo: Anthony Herrera)

Who wouldn’t want Ewoks, those cute, cuddly yet slightly mischievous Star Wars creations, to be real? Anthony Herrera planted this exact seed in his daughter’s mind telling her on a hike in the Sequoia National Park that they were real.

Naturally, she was disappointed when she could catch a glimpse of the teddy-bear-like characters, so Herrera helped “prove” their existence by Photoshopping images of them into photos they had taken on their trip. Here’s what Herrera wrote on his blog:

A year ago we took a trip to Sequoia National Park. I wanted to excite my daughter while being in such amazing surroundings. Being the Star Wars geek that I am (so is she), I told her that this is where the Ewoks live. She spent a good chuck of our time hiking keeping a lookout for any Ewoks. Coming home I can‘t say that she wasn’t disappointed that we didn’t find any. I had to explain that they are extremely shy and hardly ever let anyone see them. After we got home, and after I had a little time alone with the photos, I told her I thought I saw something strange in a few pictures. We viewed them on the TV to get a larger image. You can imagine how surprised and excited she was when we discovered that we didn’t see any Ewoks, but they saw us, and had certainly taken an interest in her and her little brother. Maybe I’m a little wrong for lying to her and falsifying the pictures, but I don’t care. She’ll never forget the time she spent in the big woods with Ewoks.

(Photo: Anthony Herrera)

Clearly Herrera wasn’t thinking of the devastation that comes when you find out Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny and the Great Pumpkin from Charlie Brown aren’t real. But Herrera, and other commenters of the Wired story, aren’t too worried. Here are a few of the comments praising Herrera:

Here’s an added treat for those of you basking in this Ewok glory — the Yub Nub celebration song at the end of Return of the Jedi:

[H/T Gizmodo]

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Any_One_But_Obama
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:39am
There was a video that was placed on the Blaze earlier I think fits in this article: Kitty Cat Jedis, http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/sep/kitty_cat_jedi.html

ENJOY
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- the hawk
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:19pm
  Could it be any worse than the lies the teachers are telling our kids every day ?
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- CottonMPG
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 8:11pm
  I don’t approve of trying to convince children that imaginary things are real. People do it all the time and Santa is actually a deception on a world wide scale with even the local news getting into the deception with the radar. Seems to be relatively harmless, may cause children to have a harder time believing in the real supernatural things. They may think you are making it up when you tell them about God and miracles etc.. Should make the athiests happy if so though.
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- country_hick
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 8:53am
  COTTONMPG – Are you telling me that Ewoks aren’t real?
  
  Man, the Hobbits are going to be mad when I tell them that!
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- Ballot_Box_Revolution
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:22am
  “Hey watch this, i’m going to have some fun with the kids and photo shop ewoks into pictures….hahahaha”
  
  Come on what a great time to be a parent, the fun you can have with tech. and kids.
  More people should be doing this, maybe we would have better kids, because parents are actually having some fun with them. They will eventually figure it out, we all did with santa. I don’t think i was ever told there was no santa. the only way this could mess the kids up if it is something that becomes a huge part of their lives and they kids and parents talk about ewoks on a daily basis…
  I doubt that happens….
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 3:48pm
  Yo Ballot:
  No santa ?!!! I knew I should have stated off of sites like this.
  truth is good… but not santa!
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- darkloch
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:34am
  so does this mean that mom‘s and dad’s will photoshop santa into pictures and tell kids that santa is real and is checking his list…. Santa Lives,
  and i like this guy…
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- Ruler4You
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:01am
  Right now, there is hardly an entity on earth that doesn’t do the EXACT same thing every moment of everyday. From business, to government to activist groups. What’s Santa Clause? Easter Bunny?
  
  It is past the time in human existence where “seeing is believing.”
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- leikolee
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 10:34am
  All I can think is… How is what he did any different than what some parents tell their kids at Christmas time with Santa Clause?
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- melmatmic
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:24am
  Darklok, Thanks for the idea. This year we will catch Santa in the act!!!!!!
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- RedPillPatriot
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:30pm
  Why not Ewoks? We already have proof that Jar Jar Binks is real!! Jar Jar “Hussein” Binks.
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CrismaFire
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:55am
what a horrible father. The only lie my mother ever told me was about Santa and it hurt me so bad that she would ever lie to me I almost never trusted her again. I had to learn to forgive her. Great thing to teach your kid lie if you can justify it.
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- We the people of the republic
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:04am
  I was NEVER so GULUBLE!
  BONEHEAD!
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- BeTheSolution
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:34am
  I’m pretty sure that she also lied to you that time you walked in the bedroom and your parents were “having a tickling match” they were actually doing something else. if you havent figured that out yet I am sorry for smashing your feeble delusion.
  
  No parent is 100% honest with their kids, most times for their own good, or simply because they are not old enough to actually understand the truth in a non- harmfull manner. Any parent that is 100% honest with their kids 100% of the time is probably doing some serious harm by not self editing.
  
  Besides fantasies are fun. in 10-15 years the daughter and father will have a great memory of the prank. no harm and a story for the future.
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:34am
  What a maroon.
  Atleast he didn’t tell her Hussain was a great president. That will be devistating to a lot of people when they wake up !
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- Lonescrapper
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:46am
  No tooth fairy? No stories about how your great uncle discovered gold in California? No family mythology? No Greek mythology?
  
  Wow… your life DID suck.
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- TomFerrari
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:50am
  I’m with @we_the_people on this one…
  
  I don’t recall ever being so naive.
  Our parents always told us there was a Santa Claus, but, I only ever recall thinking it was really my parents. Didn’t take anything away from the excitement of Christmas morning, either!
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- Stu D. Baker-Hawk
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:56am
  Since everybody else is jumping on you, might as well as my name to the list, too. If what you said is true, you‘re probably one of the most maladjusted people I’ve ever come across. How very sorry I am for you…
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- loriann12
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 8:20am
  In order to be 100% honest to your kids you would have to treat them like adults. That is cruel in and of itself. If my child asks me a question, I first consider if he’s old enough to hear the truth. I may not lie, but I don’t tell the truth either. I have never actually told my son (at age 12) that we are Santa Claus, even though the presents go under the tree as they’re bought, or at least when the tree goes up. When he lost his last tooth, at something like 10, he asked if I was the tooth fairy. I asked him if he would like the tooth fairy to stop coming. it’s fun to have fantasies. I feel bad for people who can’t pretend. My belief in Santa and the Tooth Fairy got killed by my brother, but it didn’t scar me for life. Get over it.
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- loriann12
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 8:30am
  @Stu D. Baker-Hawk
  
  I love your screen name. My dad had a Studebaker Hawk….a gold one (or was it Tihiti pink?). And a Studebaker Lark.
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- Aimsmallshootsmall
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 8:57am
  Hey, people believe that christmas and easter are biblical truths also so don’t crack on this dad for having some fun with his children.
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- LadyLibertykicksASS
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 9:27am
  There, there…..it’ll be fine!! When the toothfairy comes, she’ll explain that your Mom was not really Lying, just trying to give you a little piece of fantasy to get you through the stinking reality of today!
  soooo… sorry you were tramatized !!!!!
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- Jarhead John
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 10:02am
  maybe if he had put pix of karl marx instead of ewoks you wouldn’t be offended.
  Kudos to daddy, good job, why didn’t i think of that, well, there’s always grandkids.
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- B.O.STINKS
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 10:26am
  It’s OK dear. You’re amongst friends now. Nobody here is going to hurt you….. much. We know how much the Ewoks and Santa Clause meant to you and of the pain at their departure. They’re not gone forever. They will be back again someday. Keep the faith and they will be with you forever in the afterlife. It’s just a small matter of time the Universe knows nothing of before you will be reunited with your friends. Keep the memories close as evidence of the joy in life to get you thru tough times for they were but a symbol of God’s presence. You are older now and need to learn not of the symbols, but of God directly. When you have done so all will be reunited again forever.
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- B.O.STINKS
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 10:30am
  Forget Santa Clause, for now it is time to turn your attention to the real live BOOGIE MAN -Barak Hussein Obama.
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- Cat
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 11:03am
  Daddy was not brushing mommy’s teeth.
  Age four.
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- Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:10pm
  @ crismafire: you intentionally posted this stupid comment just to get a rise out of ppl, right? You are brilliant, I love it. Cause noone in their right mind would post what you said and actually believe it. You are funny. That is the case, right?
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- The Gooch
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:42pm
  This explains how Dr. Phil and his ilk remain in business. I‘m picturing an overweight scowling ’victim’.
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- duckwalker
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:53pm
  @CrismaFire sounds like counsilling is in order for you. This is a great dad. I hope they grow up with eyes of wonderment and always looking for the Ewoks in life.
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- avenger
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:49pm
  dad is a lib idiot !probably voted for obummer hope&change…
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- drmda
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 9:36pm
  Did you know the word “gullible” is not in the dictionary?
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- toto
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 11:10pm
  Geez, you are kidding, right?
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- jcldwl
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 7:52am
  “The horror, the horror.”
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- RRFlyer
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:32am
  I feel sorry for you for missing out on a great part of childhood. I wouldn’t trade my young days of imagination for anything
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- Devildog1039
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:46am
  What a sad sad person you are!!
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- markdido
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:43am
  Seek professional help please.
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- LRC
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 7:03pm
  Get thee to a shrink! You were that devastated when you found out about
  Santa…sheeeeeeezzzzz. My brother and I conspired to keep the Santa thing going!
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ArizonaDex
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:00am
idiots around the world tell their kids about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the great pumpkin, why not ewoks, To the father great job :)
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Lone Ranger
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 2:57am
How hard-hearted are people who would deny children their fantasies? Every Christmas Eve, I put on my Santa suit, put the top down on my Corvette and make one round of the Capitol Beltway. I get smiles even from adults who look like they would rather stab you than shake your hand. These HARMLESS childhood fairy tales stay with people throughout their lives and make them better people.
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- TomFerrari
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:52am
  I want pictures of Beltway Santa !
  
  That’s too funny, man !
  
  Keep spreading the Christmas cheer!
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- loriann12
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 8:33am
  I agree, I want pictures! Christmas had become a bit of a downer the past 6 years (going on 7) because it was December both times that I got diagnosed with cancer.
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- toto
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 11:12pm
  I believe those children are very lucky to have the fun loving father that we do.
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badjujuu
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 2:54am
Good for him and his kids, its called imagination – which people lack these days.
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teapartyconservatism
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 2:38am
Just because a photoshopped birth certificate is good enough for the de facto president to delude America, http://www.wnd.com/eligibility that doesn‘t mean it’s okay to similarly delude a child. Does it?

Remember what Glenn’s staff wrote on the chalkboard painted pillar of The Blaze office?

TRUTH FAITH INTEGRITY HONOR
THINK
do your HOMEWORK
KNOW

So they just ignore the biggest fraud in American history but instead someone using photoshop to create a phony impression about Ewoks is big news! This is journalism at it’s finest?

Glenn and his staff advocate principled political participation based on the Bible and Constitution. So how do they excuse their hypocritical failure to acknowledge Obama’s ineligibility?

If Glenn would just tell America the truth that Obama is not a natural born citizen, and he also has a fake BC and SS#, Obama would likely resign and/or be arrested! But every hero needs his villain. Guess that’s show biz!

Art. 2, Sec. 1, “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible … .”

Exempting a citizen (the minimum requisite then was US birth to a US father) from being a natural born citizen, proves they are not equal. Only US birth to US citizen parents (plural) is greater, thus defining a natural born citizen.

“Obama is Not an Eligible Natural Born Citizen,” http://teapartyconservatism.blogspot.com/
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- KangarooJack
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 2:49am
  Stop. Please, Stop. For goodness sake, drop it. It’s like trying to determine Welfare benefits for elidgble citizens. Your premise is mote. It’s dead in the water. Been there done that…give it up. NOW-let’s ALL pay better attention next round shall we???
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- Stu D. Baker-Hawk
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 8:02am
  I think you’ve drifted WAY-Y-Y-Y too far from the intent of this story. I am VERY conservative like you, but unlike you, I know when to give it a rest. Please give me your mailing address, and I’ll send you a chill pill.
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- B.O.STINKS
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 10:53am
  What does the matter of his birth have to do with the fact that the American people elected this communist? That is what we must deal with. That is why you can’t just shoot him. Our system put him there. Our system must take him down. He is but a thorn, though perhaps deadly, we must still deal with the bush from which it came. Let his demise be a symbol of the true strength of America – Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
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- Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:09pm
  I love it, the BC issue lives. I think it is a stretch to compare this to the BC. The truth will come out someday but it is not Glenns job to make that happen. Again, you have an offer of some free chill pills, please post an address so all of us can send you some…
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- teapartyconservatism
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:31pm
  @ KangarooJack, Stu D. Baker-Hawk. B.O.STINKS
  See no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil.
  
  The apathy exhibited by you three wise monkeys, is exactly what the usurper Obama is counting on to continue perpetuating a very dangerous fraud in violation of the Constitution and a clear a present danger to our national security.
  
  Additionally, you also don’t seem to care about Glenn Back and his staff framing themselves as the ultimate harbinger of truth, while in fact they are purposefully perpetuating the usurpers time in office by a heinous lie of omission.
  
  Obviously this Ewock photoshop story is ripe with irony given Obama’s photoshopped birth certificate http://www.wnd.com/eligibility even though this story was, one would suppose. meant to be a light hearted break, but a break from what… failing to report the biggest fraud in the history of America?
  
  Please learn the facts and demand your local, state and federal elected officials due their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution and enforce the law by removing Obama from office now!
  
  “Obama is Not an Eligible Natural Born Citizen,” http://teapartyconservatism.blogspot.com/
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- teapartyconservatism
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:57pm
  @ Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
  
  The flag you fly 24/7 symbolizes liberty as enshrined in the Constitution. Is not ignoring it worse than trampling the flag?
  
  We must do more than just vote when the time comes. We must do more than sit and wait for the media addled majority to decide our fate and the fate of our nation. We have a Constitution! We must demand our Constitution be honored by our elected public servants.
  
  By providence, our Founding Fathers succeeded in creating our nation by wresting themselves from the grasp of tyranny to forge freedom for themselves and future generations of Americans with our Constitution. However freedom isn’t free; it is now up to us to keep it.
  
  Thomas Jefferson wisely warned, “Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.”
  
  Similar in nature to the wisdom of Jefferson, Dr. Benjamin Franklin also cautioned, “Those who will trade liberty for security deserve neither.”
  
  Indeed, having finally completed their task of writing the Constitution, as the members emerged from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787, Dr. Benjamin Franklin was asked by an anxiously awaiting Mrs. Powel, “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” whereupon he knowingly replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
  
  It’s your Constitution, your nation, your freedom and your choice!
  
  “Obama is Not an Eligible Natural Born Citizen,” http://teapartyconservatism.blogspot.com/
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- Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 2:20pm
  @TEAPARTYCONSERV: You make very good points. I totally agree, BHO is not eligable to be the POTUS. Here is my deal. We have 14 months left of this guy. The more he does, the stornger the Tea Party and conservatives become. The Right is winning, but we are in a battle right now. To press the BC agenda is not a good idea. It would tear this country even further apart and if by chance the truth were to come out, that puts Hillary in the WH with this next election. We have to deal with this loser till the election hoping he is the candidate on that side of the isle then we blow them out at the polls…..
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- teapartyconservatism
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:12pm
  @Fly
  
  The Constitution is the priority. Obama’s Kenyan father precluded his being a natural born citizen,[1] defined by Supreme Court precedent as one born in US to US citizen parents i.e., Donofrio.
  
  Precedent for citizen eligibility must not be set. Obama mustn’t trample the Constitution or the flag for 14 seconds, let alone 14 months! Strangely, the courts have so far blocked every attempt to enforce Article 2, Section 1, due to lack of standing.
  
  However if Obama is charged and prosecuted for allegedly using a fraudulent SS# and posting a fake birth certificate[2] on the White House web site, every law, executive order, military order and appointment he inflicted upon America, is invalidated.
  
  In addition, the usurper’s entire administration will be unraveled and removed, including his illegal Vice President Joe Biden, as well as the usurper’s two dissidents on the Supreme Court.
  
  Following the rules of succession, the House Speaker will fulfill the remainder of the vacated presidential term.
  
  If justice prevails, the progressive socialist democrats will be dismissed, defeated and discarded.
  
  Those in the media, public office and the candidates must address Obama’s ineligibility and anomalies or be dismissed as untrustworthy!
  
  1. TPC, “Obama is Not an Eligible Natural Born Citizen,” http://teapartyconservatism.blogspot.com/ (8/18/2011)
  
  2. WND, BO fraud reports
  http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98546
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Cesium
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 2:07am
What?!? How could you trick you children with this?!!? outrageous!! Now, back to teaching them truth about Jesus and his magic powers
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- alina.bolero
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:54am
  grrrmmmpf … heeehehehe
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- godlovinmom
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:20pm
  way to take a jab at Jesus…silly!
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The Third Archon
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:55am
This is hilarious–lies to stupid kids are so funny, ah ha ah ah aha ha.
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godlovinmom
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:51am
Not that I think what this dad has done is bad…his heart was in the right spot to bring joy to his kid…but I try to find fun stuff to do with mine that doesn’t involve lying to them…so santa is just a guy at christmas, easter bunny is just a symbol for easter??..tooth fairy is mom and dad…and so far this works for my family…and that’s one of the wonderful things about America, we get to do our own thing…and at least this dad isn’t trying to push his ewoks on the rest of us!
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- Islesfordian
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:45am
  Kids have imaginations of their own. They create invisible friends and have tea parties with dolls. Why do we need to screw with it by telling them things that aren’t true? I will never teach my kids anything but the truth of Santa Claus; that he was a loving 4th century bishop who defended the faith, young poor children, and sailors.
  
  I believe that children should be confident that what a parents says is true IS true, that a parent would never lie to them. There may be necessary exceptions when the truth would be too much for them, but this is hardly one of them.
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Alan
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:30am
Hey, I think I saw the easter bunny in that one shot?!
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squeaker
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:28am
Kids grow up too fast as it is. These are the kind of memories that will make their childhood memories sparkle. GOOD JOB
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stadylady
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:26am
I’d have an easier time believing Ewoks were real than the Easter bunny or toothfairy.
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David Foxfire
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:22am
Photoshoping Ewoks is one thing. Making a kid believe that they’re alive on this world? Anakin Skywalker’s never around when you need him to Force Choke a b***h. (The dad, not the kid.)
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 2:02am
  Good one.
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bestartist
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:17am
I think it’s great.
When I was about eight we went to a large museum in a major city we visited for a weekend and my mom and I used the restroom and when we met up with my dad he had one of those tokens you could make in a machine and it read “honest- my full name- artist ” I didn’t know such machines existed and my dad said he had just found it on the floor and I was wonderstruck and asked “how do people know?” ) I was really into being honest and an artist even then and it really jazzed me thinking the whole world thought so , too.
It was years later that it came up and I realized he had made it…..but I didn’t mind…….I thought it was really cool.
Still do…….a little magic and wonder is a great thing! : )
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- loriann12
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 8:38am
  When I was real young, we didn’t have a chimney, only a pipe that led to the furnace. I was worried that Santa would crawl down that pipe, thinking it was a chimney, and burn up in our furnace. My mom told me that for houses that didn’t have a chimney or fireplace, Santa could make himself really small and fit through the key hole of our front door. My aunt also told me that if I chewed on my pigtails, the saliva would eat the hair and I’d be bald. Got me to quit chewing on my pigtails.
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HTuttle
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:08am
Obamamaniacs STILL believe their Magical Fantasy Obama is real and are patiently awaiting his arrival.

“I BELIEVE! I BELIEVE! I BELIEVE!” They all chant as OPeterPan leads them by their hands out the window and up and AWAY into the magical dark night!
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:17am
  I found Obama! He’s in the Oval office!
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 2:04am
  Barack, the magic EGO lives in DC . . .
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godhatesacoward
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:55am
Got to look out for the elusive jackalope as well! Two thumbs up for Dad keeping imagination in his kids brains! Without imagination our kid’s are useless!
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RA0725
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:55am
Really cute kids and a really great Dad!
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HumbleServant
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:52am
There is a risk she will resent being deceived, especially if the dad goes to elaborate steps to keep it going. When I found out Santa wasn’t real, it did not bother me much. Others I know were devastated.

At this point in my life, I just want to wake up and find out Obama wasn’t ever really President.
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8jrts
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:43am
I’m not sure on this…I don’t have kids. I do remember my grandparents asking me if I saw that “critter” behind the tree? I swear I could have seen it and I developed my art skills from what I learned to see. Is it so bad to let the kids imagine rather than give them the reality that is not real?
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- SgtB
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:47am
  My dad took time lapse video of Santa one year. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Herrera did a great thing for his kids and at least his oldest will have fond memories of it when she gets older.
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- 8jrts
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:13am
  SGTB
  Guess times have changed a bit since I was a kid….good memories are priceless…no matter how you get them.
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- FedUpAlready
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 2:34pm
  How many of us were scouts and sent on the proverbial snipe hunt? We had a blast, and, the practice still lives on, in scout troops all over the world. Books and films are filled with the wonderment
  of the human imagination. If we were held to the cruel realities of life, I dare say none of us would want to grow up. This man’s children will cherish the moments they shared with their father, in his creative flights of fantacy to keep them entertained. Without the writers of children’s books, where would we be? Imagine no Harry Potter books or Chronicals of Narnia, Dr. Seuss , stories of dragons, and Princesses, Knights, no books portraying heroes, courage, integrity and virtue! We read to escape reality, and learn from days long ago. Enjoy and have fun with your children, they’ll be adults soon enough!
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:40am
Now my kids,A story about GorebAl Warming……..The FDA is moving forward with its plan to stop the sale of Primatine Mist inhalers after Dec. 31 over concerns about their use of chlorofluorocarbons, which damage the ozone layer.And AL Gore’s God IS behind Every dead tree that Man and Jesus killed.Other than that,(Im a Cynic Butt Hole) KOOL!!!! That is what I Call a clever father keeping imagination and the thrill of Discovery alive!!!Tht and It is Pretty dang cute!
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banjarmon
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:33am
reindeer and Santa…
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Infected
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:33am
Whats the difference between this and teaching/allowing the beleif in Santa?
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- tomloy
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:18am
  None. Its a harmless fantasy.
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Enuff Zenuff
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:26am
Reminds me of when I took my nephews to see E.T. After they climbed out of the car at the theatre, I tossed some packages of Reeses Pieces into the back seat. When we returned & they found them, they concluded E.T. had been there. I was just doing it for a joke but they seemed totally convinced.
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pschlentz
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:10am
It’s great this guy is so involved in his kids lives. Being a dad involves lots of creativity. I think this is great!
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BurntHills
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:05am
happy to be able to read a GOOD DECENT FAMILY story
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- godlovinmom
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:57am
  I know right…alot of bad ones, so it is good to see a good one.
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