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It’s that time of year again: Santarchy

Post author By Orac
Post date December 14, 2006
4 Comments on It’s that time of year again: Santarchy

Too bad I can’t make it back to Detroit this weekend. In fact, it’s worse than that; I’m on call. Why? Because Saturday is Santarchy night. Basically a bunch of people dress up like Santa and go barhopping. Much drinking and debauchery ensue. If you happen to live in the Detroit area, here’s a little test to see if you’re “Santa enough” to participate. Sadly for me, maybe it’s a good thing that I won’t be there:

You have scored a 100.

While not completely lame, you do make for a weak Santa. And while some might think that should exclude you from participating in Santarchy, it’s just possible that by attending you will actually discover your true, inner, fully dis

functional, Santa.

In the meantime, check out pictures of carnage from past editions of Detroit Santarchy from 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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By Orac

Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.

That this particular surgeon has chosen his nom de blog based on a rather cranky and arrogant computer shaped like a clear box of blinking lights that he originally encountered when he became a fan of a 35 year old British SF television show whose special effects were renowned for their BBC/Doctor Who-style low budget look, but whose stories nonetheless resulted in some of the best, most innovative science fiction ever televised, should tell you nearly all that you need to know about Orac. (That, and the length of the preceding sentence.)

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