20081217

He's a very, very fat man

Santa Claus.

A right jolly old elf.

If the average household has 2.3 children and there are 394 million total children in the world that receive gifts, that means Santa makes 172 million stops in one night. Assuming there is one cup of 2% milk and three cookies per house, and Santa drinks all the milk and consume 1.5 cookies, Santa will have had:

  • 257,543,660 total cookies.
  • 3,863,155 total kg of cookies.
  • 18,543,143,441 calories from cookies.
  • 738,867,170 kg milk.
  • 20,946,884,258 calories from milk.
In order to burn off the calories consumed delivering toys to all the little kiddies, and assuming a weight of 300 pounds, Santa would have to do one of the following:
  • Participate in 95,386,540 30-minute long low impact aerobics classes.
  • Walk 514,382 kilometers at a 6.4 kph pace
  • Play 35,965,417 games of hockey (that's with no shift change)
  • Brush his teeth 3,590,002,518 times.
  • Or have sex 274,236,303 times.
Of course the problem is that there are only 525,950 minutes in one year, so there's no way for the fat man to shed all those extra kilos put on during his yearly ride.

Unless Santa purges.

And that just ain't right.

9 comments:

for a different kind of girl said...

Oh, I can totally see Santa in an eating disorder support group with the elves during the off season.

Redneck Mommy said...

Do NOT suck the joy out of Santa for me Manatee.

I do not want to picture an upchucking Santa.

Ew.

Thud said...

But that's what the reindeer are for. It might *look* like they are pulling him, but he is actually *pushing* them THROUGH THE AIR. That's a significant amount of work, and probably burns through those calories right quick.

Seriously Mama said...

Santa has sex? ;-)

Now what is it going to take to get you to share that white chocolate, cranberry, macadamia cookie recipe????

FilmFather said...

De-lurking after discovering your blog earlier this week...

Those are some scary stats, but the scariest has to be that last bullet.

I don't want to think of Santa having sex once, let alone 274,236,303 times.

SnipingMizzy said...

How do you know he's not really saving them to feed all of his elves and his wife for the entire year? It's not like he makes money to get all of them food.

DCUrbanDad said...

What about really really really quick sex.

Mike said...

Nice post!

Twenty Four At Heart said...

Maybe he takes some of the cookies home to Mrs. Claus. Or the elves. Or feeds them to the reindeer. Santa should not be having sex. Really.