Have a look at the picture below, how can you tell Santa and his helper are in Australia?
Merry Christmas everyone!!
The giveaway is Mrs. Santa’s facial hair. She appears to have a full beard.
Barring that, I would have said this was taken in Florida, from the flip-flops and what appears to be a lit-up palm tree in the background.
The dingo ate the baby?
I was hoping that the photo would be upside down.
he used photoshop to turn it over 
I expected to see a drain running counterclockwise . . .
Me too!
I was hoping that the photo would be upside down
C’mon people, everybody knows Australia is the right way up, it’s the rest of the world that’s upside down and all your avatars appear upside down to us here in Oz.
Because of the strange albino holding a camera in the foreground? I know there’s some different fauna down under.
There’s not enough detail to determine if the plant in the background is a Victorian Christmas bush so I’m going to have to assume there’s Vegamite in the gift box.
That’s because your computer is upside down.
The bare tile floor. Anywhere else they’d put a rug over it, for heavens sake.
But where are the 8 tiny Roo’s ?
Don’t tell me that it isn’t actually Mrs. Claus with a beard but a kangaroo in disguise.
That’s on purpose, so they can hear the funnelweb spiders coming for them by the little clicking their exoskeletons make on the floor.
And they’re all named Skippy.
More rapid than eagles, his coursers they came,
and he whistled and shouted and called them by name:
“Now Skippy, now Skippy, now Skippy and Skippy!
On Skippy, on Skippy, on Skippy and Skippy!”
Have they got tiny corks hanging from their hats that don’t really show up very well in a tiny picture?
Heh! Before settling on Mrs. Santa’s beard, I did examine the picture closely to see if that spot on the floor WAS a funnelweb spider . . .
Before this is over, I trust someone will explain about the tiny corks . . .
What a very witty lot you folk are….
A few little explanations for you all,
It’s not Mrs Santa on the left, that’s Santa’s helper, Colleen, every other year it’s usually Colin, but as the helper is female she didn’t want to be Colin so she became Colleen instead. The name Colin came about after a bit of merry making many Christmases ago, we were all sat around with the younger kids and getting them to shout out ‘Callin’ Santa’ in the hope that Santa would appear. Santa’s helper came rushing in saying ‘Who’s calling for me?’, then was asked ‘Who are you, are you Santa?’ The reply was ‘No, I’m Colin (calling) Santa, who wants me?’
So it has developed into a tradition here that Santa’s helper is called ‘Colin’.
This year with it being Colleen it makes it sound a bit more like ‘calling’.
So, no lambchop, not Mrs Santa and not Florida, no palm tree either and although I still call them flip-flops, here in Oz they’re known as thongs.
No dingoes this far South, so the babies are safe mutepoint.
Denny’s right about photoshop avanutria, I had to flip the pic so you Northern hemisphere dwellers could view the thing properly…
…but how did you know my computer was upside down avanturia?
(edited to explain the pic) The screen is upside down, you can just make out the ‘BENQ’ brand name on the upper edge, the black bit at the top is the stand and what the screen is supposed to be sat on, at the minute it is just leaning up against the shelf of the computer desk. Does anyone know how to invert/reverse the screen display so that I can put the monitor the correct way up?
Gregrdidge, the eight (not so tiny) roo’s were out on the front lawn (or what’s left of it after the big dry).
No funnel webs down this way either Nano, we have redbacks and the nasty, nasty white tip spider. The white tip spider injects a horrible flesh eating bacteria into the bite area, it is a horrible infection that can last for years slowly eating away, with no cure.
Pammy, the tiny corks used to be hung all around the rim of your hat on a short piece of string and when the your head was moved the corks would swing around a little making the flies shoo away from your face. We don’t use corks anymore, we make do with the ‘Australian salute’.
The dead give away is that Santa is wearing a pair of ‘double pluggers’ on his feet.
Where? And what are double pluggers? He’s wearing flip-flops. Over that, he’s wearing those fake-boot costume gaiters. 