I heard that Santa is feeling the financial pressure right now in this troubling time for our economy (word is the Pole Bank is going under because of elves defaulting on their candy cottage morgages) and will be cutting down production of toys this year. Allotment per child will be slashed from five toys to a paltry two, and the dirty rumor is that Santa is secretly purchasing cheap toys from China rather than having his elves make them. I guess we'll have to see what happens on X-Mas eve.