Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for December 23, 2023

I prefer nighty – it can be nice and naughty

Nauce is the Australian good list

Nauce for Sauce! (Saucy is a good space between Naught and Nice)

I think most of us would be on the "Nauce list.

Instead of coal, do they get petroleum jelly?

The elves would be a little taller if they didn’t have so much turned up for their feet and toes.

So ultimately only 81 people are getting something.

Hey Santa! I’ll give you CASH MONEY for the names & numbers of all the girls (women) on your NAUGHTY LIST!!

So with great toys on one end of the spectrum, and coal on the other, what do kids on the nauce list get? Their gifts fall into the “meh” category. The gifts sit on closet shelves for a few months before Mom decides to donate them to the local thrift store — and the kids don’t even notice.

Good one.

It’s a new Christmas dinner tradition; nauce sauce.

Formerly Known as Santa’s, meh list.

I believe “Nuance” would be a better addition. The moral world is not black-and-white.

Is Santa a victim of the war on coal?

And now up pops a perfume jingle from early-’60s radio:

Suddenly

You’re everything that you want to be

A little bit naughty but heavenly

With Heaaaaveeeen SSce-e-ent!"

Squint a little and it becomes nuance.

How about “noice”?