What is Christmas Eve Eve with Santa Claus his wife Jane 23 missing elves and WikiAnswers all about?

Christmas Eve Eve with Santa Claus, his wife, Jane, 23 Missing Elves and WikiAnswers Twas the night before the night before Christmas and all through the shop not a creature was working, not even the 23 elves who should have been at their worktables making toys. That was Santa Claus's problem. And now it's yours.

He had to find them since his departure time was coming up fast, but he needs your help. The elves are hiding somewhere in this story and you have to find them. Elves are pretty good at hiding.

You will be able to see some of them, but you will only be able to "hear" the rest. Listen for them carefully as you read this and help Santa get them back to work The missing elves you must find are: An8thg, Amlove32, Brave3, Catpaw01, Crystal, Deb, Delltechie, Eviltechie, Gray and Grumpy, Hoowestik, Jadeacres, JoyceP, Katz2, PeterC14, Marcy, Martinel, Plumbing Guru, Robin, RoibeairdWA, Takamo, Wikiwriter, Zanbabe and Zandkey (Caution: The elves are listed at the end in the order of appearance, so if you want to keep looking with no help don't read the final credits. ) It was Christmas Eve eve and Santa Claus was taking care of some last minute details.

He went to the workshop to see how the elves were coming along with the toys. He was surprised to see a note on the door: "Be back in 3 hours. Maybe more" He shook his head in disbelief.It's Christmas Eve eve and they're taking a three-hour break without permission?

Two hours was pretty brave. Three is foolhardy. They're lucky they even have jobs in this economy.

He walked to their break room and passed a workbench that had a three-legged Siamese kitten on it. Next to it was a memo to the Parts Department.'Order one Siamese cat paw. " "Oh, wonderful," he thought.

The elf didn't order the whole leg. He pictured some kid with a toy kitten that wouldn't stop tipping over He couldn't go looking for them now because he had to go to the IT department to see Inge, the person who mapped out his route, and find out how his itinerary was coming along. Like most people, Santa was afraid of the IT people mostly because they spoke in a language he couldn't understand.

And the Department head was the worst. Dealing with her, you'd think she owned the place, but he had to put up with her, because computers made him crazy and key-boards were beyond his motor skills Walking through the department, Santa noticed Inge was the only one there. He passed the IT department head's desk and read the nameplate: Adele: Techie With An Attitude.

You got that right, he thought. The missing elves had him upset, but he was glad to see the ITs out of the way. When he got to Inge's station he saw that she wasn't doing the routes.

She was on some site called WikiAnswers What are you doing? ," he asked. "You're supposed to be doing my routes Lighten up, I'm a WikiAnswers Community Assistant too and right now we're having a crisis.

We're getting inundated with questions about you and it's overloading the system. Every question about Christmas was going into our new "Christmas" category, but it couldn't handle the load and it just crashed. We have a lot of Supervisors working trying to hold things together.

It's unreal how many questions are pouring in. You'd think WA is running some kind of 'Ask one question, get two contribution points' special Excuse me, but I pay you to do the routes", said Santa Excuse me, but WikiAnswers pays me more. " she answered.

"I know it's Christmas Eve eve, but I still have to take care of this So is this what you've been doing all night? Writing answers to questions about my ETA? And re-cats, too What are Re-cats?

The way Wiki works is people ask questions, which go into different categories and tonight everything was going into "Christmas'. Half the kids celebrating Christmas in the world are asking how far away are you and how long will it take you to get to their homes from the North Pole Only half? " Santa asked I'll explain that later.

Anyway, I've been re-categorizing those questions into 'Distance and Travel Time.' I even had to make a catch-all question called "This information is classified. " and I've been merging like crazy ever since. Then right in the middle of all those travel questions, someone makes a thread in the Supervisor's Forum and says, 'Before you ask how long it takes for Santa Claus to get somewhere, you have to ask 'Does Santa Claus really exist?' As soon as that was posted, things really went wild.

In fact, that thread got so contentious; the WA IT people had to lock it down. Now there's a big fight going on in the Forum about re-opening it They locked down a discussion about me? On Christmas Eve eve?

Those evil tekkies again There's no end to the mischief they can do. " Still he was so thrilled that there was so much attention in cyberspace about him he couldn't hide his excitement So there's all these people all over the world who want to talk about me? Wow that's great If I were you, I wouldn't rejoice, pea-brain Most of the people in that Forum don't even think you exist.

Even the polls in the Community Forum have your existence rating among the under 15 year olds at barely 50%. Remember, before when I said only half the kids were asking those questions? WA thinks even those numbers are unreliable.

We found out that there are a lot of moms out there using assumed names or just IP addresses trying to convince the kids that you do exist That's ridiculous. " Santa argued."I'm sure those usernames are real kids No they aren't. Some IP addresses have been traced to existing user names for kids already signed up with WA, but the questions are being asked with proper capitalization, full spelling of words and not a single LOL or ROFLMAO, or BFF.

Don't tell me they aren't adults. And that's not all. Our Vandal Patrol noticed a pattern of almost identical contributions from a number of IPs.

They traced several IPs to a number of toy and computer game makers Really? How can they tell that? They keep putting their websites in the related links section.

That's a dead giveaway. Those vandals think we can't spot them, but they better beware, because we can. The Vandal Patrol force might be overworked tonight, but they're holding on.

We have Site Guardians monitoring all new questions coming in. Even the Generalists volunteered to help. We just have to stop these new questions from coming in so our Site Investigators and Alternate Specialists can get to work cleaning up the questions that already slipped by before we knew what was going on.

You wouldn't believe how many questions are either misspelled or with bad grammar What are you talking about? A question is a question. So what if they're worded a little differently?

Are you kidding? Do you have any idea how many ways they can find to spell Christmas? Almost every new spelling adds another question that has to be merged.

Here's another problem we have. Look at this nut's question. : "If Santa Claus is Kris Kringle, is Mrs. Claus Kristle Kringle?

What kind of idiot could even think of a question like that? We don't put up with vandalism like that Seems like just some harmless non-sense to me," he said. Inge just rolled her eyes I'll do the re-catting here, thank you.

This one goes into 'Riddles if it's a riddle, I know the answer," he began, "actually her name is… Not now, OK? Things are really crazy right now. These kids just keep asking the same question over and over every five minutes 'Is he here yet.

Is he here yet?' Our catch-all expert made a catch-all question for them called 'No, and if you ask again he won't come. ' Normally we would block person from asking the same questions again and again, but WA disabled our blocking powers because it's Christmas. Right now all we can do is warn them and that makes it tough on the Vandal Patrol.

Normally they knock out at least three-quarters of those vandals, but with the volume tonight they'll be lucky to get an eighth. Gee they're in for a long night, but they always get their vandals OK", he said, "but what about the routes? When are you going to finish them?Relax.

I'll do it on Map Quest later. It'll take me ten minutes. Now go.

I have my WA addiction to take care of Did you say 'addiction'? No, I said "responsibility No, you said 'addiction'. Besides, if you don't finish the routes, I'll be in a real sticky wicket Sorry, I'm sticking with WIKI, right or wrong So you're a WIKI sticker?

And with the badge to prove it, too. Now, if you keep interrupting me, I might just have you evading anti-sleigh missiles over Russia. Do I have to tell you what Rudolph looks like on an infrared radar screen?

Hmmm? You can't scare me with that. " Santa said, "They'll know it's not a threat, because that's an attack a moron wouldn't even make Well, there you have me."

Inge said. "Making you look like a moron might be easy, but it is the one way to make sure everyone knows it's you up there Santa was fuming, but could do nothing about it. He knew what Inge was capable of when she put her mind to it.

He still remembers that one year she almost got him mugged in Grammarcy Park in New York. He was the Boss, but he realized she wasn't going to change her mind OK, OK, but where is everyone? " Santa asked Where's who?

Santa started to rattle off the names of the missing elves. Inge looked nervous Umm, I uhh have no idea," she said. Santa got the feeling she was hiding something.

Inge needed to get rid of him fast before he started asking a lot of questions All right," she said, "one last time. If you don't go away now, I'm re-catting you into Urban Legends You know", said Santa, "between the elves, the IT people and you, it's no wonder I'm so gray.

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