Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas! For those that don’t know of the great tradition that has existed since 2005, this is the start of my Joke Advent! A joke for every working day before Christmas in December! This year, the luck has fallen so that you get 18 delicious morsels to much upon!

I’ve also decided to go World Wide! You can now get Joke Advent 2.0 by a wealth of different options!

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• Or.. if you prefer Vanilla – if you work with me, you can asked to be included (or excluded) from the email I send around!

So – here it is, the very first Christmas Joke of the 2009 season!

Santa Claus, like all pilots, gets regular visits from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It was shortly before Christmas when the FAA examiner arrived.

In preparation, Santa had the elves wash the sled and bathe all the reindeer. Santa got his logbook out and made sure all his paperwork was in order.

The examiner walked slowly around the sled. He checked the reindeer harnesses, the landing gear and Rudolph’s nose. He painstakingly reviewed Santa’s weight and balance calculations for the sled’s enormous payload.

Finally, they were ready for the checkride.

Santa got in and fastened his seat belt and shoulder harness and checked the compass. Then the examiner hopped in carrying, to Santa’s surprise, a shotgun.

“What’s that for?” asked Santa incredulously.

The examiner winked and said, “I’m not supposed to tell you this, but you’re gonna lose an engine on takeoff.”

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