Get Up And Do Something: Santa doesn’t smoke a pipe in PC rewrite of 'Twas the Night'

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Santa doesn't smoke a pipe in PC rewrite of 'Twas the Night' Oct 17th 2012, 11:48 It's a holiday classic Mayor Bloomberg would love. A sanitized version of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" edits out all references to Santa Claus' pipe habit — and critics say it's yet another example of political correctness run amok. A one-woman vice squad — self-published Canadian author Pamela McColl — kicked St. Nick's butt habit in a new version of the beloved poem about "the night before Christmas." McColl deleted two verses — "The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth/and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath"— and hired an illustrator to redraw Santa without his pipe and halo of tobacco haze.

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