Sketchy Santas is a pretty cool site (and it doesn’t afraid of anything). There are too many pictures in which the “sketchiness” is evinced solely by the screaming children in Santa’s lap, not from the hobosity of St. Nick himself, but there are still plenty of amusingly sketchy old elves.

And then there’s this:

Isn’t that amazing?

It’s like the result of a Steam Age biosphere, a series of interconnected subterranean bunkers in which generations of pioneers have interbred in isolation since the 1850s. Almost entirely cut off from the surface world, they’ve received occasional crates packed with contemporary technology and semi-annual telegrams tersely describing advances in surface culture and society. They’ve seen terse descriptions of Santa but never a photo or Coke ad, so this is how they’ve interpreted the icon. Fascinating.