Has Santa ever shaved his beard off?

Yes.

Just twice. It didn’t really suit him. In fact, he looked… terrible.

You see – and Santa won’t forgive me for saying this – but his chin is absolutely enormous! 

I mean it’s so big, it looks like someone’s welded a planet onto the bottom of his face (possibly Mars, given both the redness and the criss-crossing of tiny marks from the razor).

Truth is, Santa’s beard is nowhere near as long as most people think, because most of his face-fluff is just covering that mighty chin.

To be fair though, the first time Santa shaved it off was to get sponsorship for the Save A Goblin Association (SAGA). This charity is close to Santa’s heart, after the terrible things the Skunkcrow Tribe started doing to other goblins a couple of decades ago.

Of course the second time he shaved the beard off was… Well, it was an accident. I won’t go into details, but let’s just say Santa got rather too close to the paper shredder.

It was probably a good job I happened to be passing, though to be fair, half of Yule Town probably heard the shriek.

Slem, one of Santa’s two pet robins, didn’t stop laughing for about two weeks afterwards.

I was much too kindly to laugh myself of course. Or at least not in Santa’s earshot! Out of it, I must confess to a chuckle or two (hundred)!