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Jan 04, 2006 21:05 |  #1

Here's an breif article I wrote.

Zanta Claus is Coming to Town
Dennis Marciniak

Take the S flip it backwards and what do you have? Zanta.

While on a quiet trip home on Toronto’s subway systems, a character lurks. It’s Zanta to spread the word of his Christmas cheer.

Zanta plans to hold his own parade and claims that he is the new Santa Claus in town.

“Santa’s fat, I’m strong; he wears a shirt, I don’t; and when I make millions, I’ll give it to the people of Toronto rather than give them toys.” The cheery man does several pushups in a row, even at other parades.

The locally famous Zanta says that he’s the next big thing. He claims that he wants to go worldwide, and it all starts in Toronto.

Recently, Zanta was banned from the downtown core for appearing in many of City TV’s shots. Before this took place, City TV had to shoot shorts such as weather and sports no longer on the streets, but in the parking lot instead.

In the subways though, he screams ‘Merry Christmas!’ out the doors at everystop while doing pushups between stops. Everyone stops what they are doing to watch the Zantification.

Zanta claims that he fell while working on a construction site that left him with a back that would no longer be able to do heavy lifting. He says he was told that he would never be physically active again.

“Zanta’s proven the doctors wrong. Feel these muscles, they’re hard like rocks.” he says at a very rapid pace.

Although it’s January and Santa is long gone, at least Toronto has Zanta to continue to spread the Christmas cheer.

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Jan 05, 2006 00:02 |  #2

Zanta looks like he's having fun!!!


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Jan 05, 2006 00:32 as a reply to  @ JohnnyG's post |  #3

Thats amazing haha ... I want one in my town. Can you pick them up on ebay or anything? I hope he accepts paypal.


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Jan 05, 2006 05:26 |  #4

LMAO great story, is this guy for real or did you just create him? I love the photos of him too, they capture his personality.




  
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Jan 05, 2006 12:13 |  #5

No this guy is serious. All that stuff I wrote it actually true.


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Jan 05, 2006 18:39 |  #6

ya know, we had a fellow much like this who would stand on street corners wearing spandex and a cowboy hat, boxing with the air and runnning in place. he even had an acoustic guitar with him at times.




  
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Jan 05, 2006 23:28 |  #7

This guy is dedicated. I saw him running last year on this street near my place. Cars go 80 km/h down it. Anyways, he was just jetting down this street without his shirt on just shorts in negative 14 C weather. He really wants attention.


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Jan 06, 2006 15:07 |  #8

Hehe that's the TTC!! I ride that to school/work every day, haven't seen zanta though :(


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Jan 06, 2006 22:11 |  #9

I want some of whatever he's on. I'll show my doctor the pic and tell him to perscribe me some of that.


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