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On behalf of Expert Village I'm Santa Claus. Actually I'm Pat Louis and today I'm going to teach you how to become a professional Santa Claus. Now if you've been booked by an agency or even by a private home, people in the home will invite you over for an hour, you have to use up the hour in some way. Stories are good, one story that I always love to tell the kids is do you know how Saint Nicholas became called Santa Claus? They go "no" well let me explain and see eventually his name changed over the years because at first it was St. Nicholas then it got a little shorter. St. Nicholas then it got a little shorter and the accent became a little better, St. Nicholas, St. Nicholas, Santa Claus and that is how it kind of went over the years and changed over and that is why you call Santa Claus he is actually St. Nicholas, isn't he? He is also Kris Kringle but that is another story.