I possess a throat that never swallows liquid and a flue that never catches a winter cold, yet Santa slips down my sooty path every Christmas Eve. What household fixture am I?
A chimney
A chimney features an interior 'throat' and a 'flue' (a pun on the viral illness 'flu').
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