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Old 12/13/2007, 12:25 PM
Satori Satori is offline
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Our Secret Santa at work

We're doing Secret Santa at work. We all filled out a questionaire to list favorite things, likes, dislikes. This is what the guy I drew listed for dislikes:

"Nothing home made unless it's cooked or baked. Please don't make it buy it. And nothing that came from your attic or garage. This isn't Salvation Army."

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Old 12/13/2007, 12:39 PM
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I love it... You know you have to mess with this person , right???


Christy...
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so...what are you wearing...?

panties...?

lace panties...?

that's what I'm wearing - ScubaDave and the telemarketer...


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Old 12/13/2007, 12:42 PM
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How about some used (gently, then washed) Christmas sweaters with big snowflakes or reindeer on them...


...and a fruitcake?
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Old 12/13/2007, 12:55 PM
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Old 12/13/2007, 02:09 PM
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I'd package up some old dirty torn jeans with a gift card or something stashed in a pocket as the real gift
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Old 12/13/2007, 02:19 PM
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I'd package up some old dirty torn jeans with a gift card or something stashed in a pocket as the real gift


I like it...



Christy...
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i look damn good in it too, i'll have you know- Nina...
Look at all those forced smiles. They probably all hate each other!- Debi...
She can kick all their butts and can write her name in the snow in cursive!- CRP...


so...what are you wearing...?

panties...?

lace panties...?

that's what I'm wearing - ScubaDave and the telemarketer...


Life can be short, just like me... Live it to the fullest!!! Family is always there for you NO matter what, just like a "true friend" would be... A cheat is a cheat, and are always busted...
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Old 12/13/2007, 02:26 PM
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Old 12/13/2007, 02:33 PM
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I like it...



Christy...
Agreed. So, its settled then. Satori, this is what you are going to do...
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Old 12/13/2007, 03:28 PM
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Agreed. So, its settled then. Satori, this is what you are going to do...
get an old ratty looking Christmas sweater, and go out and buy a gift card to somewhere decent and clip it inside the sweater so that when you tell them to - Try it on - they find the gift card, and are wearing a ratty christmas sweater (at this point you take a picture
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Old 12/13/2007, 03:39 PM
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get an old ratty looking Christmas sweater, and go out and buy a gift card to somewhere decent and clip it inside the sweater so that when you tell them to - Try it on - they find the gift card, and are wearing a ratty christmas sweater (at this point you take a picture
No, I've got a better idea!

Go and buy a new pair of jeans. Now go and find a bum, give them the new pair in exchange for their old pair (making sure to say Merry Christmas) and, wearing gloves, wrap the old pair (DON'T WASH!). Throw in $5 gift card if you must, but it is not necessary since you "bought" the pair of jeans.
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Old 12/13/2007, 03:41 PM
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i would make some laxative brownies
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Old 12/13/2007, 03:44 PM
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I would buy whatever your planning on buying, but get one of those cookie tins you can buy at xmas time for baked goods and use that as the wrapping paper.

On the tag put 'made with love' or somthin like that
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Old 12/13/2007, 03:50 PM
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My uncle used to do stuff like that to me. One year he took a VHS tape opened it up and put $50 in there and then resealed it in the origional celephane with no tape...the look on my face was classic!! 10 minutes or so later I figured out what he had done. If you can pull it off its well worth it!!
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Old 12/13/2007, 06:00 PM
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Great ideas! I'm going to have to do something to reward his brutal honesty.
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Old 12/13/2007, 08:47 PM
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put whatever you decide to gift in a large box clearly labeled
"From: The Acme Inflatable Sheep Company, Walla Walla Washington"

no matter whats inside, the packing will be worth a thousand water cooler stories for years to come!
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Old 12/13/2007, 08:52 PM
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My uncle used to do stuff like that to me. One year he took a VHS tape opened it up and put $50 in there and then resealed it in the origional celephane with no tape...the look on my face was classic!! 10 minutes or so later I figured out what he had done. If you can pull it off its well worth it!!

I do this type of thing every year to one of my kids... box inside of a box- some type of clothing item shoved down into an empty roll of wrapping paper tubing...


Christy...
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i look damn good in it too, i'll have you know- Nina...
Look at all those forced smiles. They probably all hate each other!- Debi...
She can kick all their butts and can write her name in the snow in cursive!- CRP...


so...what are you wearing...?

panties...?

lace panties...?

that's what I'm wearing - ScubaDave and the telemarketer...


Life can be short, just like me... Live it to the fullest!!! Family is always there for you NO matter what, just like a "true friend" would be... A cheat is a cheat, and are always busted...
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Old 12/13/2007, 08:56 PM
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put whatever you decide to gift in a large box clearly labeled
"From: The Acme Inflatable Sheep Company, Walla Walla Washington"

no matter whats inside, the packing will be worth a thousand water cooler stories for years to come!
Great idea, but it would be too big. We all have stockings hanging outside our lab doors. The gifts are supposed to fit inside the stockings.
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Old 12/13/2007, 10:10 PM
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on a slightly more serious note, make a donation in the name of the secret santa reciepient to Toys For Tots
The Marines do not take a cut of the proceeds, whatever they get, gets distributed
semper fi!
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Old 12/13/2007, 10:13 PM
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And, he is actually a former Marine.

We have a Toys for Tots collection point on the compound, being a Joint Services facility.
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