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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 06 Oct 08 - 06:18 AM wonderful surprise to come back to Sydney after a great weekend at a fantastic festival to find a message from my Santa, and one from Liz with my Santee's name! thankyou both sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Joybell Date: 05 Oct 08 - 10:28 PM Silly hints and games thread that is |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Joybell Date: 05 Oct 08 - 10:26 PM Got me a great Santee. Ooooooooooooooooooh Goody! Hints thread. Hints thread. Hints thread. Someone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney's Secret Santa Date: 05 Oct 08 - 05:05 PM The Elves have their orders to seek out goodies for you Sandra but no chocolate, no candy and no alcohol. SS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 05 Oct 08 - 10:17 AM heh.. heh... heh... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Oct 08 - 03:32 AM OK chaps, save it for the hints thread! SECSY LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 05 Oct 08 - 12:22 AM OMG - where am I gonna get one of THOSE? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: GUEST,Breton Cap's Secret Santa Date: 04 Oct 08 - 05:55 PM Hmm... Mr. Cap, you've not given me much to work with here. Could be you like living dangerously, or maybe you're just a very trusting soul. Either way, I believe I shall have a lot of fun with this, heh, heh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: ranger1 Date: 04 Oct 08 - 05:42 PM Woohoo! Off to check the hints thread... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Anne Lister Date: 04 Oct 08 - 05:00 PM Mmmmmm .... I hope my Santee has put some clues up on the other thread! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Scooby Doo Date: 04 Oct 08 - 04:08 PM Interesting one. Scooby |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Becca72 Date: 04 Oct 08 - 03:39 PM It's here it's here it's here!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 04 Oct 08 - 03:17 PM Check again now. Just sent the last one.... That's it for this year. As said above... Bruahahahahaaaaaaaaaahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw! SECSY LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Becca72 Date: 04 Oct 08 - 02:51 PM If the kitty helped it's bound to be a good year! :-) I keep checking anxiously for a PM. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: GUEST,Someone's Secret Santa Date: 04 Oct 08 - 02:49 PM It Begins! Mwahahahahahah! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Megan L Date: 04 Oct 08 - 12:53 PM Be afraid be very afraid |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 04 Oct 08 - 12:37 PM Draw done with help from a kitty. Keep watching the pies! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Oct 08 - 09:53 AM I guess I missed that memo about Khatt and twins. I haven't been reading Facebook either latelty, it was probably there. Congrats, Khatt! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Eye Lander Date: 04 Oct 08 - 04:37 AM It's the weekend YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The anticipation is getting to me! Jillie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Oct 08 - 12:48 AM Soooooooon. . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Escapee Date: 03 Oct 08 - 12:01 PM I enjoy collecting old Gibson guitars, but new ones are nice too. That kind of hint? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: sian, west wales Date: 03 Oct 08 - 09:53 AM OK - so everyone's done their Hints, RIGHT?????? sian |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: GUEST,SECSY LTS Date: 03 Oct 08 - 08:44 AM Soon be there.... bit of hiatus yesterday with the 'Cat being down, visiting Khatt and her 3week old twins and then cat feeding for another Catter, clearing up cat puke and trying to give same cat another pill (which ended with me flat out on the floor, pill in outstretched hand, nursing a new batch of scratches and watching the catflap hit his arse on the way out at high speed), so I didn't get around to it. Keep watching this weekend though! LTS (Cat was not puking because of pills, cat had a furball, the pills are for an infected cut on his rear paw). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Tig Date: 30 Sep 08 - 05:15 PM Soon we'll find out!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Megan L Date: 30 Sep 08 - 01:51 PM Hey liz I did find some nice chocolate candles :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Sep 08 - 01:49 PM This is always such fun! Thanks again, Liz, for doing this, and we'll be sure any chocolate that comes your way was never in or near China, and is not loaded with soap. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: ranger1 Date: 30 Sep 08 - 09:24 AM Oh, goodie, goodie! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: GUEST,SECSY LTS Date: 30 Sep 08 - 06:12 AM Squiddie - send me a valid postal address and you're in... but remember you have to send a nice present to someone else - no cases of 18month old lime jello that's been hanging around that pit for too long! Last day today.... get in quick because I'll be picking them tomorrow and Thursday! Watch your PMs at the weekend chaps! SECSY LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Mrs Cobble Date: 29 Sep 08 - 07:48 PM not too long now |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Sep 08 - 12:30 PM Eye Lander, Joe Offer was poking around and brought up this one: obsolete html stuff it was a marquee practice thread for much earlier browsers and back when we could make tables and such. You have to look at the source code to get a lot of it (View Menu, then open Source in IE). SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Donuel Date: 26 Sep 08 - 04:04 PM Dear Santa I would like a French style stand up string bass 3/4 or full size. I already know how to play but have never had one of my own. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Sep 08 - 03:02 PM How about a fresh case of lime jello? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: GUEST,The Giant Squid Date: 25 Sep 08 - 04:58 PM I'd like a pressie too. Is it too late to get into the thing? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Becca72 Date: 25 Sep 08 - 01:49 PM "Now I test everything out on the child first." Liz..ROFLMAO!! LOVE it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:46 AM do a search for some of the html practice threads here at mudcat. They're all over, and usually once you find one the others are linked in the top of the thread. the movement is a tag called "marquee" and the font size is simply font size=+12 or whatever size. You have to open and close fonts to change colors. All tucked in carets, of course. < and the other one. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Eye Lander Date: 25 Sep 08 - 05:32 AM Stilly, How do you do that clever stuff. I can only just manage CAPITAL LETTERS, let alone colours AND MOVING!!! Jillie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Sep 08 - 03:46 AM Less than a week left to go... sign up soon or be a sad Santee.... I'll make the draw next Wednesday or Thursday.... watch your PM's folks! Stilly - I've been very wary of those chocolate scented parcels ever since someone sent me some chocolate scented hand made soaps and they weren't labelled 'do not eat'.... I'm a lot older and much wiser since those days though. Now I test everything out on the child first. Art - no need to send me any more peanut brittle thanks, I'm still working my way through last years! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: JennieG Date: 24 Sep 08 - 09:13 PM Not quite...... Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Sep 08 - 06:52 PM |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: artbrooks Date: 19 Sep 08 - 07:44 PM I only send chili chocolate - eat it at your peril! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: ranger1 Date: 19 Sep 08 - 07:35 PM You got that right, Maggie! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Sep 08 - 10:46 AM But all forwarding bets are off if your parcel gives off a whiff of chocolate. . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: GUEST,SECSY Date: 19 Sep 08 - 07:36 AM As a non participant, I'm happy to forward a certain number of gifts on from secret locations. In previous years, if an organised Santa in the US got a Santee in the UK, then parcels were handed over that the Getaway to willing mules.. sorry, couriers, and they handed them over to me to forward on. It works quite well and up to postage of £5 I'm happy to participate. SECSY LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 19 Sep 08 - 04:15 AM I found that posting an A4 envelope overseas - ie. booklets & other flat stuff - was cheaper & easier than sending 3-dimensional stuff, cos parcel rates are calculated using some esoteric formula depending on the length, width, depth, weight or whatever else the person behind the counter decides. Also envelopes don't need a customs declaration, so contents can be kept secret! So far the stuff I have collected for potential Santees is meant to fit into envelopes, but it just depends on my santee's list what I end up sending. All previous Santees have ended up with something in a parcel of some kind. sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: JennieG Date: 19 Sep 08 - 03:02 AM And of course Oz is such a long way from anywhere that we have to take postage costs into consideration! But I have budgeted for postage. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Sep 08 - 09:24 PM I send eBay stuff to those same places, Tig. Amazing how much some people will pay for some things. An antique music box to Australia from Texas--the shipping cost as much as the box (about $100 each). But it was a beautiful box and I'm sure that once it is restored (probably a minor operation) then it will bring thousands. So it was worth the $100 to get it. Since I wasn't willing to pay a couple hundred to restore it to get a couple of thousand, it worked out for both of us. I intend to keep my shipping costs within reason this holiday season. The earlier you ship, and if you pack it well, it will get there safe and sound and inexpensively. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Tig Date: 18 Sep 08 - 07:03 PM Postage can end up more than you expect SRS. I know that because of the large and varied places Badger sends ebay stuff to! I know how Sins is feeling. I was in that position last year so couldn't play. That's why I'm pleased to be back this year. Hugs |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Sep 08 - 07:21 PM As every day passes I am more and more ready to shift my attention to this game of sending an anonymous gift and contemplating teasing and cajoling my Santee to guess who I am or what I might be sending. It's such a nice change from the politics and economics and war of the day. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Sep 08 - 10:31 PM Sins, I have such a vast array of great things to consider for the gift because of my de-cluttering that the main expense will be postage. Surely you have a spare pink flamingo around somewhere that you can send? If you mail it early enough the postage is a pittance. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa 2008 From: SINSULL Date: 16 Sep 08 - 07:28 PM Not this year. Money is tight and I have made it clear that only the family babies are getting gifts this year.The rest will see "Thank Yous" from a local charity. |
