Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: maeve
Date: 18 Nov 16 - 10:22 AM

:)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,JennyG's Secret Santa
Date: 19 Nov 16 - 06:57 AM

Ho Ho Ho,

Mrs Santa has been shopping and your pressys will be on their way,hope you have been a good girl! Just got to dust the snow off the sleigh and wake up the elves and off we go..... HO HO HO

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,billybob's relieved ss
Date: 19 Nov 16 - 12:59 PM

Where did you visit in the USA?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Nov 16 - 02:45 PM

Hello, Santa! You do exist after all!

I'm doing my darndest to be good.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Acme's Horribly Horrible Elvish Daemon
Date: 19 Nov 16 - 07:59 PM

Ho boy! Are YOU gonna get it! You don't have any idea what you're in for! But you are interested in music from my locality, so here's a hint.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: billybob
Date: 20 Nov 16 - 08:31 AM

Hi Santa,

we were in New Jersey, Pennsauken and Cherry Hill area where Billy was born and he has 4 sisters and huge extended family. But as he has been in the UK since 1975 most of our nieces and nephews think he is an Englishman, the lovely accent sadly has gone. We went to Philly shopping of course and had to go to Lancaster County to get lots of Christmas Gifts.But this year we will be here at home so don't worry I am having the chimney swept next week ready for your visit. xx

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Nov 16 - 10:17 PM

My Santee is going to get something nice. At least I hope it's nice. I think it's nice.

Nice and strange!!!!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: vectis
Date: 26 Nov 16 - 03:41 AM

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,billybob's ss, getting it all together
Date: 26 Nov 16 - 04:50 PM

Thanks, that's a help.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: vectis
Date: 29 Nov 16 - 02:48 AM

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Nov 16 - 09:14 AM

I'm going to take some of the stuff I've received and send that! Ho boy! My Santee's gonna get that parcel of dried kvass from the Walmart in Ulaanbaatar! The big blob of melted metal from someplace called Charnoodle or something in Ukraine (it makes a good reading lamp, but the greenish glow can't be switched off)! I'm going to send the face powder (I don't use it) I got from Canada that marked "Souvenir of the Thetford Mines, Ontario"! I'd send the program from a play called "Our American Cousin" but it's from a production in 1865 and it seems to be bloodstained and someone made notes on it like "Should be eighty-seven".

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: vectis
Date: 30 Nov 16 - 12:56 AM

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Nov 16 - 09:58 PM

The very last pressie for the package to my Santee has been ordered. Yes, I had to slip back into my drill sergeant persona and actually order it around! It's doing pushups at the moment for being untidy in uniform.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Jacqui's Santa
Date: 02 Dec 16 - 05:40 PM

ho! ho! parcel on it's way

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: vectis
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 03:39 AM

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: My guru always said
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 06:26 AM

Looking for a last minute pressie for your Santee in the UK?

I have a few MudCat TShirts (some Blue and some Red) left to sell at £10 plus £2 postage within the UK and can post them to your Santee if I have the right size!

See the thread below the line - PM me if you'd like one!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Rap's seriously cool wrapping Santa
Date: 04 Dec 16 - 05:53 PM

Yo, Rap! Consequential upon my last communication, which was sent across at least two nations, the elves tell me your gifts are ready and they're holding Rudolph steady ...
So stand on your liver and respire for the presents will come that you desire.
Actually some of that didn't come out quite right (especially the bit about your liver - I blame the youngest elf, who seems to have found the experimental bottle of fly agaric infused gin, and who kept getting his beat boxing confused with his hiccoughing). However the main point is that we're getting ready to do a final wrap and an address label, which has got to be a good thing.

Your busy but watchful Santa.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Dec 16 - 10:04 AM

It's about time somebody held Rudolf steady. I've missed that sucker every year because he dodges and skitters around, with the result that we don't have reindeer for Christmas dinner.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Dec 16 - 08:59 AM

Dearest Santee:

Your last gift is on the way to me. As soon as I receive it from the seller I'll put everything together and it'll be on the way!

(You're not allergic to leather, Lycra, and feathers are you?)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,The Admin Elf for Rapparee's Santa
Date: 06 Dec 16 - 12:09 PM

Ahem. Following your last comments, Santa has instructed me to contact you to inform you that Rudolph will not now be on the delivery team for your package. You may well have intended the unfortunate comment facetiously (Santa informs me this is a well-known feature of your personality) but we cannot have our reindeer at the mercy of any form of ballistic weapon or at risk of being consumed for a festive meal. I'm sure you understand. We have instead consigned your package to the more conventional mail delivery companies, at some expense, and we will just have to hope that it will arrive in time. We also hope that you do not normally attempt to shoot down the mail person, and that you are not given to cannibalism. As you will be well aware, if news reaches us that you have indeed shot at the mail person, or indeed attempted to eat him or her, the contents of your package will instantly metamorphose into coal dust (Rudolph has suggested a modification in your case, to make it reindeer dung, but Santa did not approve this).
It does in any case mean we have no further need of our very large road atlas for Idaho, which is a great weight off the sleigh.

Happy Holidays!
The Admin Elf

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Ho Ho Ho llowfox's SS
Date: 06 Dec 16 - 04:01 PM

Look to the skies
We are up up up and away
Ho Ho Ho and a merry christmas

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Dec 16 - 04:10 PM

Ooh, thank you!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Hollowfox
Date: 06 Dec 16 - 04:13 PM

That last post was from me. Amazing how fast some computers will drop a cookie.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Dec 16 - 05:53 PM

Santa, Himself and I will be away over Christmas/New Year, we're leaving here on 17th Dec to visit family and to share in our grandkid's 2nd birthday cake......so if I don't acknowledge your present when it arrives it's not because I am being rude and ignorant, I'm not at home! Any mail which arrives while we're away will be safe, it will be held by the post office until we return.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Sarah the Flute's Santa's Secretary
Date: 08 Dec 16 - 09:27 AM

Dear Ms Flute, I have had word from the number one elf that your parcel was despatched today. Hopefully, it should be arriving with you in the next few days. No peeping before the day please1

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Anne Lister's Secret-
Date: 08 Dec 16 - 08:27 PM

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 09 Dec 16 - 06:08 AM

Woooooo Hooooo!

Thanks Santa

xxx

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Anne Lister's Secret-Santa-Helping Elf
Date: 09 Dec 16 - 06:25 AM

Well, what happened to that post, I wonder? We'll have to get the technological elves to check it out.

As I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted by technology, Anne, your present was thrown into the topmost sack by a postal elf (who was probably on something very seasonal at the time, knowing him) and now we are just waiting for Santa to return from the pub and press the green button, after which it will be on its way to you.

Kindest Regards,
S-S-H Elf

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Anne Lister
Date: 09 Dec 16 - 04:29 PM

Thank you, SSH-Elf ... I hope it wasn't anything fragile? We'll keep a look out for its arrival.
And thank you, Santa, in advance!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa grift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Severn
Date: 09 Dec 16 - 05:02 PM

Long time, no hear......

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 12 Dec 16 - 05:20 PM

oh oh oh ! I have a box - a nice surprise on return from some work in Manchester

I think it must be from my Santa
I've not opened and no clues on the package except it looks like it is from the UK - no customs tags or anything

EXCITING!

Thank you Santa

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Dec 16 - 09:46 PM

Today the very last things for my Santee were selected and acquired. I am, for a large variety of reasons, certain that my Santee cannot obtain them and, indeed, they may well be illegal there. They include, but are not limited to, bawdy songs, smutty pictures of skinny dipping, and of course tales unfit for young or old or those in between.

Knowing my Santee I am certain sure the gifts will be appreciated. My Santee deserves nothing more or less.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Firecat's Secretive Santa
Date: 13 Dec 16 - 12:43 AM

Your parcel is on the way - part of a very large shipment being staged by the reindeer. With the increased volume in recent years we use several Northpole Warehouses™ for distribution on the big night. And with modern GPS, I'll be able to watch it's progress on a huge screen in the Santa Situation Room.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Firecat
Date: 13 Dec 16 - 09:43 AM

Ooh! Excitement, excitement!

I'll keep an eye out... :-D

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Severn's Secretive Soggy Santa
Date: 13 Dec 16 - 02:17 PM

Me again! Just to let you know that tomorrow, I will Orange for your parcel to be placed in the hands of the delivery Indus-try, so that Yukon expect it.

I hope it will Fly to you as swift as it can. I know I'm trying to Milk these puns...

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Anne Lister
Date: 17 Dec 16 - 03:02 PM

Oooooh! Package arrived today from Australia! Feels heavy and bumpy in places ... must restrain myself! But thank you, Santa, in advance!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Dec 16 - 03:14 PM

Sure has been quiet around here . . .

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Anne Lister's Secret-Santa-Helping Elf
Date: 17 Dec 16 - 05:17 PM

Already! That was quick! The postal elves have been into the medicinal brandy lately, so I have been concerned......

Kindest Regards
S-S-Helf

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,billybob's panting secret santa
Date: 17 Dec 16 - 05:30 PM

Wow, Amazon wasn't kidding about reindeer being hard to steer, but I got all my deer in a row, and sent your pressie out about 5 1/2 hours ago. Who knows, you might even get the box before the 25th. Oh, and I left one word off the explanatory letter that's enclosed. he secret word is malachite. hehehe

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 16 - 10:01 PM

The secret word for my Santee is "aspergillum." NB: this is a real, genuine word. You may or may not need it in regards to your pressie, but it's a pretty cool word. It's related to "aspergillosis."

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Hollowfox
Date: 20 Dec 16 - 08:11 PM

Um, Santa? I'm still looking to the skies. Of course, I don't know where my pressie is coming from, so a two week wait might well be a reasonable waiting time.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Acme's Ace Excellently Exquisite Elven Elf
Date: 20 Dec 16 - 11:17 PM

So. Methinks I should tell Ms Acme what the poop is going on, maybe. Anyway, Old Fatso told me to check with a Certain Someone and get your pressie on the way. So I did.

Keep it in mind that I was acting for your SS. Your SS has included lots of stuff from your SS's region. Even music. You may have heard of the singer, but maybe not. I got to admit that I was pretty shocked, because apart from some really good throat singing Yupik carols don't do much for most people.

So I pried your pressie from your SS's hands, because "I just HAVE to include one more thing." I put it in the hands of the postal service and trust that it will get there sometime in the future.

Your SS is unaware of this message.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 16 - 11:19 PM

I just wanted to say that I got a package from Blighty today. I shall not open it until Der Tag.

Thank you, Secret Santa.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Dec 16 - 03:48 AM

Hollowfax - you might have been waiting 2 weeks, but my Santa apparently send my pressie on 17 Nov

sandra (still waiting patiently - my first Santa way back in 2002 sent a wunderful big box of many small parcels by sea mail & it arrived months later)

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Firecat's SS - a quick flyby
Date: 21 Dec 16 - 12:12 PM

Ms FCat,

It appears the reindeer got caught in a roundabout and vortex traffic kept them stuck running in circles for days - in fact, eight days to travel to the hub from which hopefully the parcel will be swiftly launched. (Reindeer don't do math - as long as they were able to grab a bite along the way they weren't concerned about the duration). A GPS ping confirms they finally reached the Northpole Warehouses™ yesterday. From there, a very fast walrus is supposed to propel a barge of items downstream to a port from where a blue whale will escort the barge across the pond. I am assured that we are dealing with each a very fine and magical walrus and whale. (Salt water spray will not harm the parcel.)

Santa may have been visiting the Mudcat Tavern a bit too often lately. . .

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Dec 16 - 09:32 PM

Dear Santee:

A really nasty critter came by yesterday and ripped your gifts from my clutching hands. I was going to get you a vehicle, perhaps

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Dec 16 - 09:36 PM

one like this. But it wasn't to be. That little ****** knocked me in the head with a bunch of sleigh bells (he snuck up on me), grabbed your pressies, and ran. I don't know what happened after that -- the rest of the day is kinda blurry.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Dec 16 - 02:51 PM

Uh oh.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: GUEST,Ho Ho Ho llowfox's SS
Date: 22 Dec 16 - 03:09 PM

Any ho ho hope it has arrived yet?
It flew off on 6th Dec but maybe the elves and reindeer around here are on a go slow
I do hope it arrives on time - I have a ticket to say it made the sleigh

Subject: RE: Secret Santa gift ideas & teasing - 2016
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 16 - 04:17 PM

Acme,

Like the song says, it ain't me, babe.