BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 07:39 AM

Thank you Santa for the post card it arrived this morning!! The postmark could be a clue me thinks....but I will keep guessing!! *G*

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Partridge
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 08:59 AM

Not too hot please santa. I'm more savoury than sweet.

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 09:59 AM

Thanks Santa, I have been especially good this year, but quite busy. It has been a full year now since my unexpected near death experience and my body has fully recovered. I am leaving for my annual trip out to the Aleutian Islands next week and will probably not have much internet access, however, I look forward to hearing more from you as the season progresses. I hope you are well and enjoying your sneakiness.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: GUEST,Guest Crystal's SSS
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 11:25 AM

The crew here in the Xmas workshop have assembled a collection of goodies for Crystal. They hope they'll make her crow with delight and feel all warm and happy, not to say fired up.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: GUEST,BretonCap's SS
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 11:52 AM

Here I am again. Just letting you know that I am thinking long and hard about your gifties. I should be working but I am thinking...

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: GUEST,Stilly's Suddenly Serious Santa
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 12:22 PM

Heh heh heh. I am now all business. The elves and I are buckling down, now that the contacts have been heard from.

I'm glad that you're not threatening me, like that Rapaire is doing to his Santa. My, my! Who would have thunk librarians could get so violent!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 01:19 PM

Oh Thank You Santa! I'm very excited. Hopefully this year I'll be able to figure out who you are. :-) I still dont' know from last year but I was pretty green back then.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: ranger1
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 03:29 PM

Santa, don't believe any lies Becca tells you about having been good this past year. Some of us know a thing or two... I, on the other hand, have been good as gold!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 03:34 PM

Santa, Ranger 1 is delusional. Of COURSE I've been good this year. And if ya can't be good, be good at it I always say :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: GUEST,Becca72's all seeing santa
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 03:45 PM

Becca my dear

Santa never deals in unsubstantiated rumours Ranger 1 will have to forward documentary evidence, not that I do not already have lots of evidence from other sources and countries. However Santa thinks that on the whole you might just merit a few small goodies. Tell me my dear do you like sweet things?

As for santa's identity well I am hoping to remain hidden for a short while longer though I do have to be very careful with foreign languages.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 04:45 PM

This will help explain EVERYTHING.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 04:49 PM

Yes, Santa I do like sweet things. Thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt on being good. That Ranger 1 is just trying to stir up trouble again. She spends far more time with Sinsull than I do..which should tell you a lot!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: Dave Earl
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 07:27 PM

Hello Santa

I can hardly wait.

Also I am somebody else's SS so I have to do a bit of thinking myself.

Luv

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 07:34 PM

Becca 72's Santa - Ranger 1 may spend more time with SINSULL but Becca is Kendall's daughter so starts off with a long lead in the being bad stakes. I know, I have to put up with both of them! :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: bfdk
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 07:43 PM

Ah but Becca was a tremendous Santa to me last year, that should count in her favour, surely? ;-))

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Severn
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 08:43 PM

Hello, O dear lost Santa! I've not had a post from you since October 4th and am starting to worry. I enjoy these gift exchanges immensely, and have been known to write the equivalent of short novels bouncing off the posts of my benefactors, and what's more, a Santee can even recycle characters from past years, if needs be, wheras a Santa can not.

I'm ready to do more than just wait quietly for a bountiful box of goodies if you'll but come out of hiding and throw out some sort of a line--Life, Straight, Tag or Punch. It's the way for one on the recieving end to give back, so I hope to hear from you soon and get things rolling. Time runneth short.

Besides, gruel gets old and hard if it's left out too long for elves that don't show, and then you either have to soak the bowl for a few days, or else take the stuff off with a chisel.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 08:54 PM

lucky you, Severn you've had a Santa since 4th October

santaless sandra

snif

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: artbrooks
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 09:03 PM

Neither my Santa nor my Santee have checked in for over two weeks. Double snif.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 10:27 PM

My Santee must be shy, shy, shy.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: dulcimer42
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 10:52 PM

And I wonder about my santa. He/she checked in once to see if I was here. I've answered lotsa times, but he/she must be on vacation....???

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 05:07 AM

I'm watching the post for a black edged funeral card as far as my Santa is concerned.
Condolences to the elves and Mrs Claus BTW.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: sian, west wales
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 06:00 AM

I'm being a really poor Santee! Sorry, guv!

Easterly-Westerly. Them winds sure be a-blowin'!

I'm still being good, Santa, but that's more by accident than by design. Old age catchin' up on me!

"Santa, if you will,
Please send a little hunk for me to thrill ... "

sian

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Anne Lister
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 07:20 AM

I've got a totally silent Santee as well... can we have a support group, do you think? For garrulous and loquacious Santas who want nothing more than a chance to tease our Santees?
However, my Santa is keeping me on my toes!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: dulcimer42
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 08:28 AM

I'm thinkin' might jest might be a wee little leprechaun. Appears for a moment, unexpectedly. Then totally out of sight, probably hiding in the heather or hedges.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: GUEST,KarenK's Sleepy Secret Santa
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 10:00 AM

Hello Karen, I just wanted to leave a brief note here to remind you that Christmas is coming and I'm watching you. I do not live very near to you, but we have met on a couple occasions. Watch your post for some appropriate seasonal greetings.

Santa

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: GUEST,Guest, Linn Schulz lazy secret Santa
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 10:53 AM

hohohoho here in Finland upplands I can watch you , so behave
its almost easter ehhhh I mean christmas time hohoho





finish santa

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 10:54 AM

Thank you, Bente.

And Jacqui...what can I say? You can't help genetics. :-) And boy, oh boy, am I ever my father's daughter. hehehe

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 12:44 PM

Becca - You can't help genetics - you don't even TRY, do you!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: bfdk
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 01:13 PM

Try to help them.. but, wouldn't that just make it worse??

*dives for cover........

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: GUEST,Partridge's Gourmand SS
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 02:31 PM

OK, we're looking at an order of slag with a side of savory, then, hold the AV.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Partridge
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 07:15 PM

oh er missus whats AV???

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 11:45 PM

AV is Aldo Voopswippy. He drives the spikes for the eggnog.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: GUEST,Tabster's Secret Santa
Date: 26 Oct 07 - 09:19 AM

Well, I suppose I'd better get the presents together and get them posted since the reindeer are all down with the Great Pox at the moment (it's a long and sordid tale). All the way to The Other Side Of The World too. Ho-hum. And she hasn't even done one really naughty thing this past year -- The Bureau discovered that the report about the drunken kookaburra was the result of a mix-up in the Records Office, and you may rest assured that the responsible party has been gently and kindly reprimanded by Good Old Father Christmas and that it shan't happen ever again.

Let's see: John O' Groats to the Falklands, thence to Diego Garcia and Majorca, to the Faroes, to Qaanaaq, to Ulan Bator for a few weeks, then to Rathdrum for further sorting for shipment to Duluth, back to Belfast, mistakenly shipped to Furstenau and then to Castle Rising in East Anglia, a refusal by the Bishop of Ely, return to John O' Groats, reposted, and as the circle slowly shrinks Tabster will get her pressie package about Michaelmas next. I hope that the yak butter is still fresh, the kvass drinkable, and the freshly caught salmon...well anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 26 Oct 07 - 09:26 AM

Oooh, dirigibles? Is my secret gift arriving by airship then?

Being new to this whole secret Santa thing I hadn't realized that what I liked entered into it. Yes, I like books, blues, or whatever else you choose to send. We'll find room in the back yard for the dirigible, but keep aware of the postal regulations....

Dan Schatz

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: GUEST,Stilly's Busy Santa
Date: 26 Oct 07 - 01:34 PM

Ho ho ho! The shopping and fun has begun! Now, have you been well and truly well behaved this past year? Anything you need to confess before the 24th?

And as an aside, Santa is partial to ginger snaps and whole milk. None of that skim or low-fat crap for this Santa!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 26 Oct 07 - 03:29 PM

Hmmm...is Santa finished?!?

Does Santa know my nom de Mudcat is Bat Goddess?

I'm not sure I've ever been addressed here by my full non-Mudcat name.

Inneresting...

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Anne Lister
Date: 26 Oct 07 - 03:54 PM

Dear Santa

Your delivery system sounds uncannily like one that we experienced a year or so back when expecting an electronic part from Frankfurt. But I'm sure you know what you're doing, and there are, after all, many miles between us (aren't there?). I was taken aback by the drunken kookaburra story, but I suppose someone got confused between South Wales and New South Wales (easily done). I'm in the original one, but then you knew that.

Anyway, I hope the reindeer recover soon. Yak butter and kvass probably have an indefinite shelf life, but it might be an idea to smoke the salmon. On the other hand, when I re-read this I have a nasty image of an elf with a rolled up salmon fillet hanging out of his mouth ....

In any case we'll make sure we clean out the chimney in readiness.

Thank you, Santa!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: GUEST,Mrs. Cobble's Stockpiling Santa
Date: 26 Oct 07 - 04:16 PM

Sorry, I haven't written in a while. My elves have been leaving no Cobblestone unturned in searching for appropriate gifts and goodies. They've been riding Cobble Cars and watching shopping channels on Cobble TV. They've been to Kabul and back trying to get all cornered on the Cobbledom. Other elves and slightly bigger friends from your past will be or have given helpful information. Not quite enough accumulated to call a pile yet, but it's getting there!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: GUEST,MeganL's Informed Secret Santa
Date: 26 Oct 07 - 05:24 PM

Megan, my Dear, I'm glad you enjoyed the little bits and pieces Santa selected for your enjoyment.
I have been told that you comported yourself admirably and even had MacKenzie scared. Well done, that's a girl! But using Manitas and Limpit as witnesses for your good conduct.. Tut, tut, did those two see anything but the inside of their own eyelids? I hear things, you know!

I see from the photos that you like pink, so... thinking.. thinking... dark chocolate in a nice pink box, maybe? Keep watching the mail, Dear!

MISS

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: GUEST,Tabster's Secret Santa
Date: 26 Oct 07 - 05:50 PM

Last year my elves confused Abertillery with Cwmbran, which caused untold hours to be spent sorting it all out.

That will not happen this year. I assure you of that.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Megan L
Date: 26 Oct 07 - 06:25 PM

Now now Santa you know they woke up at mealtimes and manitas played the box mind you his een wir shut so ahm no shure if he wis awak then.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: GUEST,Maryrrf's SS
Date: 26 Oct 07 - 07:19 PM

Hi Maryrrf,

I've been racking my brains for some inspiration for your present(s), but so far the brains are refusing to be racked, and the 'spiration refuses to be in. But, I'll keep racking, and coaxing the 'spiration in,   and I'm sure that everything will come together in time to load up the sleigh.

[Will there be snow under the sleigh? will Rudolph and his colleagues be slightly altered?]

Any more hints you could throw at me would be helpful.

Your Secret Santa

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From: GUEST,from santa to Bad goddess
Date: 26 Oct 07 - 08:18 PM

No Santa is in Finland , so he´s finish .....ehh or
something like that.

your finish santa did not know about you r MC name so your
finish santa is so sorry , and ask for forgiveness.

oh dear where is my finlandia ... hikk

you r secret santa hikk, hikk .

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Anne Lister
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 07:16 AM

Dear Santa
I'm very impressed that you and your elves can pinpoint Abertillery and Cwmbran ... have you ever visited Ochrwyth? Or Fochriw? I suppose there must be good people everywhere, so I shouldn't be surprised. By comparison, finding our house will be an absolute doddle!

A relieved Tabster.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 12:27 AM

Santa, I make ginger cookies (snaps, men, shapes, etc.) some years, and would be happy to leave some out for you, and carrots for the reindeer. But we don't drink milk. I use dry soy milk for cooking, so maybe you'd prefer a beer in the fridge, and something salty or savory to go with it?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: GUEST,Da BOSS
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 04:33 AM

Oh my little Danish Pastry... have you been behaving? I hear you've been mixing a little people stew, stirring folks up with that big wooden spoon! Still, you were nice to that poor woman Becca, she has so much to put up with you know. Not only does she have a crazy bullfrog for a father, she has a mad English woman as a stepmother, and we all know how stories about stepmothers end up don't we!

Stay on your best Sunday behaviour and you might get a surprise one day.

Da BOSS

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: GUEST,From Santa to Skarpi
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 04:58 AM

I hope you're being very, very good in Iceland because I'm not far away from you here at the North Pole. I'll ask my elves to keep a look out too, so you had better be good.

Skarpi's Secret Santa

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: bfdk
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 12:43 PM

Why, of course, esteemed Santa-BOSS (or would that be BOSS-Santa?), I'm always behaving. Sometimes good, sometimes a teeny weeny fraction less than that, but if the question is as asked "have you been behaving?", then definitely the answer is a resounding yes.

Santa, to be honest I cook as little as I can get away with without actually starving. I don't know much about it, and I honestly thought it were chicken (it tasted like chicken), but if you say there's people in it, maybe I should dump the left-overs that I put in the freezer before the police come around knocking on my door?

Dunno, but I found I got along really well with that crazy bullfrog and his mad English woman wife. But then we do have a saying here that goes "You don't have to be crazy to be here, but it sure helps!" :o)

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Pla
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 01:31 PM

Hmmm...Santa from the wilds of where reindeer play.

So...Santa has to get those playful reindeer into work mode sometime before the end of December?

Maybe they'll like the woods of Nottingham so much they'll decide to stay -- we have wood sprites and elves, too, although the general population around here denies it.

Playful reindeer would fit right in.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Messages '07-Santas, Come Play!
From: GUEST,Stilly's Busy Santa
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 01:49 PM

SRS, what?! No milk?! Stick with the ginger snaps, dear, but as I am driving, I must insist on non-alcoholic beverege. Some nice all-natural fizzy lemonade would not be amiss.

I did notice you kept mum on the question of whether you have anything to confess prior to the 24th. Is that the same as pleading The Fifth?

SBS