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Subject: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 11 Oct 01 - 02:27 AM A few of the other MB's I post on usually do one, and I don't remember seeing one here or maybe I missed it... Would go like this... One Body takes it upon themselves to run it... The people interested email their postal addys to that person, and post here to a hints thread... The One Body randomly picks names and emails the details back... Once you've received yer person, you come here to the hints thread and look 'em up... To that person ya send a gift, from your Mudcat alter ego... Just curious... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Hollowfox Date: 11 Oct 01 - 09:28 AM Sounds interesting. You willing to run it? (The international aspect of the 'Cat might make it better to "regionalize" it, as they say in govtspeak.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 11 Oct 01 - 09:36 AM It would be fun...but I don't want _________, or ___________, or surely not ___________! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 11 Oct 01 - 09:46 AM All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth |
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Subject: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 11 Oct 01 - 10:35 AM I have no time of late to run it... and Mary... yer not allowed to pick who you want... it's not in the X-mas spirit... Hfox... no need to... all the other MB's I frequent are just as international as Mudcat... and it works fine for them... You just gotta be willing to suck up the price of postage when ya join... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Oct 01 - 03:40 PM That sounds like fun.... Did it at the office last year and I got the guy who likes wearing leery (loud) ties so guess what I made him....!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 11 Oct 01 - 03:49 PM Liz, if I were your secret Santa I'd send you some chocolate, perhaps some Bourbon Balls. (that's candy) |
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Subject: Mudcat Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 11 Oct 01 - 03:56 PM So, all we ned is a brave soul to run it eh? I'm kinda surprised this thread hasn't had more hits... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Noreen Date: 11 Oct 01 - 04:04 PM Sounds fun to me, Clinton. Never come across the idea before. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Pseudolus Date: 11 Oct 01 - 04:47 PM Clinton, PM me with the details on how to run it and I'll do it. It sounds like once everyone has their "person", the one running it has little to do but watch the fun......does that sound right? Lemme know......I'm in!! Frank |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 11 Oct 01 - 04:54 PM on the way Pseudolus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 11 Oct 01 - 05:30 PM Frank, I was waiting to see if many people were interested...but since YOU VOLUNTEERED...seriously, if you need help, count me in.
Qualifications for "he/she who runs the show": |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 11 Oct 01 - 05:35 PM Why does this person need tact, a sence of humour or to look like santa??? All they have to do is collect names, pull them from a hat and forward them to the people that need them... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 11 Oct 01 - 07:45 PM Tact and sense of humor for when 10 million people whine, "But I didn't want CH's name." (My son worked at McDonald's drive thru when they had the Beanie Baby give away toys. Every car held up traffic to negotiate a different toy.) Honesty to not finagle the draws. (I once worked in a company where we had routine meetings in which our boss discussed news items he wanted us to hear...and we always had bets on what he would say. We had to have an honest referee to make the calls, especially since bets were involved.) And look like Santa, well bah humbug, I kinda think Santa's cute. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 11 Oct 01 - 07:49 PM I think Santa is actually Tom Bombadil!! LOL!! No negotiations... full stop... otherwise there's no point in doing the random draw... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Allan C. Date: 11 Oct 01 - 08:15 PM I think it would be fun - especially if we worked it like one of those pyramid chain letters. Everyone who submits their name after me sends me a gift and then the last person in the list gets to move up one level. And then... How do you like the plan so far? *G* Actually, I like the Secret Santa thing and would like to participate. It looks as though we have a namekeeper. What's next? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Oct 01 - 08:57 PM I'm kinda' surprised this hasn't had more hits myself. Generally..........Anyway, the Secret Pal/Santa idea is always fun. So do we all trust ol' Frank enough to blind draw the names without "rigging" it??? I mean the "Pseudo" part of his handle and all...........LOL........Okay Frank, I'll trust you.......I'm in. After you get the details, I'd start a Cap title thread explaining it and asking for players...."SECRET SANTA PAL...JOIN NOW" or something, and then give it a few days to draw. We ought to be able to get several more in.....If we can't get at least 26-30, it won't be nearly as much fun. Once the pairs were selected, we'd ahve one helluva' lot of guest postings on the Hints thread!! Spaw Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Blackcatter Date: 11 Oct 01 - 08:58 PM Hi all, I'm up for it - I love the idea of getting a present from some exotic local such as Newfoundland, Iceland, Ireland, or Newark... My guess is the the next step is to set up a spending limit (everyone got their currency calulators out?), then figure out mail-by dates to get them to the recipiant by the end of December. Maybe a safe "mail-by to send would be December 1 - that should may Hanukkah observers happy (Dec. 10 - 17). pax yall. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Susan from California Date: 11 Oct 01 - 09:00 PM I'm in! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Allan C. Date: 11 Oct 01 - 09:03 PM "...far away places with strange sounding names...like, Smegma." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Blackcatter Date: 11 Oct 01 - 09:05 PM Would that be Smegma, Georgia? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Allan C. Date: 11 Oct 01 - 09:10 PM No, it isn't, BC...And stop calling me Georgia! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: alison Date: 11 Oct 01 - 09:27 PM I'm in slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Helen Date: 12 Oct 01 - 02:18 AM I'm in, too. You'll need to allow a couple of extra weeks perhaps for the Antipodean players, so maybe mid-November should be the cut-off date. Helen |
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Subject: Huh??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 12 Oct 01 - 03:37 AM What is an "Antipodean player"??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: The_one_and_only_Dai Date: 12 Oct 01 - 03:53 AM Put me down for one, pseud... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: sian, west wales Date: 12 Oct 01 - 04:27 AM My mother was one of 8 brothers and sisters and this was standard stuff for them at Christmas when they got older and married (with lots and lots of kids). Works great! Re: posting, every national postal system has it's 'mail-by' dates - the overseas date for Britain is usually end of October, which I've always faithfully ignored. Usually if I get something in the post by end November it can get to N. America in time for Christmas. sian |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: sian, west wales Date: 12 Oct 01 - 04:29 AM Drat - I was also going to ask if we put a top limit on value? A bit tricky perhaps, as you'd have to pay 10 UKP for something that would be 10 US or even Cdn dollars but ... Would 5 or 10 be about right? sian |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Morticia Date: 12 Oct 01 - 04:58 AM I'm in....sounds like fun :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Tinker Date: 12 Oct 01 - 07:31 AM Count me in... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: GUEST,Firecat Date: 12 Oct 01 - 07:32 AM Sounds fun!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie Date: 12 Oct 01 - 10:18 AM Count me in! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Dani Date: 12 Oct 01 - 11:06 AM Me too! Dani |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 12 Oct 01 - 11:55 AM Good to see such a response... Stay tuned for an official announcement thread comign soon... I'll also be postng a hints thread where you'll go to answer a few simple questions to aid yer SS in picking out a gift fer ya... ;-) Doller limit? I'd go up to 20 US... maybe even 30... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: CapriUni Date: 12 Oct 01 - 12:00 PM Clinton -- Antipodean players would be two people from opposite sides of the planet from each other... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie Date: 12 Oct 01 - 12:37 PM I would say keep it to $20 or less since some of us are poor starving artists. :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Sorcha Date: 12 Oct 01 - 12:45 PM OK,OK, I'll get in too. $20 US sounds like enough to me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Helen Date: 13 Oct 01 - 02:18 AM Antipodes is a term often used for Australia, and antipodean is the adjective/description. In fact, CapriUni is right: it refers to diametrically opposite places, items, etc, but the Brits were being a bit egocentric at the time when they took to calling Oz the Antipodes. In fact Britain is also the antipodes of Oz. Enough of this: on with the show. $US20 would be about $AU40, with the exchange rate the way it is at present, so that would have to be my upper limit. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Hollowfox Date: 13 Oct 01 - 04:19 PM I'm in. Kim C, and all you other starving artists, remember that the gift doesn't have to be bought with money. We're all into some aspect of the folk arts here, if you paint with a broad enough brush. As one who is drawing-impared, I wouldn't turn down a nice sketch, myself. Or home baked cookies. (Darn, now I'm all hungry and it's an hour until supper.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Gloredhel Date: 13 Oct 01 - 08:52 PM Count me in, but how are we going to get people's addresses? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: GUEST,Robin Date: 14 Oct 01 - 12:04 AM Count me in, sounds like family! Robin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Bat Goddess Date: 14 Oct 01 - 01:14 PM Well, I'm in -- from the wilds of New Hampshire, New Knighted Snakes. And I'd LOVE a new Antipodean player cuz all my Antipodeans have been just laying around since my old player bit the dust. Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 14 Oct 01 - 03:58 PM I'm in too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Firecat Date: 14 Oct 01 - 05:14 PM I forgot to say count me in!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Helen Date: 14 Oct 01 - 09:30 PM Gloredhel, To register for Secret Santa you need to send a Personal Message to Pseudolus, with your postal contact details & e-mail address. To do that: click on the Quick Links box on the top of this page, scroll down to "Send a Personal Message" & click on that. Then click Go.
There is a http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=40046&messages=22 Helen
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