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Subject: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Allan C. Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:36 AM Continued from PART FOUR. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Mary In Kentucky's Secret Santinaya Date: 08 Nov 01 - 08:03 AM I'm just trying to find something.. I know what I'm wanting to get but i'm not sure where to get it from. You WILL get something though!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,blackcatter's secret santa Date: 08 Nov 01 - 08:32 AM I'm not here often or one of the more active members, but I am working on it Blackcatter. I am surprised at how quickly some of these are going. I'll have to get busy and stop by more often. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 08 Nov 01 - 09:36 AM Thanks, SS, you made my day. Been feelin' poorly and haven't checked in for awhile. Looks like Kim needs to send me a picture. Kim, I'll take back all those nasty things I said about Kentucky, always on top! I think some of us sent packages extremely early and they arrived in about a week. I suspect it will take longer the closer to Christmas we get. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Kim C Date: 08 Nov 01 - 09:44 AM I haven't got a picture yet, Mary... I'm thinking maybe I will take one of the scrumptious dinner I'm going to make out of the cookbook! :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 08 Nov 01 - 10:23 AM And we're all invited, right? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Helen's Secret Santa Date: 08 Nov 01 - 01:53 PM Helen, I hope you can eat sweets. I was about to start wrapping & realized you could have dietary restrictions. A weight loss diet does not count. Health restrictions only. Santa. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Blackcatter Date: 08 Nov 01 - 01:56 PM Hey Secret Santa - Not to worry - I just wanted to know you're really out there. Yes, it seems that a bunch of people have already received their gifts - but that's just people being really quick. I sent my Santee her gift early because I was told by the post office that it'd 4 to 6 weeks to get it to her - from my reckoning it took less than 2 weeks! Go figure... pax yall |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Dani's Santus Obscura Date: 08 Nov 01 - 02:05 PM Dani, I haven't forgotten about you. I've been assured it will take no time at all for a post to reach you from where I am at, so I've been being selective and langorous about my choosing. I hope you will read this and let me know if the Manual of Style is still on your list after Mr. Helpful AllanC listed where you could get well-priced used editions. Oh, and how is the air there? Any smog or is it fresh enough for you. It's one of the things my region is known for exporting, fresh air, that is. Hmmm...let me look in this bag full of goodies. Why! They're all marked "for Dani!" HoHoHo!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Fortunato's secret santa....... Date: 08 Nov 01 - 02:41 PM Rumor has it that you've been a good boy!! Not a very good guesser but a good boy!! LOL!!! In any case, someone gave me a good idea so since the previous great idea wasn't actually purchased yet, I'm gonna look into this tonight!!! What a blast!! In any case, I've checked with the delivery department here at the North Pole and have been assured that getting this out to you next week will still be VERY early for the season....
Stay Good, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: KarenB Date: 08 Nov 01 - 02:48 PM Katlaughing said, "You tell that IanB to hang on to you, okay?**BG** " So who's this IanB guy? And if he's gonna be hanging on to me, can we make sure we don't tell Pseudolus (my husband!)??? LMAO!!!!!! Thanks for the nice comments Kat, this really has been a lot of fun!!! Karen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Gloredhel's Secret Santa Date: 08 Nov 01 - 03:27 PM Ho ho ho heres a switch- the santa wondering wher the santeee has gottin to Gloredhel havent seen you on the cat ina couple weeks hope youre being nice and doing lots of schoolwork None of that naughty browsing th internet eh? My elves are busy wrappng youre things I think. maybe i beter chek that twice Hope to get riendeer hitchd upand ready to fly soon Ho ho ho |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Sorcha Date: 08 Nov 01 - 03:33 PM I'm wondering where my Santee has been, too. No response to any messages........... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Fortunato Date: 08 Nov 01 - 03:41 PM Dear Roy (Fortunato's secret Santa), How are you by now fine I hope. Ma says I've been awful good this year and if her egg money counts up right I may get a new pair of overhauls fer Christmas. Just in time since I grew a foot last year. Now if I grow another foot this year I'll be able to walk like Ma, 'stead of hopping ev'r where. I could wear both my socks at the same time. Hop Hop Hop, I get so sick of hopping. Mr. Hunnicut, the mail man, says he'll bring your package all the way up to the cabin on account of it'll be the first one we ever got. Thanks a heap, your obedient servant, Fortunato. PS Ma wants to know if you can eat a raindeer, I told her you surely couldn't catch 'em 'cause they kin fly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: katlaughing Date: 08 Nov 01 - 03:44 PM Oh, KarenB! So sorry, please tell Pseudolus to hang on to you!! I'll make sure IanB knows he can turn loose, okay? **BG** katlaughingforreal Hang in there, Sorcha, some of them are semi-Luddites, like mine, I think.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Helen Date: 08 Nov 01 - 04:46 PM Hi to my Secret Santa. I never say no to sweets, no matter how big my dieting intentions are. So wrap away! Thank you, thank you! Oh, the waiting time between posting and receiving (moan, whinge, grizzle, groan!) - and I am referring not just to having to wait for my present, but having sent my Santee's present and now having to wait, wait, wait until it gets delivered. Poor little snail, flapping its tiny antennae over the Pacific, or maybe, Atlantic Ocean. Getting hot and sweaty flying over the Equator, then getting cold and shivery as it heads into the Northern Hemisphere. And I haven't heard a peep out of my Santee in these threads. So I don't even know if he/she has seen my updates. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Burke's Secret Santa Date: 08 Nov 01 - 06:57 PM Your package has been checked for baby powder, soap powder, ant powder, and anthrax and the USPS has agred to deliver it to you early next week. Go ahead and open it before the timer goes off. Ho Ho Ho. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Sarah the flute Date: 09 Nov 01 - 03:30 AM Boo Hoo still no secret santa.... depression is setting in |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Jeri Date: 09 Nov 01 - 04:06 PM I have received my present, but I'm afraid Santa won't put anything under the tree if I open it now...but there might be cookies in it, or something that will go bad if I don't eat it soon...like chocolate. So, what does my Santa want? Do I get into trouble if I open it now? This is a large box - somebody in Santa's family has some pretty healthy-sized feet! It weighs a ton. Gotta be cookies, right? Help me out here - I've never been very good at this patience stuff... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Amergin Date: 09 Nov 01 - 04:15 PM probably just a small piece of coal in a large box filled with rolled up newspapers..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Jeri Date: 09 Nov 01 - 04:24 PM Weighs too much for a small piece of coal. Maybe a big piece of coal with fewer newspapers. Then again my SS said it was NOT coal. Maybe it's other types of rock. I like rocks, and used to always love the mineral section of the local museum when I was a kid. I'm not so crazy about rocks that were formerly cookies. Maybe if I keep going, I can justify opening it now... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Firecat's Secret Santy Date: 09 Nov 01 - 04:38 PM Here, kitty kitty! O Firecat!! Your pressie is on it's way............better be ready! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Amergin Date: 09 Nov 01 - 05:05 PM maybe a bag of briquets then.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Blackcatter Date: 10 Nov 01 - 01:05 AM Remember all, that coal is a rather light substance, being an organic form of rock (at least the types I have in my possession). You could have a large quantity of it and it still wouldn't weigh very much. By the way, Sarah the Flute - I'll be have to be you're not-so-secret Santa if need be. I had so much fun doing it the first time! Hell - if I actually had any money, You'd ALL be my Santees... Man, this has been a long, hard week... pax & love yall, Thanks for being here everyone. it may be pitiful, but Mudcat is definately one of the highlights of my life...
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Amergin Date: 10 Nov 01 - 01:26 AM not pitiful at all, mate...i feel the same way...loads of wonderful folks here...as has been proven time and again... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Firecat Date: 10 Nov 01 - 09:35 AM I got my pressies!!! The postman stuck a box through the door about half an hour ago. I've got to admit.. (rubbing the back of her neck).. I did open the box. And guess who it was from... (drum roll please).... SORCHA!! I'd just like to say Thankyou, Sorcha! I have sent you an email to that effect as well. I got some gorgeous things. Here's the list:- A beautiful Lapis Lazuli necklace Once again, I'd like to say a MASSIVE thanks to Sorcha. Loads of love and butterflies and all the rest of it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Jeri Date: 10 Nov 01 - 10:11 AM I'm getting REALLY antsy here! I know my Santa has logout problems. If you want to PM KarenB, maybe she can pass along your wishes. Or I'll pretend not to know who you are (my parents got that treatment, too) unless you want to 'come out' and PM me. It'll mess up the people who are crossing names off lists of their possible Secret Santas, but what the heck. And don't tell me I was the only one doing that!
The box is calling..."Open me, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Sorcha Date: 10 Nov 01 - 10:16 AM Wow! Post was really fast, Firecat!! I mailed it on 31 October!! Surface, not air. I'm impressed! Glad you like the stuff. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Jeri Date: 10 Nov 01 - 12:04 PM Due to a lack of adult supervision and the bad influence of an adult juvenile delinquent (Bat Goddess), I did it. Glad I did - there are some perishables in there. "Wolf Trap" cookies - the smell of them is driving me nuts as we speak. Santa - please send more! I have room for a pallet-full, but I suppose I could find a place to put an entire truckload. (Or the recipe would be nice, if it's not secret.) Grits: real, unbleached, stone-ground grits. I happen to love grits. (Any excuse for butter.) I've never had anything but the Quaker variety, and just MAY get around to a bowl before I tear into the cookies. A magnet that says "Make Merry," which is already on my refrigerator. Good philosophy! A thing. I'm not entirely sure what to call it. It has a roach clip doohicky at one end of a thickish, bendable-into-shapes, about-1,4'long wire encased in plastic. I'm envisioning all sorts of uses for this: hanging it from various places (including body parts, but not the clip end) to hold things, setting it on various surfaces, wrapping it around things like instrument heads, fastening it to something with the clip end and using the wrapping part to hold other things, etc. I've never seen a thing quite like my thing, and I love it. (Santa, did you make this, or buy it? I'm sure when other people see my thing, they'll want one too.) My gifts were accompanied by a Batman card - yes, Santa, I DID come home from school and watch the show every day! (In my time zone, it was on after school. What was really cool about this was my SS had little notes on the indiviually-wrapped gifts. It felt like opening presents with someone else. You know how people tell you a little about the present before you manage to rip the paper off? Santa still remains officially anonymous, and I'll respect that. Santa, I love EVERYTHING, and I love the care you obviously took when sending it.
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: SINSULL Date: 10 Nov 01 - 12:35 PM What is a pot doll???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Sorcha Date: 10 Nov 01 - 12:37 PM I have NO idea, *BG* What I sent was a small porcelain doll, with a baby doll. Both are dressed in American Pioneer clothes.....long dress, sunbonnet, etc. Never heard them called Pot dolls before. No, they are not smoking pot.......... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Amergin Date: 10 Nov 01 - 01:31 PM I was thinking a doll made out of marijuana limbs....kinda like a wicker doll... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: SINSULL Date: 10 Nov 01 - 01:36 PM I am showing my age - I thought it was some artsy-crafty thing made from an old pot. Kind of like a toilet paper cover. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: katlaughing Date: 10 Nov 01 - 02:44 PM Jeri, I have one of those snake-clip thingies. I am pretty sure I bought it at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. It is great for winding around a lamp base, by the desk, and holding notes, etc. I wish I had more of them around the house! kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Gloredhel Date: 10 Nov 01 - 07:44 PM Don't worry too much about me, Santa, I'm being very good. (I passed my chemistry test last week, now on to those dang sonnets....) See? I've even given up cursing, except of course when I drive. I'll be excitedly checking the mail! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Blackcatter Date: 11 Nov 01 - 08:41 PM what's a toilet paper cover? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: SINSULL Date: 11 Nov 01 - 10:04 PM Geez! Blackcatter! Where were you during the 50s and 60s? Toilet paper covers are cutsie little figures, usually dolls, made to fit over a spare roll of TP in the bathroom and disguise it. PM your address to me. I find them all the time at flea markets. Like summer squash, you just can't get rid of them...Mary |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Amergin Date: 11 Nov 01 - 10:34 PM i have another question...what is toilet paper? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: SINSULL Date: 11 Nov 01 - 10:40 PM Sophisticated corn cobs, Nathan! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Amergin's Secret Santa Date: 11 Nov 01 - 11:05 PM Dear fellow, I'm getting some mighty strange ideas for presents... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Firecat at college Date: 12 Nov 01 - 08:24 AM Yeah, sorry! I always call porcelain dolls pot dolls. It stems from when I was really little and couldn't say porcelain. I called them pot dolls to make it easier for me and it stuck. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Fortunato's Secret Santa.... Date: 12 Nov 01 - 11:03 AM Sheesh, hit a wrong button and look what happens!!! I couldn't do that again if I tried. So sorry for the empty extra posts!!! Anyway, everything is collected and boxed, I'm very excited!!! I will be getting a box and sending it out soon, like maybe tonight!!! You can decide what you want to do, open it when you get it, wait til Christmas, whatever!!! Now I just have to find a picture of me to send with the package. Hmmmm, if I remember correctly, I am a beautiful, buxom, statuesque Santa. Uh-oh, it might be a long search for THAT picture!!!! LOL!!!!!!! Andrew...... |
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Subject: To Sarah the Flute!!!!!! From: KarenB Date: 12 Nov 01 - 12:11 PM To Sarah the Flute, I have been in touch with your secret santa and he/she has been looking over the hints you've given, and the gift has been selected!!! So, Santa lives!!!!! If I hear more I'll let you know..... Elf Karen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Helen's SS Date: 12 Nov 01 - 01:38 PM Helen, your Santa is not too bright. Ran to the Post Office at lunch time to mail the package. Yes, I do know it's a federal holiday & there is no mail delivery today. Santa was not bright enough to reason this through to realizing the Post Office being closed as well. I will try again tomorrow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Blackcatter Date: 13 Nov 01 - 12:40 AM Sinsull: Thank for the info! Now what's the purpose of a toilet paper cover? Are people embarrassed that their bathrooms have paper? Or is it a decoration thingy? My paper hangs from the wall and the extras are stored in a cabinet. What other things am I supposed to cover in my bathroom? Next thing you'll be expecting me to cover the toilet itself! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Helen Date: 13 Nov 01 - 12:44 AM Thanks, Secret Santa. Look on the bright side - the running around probably did you good. I'll be waiting ever-so-patiently for it to arrive. I'm still waiting patiently to hear from my Santee, too, but not one word since he/she first posted to the hints thread. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Amergin Date: 13 Nov 01 - 01:45 AM my SS...well...I like all sorts of things...music especially...do you happen to record? if so that would be cool....or maybe a recording of a local artist or two...that would be awesome as well...or maybe something about your local folklore....i know i am a pain in the arse....my folks have always hated to ask me the what do you want question...i always hated to be asked it... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: Sarah the flute Date: 13 Nov 01 - 03:35 AM Thanks Elf Karen.... hints oh gosh I'm not sure I left any. Wot can I say to my Santa ? I like surprises! I like music! I like things that make me laugh! I work with books and IT so NO BOOKS!!!! AAAARRRGH! The only librarian with an aversion to reading. You will have to ask me questions SS to find out more YIPPEEEEEEE! I've got a Santa! Sarah |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Sharon A's secret santa Date: 13 Nov 01 - 06:13 AM Well this secret St Nicholas/St Nicola? has completed the shopping part - look out for parcels winging their way to you .... once I get the postie bit sorted out that is! Ho Ho Ho! ... it was Marigolds you needed wasn't it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART FIVE From: GUEST,Jeri's you-know-what Date: 13 Nov 01 - 08:05 AM I just got to checking this thread today. Boy, am I glad you opened the box before the cookies opened it for you! I'll include the recipe in the next (NEXT!?) box. Santa knows that whatever you do with the clipper thingy is OK. I did not invent it, but wish I did! Everyone should have one. Make merry!
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