BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints

Subject: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 10:41 AM

Okay, get started!

1. what is your age range?

2. gender?

3. Do you have a favorite color?

4. favorite authors/ type of book?

5. what books have you really been wanting?

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question).

7. what cds have you really been wanting?

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?

9. what is your t-shirt size?

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?

11. what are some of your other hobbies?

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 01:16 PM

As last time but a year older.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: sian, west wales
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 01:38 PM

Except for age, nothing much has changed since the first year . I did have a brain wave last year though, and added that I didn't mind previously owned items. So my great SS, Hollowfox, sent me a lot of duplicate books of hers - hymn books, storytelling books, etc. plus some other lovely odds and ends. That worked out really well, so that's the only addition that comes to mind at this point.

siân

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Amos
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 11:01 AM

1. what is your age range?

18-90

2. gender? Genuine male

3. Do you have a favorite color? Partial to sea-bles and forest greens, and cedar and earth.

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Love good scifi in the tradition of Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, David Brin; love rollicking sea tales, very well-written novels, think-a-lot books like Jared Diamond's stuff. Do not like shallow romances, quisling politics, glib and specious spirituality.

5. what books have you really been wanting?

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
The Third Chimpanzee : The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question).

Any well done and heart-felt music of its time, traditional, old-time, baroque, Elizabethan, Seeger, Almanac Singers, Frank Warner, Rick Fielding, Bruce Murdoch, all the guys on the Mudcat CDs (but I have them), interesting world music, old croooners sometimes, DIxieland almost anytime, ragtime, rock, delta blues, urban blues, good love songs, but not facile or specious. Real human stuff, I guess you'd call it.

7. what cds have you really been wanting?

Surprise me.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?

None

9. what is your t-shirt size?

Large, I suppose.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?

Well, inadvertently, hand tools of different sorts.

11. what are some of your other hobbies?

Occasional furniture construction, home DIY stuff, MAc software, writing, songwriting; I am getting abanjo for Xmas I believe, so that will definitely become one. Diving and sailing. Emerging technologies. Complaining about Bush.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?

Don't do "tone" jewelry; I like real gold.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

I guess I prefer gifts, however small, that have some kind of anchor to what I think of as real roots--stone, earth, sky, water; human heart, art, music and intelligence. This rules out K-Mart. I don't mind plastic parts on gadgets, but I don't like plastic sentiments.

A

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: mooman
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 11:11 AM

1. what is your age range? 53 to 53

2. gender? It appears that I am male

3. Do you have a favorite color? Green and maroon

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Good sci-fi for escape and philosophy for mental nourishment

5. what books have you really been wanting? As above or something interesting on herbal medicine

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). Traditional Irish, Scottish, Breton, Galician, French-Canadian, Appalacian, blues, bluesy jazz, good acoustic contemporary, anything else that is good and interesting

7. what cds have you really been wanting? Happy to try anything new!

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? Again, happy to try anything intersting (easy aren't I!)

9. what is your t-shirt size? XXL usually fits (great big chest)!

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? All types of musical and scientific paraphernalia

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Working with wood and leather

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? A gold and silver umbilibling would be nice! (Only joking, don't wear jewellery as a rule)

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. I'm not very materialistic (apart from my instruments) so anything that reflects my secret santa's interests, hobbies or local culture would be very welcome. Something to meditate to (visual or sound) could also be nice

Peace (and thanks in advance to whoever will be my SS!)

moo

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Crane Driver
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 04:27 PM

Well, last year's questions and my answers were something like this:

1. what is your age range? 0 to 55

2. gender? Either I'm male, or my trousers don't fit.

3. Do you have a favorite color? Not really. I seem to wear a lot of blue, though

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Historical, especially maritime - something that might give me ideas for writing songs

5. what books have you really been wanting? None that I know of - surprise me

6. what type of music do you like? British-style trad folk or good modern songs in the traditional style.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? We have a room full of CDs awaiting sorting, but anything REALLY obscure that fits the above has a chance of being something we haven't already got.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? Don't watch videos

9. what is your t-shirt size? Chuffin' enormous

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Not really

11. what are some of your other hobbies? I write songs for a hobby, as they don't die as quickly as tropical fish

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Don't do jewelry.

This year, things haven't changed much. Add one to the upper end of the age range. Bookwise, I've started to write songs about other things than the sea, so anything containing real people's accounts of their lives would be potentially nourishing for my muse. If your part of the world has any historical connection with my part (South Wales) I would love to read about it. Just as good as the presents last year was the repartee and guessing games on the SS threads - whoever my santa is this year, please play the game again!

Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Kim C
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 04:50 PM

I am 38. I am a girl. I like girl-type things. I have plenty of books and CDs. I do like chocolates and other sweeties. I sing, play the violin, knit, and bellydance (not all at the same time!) I have been thrilled with every Secret Santa surprise I have received over the years.

This year, if it strikes you, Santa, you can also make a donation in my name to hurricane relief efforts in the US, or historic preservation anywhere in the world.

Kim

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 06:36 PM

1. what is your age range?
54 in Oct

2. gender?
Still female

3. Do you have a favorite color?
Still hunter/forest green

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Fantasy Sci Fi

5. what books have you really been wanting?
All or any of the Harry Potter.

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question).
Pretty much any

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
None really

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
Don't do movies

9. what is your t-shirt size?
US is Lg, UK is Med

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Green men,good books, dog hair,instruments, rocks.....

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Gardening, driving around doing errands....

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
Don't do jewelery

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
Don't really do sweets at all....waste of money. New tunes are nice. Stuff from my SS home place would be cool.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 07:19 PM

1. what is your age range?

I was born in 1945. Some folks didn't think I last beyond 1946 -- something about my behavior, not my health.

2. gender?

I am genetically XY and likely to stay that way.

3. Do you have a favorite color?

Yes. "RCMP Scarlet", black, Hunter green, a nice blue-gray....

4. favorite authors/ type of book?

History, folklore, science fiction, songbooks (with dots), science (especially speculative science), outdoors, fencing (with swords, not wire), and a plethora of other subjects. Romance novels and western novels are about the only thing I don't read, and I'll read them if there's nothing else around.

5. what books have you really been wanting?

The original Book of Kells, and there was this bible that was printed in Mainz in 1456....

6. what type of music do you like?

Folk. Blues.

7. what cds have you really been wanting?

The Gibson & Camp at the Gate of Horn Reunion album. Stan Roger's "Home in Halifax." "Classic Schooner Fare" or their Christams album.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?

Well, I don't really do movies, but I haven't seen the last Harry Potter flick or the LOTR trilogy.

9. what is your t-shirt size?

XXL

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?

Debts, but it's inadvertent. Bruises. Experience.

11. what are some of your other hobbies?

Well...fencing epee. Riflery, especially with pre-1840 rifles. Fooling around in the woods and mountains. I try to play trumpet. Annoying other people. Telling whoppers.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?

Well...either, if it's the pure metal. Platinum works too.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

I'm a librarian, I can cook pretty well (not a hobby, but survival), I'm into historical reenacting.... Hell, just ask me and I'll tell ya.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: sian, west wales
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 04:44 AM

OK - apparently we're of the corporate opinion that it's better to post the information here, rather than link to it so here goes ...

1. what is your age range? 48, for another week

2. gender? Just one of the girls

3. Do you have a favorite color? Denim

4. favorite authors/ type of book? ummm, I kinda go with the flow; see below

5. what books have you really been wanting? I can always use cook books; I had Joe Kline's biog. of Woody Guthrie last year, and wouldn't mind biogs on Pete Seeger, the Carter Family, et al. or a lot of the books in the Mudcat library list - bought Sound of The Dove from that list (with tape) and was in my element!

6. what type of music do you like? very traditional, particularly archive recordings - also bought the Shaker Hymns CD because of Mudcat; also Gospel, cajun, Canadian trad ...

7. what cds have you really been wanting? Anything from Folk Legacy, anything *very* regional and traditional (recently bought a Folksongs of Ulster CD - largely as I really only knew songs from the Republican tradition)

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wnting? None, really. Don't tend to buy

9. what is your t-shirt size? Don't wear 'em

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Cook books, old hymn books, oh - and thumb picks; I get one whenever I visit a new town.

11. what are some of your other hobbies? quilting, crochet, cooking, gardening - the usual stuff, I guess; oh - and godchildren ... but I really don't need any more of those!

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like - wouldn't mind someone's personal favourite recipes; I like short stories (folk tales); I'm a dog and horse type, not (sorry, folks) cats; quite like riddles.

And, as above, if you have any duplicates in your library, or stuff ready to be 'passed on', I would find them 'most acceptable'.

I gotta say that the book on Amos' list, Freakonomics, intrigues me! Amos, if you get it, and get my name in 2006, see above.

siân

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: sian, west wales
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 04:46 AM

oops. Should have updated my age. I'll be 53 in October. ((((sigh))))

siân

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Crystal
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 05:44 AM

1. what is your age range?
early 20's

2. gender?
Female

3. Do you have a favorite color?
Blue, green and anything in between, especially that nice dark greeny aqua colour.

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Sci-fi, especially Dr Who (have you noticed that a lot of folkies are Sci-fi fans?). Also Historical romance (but not Georgette Heyer as I have at least two copies of all her books!) and pretty much anything else with a nice cover.

5. what books have you really been wanting?
The new book by Rebecca Wells (the Ya-Ya something) and "The Indistructable Man" in the BBC worldwide Dr Who series

6. what type of music do you like?
Traditional, traditional style and Folk Rock.

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
Stuff by Steeleye Span, the Wurzals (not the "best of" collection though), Show of Hands, Roy Baily or anything really!

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
No horror

9. what is your t-shirt size?
Small huggy fit!

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
I collect songs!

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Cross stich, computer games (especially puzzle and business games), Dancing.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
Usually silver tone stuff, but I just got a georgous pale gold ball gown!

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
I'm easy to please and secondhand or home made gifts are just as nice as stuff bought in a shop.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Firecat
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 09:14 AM

1. what is your age range? I'm 21 (22 in January)

2. gender? I'm a girl

3. Do you have a favorite color? Midnight blue, black, silver and red

4. favorite authors/ type of book? I love autobiographies, romance and fantasy

5. what books have you really been wanting? Turkish and Greek dictionaries, scripts and Manga. I already have the first of the Fushigi Yugi series.

6. what type of music do you like? Most anything, but my favourites are pop, rap, R 'n' B (eg Destiny's Child), rock and show tunes

7. what cds have you really been wanting? No specific ones

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? Again, no specifics. I tend to watch DVDs more than videos these days

9. what is your t-shirt size? Medium

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Butterflies, cats, owls, crystals, film posters, nail varnish, earrings...

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Singing, acting, reading, writing poetry, compiling quizzes, learning Turkish, learning Greek.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Silver. I never wear gold

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. I'm vegetarian, so no meat and I'm also trying to cut out artificial sweeteners such as aspartame. I would also love to find out more about my SS's home town or city.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: MMario
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 09:27 AM

1. what is your age range?

half a century

2. gender?

gots the dangly bits

3. Do you have a favorite color?

teal/turqoise/blue-green -ish

4. favorite authors/ type of book?

Science fiction/Fantasy - Pterry Pratchett!!!!

5. what books have you really been wanting?

Bronson

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question).

ecletic

7. what cds have you really been wanting?

Any mudcatter - pro or not

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?

n/a

9. what is your t-shirt size? XL and up

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?

chocolate wrappers

11. what are some of your other hobbies? knitting, reading, singing, etc.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? bronze

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

something that will remind me of the giver is more pleasurable to me then something that is more tailored to me - of course meeting BOTH conditions is the best!

MMario

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Firecat
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 09:42 AM

Oops! Forgot to put that I also collect charity wristbands eg Make Poverty History (I've got that one!), particularly from local charities.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Den
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 10:06 AM

I've never done the Secret Santa thing before but would like to this year. How does it work, and before someone jumps all over me is it explained in another thread somewhere or permathread (I didn't look before posting). Carry on.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Amos
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 10:23 AM

Den:

1. Fill out questionaire here.
2. PM Liz the Squeak with your mailing addy.
3. When assigned a giftee, acquire and send them an appropriate gift.
4. Receive comparable gift from your Secret Santa.

That's how it works. Embellish at will.


A

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: MMario
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 10:26 AM

There will also be another thread or possibly threads with silly little backs and forths - Secret Santa's will log out and come in as guest's (usually calling themselves so-and -so's Secret Santa - or some variation) to elicit more info and/or tease their santee. Santee's beg and plead trying to figure out who their Santa is, etc. Not obligatory but can be fun.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 10:30 AM

Here is the official 2005 Secret Santa thread. It's where people discuss the process, let Liz know they're interested, and is where Liz can post any additional information she wants us to have.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 10:41 AM

Can I suggest through the medium of this thread that Mudcatter's put their profile on record, or update their existing one. It makes it easier and more interesting for a Santa if he/she can get data on their Santee.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 11:30 AM

1. what is your age range?
heading to 54

2. gender?
female

3. Do you have a favorite color?
red, crimson, purple, black (I know it's not a colour, but I like it)

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Library books (I belong to 2 local libraries!!) however I do like folklore

5. what books have you really been wanting?
I don't have much space for books, however my last Santa gave me a book on folklore of his area & I love it.

6. what type of music do you like?
Ballads; chorus songs; shanties; traditional songs (UK, US, Oz); singer/songwriters who write traditional-type songs (I'm not into the songwriters who write about their sex lives & unrequited loves); jazz; nostalgia/music hall; classical;

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
I do like Mudcatter CDs, but I only have about 30 (so far).
I recently heard some amazing singing from the Taize religious community in France - & I found the details on the station's website

CD Title: Veni Sancte Spiritus
Artist: The Taize Community
Label/CD No: Taize T55

CD Title: Jubilate
Artist: The Taize Community
Label/CD No: Taize T554

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
I never watch movies

9. what is your t-shirt size?
I still don't wear t-shirts (apart from long-sleeved black ones in winter & I have 8, thanks)

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
lots, but I'm trying to cut down (a little) - CDs; some books; old stuff; tiny little chrissy decorations for my 6" christmas tree; Japanese paper, Japanese papercrafts, pieces of Japanese material, little Japanese knick-knacks; crafty stuff to do one day; old needlework tools & embroideries & stuff; used toys; interesting knitting yarns; pics/postcards of sunrises/sunsets, blue lakes & blue skies, trees/gardens, cats;

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
making cards; knitting; beadwork; jewellery; felt toys; collecting craft projects & ideas;

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
I really do have too much, but that does not stop me heading into the junk jewellery shops ... or making more earrings ...

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
I'm not a sweet-tooth & don't drink alcohol. I like pressies made by my Santa, or showing off Santa's area & interests.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Den
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 12:46 PM

Thank you Amos et al for the info. I will get to it.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: open mike
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 02:21 PM

1. what is your age range? are we still talking "range" here?
    I am 52 now and will be 52&1/2 around christmas time.
2. gender? i am a girl

3. Do you have a favorite color? yes
    purple and green
4. favorite authors/ type of book?
    one that tells about life in my santa's home area
5. what books have you really been wanting?
    ones about labyrinths or cowgirls
6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question).
   acoustic, bluegrass, original, old timey, Swedish, folk, wild west
7. what cds have you really been wanting?
   original ones that cannot be found anywhere else
8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
    song catcher--how about DVD's??
9. what is your t-shirt size?
    xl
10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
    SCARABS, DUNG BEETLES, LABYRINTHS
11. what are some of your other hobbies?
    GARDENING, photography, working to save forest land from logging
and development
12. I prefer silver-tone jewelry? and once had a silvertone guitar!!
    (and banjo , too)
13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

i live in a small cabin in the country, i have a radio show,
i play guitar, bodhran, mandolin, fiddle and nyckelharpa and
enjoy travelling in my motor home and going to music festivals.
I share my home with a dog, 6 cats at the moment...4 of which
are quite tiny and will have new homes in a few weeks i hope,
2 canaries, whose singing i adore!! (oh yes and a terrarium
with several dozen walking stick insects) i am a vegtarian
and i like coffee and chocolate. Currently i am studying t.v.
and motion picture photography at the local community college.
Although not completely off the grid, some of my power comes
from solar panels with more to be added to the solar array soon.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 02:48 PM

1. what is your age range?.... Im 25..years old not months!

2. gender?.... Female...last time I looked

3. Do you have a favorite color?...... Black, Green, Red

4. favorite authors/ type of book?..... Horror, Fantasy, Pagan books, herbology, crystals.

5. what books have you really been wanting?..... anything out of the above categories.

6. what type of music do you like?.... Folk (obviously) Meat Loaf, Jazz

7. what cds have you really been wanting?....anything really from mudcatters....!

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wnting?...None...

9. what is your t-shirt size?.....Goddess size...

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?...Instruments, crystals, jewellry, green men....

11. what are some of your other hobbies?...Gianting, drumming, shopping, festivaling....

12. do you prefer gold or silver jewelry?....Silver...

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like

Remember that "negative hints" such as allergies might also be helpful. .....Im allergic to dairy products...

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 03:01 PM

1. what is your age range?
   46 and counting

2. gender?
   wish they wouldnt ask difficult questions *checks mirror* the auld maewest is still there so guess im female

3. Do you have a favorite color?
   natural colours (the blue on a peacocks neck and the colours of autumn trees.

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
   peoples history not wars, archeology, period crime roman and medieval,terry pratchett.

5. what books have you really been wanting?
   

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question).
   like most things but trad or instrumentals are always safe

7. what cds have you really been wanting?


8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
not really into telly stuff but some places do nice local scenery with music


9. what is your t-shirt size?
   whale

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
   thimbles and i seem to have acquired a small collection of fridge magnets and inspitational bookmark type thingies


11. what are some of your other hobbies?
    reading, writing poetry, trying to remember tales, used to do a fair bit of crafts but not so able now.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
    silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

the truth is apart from pop music i would be delighted with anything someone has thought enough to send

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 09:09 AM

Refresh.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 10:02 AM

1. what is your age range? 50-52

2. gender? F

3. Do you have a favorite color? Yes. I wear way too much black and dark green. I'm branching out to the jewel tones, everything except bright orange.

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Too many to name. I'm revisiting classics--Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, but I already own the ones I want to read.

5. what books have you really been wanting? I like regional folk music studies to add to my collection inherited from Dad. Anyone have an extra set of Child you can ship, I'll happily take it off your hands!

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). A wide range, with a focus on classical and folk.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? Reissues of McCurdy, but for this Mudcat event, what I really PREFER is copies of YOUR music or what influences you.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? None in particular

9. what is your t-shirt size? Medium, or large if it is 100% cotton

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Too many things!

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Gardening, sewing, cooking, primitive woodworking, refinishing, and upholstery projects.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? I don't do the "tone" stuff--too many reactions to base metal. I'm okay with sterling silver.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. As packrats, there is little that this household really needs. I have lots of art, but we can always use more. If you are an artist and have something of yours that you can ship safely that we can frame and put up (or set out on display) or if you perform or are (like me) one of those folks associated with another performer, I'd really like to have a sample of that music.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST,Seaking
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 03:08 PM

Cut and pasted with minor changes from last year..

1. what is your age range?   
48 3/4 - 49

2. gender?
Definitely boy

3. Do you have a favorite color?
Dark Blue

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Really depends on the mood, popular novels mostly. Tend to pick up anything to do with the Industrial revolution, I find the ingenuity of the early great Engineers fascinating

5. what books have you really been wanting?
Nothing specific on my list, I tend to impulse buy at airports.

6. what type of music do you like?
Most things but specifically like acoustic folk, kept nice and simple -no annoying overproductions, one voice, one guitar type of thing.

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
I've been trying to do more unaccompanied singing over the last couple of years and am always looking for new material to learn - so anything with good chorus songs.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? none particularly

9. what is your t-shirt size? medium to large (large for safety). Darks only.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Ornamental elephants, I've got wooden, porcelain, silver, glass, cloth, brass... Smaller and more 'unique' the better.

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Anything to do with Rugby (Union), (Teams: London Irish, Ireland, Felixstowe FRUFC), Camping/caravaning (festivals only) and I'm a sucker for gadgets and Gizmos. Most expensive hobby (by a long way) is raising two children but don't need any more thanks Santa.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?   
Not a jewelry type person.

13. Please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. Remember that "negative hints" such as allergies might also be helpful.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 05:20 PM

1. what is your age range? As old as my chin and not quite as old as my teeth...and my chin is somewhere between 55 and 60.

2. gender? Guy

3. Do you have a favorite color? Medium to dark green

4. favorite authors/ type of book? SF, mostly space opera and alternative history, and (real) histories.

5. what books have you really been wanting? If I want if, I've bought it.

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). "Traditional, older folk music?" That sounds about right. My SS's own stuff, or music from the region he/she comes from is very welcome.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? No specific wants

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? You mean, as in watch television? Heaven forfend!

9. what is your t-shirt size? XL or XXL, depending on the phase of the moon and whether or not I had that second beer last night.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Nothing, really.

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Ren Faireing, folk and contra dancing, bicycling, getting way over my head on Mudcat threads.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? I really don't wear jewelry.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. I recently completed an advanced degree in European history. I tend to have a rather odd sense of humor....

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 02:41 AM

I'm male, 52, no specific gifts in mind, but I always like something from a santa's home area, be it music, postcards, a photo, a local writer, whatever. Something that shows the character of where you live (other than the North Pole).

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 09 Sep 05 - 10:27 AM

1. what is your age range?   55

2. gender?   Male

3. Do you have a favorite color?   No

4. favorite authors/ type of book?   Well written, intelligent novels

5. what books have you really been wanting?  I don't wait for anything

6. what type of music do you like?  I like well written, intelligent, original songs

7. what cds have you really been wanting?   Something new that I've not known about before

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?  None

9. what is your t-shirt size?  XXXL-T  If you can't find the T (tall) on the label, don't bother with the T-shirt.  The bare midriff look is not so appealing on a guy my size.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?  Scrimshawed whale's teeth

11. what are some of your other hobbies?  I am writing a book

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry.?
 I wear a watch, a wedding ring and occasionally a carved walrus molar.  No other jewelry

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.  I love to write songs of far away places.  Anything that would provide incite or info into unusual occurances which might lend themselves to song would be very interesting to me.

Mike

Subject: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Musique174
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 01:29 AM

1. what is your age range? 23

2. gender?   female

3. Do you have a favorite color?   Black, Burgandy, Blues, Greens

4. favorite authors/ type of book?   chantymen/books on the sea and boats, I also like the music books... I am just starting to expand my horizions musically and anything that helps is always welcome.

5. what books have you really been wanting? the ones I don't have or haven't found yet... see above, my collection is just starting and well could use some help.

6. what type of music do you like? Just about everything... But espeially the stuff I can sing along to.

7. what cds have you really been wanting?   Something new that I've not known about before

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? None - I don't own a VCR

9. what is your t-shirt size? M to L. I'm a rather cute little female... and well I'll admit it.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? All kinds of neat trinkets... I collect little schooners - specifically looking for a necklace charm with a schooner.

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Well other then chanteysinging, I knit, and I attempt at photography as often as I can.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry.?
Always silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. I love learning the music... I want to learn more as much as I can.

~Nathalie
aka Musique174

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 08:59 AM

1. What is your age? 35

2.   Male or Female? Male

3.   Do you have a favourite color? Blue?

4.   Favourite authors/Type of book? Don't get me books... I have 'em all

5.   What books have you really been wanting? See #4

6.   What type of music do you like? I have 65.8 gigs of MP3s... I don't need music...

7.   What cd's have you really been wanting? See #6 Unless it's your own CD and I don't have it yet

8.   What movies have you been wanting?
DVD.... Region 1... Widescreen
Yellowbeard
Tron (Special Edition)
Bottom (BBC series)

9.   What is your t-shirt size? Medium To large (But it'd have to be a very cool T-shirt... I don't wear 'em often except around the house)

10. Do you collect anything? If so, what?
Sci-Fi Fantasy chochkies... Skulls... crystals... sand-timers... Anything "Guinness" (The beer, not the book)

A Gross of Jim Dunlop .73mm Guitar picks'd be a gift I'd use all year
Same with Herco Medium or Light gauge thumb-picks
20 bucks'd get ya 20 sets of Martin Light Gauge Acoustic Phosphor strings from the right auction on eBay... That'd see me through April at least! (Too practical? Heh)

If you wanted to go to Texas Action Gear and get me a 72" "Raiders Bag Strap" with no grooves, I'd be your BEST friend forever!

11. Do you collect things from other countries?
Sure... food especially!

12. What are some of your other hobbies?
My whole LIFE is hobbies... I'm a musican... I do theatre... I play PS2... (An old game that you liked that you think I might like isn't a half bad idea)... I make chainmaille...

13. Do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Silver and I'd KILL for a size 12 Standard (Or Shamrock) Ring Thing

14. Please include anything else you feel is important that would help your Secret Santa know what you would like.

I love black licorice
I LIVE for good hot sauces...
Been experimenting with Rootbeer and Sambuca-esque liqueurs...

15. Do you have any food allergies?
Nope... Thought sweets (Cookies, cakes, candy, chocolate) will probably go off long before I finish them...

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Firecat
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 12:10 PM

Another thing I forgot to add was that I'm allergic to nickel silver. I wrote out my hints in a rush!

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 05:51 AM

Just a little reminder - If you wish to be included in this years (2005) Secret Santa run, you need to PM *ME* (Liz the Squeak) with your postal details. I promise they will only be passed on to your Secret Santa.

I mention this because there are people posting hints here who have not sent me their details.... someone could be getting all excited and not actually be in the game.

You have until Sept 25th to pass me your details... On 1st Oct you should recieve your Santee's details. If you are not in my PMs by then, you won't be included. I will NOT be trawling round threads to pick up stragglers again.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 07:22 AM

1. what is your age range? 58

2. gender? Female

3. Do you have a favorite color? Autumn colours, blue tones, black

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Stephen King, sci-fi.

5. what books have you really been wanting? Latest Stephen King. Any crochet shawl pattern book. complete Works of Shakespeare.

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music

7. what cds have you really been wanting? Surprise me

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? Vin Diesel - The Pacifier(?).

9. what is your t-shirt size? Large and I'm starting a collection of 'place' type t-shirts, e.g. New York, Geneva, colorado, I have already.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? I have too much 'stuff' already!

11. what are some of your other hobbies? crochet.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Can only wear silver (nickel allergy). I love dangly earrings - don't need any more bracelets.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

Can't think of anything right now - if ideas come I'll add later.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 10:05 AM

1. what is your age range? still mid forties

2. gender? F

3. Do you have a favorite color? Blue

4. favorite authors/ type of book? NO BOOKS unless its got dots in it....music type dots!!!! I work in a library so I can buy what I need curtosy of my employer heh heh!

5. what books have you really been wanting? Music for playingbooks or folksong books (traditional)

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). Mostly traditional but some modern.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? Any Michael McGoldrick, Dick Gaughan or Kate Rusby I havn't got already.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? Tend to buy them for the Library at employers expense!!!

9. what is your t-shirt size? V necked only large

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? flutes and strange blowy instruments!

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Drawing, making things

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Silver


Anything else NO NO NO NO BOOOOOOOOOKKKKSSSS Santa!!!! Just cos I'm a Librarian...... NOOOOOO BOOOOOOKKKKS

Anything from your local area or any music you have made would be very much appreciated

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: CET
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 12:27 PM

1. what is your age range? 48

2. gender? M

3. Do you have a favorite color? Red

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Humour (esp. Ian Frazier), military history, famous trials and true crime (esp. British).

5. what books have you really been wanting? No particular title, but a good collection of traditional songs would always be welcome if it's available in the Secret Santa price range.

6. what type of music do you like? Trad., esp. Child Ballads. I also listen to a lot of Appalachian and American old time music and sea shanties. I like instrumental music, but I'm most interested in great singing.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? Something by Janet Russell.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? None.

9. what is your t-shirt size? XL

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Just books and CDs.

11. what are some of your other hobbies? n/a

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? No preference. I have three rings. The only other jewelry I wear would be cufflinks.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. Last year I got a great CD that my Secret Santa appeared on himself. Something you have made yourself would be great.

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 06:01 PM

1. what is your age range? 50

2. gender? Male (at least it was when I last checked)

3. Do you have a favorite color? Blue

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Any Naval histories

5. what books have you really been wanting?

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). Trad Irish and Scottish

7. what cds have you really been wanting?

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?

9. what is your t-shirt size? XXL

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Old maps and prints

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Kendo

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. Our cats go mad over cat nip. My SS last eyar sent some and it was like having cats on speed.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: RangerSteve
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 10:32 AM

I'm 55 and male


I collect regional cookbooks, especially the type made for fundraising by fire departments, schools, churches, etc.

Ocarinas and clay whistles in unusual shapes.

Local history books, but not New Jersey, as I live here and probaby have everything available in print.

Traditional music CD's from any country, especially those put out by Mudcatters.

Any mudcatter crafts, but not t-shirts or jewelry.

Antique post-cards, esplecially the old large letter "Greetings From" kind, or pictures of small town main streets. Or postcards of musicians.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Edain
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:24 AM

1. what is your age range? Early 20s

2. gender? Female

3. Do you have a favorite color? Not really, grey. black, dark blue or green I suppose

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Sci-Fi, some fantasy

5. what books have you really been wanting?

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). A fair mix really, lots of the Enlish/British stuff but I wouldn't class my self as a fan of the banjo, country-esk type and so on

7. what cds have you really been wanting? none, I sweet-talked my parents into getting them all for my at Fylde

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? I would normally say Brassed Off, but I now have a copy of that so I'll go to 'Batteries Not Included' although good luck to anyone trying to find it

9. what is your t-shirt size? L

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Strawhead albums, but then between me and my parents we have the lot. Empty Irn Bru bottles (although only if they arrive full to start with)

11. what are some of your other hobbies? computers, RPing (online, tabletop and LARP), brass banding, beer, geology (more specifically the rocks, not really the minerals)

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? not really a jewelry person

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. Don't eat chocolate (haven't for years)

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: MMario
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:30 AM

What kind of un-natural person is the last poster???????

dear Edain's Mud-santa: I am perfectly willing to take any chocolate that might be suppossed to end up in Edain's stocking.    Honestly. I'll make that sacrifice.

MMario

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 05:01 PM

I'm sorry Mmario, but as Santa I'd have to check it was suitable first.....

SECSY LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: bet
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 12:53 AM

what is your age range? 60+

2. gender? female

3. Do you have a favorite color? blues and greens

4. favorite authors/ type of book? historical fiction

5. what books have you really been wanting?

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). Anything but rap! tradional and the older folk are the best.

7. what cds have you really been wanting?

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?

9. what is your t-shirt size? Large

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? music, instruments, early sled dog pictures

11. what are some of your other hobbies? quilting, candle making, camping, grandkids

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. Regional things are always good. It's nice to have something from "Santa's" area.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: MBSLynne
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 07:26 AM

Age range: Mature? no p'raps not.....my soul is 32 but I'm a bit older than that

Gender: Female...conmpletely

Favourite colour: Red, but I love rainbows and anything bright. Don't like green.

Fave authors/ books: Historical.

Wanted books: I tend to buy them as soon as I want them.

Type of music: Folk, heavy metal, baroque, early and almost anything except rap and Country and Western

Wanted CDs: Anything interesting, local, personal...specially my SS's own stuff

Movies: Not much into movies

T-shirt size: Don't wear T-shirts much. Clothes size is 10 or small

Collect: Jugs, pottery or china musicians, kitchen memorabilia

Hobbies: Cooking, gardening, sewing, singing, playing

Jewellery: Don't wear much but like Indian style.

Other: I'm a Pagan hippy witch, love weird, New age, ethnic etc stuff

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Helen
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 07:55 AM

This is pretty much my hint list for last year and it still applies, except for some updating

Before I start, the most important part for me of the total Secret Santa experience is getting to know a bit about my Secret Santa so my favourite things are the ones which come from their local area, or which are chosen from their personal preferences, e.g. the music or books they love.

1. what is your age range? The Big 5-Oh!

2. gender? F

3. Do you have a favorite color? This is the easiest question on the list: Purple & all shades of it, including magenta, violet, indigo etc and especially combinations of these

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Difficult to say - I love Margaret Atwood's and Nevil Shute's books but have most of them. I have a whole Dewey Decimal system worth of books in my collection so I guess my book preferences are as wide a range as my music preferences - therefore you would have a wide choice on books (not very helpful I know) Your own interests or local area would be wonderful.

5. what books have you really been wanting? Secondhand is good. Most of my collection is secondhand - but none that I can think of

6. what type of music do you like? Everything! I used to say "everything but Country & Western and Opera" but that limitation doesn't even apply any more so I really want to find out what my Secret Santa likes.

I've just had the pianola repaired so anything relating to pianolas or piano rolls would be fun.

7. what cds have you really been wanting?

Nothing specific.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?

Secondhand is good. DVD's are difficult anyway because it has to be playable in Oz, although we may be able to work around it. Pal is the Oz VHS format but I can play NTSC videos.

I love old movies, often the ones with music in them, e.g. the Marx Bros, Eddie Cantor, etc   

9. what is your t-shirt size? Medium - large

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Kaleidoscopes

11. what are some of your other hobbies?

Other hobbies: pastel drawing - haven't done any for a long time, and playing Celtic harp, trying to learn piano, and wanting to learn more music theory, especially harmonies, accompaniment, chords, chord progressions etc

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? probably silver, with a Celtic flavour

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like

Anything which shows my Secret Santa's preferences, interests and/or local area would be perfect.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Severn
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 03:49 PM

1)AGE: 56

2)MALE

3)Blue,green or yellow (I had red hair before it faded)

4)History of all eras, Books on or collections of music, or share your favorite mystery writer or regional history/music. Nautical music collections or histories are nice.

5)Secondhand is fine with books or music. Vast library of either.

6)Music tastes vary widely-folk & traditional, jazz, classical(Boroque or Rennaisance),blues, bluegrass, celtic, old timey.

7)Good traditional music from your area, or your favorite local bar band of any kind, or some of your own stuff (if you have any of your own recorded). Something that gives me a taste where you come from.

8)Silent Comedy-Keaton & Chaplain (except "The Kid"), are pretty well covered, but anything else would be fine. LLoyd, L&H etc.

Also anything Hitchcock directed.

9)T-shirt large, but I tend to like my shirts from someplace I've actually been.

10)I collect recordings, (LPs included). And old metal advertising signs & thermometers. (And dust, but don't send any.)

11) Have given up Civil War re-enacting. Not really replaced with anything.

12)Don't bother much with jewelry.

13)Again, a taste of what's special that's local to you or something reflecting a personal favorite taste of some sort.

Severn

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 08:26 PM

Allright. Here we go.

1. what is your age range?
    Early fifties
2. gender?
      male (this is unlikely to change any time soon).
3. Do you have a favorite color?
    Not as such. i tend to wear erth tones, though.
4. favorite authors/ type of book?
    American historical, enthnomusicology, pop culture (as they relate to one another). For example I am currently reading "Positively 4th Street: The life and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimim Baez Farina, and Richard Farina" by David Hadju
5. what books have you really been wanting? I could use a new copy of Woody Guthrie's "Born To Win". I lost my copy three moves ago.

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). I don't listen to Fusion or Industrial music. Not because I dislike the forms. I just don't understand them. Other than that I'm completely open.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? Anything by a 'Catter would be a treat.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
    I'm still looking for an old British comedy from the early 1960's. It's a Peter Sellers film called "The Wrong Arm of the Law".
9. what is your t-shirt size?
    I don't wear them.
10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
       No.
11. what are some of your other hobbies?
       I am one of those fortunate few who has been able to turn hobbies into a living which kind of negates all of those activities as hobbies. They're my job now.
12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
       I don't wear jewelry.
13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
      I like all sorts of books and all kinds of music. I'm pretty flexible.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:33 PM

It has been mentioned before on other threads, but when you get ready to pack up your gift to mail, think about wrapping it with some pages from your local newspaper. It really is very interesting reading, whether ads or articles (or as Micca sent to Moonglow last year, the racing forms!)

Send what feels appropriate, and if something comes up and you can't send much, keep in mind that your local things might be quite exotic to someone across the ocean.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: sian, west wales
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 12:33 PM

Funnies pages PLEASE! I had a load from Hollowfox last year and they were great! I miss the funnies. British papers just don't do them so well ...

Oh, and recipe pages too ...

siân

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Severn
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 01:06 PM

Crosswords, too?

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 01:45 PM

and-a-one, and-a-two, and-a....
1.)early 60s
2.)female
3.)what day is it? But I think blue and purple shades usually have an edge.
4.)Mark Twain, Julia Child, Ogden Nash. And I like mystery, history (and hist. novels),politics written about with humor, poetry, needlework...Careful with this, though. Hubby might put me out if I bring more books into the house.
5.)have been concentrating on moving and not deficiencies in my library.
6.)some "classical"(formal, western, pre-Strindbergh); 1920s-30s jazz&blues(vocal&instrum.); "old-timey"&bluegrass; "traditional"--Amer., Celt., Brit., Balkan(solo&group, vocal&instrum.), some old rock'n'roll....
7.)Sweet Honey In The Rock; Marcia Ball; John Prine; Loudon Wainright,sr.; Roy Acuff, Robin Roberts, Josh White(Sr. or Jr.); etc....
8.)don't own a player.
9.)XXL
10.)books; dust; my grandchildren's smiles...
11.)breathing in and out; bragging about my grandchildren; singing, making basil pesto...
12.)either color, but earrings only (pierced).
13.)Good chocolate is like the slow air, Planxty Irwin. It can increase the amount of peace, love, beauty, joy in the world, and should always be on the shortlist when aiming at any of those qualities. IMHO                   Tw

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 05:00 AM

1. what is your age range?
on the shady side of 50 but still only 29 in my heart!

2. gender?
girl

3. Do you have a favorite color?
really really love yellow and am very fond of green

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
don't have favourite authors and I don't like SF or fantasy, but I do like detective/murder stories, biographies, travel books

5. what books have you really been wanting?
that's hard! I work in a library so getting books is not a problem, but I like having patchwork/sewing/craft books

6. what type of music do you like?
just about any kind of folk, and I could listen to music of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages until the cows come home

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
see above!

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
bit hard sending from overseas to Oz because of different formats

9. what is your t-shirt size?
small to medium - approx size 10-12

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
wombats - Ozzie native animal (not real ones!)

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
patchwork/quilting, sewing, knitting/crocheting, making beaded jewellery, reading, as you can see I'm a crafty person

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
don't mind - would like to be able to afford gold but mostly seem to wear silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
well Santa, whatever you decide will be a treat! however you probably should be aware that if you send any food at all to Oz it will probably be opened by Customs (happened to me last year) and could be confiscated if it doesn't fit into their "can't be allowed into Oz" criteria

Thank you Santa
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 04:59 PM

On Limpit's behalf:~

She's 9 3/4yrs going on 16, loves pink and purple but has Goth tendencies towards black. She reads almost anything with fairies in it but has most of the Rainbow Fairy series. She's into all sorts of music but can be picky. She's age 11-12 clothes wise, likes floaty dresses and flowery patterns. She's got a penchant for rude messages on Tshirts..... (can't think where she gets that from)! She has a small collection of fairies and mermaids.

She's a Cub scout, only girl in her troop; she likes riding her bike, playing with Lego, eating chocolate and reading.

She has pierced ears but isn't allowed dangly earrings at school so studs or small hoop sleepers in surgical steel or silver (we've noticed a bit of a reaction to gold recently but that may have been a cheap pair...).

LTS - for Limpit.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Partridge
Date: 16 Sep 05 - 10:56 AM

1. what is your age range? 50

2. gender? woman

3. Do you have a favorite color? purple and orange

4. favorite authors/ type of book? not at the moment

5. what books have you really been wanting? no

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). traditional

7. what cds have you really been wanting? none at the moment

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? none

9. what is your t-shirt size? medium

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? rocks and semi precious gems

11. what are some of your other hobbies? aromatherapy, knitting, jigsaws, crafty stuff

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. emmm........ can't think of anything just now but if I do I'll let you know

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Dave Earl
Date: 16 Sep 05 - 01:21 PM

1. what is your age range? 50+

2. gender? Male

3. Do you have a favorite color? Blue

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Wilbur Smith (but I've read all his stuff) and Alexander Kent

5. what books have you really been wanting? The next Alexander Kent book (haven't seen any new stuff since 2003

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). Trad folkie stuff and some written stuff in Trad style

7. what cds have you really been wanting? Nothing on current wish list

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? Alexander - Directors Cut

9. what is your t-shirt size? Large

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Books

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Computers and Reading

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. Anything produced by Santee

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Pseudolus
Date: 16 Sep 05 - 03:15 PM

1. what is your age range? 47


2. gender? Male


3. Do you have a favorite color? Not really


4. favorite authors/ type of book? John Grisham - but I already have most of his. the Broker is the only one I haven't bought yet...waiting for the paperback!


5. what books have you really been wanting? See Above


6. what type of music do you like? Anything especially if it involves an accoustic guitar or multipart harmonies!


7. what cds have you really been wanting? Something by a Catter would eb nice.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wnting? None really


9. what is your t-shirt size? XXL


10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Dust occasionally


11. what are some of your other hobbies? Coaching my kids!! Chasing the twins


12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Gold


13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.   As always I would actually like something that will remind me of who gave me the gift. It could remind me of where they live, a hobby they have or a common interest we have like folk music or whatever..... I'm easy!!!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 09:39 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 02:42 PM

Whooo Hooo! Found some more stuff I want!!!

I want one of these
and one of these!!!
Or just about anything from this page except the crossing, planter, St Pat thing and picture frames.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: CapriUni
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 04:40 PM

1. what is your age range? Physically, 40-something, but I'm a silly kid, at heart

2. gender? Female -- but not "girly"

3. Do you have a favorite color? Nothing specific -- jewel and earth tones

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Fantasy -- but stay away from the bodice-ripping sword and sorcery stuff -- Poetry, stort stories, mysteries, sci-fi.

5. what books have you really been wanting? Desire is the root of all sorrow... surprise me.

6. what type of music do you like? Celtic folk, "World fusion," early rock, early country (from '50's and '60's), blues, European classical, spoken word, Dixieland Jazz, Broadway showtunes ... etc.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? Desire is the root of all sorrow... surprise me.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?/b> I don't have the means to watch movies right now

9. what is your t-shirt size? Large (and I prefer long-sleaved things)

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Strange ideas ;-)

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Collaborative fiction writing, surfing the Internet, doodling, simply being.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? I don't wear much jewelry, but when I do, I prefer earth-toned jewelry: copper, bronze, softly polished stones, wood, etc.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. I have two cats (so avoid fragile items that are at risk of being batted around). I avoid candles and open flames for safety reasons. I Neo-Pagan. I am quirky. I am patient, and easy to please. I'd be flattered to receive something recycled...

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Barb'ry
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 06:17 PM

just got booted off - hope you don't get me twice (not greedy, honest)
age - 47
gender - female

colour - blues and jewel

books - anything except westerns and historical romance

can't think of any I want as I tend to go out and get them.

cds - traditional music - British and American
same goes for cds as for books

movies - songcatcher, but it would have to play on a UK system

t shirt size - this time last year I swore it would be small but sadly I'm still XXL!

Collections - song books, books about traditional music, stones, maritime stuff.

Hobbies - sailing, singing, jewellery making, creative stuff, potting

Jewellery - silver (but not plated cos it brings me out in a rash)

anything else - I'm easily pleased!

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Sep 05 - 06:34 AM

1. what is your age? 51

2. gender? fem

3. Do you have a favorite color? purples, dark blue, dark rose

4. favorite authors/ type of book? art books

5. what books have you really been wanting? ..

6. what type of music do you like? trad folk, scottish, irish, bluegrass

7. what cds have you really been wanting? Sean Keane, Nic Jones, or anything from your local area

8. What movies have you been wanting? none
9. what is your t-shirt size? medum or large - dont wear tshirts

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? second hand books, coloured pencils, stripey socks

11. what are some of your other hobbies? drawing

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? dont send jewellry, thats too expen$ive. it would be interesting to see something quirky or creative that youve made or stumbled across..

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. Remember that "negative hints" such as allergies might also be helpful. I love lavender and anything Indian.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Emma B
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 12:36 PM

age range         - Oh-No-I-can't-believe-I'm-sixty! (but only on the
                     outside)

gender            - definately distaff side

favourite colours - anything green, blue or in between,
                     russet and autumal colours

favourite authors - same as last year. I particularly like well
                     researched historical "who-dun-its" and regional
                     cook books but have a life times worth

books wanted      - I'm prepared to find space for "America over the
                     Water" by Shirley Collins

favourite music   - "Traditional" folk, early music and European
                      music

CD's I would like -   really, really would love "Les Travailleurs de
                      la Mer" (Ancient Songs from a Small Island)on
                      Harmonia Mundi - but I'd also cherish anything
                      from you or your region

movies I would like - The Ghost in the Shell or The Ghost in the Shell
                      (Innocence) - fantastic graphics!

T-shirt size       - UK 12 or medium for comfort!

what do I collect? - don't go there.......have to use a shoe horn to
                      get in the attic

Hobbies             - Reading, learning languages, reading, cooking
                      and dining, reading, folk dancing, etymology
                      and reading!

jewelry             - wear very little but prefer silver-tone or
                      pewter

Anything else?      - nothing "smelly"
                      addicted to liquorice, wine and malt whisky but
                      nothing with peanuts or coconut!
                      Again, something from your area - or from your
                      own hands would be great.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: number 6
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 09:07 PM

1. what is your age range?
On the cusp of being an old grouch (54)

2. gender?
Male

3. Do you have a favorite color?
Dark green, navy

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
American or British history

5. what books have you really been wanting?
1776 by David McCullough

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music
Folk, Blugrass, jazz

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
Anything by Townes Van Zandt.
Live from Mountain Stage by John Hartford

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
None .. unless someone can find the movie the Victors.

9. what is your t-shirt size?
X-Large

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Guitar straps.

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Photography, gardening

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
No jewelry

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
I would really like a knitted long woolen scarf for the winter.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 11:44 PM

A pound of coal (under-ground carbon , watch out for the feds) will be sent to my partner

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

- feeling a little in need of comfort and support SRS????

Place yourself in Phu Khet, NO, Houston...and count your blessings for the coal in your stocking.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 06:08 PM

refresh.....Sept 25 is LAST day to sign up.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: rumanci
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 07:43 PM

Okay - this will be a repeat of last year mostly because :-
1. I don't fill in lists when I don't HAVE to *g*
2. Christmas is still all about surprises as far as I'm concerned
3. Anything from a Santa's home area or home created would be
    just wonderful like last year (thanks again ! bee-dubya-ell xx)

I'm a medium sized female almost old enough to remember skiffle - at least the second time round! I like social history, geography, all sorts of music, walking downlands, cycling, reading, and I collect owls and song lyrics, and smiles LOL
Most of all though - I like surprises (leaving myself wide open to the empty box syndrome - "that'll surprise her all right" .... *g*)

rum

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 09:05 PM

1. what is your age range? 50ish

2. gender? malish

3. Do you have a favorite color? anything except puce

4. favorite authors/ type of book? I'm functionally illiterate.

5. what books have you really been wanting? See above

6. what type of music do you like? Celtic. REAL Celtic - not that Enya crap.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? I'm way beyond the "wanting CDs" age. Surprise me.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?Don't watch 'em.

9. what is your t-shirt size? XL

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Martin Guitars

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Ogling young women

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Don't wear it

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. Ignore everything I've put on this list and send something that says something about YOU! I can buy all that other crap.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: CapriUni
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 08:14 AM

Refresh. Today is the last day to sign up. If you want to, send a PM to Liz The Squeak (Santa's wonderful secratary for the second year running)


Ignore everything I've put on this list and send something that says something about YOU! I can buy all that other crap. .

Even if you agree with this sentiment, please leave something of a hint about yourself so your Santa has something to go on. Perhaps you could leave a link to your favorite Mudcat Post.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: CallyH
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 12:50 PM

1. what is your age range?
34

2. gender?
female

3. Do you have a favorite color?
Not really

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
None really

5. what books have you really been wanting?
Something i might not have thought of buying myself, so surprise me

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question).
Anything good

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
Something i might not have thought of buying myself, so surprise me

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
Don't watch them

9. what is your t-shirt size?
medium

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
tunes for my whistle

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
walking, motorbikes, narrowboats

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like
Love home-made stuff

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 10:38 PM

Time to restate the questions for newcomers to the thread, and correct one error (took a smart-ass kid to point out that one of last year's answers had been left in the form. . .)

1. what is your age range?

2. gender?

3. Do you have a favorite color?

4. favorite authors/ type of book?

5. what books have you really been wanting?

6. what type of music do you like?

7. what cds have you really been wanting?

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?

9. what is your t-shirt size?

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?

11. what are some of your other hobbies?

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: moonglow
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 11:23 PM

1. what is your age range? 17-ish

2. gender? female

3. Do you have a favorite color?
I like most of them, but not all at once. Greenish-blues and bright red are especially nice, however.

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Comedy (think George Carlin), Fantasy (think Terry Pratchett), Shakespeare, and most manga (Japanese comics), books on costuming/history.

5. what books have you really been wanting?
I really have been meaning to read more Terry Pratchett (I've already read Light Fantastic, Mort, Monstrous Regiment, Colour of Magic, and Sourcery)

6. what type of music do you like?
All kinds, really... everything from Tom Lehrer to Metallica. The only two kinds I really can't stand are country and jazz.

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
Any of my Santa's absolute favourite music (that isn't in the genres I can't stand), or anything that they think I absolutely have to listen to before I get any older would be nice.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
Can't really think of any...

9. what is your t-shirt size?
medium to large

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
A lot of things... homework, dust, dirty laundry... but SRS is right, we don't need anything more in this house.

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
playing DDR (Dance Dance Revolution), costuming (Cosplay, specifically), trying to learn to play my dulcimer.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
I can't wear metal jewelry, it makes me break out.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
I like shiny things, pearls, ridiculously large zippers, and lace trim. I don't like pastels (the art medium or the colours). Something related to where my santa lives or something that they have made, cliche as it may be, are greatly appreciated.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 12:41 AM

Okay, I apologize if my previous post seemed flippant and less than informative. I want precisely one thing: A stuffed animal who looks exactly like our Mother of All BS Threads mascot, Gluon the duckdog. Gluon is half Mallard and half Airedale and goes "Quark!" He is also capable of doing some very strange things to the space-time continuum, but I wouldn't expect a stuffed-animal Gluon to be able to do that. Please make sure that it is a stuffed representation of Gluon, not of her/his co-mascot Boson. Boson is an aardwolf and I don't have anyplace to keep an aardwolf.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 12:58 AM

BWL, be careful what you ask for. . .

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 01:57 AM

1. what is your age range? Right on the cusp of 60.

2. gender? grrrl.

3. Do you have a favorite color? I like rich colours - purples, rich reds and golds, burgundy, copper, and sunset colours, dark green and black.

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Pagan, witches, weird humour, Terry Pratchett (but I've already read a number of them), Douglas Adams, Roald Dahl, science fiction.

5. what books have you really been wanting? Maybe some Harry Potter?

6. what type of music do you like? Folk, acapella, sea shanties and chorus songs, music with unusual instruments in - hurdy gurdies, all sorts of pipes, uillean pipes, appalachian dulcimers etc, high energy Irish music and slow airs with a low whistle, world music, good classical music when I am in the right mood, relaxation music, particularly with flutes and water sounds, and some blues and trad jazz.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? One of yours if you have one, mudcat CD's, anything that fits what I described in No. 6.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? I'm getting away from VHS now, and my collection of DVD's is very small so far, so if yours are compatible with Oz ones, I like comedy, like anything with Peter Sellers, or along the same lines as my favourite types of books - such as science fiction, or any Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, or the TV version of the Hitchhikers Guide. Is "Tales of the Unexpected" on DVD?

9. what is your t-shirt size? Think large - Goddess size - if you have any that represent you or your area, that would be good, otherwise, I have masses of t-shirts already.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? I like miniatures, mobiles, things made of copper, iron, brass or glass, essential oils, soaps, candles and anything else that smells nice, things that appeal to my sense of touch - satin, velvet, soft and cuddly things, shells, unusual crystals and rocks, hand-made things - anything from your area would be great.

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Gardening - particularly herbs and vegetables, camping, photography, pottering around markets, writing silly poems and limericks, trying new and interesting recipes, running my folk club, having a few friends round for a BBQ and session, and I enjoy a good red wine and interesting cheeses too. My favourite drink of all time is an aperitif from France called "Pineau de Charentes". I'm also partial to a guinness or a good single-malt whisky. I like watching and photographing sunsets.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Usually silver or pink gold or copper, and I prefer fine and delicate to large and chunky, although something medieval or dramatic or Pagan themed would be interesting. I like red, purple and green stones and moonstones too. I have pierced ears.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like I like witchy and Pagan things. I like things that appeal to my senses. I especially like handmade stuff and old stuff - things that are unique. Anything that reflects you, your personality, your music, your interests, your lifestyle or where you live would be greatly valued.

14. Remember that "negative hints" such as allergies might also be helpful. Nothing that anyone here is likely to send me!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: MuddleC
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 04:12 AM

1. what is your age range? physical -late forties, mental 25 and decreasing

2. gender? male

3. Do you have a favorite color? stripes really, red/black black/blue

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Douglas Adams, Tom Sharpe,Arthur Conan Doyle, RD Blackmoor

5. what books have you really been wanting? Simplified workshop manual for your typical woman (if there is such a thing)

6. what type of music do you like? Celtic mood, pipes, whistles, fiddles ..Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Steeleye, Kate Bush, Eliza Carthy, Maddy Prior, ahemmm Avril Lavigne.....

7. what cds have you really been wanting? don't wait, go and buy them straightaway, but anything that catches the dream of the muse

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? terminator meets Lord of the Rings!

9. what is your t-shirt size? xl (45ins)

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? dust, bits of Harley, Kawasaki, Chevrolet, broken hearts

11. what are some of your other hobbies? collecting police motorbikes, target shooting, not conforming, I am a secret Trekkie, hamster wrangling

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
Dream of pony trekking in the Yosemite National park, or maybe Texas, or Ozarks sorta ting, like watching the ocean breakers o a sandy beach and dipping my toes... all impossible from my position in the dreary UK midlands... cat person too

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: bfdk
Date: 29 Sep 05 - 07:04 PM

Better late than never ;-)

1. what is your age range?
40 + a few months..

2. gender?
Female

3. Do you have a favorite color?
Several - just about any shade of blue, strong greens, strong - dark reds, grey, black, white - most colours except purple, pink and orange shades

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Historical novels built on real characters from history (preferably England / Scotland / Australia)

5. what books have you really been wanting?
Volume 9 and later of the series "The Australians" by Vivian Stuart ("writing as William Stuart Long")
Some of Sharon Penman's books (except "Sunne in Splendour")

6. what type of music do you like?
Ranging from Ossian via the likes of Nick Keir, Judy Small, McCalmans, Eric Bogle, Harvey Andrews, Martyn Wyndham-Read, Eleanor Shanley, Jed Marum et al to Runrig. But I already have those. Good singing-songwriting always welcome ;-)

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
Anything by The Men They Couldn't Hang - I've got some older ones on LPs, but nothing on CD

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
Don't have a VCR..
BUT if anybody could spare a bootleg copy of the Australian TV-series "Against the Wind" - Jon English etc. (which is not available commercially), I'd go *buy* a VCR just to see it again..

9. what is your t-shirt size?
M

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Experience ;-)

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Photography, genealogy

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
Definitely silver, but I only ever wear earrings (pierced) and necklaces, never bracelets, brooches or the like

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
One of my favourite subjects for photography is dragonflies, for which reason dragonfly earrings or pendants always come in handy - the more life-like, the better.
example 1
example 2
And there's quite a selection here - I quite like the tri-layer variety ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: jaze
Date: 29 Sep 05 - 10:07 PM

Last year's info is still pretty much intact for this year. I'd be grateful for whatever my SS thinks appropriate to send. BUT... If he/she is in the UK. I'm still dying to try Spotted Dick. Now there's a hint.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Sep 05 - 10:14 PM

That must be a UK thing! It sounds like a disease I'd want to avoid all contact with. :(

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Bill t' bodger
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 10:22 AM

1. what is your age range? 40s

2. gender? male

3. Do you have a favorite color? black/purple

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Terry Pratchett / fantasy/hum,our

5. what books have you really been wanting?

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). rock some traditional folk pete seeger blues

7. what cds have you really been wanting?

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?

9. what is your t-shirt size? Large

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Dragons gothic imagiary

11. what are some of your other hobbies? I dance THE OTHER DANCE

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. I am into all things truly Gothic 18th - 19th century   The dark is afraid of me!!

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 10:38 AM

I am into all things truly Gothic.... The dark is afraid of me!!

Errr... Bill, this is the Secret Santa Hints thread. The Secret Satan Hints thread is someplace else.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 03:21 PM

I like music by mudcatters, things hand-made and home-made, or things that express something about you or the place where you live. Alternatively, a donation to the New Orleans or Tsunami victims would also be welcome.

Elmer

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 03:49 PM

I dig music by mudcatters, tchochkes hand-made, home-made or that express something about you or the place where you usually take off your thirsty boots. Alternatively, a donation to the New Orleans or Tsunami survivors would be way cool.

Elmer

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 03:55 PM

Whoa--the 'cat went to sleep and woke up again in between posts--I thought the first attempt got lost in the process, and decided to jazz it up and try again in the meantime.

Sorry. Take your pick--or what the hay--send me two prezzies.

Elmer

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: artbrooks
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 05:16 PM

What is THE OTHER DANCE?

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 05:42 PM

I'm sure Jaze never mentioned his spotted dick last year....it was all about nuns I seem to remember!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: jaze
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 09:16 PM

And PENGUINS! But I wasn't referring to MY spotted dick,Sarah. You know.. that English dessert you're all so fond of. :>)

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 09:32 PM

1. what is your age range?
57 for a few more weeks

2. gender?
female

3. Do you have a favorite color?
probably forest green

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
yes

5. what books have you really been wanting?
re: the Spanish Inquisition - history, background, local characters. not instruments of torture

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question).
Parlor Songs, Music Hall, chanteys, you name it!

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
A new one by Kendall Morse

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
The Loved One

9. what is your t-shirt size?
Huge

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Cats, dust, stray folkies. Hideobillia in memory of Helen. I have more than my share.

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Looking for a job

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
Silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
Halloween is my favorite holiday. I play poker on line winning and losing millions in a single night - all play money. I can't resist shiny, noisy things like banjos and the Singing Bass.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Joybell
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 10:46 PM

1. what is your age range? - 60

2. gender? - Female

3. Do you have a favorite color? - Yellow, then Purple, Green.

4. favorite authors/ type of book? - Old collections of traditional songs from USA and British Isles and old books on folklore of same. (I already have a lot though). Also books on wild places. Books with pictures of old performers. Books about 19th Century entertainers.

5. what books have you really been wanting? - see above. None particullarly at the moment.

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). - as mentioned in book question.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? - Mudcatter ones always very welcome. Have some great ones already.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? - Can't think of any at the moment. There are some.

9. what is your t-shirt size? - Large

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? - Pictures of performers from the 19th Century. In amazing or elaborate costumes! Also old, old sheet-music covers with pictures and lots of scrollwork.

11. what are some of your other hobbies? - Walking in wild places. Observing the natural world.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? - Gold

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. - I really like pre-owned things too. Secondhand books, pictures and the like. Also things made by Mudcatters.

OOOOH! This is so exciting!! Thank you, thank you Liz. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 05:40 PM

1. 60 plus

2. Male

3. No

4. GOOD Sci-Fi and Fantasy .

5. Full set of Britannica - Ooops thats a Teeny bit outside the price range !

6. Most Folk , Old Jazz and acoustic blues

7. I dont seem to have time to listen to the CDs i allready have !

8. I dont have a TV to play videos on !

9. And I dont wear T Shirts !

10.I try to collect money and miniature spirits and liqueurs

11.I would like to be able to afford to have Malt Whisky as a hobby !

12.The only jewellry I use are Cuff Links and Scarf rings !

Reading that through , I seem to be a Right boring old fart !

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Oct 05 - 11:12 AM

Actually, Terry, Encyclopedia Britannica can be purchsed for a sogn here. Most schools have gone internet and are trying to get rid of them. If you are serious I will seek out a newer edition for you. The local library is having their annual book sale soon.
SINS.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: artbrooks
Date: 02 Oct 05 - 08:08 PM

For those Santas whose Santee said something like "it hasn't changed since last year," here is last year's hints thread.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: hilda fish
Date: 02 Oct 05 - 09:36 PM

1. what is your age range? 58

2. gender? gal

3. Do you have a favorite color? nuh

4. favorite authors/ type of book? NOT true crime

5. what books have you really been wanting? i want 'em i've got 'em

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). eclectic

7. what cds have you really been wanting? got 'em

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?

9. what is your t-shirt size? depends, US size 6 UK size 8 Australia Size 10

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? nuh

11. what are some of your other hobbies? thinking, contemplating ......

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? oh, yes, silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. easy to please - honoured that anyone would get anything for me and would love it for the thought

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Amergin
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 12:43 AM

1. what is your age range? 31

2. gender? I think I saw a nubbin of some sort poking out from under my belly this morning....but am not sure...otherwise I believe I am male.

3. Do you have a favorite color? I like dark colours, especially blues and greens.

4. favorite authors/ type of book?i like fantasy....and mythology.

5. what books have you really been wanting?looking for information about aboriginal ways of life and rites and anything about the dreamtime.

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). trad, irish and uk, and oz, and amrican. some rock and punk (mainly celtic style). australian country music.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? if you have any cds of your own, i would love that.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? do not worry about videos, I buy my own.

9. what is your t-shirt size?extra large.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? pocket lint. I like books, and pens and such....and if there is anything that you like to make or do...it would be greatly appreciated if you send me something about you.

11. what are some of your other hobbies? I write.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? silver, but I don't wear much.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. As I have mentioned, if you have a cd, or something else that you do that you wouldn't mind sharing or antyhing else that would tell me something about you. that would be the most precious gift.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 10:17 AM

Thank you, Art! I'd meant to track that one down and provide a link.

There are several folks each year who torture their Secret Santas by providing scant information. While the pleading for information can be entertaining at first, it becomes a sad thing after a while. Pathetic. Maudlin. The hand-wringing, the angst, the loss of joy in life. . . please, Santees, do your Santas a favor and say Something!

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Mrs Cobble
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 02:21 PM

Old enough to be retired.
Female
Love the colour green
Music.   Folk Jazz Big Band
T shirt XXXL
Books Folk Lore stories and history. Anything about life and folk lore in your part of the world.
Hobbies. Knitting spinning cross stitch reading histories of textiles. My dogs
Love silver tone jewelry natural stones and crystals

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 04:37 PM

1.)40s
2.)female
3.)red
4.)Tend to be overun with books
5.)think I got most of them
6.)good songs, old or new
7.)suprise me especially like music you've recorded or just something you like
8.)none at present
9.)XXL
10.)children but I have plenty :0)earings, ducks
11.)sewing, knitting
12.)either
13.)I'd like to get something that tells me about you and where you come from (musicall or geographically)

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: curmudgeon
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 05:30 PM

1. what is your age range? 60+

2. gender? M

3. Do you have a favorite color? No.

4. favorite authors/ type of book?    Regional cook books.

5. what books have you really been wanting?Except for some true rarities, I have them all , except for Alf Edwards' concertina tutor.

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). English and Scottish trad, sea songs.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? One of yours or one of your friends.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?The Man Who Would Be King.

9. what is your t-shirt size? Don't wear them.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Used Britains toy soldiers, concertinas, edged weapons, single malts, rums.

11. what are some of your other hobbies? cooking and singing.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Don't usually do jewelry.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. Small tins, jars, packs of gustatory delights from your home region.

Thank you, Santa - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 05:35 PM

Hope Santa is reading these......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 05:36 PM

Oh, and 100!!!

SECSY
LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 06:07 PM

I've finally had time to post this! (Sometimes it's nearly impossible to get things done on a moving planet.)

One overall suggestion is that I really like getting things from my Secret Santa's abode -- your music or that of your friends, local travel brochures, maps, rocks or shells, food -- even crumpled local newspapers used as packing material. (I have in my possession Divine's obituary in Spanish that was in a crumpled newspaper protecting something I had mailordered. )

1. what is your age range?
Let's see, I've been just about every age up to and including 56, but I'm doing research on ages I haven't yet attained.

2. gender?
Goddess, fer-pete's-sake

3. Do you have a favorite color?
Blue, green, blue green, purple, bluish purple, magenta. I avoid orange except in things I eat.

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Adventurer Richard Halliburton (but I think I have all of the BOOKS he published -- interested in his periodical work, though), vintage (pre-1940) travel or exploration books, books on early gravestones or gravestone carvers (from your neck of the woods?), books about words and language, printing and typography, books about books.

5. what books have you really been wanting?
Alas, probably out of your price range, as well as mine.

6. what type of music do you like?
Everything from Louis Killen to Louis Prima, shanties and occupational songs to Manhattan Transfer and caberet.

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
Mudcatters' -- Jed Marum's, Big Mick's, etc. I have Rick Fielding's, Hissyfit, one of InOBU's. Or the Mudcat collections. I'm also looking for a CD (if it exists) of the 1970s recording (double LP -- which I have) of "Canto General" by Mikis Theodorakis, with the French National Chorus and Maria Farandouri. NOT the German recording which seems to be the only CD available.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
Uh, Curmudgeon and I probably have the largest private collection in New Hampshire, USA.

9. what is your t-shirt size?
H for homungus (I like 'em roomy). I'm goddess-shaped, so 3X at least. I don't have (alas) a Mudcat T-shirt or sweatshirt.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Maps, hippocampuses, rubber squid, rubberstamps and printing paraphernalia, skulls and interesting bones, rocks, shells, green men, mermaids. . . I think I collect collections.

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Gravestone rubbing and research on gravestone carvers, learning how to cut slate, gardening, making bead jewelry, rubberstamp art, needlepoint.


12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
Silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

Maybe later (I keep saying that) . . . if I think of anything. Oh, I'm a sucker for fancy scented bath stuff.

Remember that "negative hints" such as allergies might also be helpful.
I'm allergic to penicillin and blue mussels -- and carnations, not that I think this will really help my SS (Aw, no blue mussels!). And I really don't care for the color orange unless it's edible or a flower up against a blue or purple back drop.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Col K
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 07:32 PM

So YOU WANT HINTS Huh,

Male BFB size aka XXL or larger
Age 56
Silver not Gold
Would like something that reminds you of you.ie something that is local and special to your area.
Wide range of music tastes.
If you need more hints post here and I will try to answer any questions you have.
Col

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: maire-aine
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 07:57 PM

Secret Santa info for maire-aine, updated for 2005:

1. what is your age range? 57. Yikes!

2. gender? Female

3. Do you have a favorite color? To wear, blues & purples & dark greens. To have around, yellows, oranges & reds

4. favorite authors/ type of book? mystery stories, esp. Sherlock Holmes

5. what books have you really been wanting? a good biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt (used would be fine)

6. what type of music do you like? Irish-Scottish-English-US-folk-music, and cajun-zydeco

7. what cds have you really been wanting? early women blues singers, esp. less well-known women

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? Anything with Johnny Depp.

9. what is your t-shirt size? L to XL

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? 1)dust-bunnies & cat fur, 2) recipes, esp. soups

11. what are some of your other hobbies? gardening (esp. Heathers & Heaths), playing guitar, geneaology (looking for Bankerts & Dunmires)

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? silver

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like: I have 2 cats (Molly & Little One) both 16-yrs-old.

PS: this from an old thread:
Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 06:39 PM

my 2 kitties, my house, my friends, cheeseburgers with fries, digging in the dirt in my garden, yellow orange and red flowers blooming outside my window, Jethro Tull, hot black coffee with a splash of Amaretto, sitting in front of a fire in the fireplace, singing for people, playing in a session (any session), Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, early Ford Thunderbirds, my new front porch, Brother Cadfael stories, cleaning house (once in a while), clean clothes warm from the dryer, yellow split pea soup in the fall….

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: RAT-W
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 04:05 PM

1. what is your age range?
fairly early to mid teen

2. gender?
male3. Do you have a favorite color?
red!!!! Very, very red!!!!!

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Weeeell, I like quite alot of books really. Sci-fi, action/adventure, fantasy (especially Fantasy)...

5. what books have you really been wanting?
Children Of The Serpent Gate by Sarah Ash

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question).
All music welcome!

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
Kelly Clarkson Behind These Hazel Eyes, Mcflys latest album (whatever it's called)

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
Garfield, School Of Rock

9. what is your t-shirt size?
medium but larger sizes always go down well

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Where to begin! I collect keyrings, dragon things, dolphin things, model cannons, books etc.

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Languages! I love speaking and learning French and German, and other hobbies include reading and playing Playstation games

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
Not incredibly keen on jewelery

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
Anything made out of crystals (hematite especially), anything to do with dragons

RAT-W

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST,The Secret Santa of My Guru Always Said
Date: 05 Oct 05 - 05:27 AM

My Guru Always Said........Nope, can't hear anything.


My Guru Always Said.............hmmm! Still nothing!


My Guru Always Said..........You know, I could have sworn I heard someone whispering Secret Santa hints, but no, I was mistaken.

:-)

I wonder what her Guru did always say. Curiouser & curiouser.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: jennbrooks
Date: 06 Oct 05 - 06:55 PM

1. what is your age range? What range? 56

2. gender? What, no range? F.

3. Do you have a favorite color? Dark greens, dark reds, and dark greenish blues.

4. favorite authors/ type of book? Knitting, sewing, mystery and fantasy.

5. what books have you really been wanting? Can't tnink of any. I'm a loyal supporter of my local library.

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question). Folk and international folk, and baroque.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? None, thank you. My housemate brings in all the CD's anybody could ever accomodate.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? As above.

9. what is your t-shirt size? US Medium

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? Now yer talkin'. Knitting wool and gadgetry, sewing bits and gadgetry, (eg. interesting cloth), small figures of armadillos (still).

11. what are some of your other hobbies? Well, that would be reading, sewing, knitting, cooking, trying to maintain a reasonable weight, folkdancing. Beading, but Santa fixed me up pretty well with beads last year.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Silver, exclusively.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. I don't think I've ever met a present I didn't like. Anything you choose, especially if it's special to your culture or your part of the world, will please me. Thanks for asking!

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: greg stephens
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 06:24 AM

Can't remember all the questions you're meant to answer. Please dont feel constrained by any arbitrary price limits imposed Mudcat bureaucracy, a fine old Martin D28 would be OK.
   I remember there's something about jewellery. I'm a man, what kind of question is that?
   I like anything specific to the Secret Santa, local traditional music, local history, local delicacies, stuff like that. Even more, I like to be surprised.Not to the point of a heart attck, obviously, so probably no live alligators more than siz feet long.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 07:19 AM

But a dead one at 8 ft is OK Greg?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Crane Driver
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 12:53 PM

How about an alligator stuffed in a python?

Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Blackcatter
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 01:02 AM

From Blackcatter - sorry I'm late with this. It's been a very busy time.

1. what is your age range? 39

2. gender? Male

3. Do you have a favorite color? royal purple / forest green

4. favorite authors/ type of book? History subjects. I am an historian by trade. Travel books like Michael Palin's trips.

5. what books have you really been wanting? None you'd be able to get.

6. what type of music do you like? Traditional folk - mostly Celtic. Also traditional Pagan stuff - not the "new-agey" type of stuff.

7. what cds have you really been wanting? I dunno.

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? None

9. what is your t-shirt size? Extra large

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? interesting stones - I do a lot of ritual work with stones - if you have intersting ones around where you live - minerals especially, that'd be neat to get. Tell mer where you got them, if possible.

11. what are some of your other hobbies? I play the tin whistle and jews harp. I write. I have an herb garden on the balcony.

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? gold, but I rarely wear any.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. I'm getting married in April. I like intersting things - especially thing I can use in ritual - incense, candles, stones, altar cloths, bowls, chalices, cauldrons, staves, swords, etc.

Pax

Blackcatter

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 01:42 PM

Hey, Santa! Here ya go...not much different from the other years. This is the fourth for me, I think. They've all been wonderful and fun!

Okay, get started!

1. what is your age range?

youngish side of Wise Womon

2. gender?

no dangly bits:-)

3. Do you have a favorite color?

dark green and purple

4. favorite authors/ type of book?

if they're favs. I probably already have them, thanks

5. what books have you really been wanting? from an ongoing list:

Round Ireland with a fridge - Hawke
Neither Here nor There or, The Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson
Birds, Beasts, and Other Relatives - Gerald Durrell
Dreams of Trespass - Fatima Mernissi
8 Skilled Gentlemen or Bridge of Birds - Barry Hughart


6. what type of music do you like?

Traditional, older folk music (as mentioned in the book question) old cowboy, anything ethnic/of another culture

7. what cds have you really been wanting?

Rain Dog - Tom Waits
Kitchen Radio - Peter Mulvey
anything you might have done, or by other Mudcatters

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?

None, don't buy movies for at home

9. what is your t-shirt size?

hard to fit, so I always buy my own..picky, picky, picky!**bg** (See hip-huggers thread.)

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?

I have stopped collecting...no space and I've quit dusting!

11. what are some of your other hobbies?

reading, designing cards on my computer, photography, singing, playing dulcimer and fiddle

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?

neither, I don't wear what I have:-)

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.

ANYTHING about where you live, newspapers, postcards, maps, etc. ANYTHING you have made or done yourself etc. I love native crafts, traditional culture items, etc.

Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: SussexCarole
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 05:35 PM

Hi Santa

You say you have my number!   Do you need hints as well?

x

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: My guru always said
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 06:18 PM

OK, OK, I'm back...... Done my first Festival gig now so can breathe easier & stop practising for a while!

Dear, Lovely Santa.... Please accept my apologies for the antici       pation. Here's last year's answers hurriedly checked & edited (hope the answers are connected to the right questions):

1. Still Mid-40's

2. Definitely Female

3 & 9. Love Purple especially my Large MudChoc T Shirt, oh & Black, especially my new special order MudCat V T Shirt!

4 & 5. Have read all Terry Pratchett's (luckily I forget them quickly so I can read 'em again, good value huh?). Any science fiction or fantasy, dragons & wizzards, fiction, thrillers, crime etc. Second-hand is good, dogeared and with broken spines are perfectly acceptable, shows they're recommended!

6 & 7. Traditional Folk, a capella singing, contempory folk, female voice, classical (anything that's good, stuff you've done, anything of Catters, ones with good songs to try).

10 & 12. love interesting crafty earrings, pierced & dangly!!! Silver-tone seems to go best with my favourite colours. Seem to have accumulated stones from various places & beaches...

13. Love Cats, Chocolate, plants & trees, secret gardens, interesting places, earth powers, intuition & friendship.

Allergies yes, mainly alkaline-forming foods (have never eaten fruit so that's a definite negative). Luckily there aren't many other negatives in my life apart from the food!

Love the newspaper idea.....

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: jaze
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 09:36 PM

2005 Update;
1. 51
2. Male
3. deep greens and blues
4. Anything about Atlantis or lost civilizations
5. the Lost Hall Of Records by John Van Auken & Lora Little
6 Traditional folk-American and Anglo
7. NO DIRECTION HOME!
8. Between Two worlds with John Garfield
9. Medium -a mudcat shirt would be nice
10. vintage rosary parts for making new ones
11. see 10
12. gold
13. Would appreciate anything santais kind enough to send especially from your locale.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 03:35 AM

Dear Santa

Thank you for all the presents you gave me last year. This year I'm sending my Secret Santa a few ideas:

1. what is your age range?
48. I know that is a specific not a range!

2. gender?
Male - very definitely, and very red blooded!

3. Do you have a favorite color?
Deep reds, plum and particularly burgundy.

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Fiction - Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Patrick O'Brian (good humorous science fantasy or early 19th Century naval)
Non-fiction - history - particularly mid eighteenth century onwards. British Railway history

5. what books have you really been wanting?
Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin novels other than Master and Commander, Post Captain, The Thirteen Gun Salute, and Blue At The Mizzen

6. what type of music do you like?
Most - but particularly Baroque and traditional. The traditional music of my Santa's home area would be reeeeeeally cool.

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
Too many to think about!

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
Ealing Comedies. I have a particular yearning for Passport to Pimlico, but that's only because I used to work for a company with a head office just over Vauxhall Bridge Road from Pimlico.

9. what is your t-shirt size?
Generally XL

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Too many things!

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Railway modelling (British outline "N" and "O" gauge; gardening; computing - but I do that for a living as well; history - see books above, and be prepared to be bored to death about my great grandfather if you ever meet me!

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
The only jewellery I normally wear is a watch and a wedding ring. But that's probably because I got bored with piercings, so I stopped wearing an ear ring, and I've never possessed any sort of pendants or medallions. Especially gold ones. On the other hand, I may go back to a single ear ring…

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like
I'm married with two kids!

Remember that "negative hints" such as allergies might also be helpful.
I get hay fever, and I can't stand things that skitter about quickly.

Love from el_punkoid_nouveau

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell's Secret Santa
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 05:01 AM

Your post has been duly noted and taken under advisement.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 05:13 PM

Further thoughts for my Secret Santa.

I like Native American and Indian design in clothing and decor.

I don't like most candy and don't eat chocolate at all.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Micca
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 06:34 PM

this is Sort of Updated and is accurate at time of Press
1 .what is your age range? 60,
2 . gender? Male

3. Do you have a favorite color?
No, Friends say I can look scruffy in Anything, any colour! But Black is a fave. Cloaks are good too ( I have 3)

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
Poetry, some sci-fi, crime, ala Grafton, Evanovitch, Reichs, Cornwell, etc and stuff to help song-writing, rhyming dictionaries etc, Celtic mythology, books about Witchcraft and Druidic things

5. what books have you really been wanting?
See above. but something that means something to you would be fave!! I have all the Graftons so far and Cornwells

6. what type of music do you like?
Folk ,Classical, Opera, No Pop, I LOATHE Rap and most current pop. I like songs with real lyrics, that are not 32 repetitions of the same single line of teen angst. And I would LOVE some of your work if you are a singer/songwriter,
Dislike,"over arranged" music and current "pop" music.
7. what cds have you really been wanting?
CDs Of Mudcatters, I have some,I have the Blue Bottle and the Mudcat CDs set, any good Unaccompanied singing

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
I am slowly making the transition to DVD, but have a largish collection of Foreign language films on VHS(PAL) and would be happy to add to this collection,(subtitles in English preferred rather than dubbed)

9. what is your t-shirt size?
XL. I like ones with local (to you) connections (I had a great one from Albuqurque 2 years ago, Many Thanks Artbrooks)

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Wine,(Like Burgundy in particular) Books, songs, figurines of Bears, Great Northern divers, Owls,

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Singing., meeting Mudcatters, Folk Festivals, Tasting and Drinking wine,( I was secretary of the University Wine Society for 5 years) Food and cooking, Science, Pagan stuff, People watching

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
Silver, but only wear rings and stuff I already own.

13. Please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like,
I am a collection of contradictions, I am a professional scientist that believes in and practices magic, I love singing, but can't read music or play an instrument, I like to write Poetry and songs, and am learning a little, and very slowly, a bit about musical notation so I can at least write down what I hear in my head,
2.       I would be happy with local info, pix, and recipes , wine books, (pamphlet etc if you are in a wine-growing area about the local producers), and especially recordings of Mudcatters. or what you will....I Like surprises

14.Remember that "negative hints" such as allergies might also be helpful.
I am Type II diabetic and allergic to Fish and ALL seafood, seaweed and their extracts, and ANYTHING containing Methyl amines( the stuff that makes fish smell like fish)

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 06:41 AM

I said I'd post some blank verse:



























So much for the blank verse.

I looked at that list and decided to ignore it, just like last year...

I have provided some hints (modified slightly from last year) to help and and all future Secret Santas, listed in more or less, but not necessarily, descending order of preference. Just go down the list till you reach a point at which you are comfortable, and remember, it's not the value of the gift, but the thought that counts. Of course, monetary value to a degree will offset rudeness and ill feeling, so you can insult me as much as you want, provided it is in balance...

Gold Bullion bars. For ease of accounting, please supply in complete dump truck loads - if you are not a Bruce Willis Fan, I expect this one will go completely over your head... :-)

Ditto, Silver bullion...

Jewellery, Gold (with stone settings if desired) of sufficient value that merits not melting it down. For ease of accounting please supply in complete container loads ...

Ditto, Silver...

Jewellery, Gold (with stone settings if desired) of sufficiently lesser value that merits melting it down. For ease of accounting please supply in complete container loads ...

Ditto Silver...

Precious Stones. For ease of accounting please supply in complete pallet loads ...

Ditto, Semiprecious Stones...

Negotiable Bearer Bonds. For ease of accounting please supply in complete pallet loads ...

Music, your personal CDs - single copies...

Music, your personal CDs - multiple copies...

Non-Australian food or sweets or biscuits that will definitely be unavailable in Australia - be careful though as some things such as meats etc, will definitely be seized by Customs. No 'diet stuff' though as I can't stand the taste of artificial sweeteners, and yes I CAN taste most of them, apart from some of them giving me the runs etc. I'm a tea and coffee fan, and I prefer dark chocolate - the best I have found so far is the Lindt 85%.

Sheet Music (I can read anything up to full orchestral/band/choral scores - no wuckers mate!), or books new or secondhand, almost any topic. I don't have 'Rise Up Singing'... but anything old that you pick up secondhand will be appreciated. My tastes are eclectic and wide ranging, so those weird and wonderful old books from the turn of the century (I often collect them just for the tunes therein) that show you how to learn any instrument, I also like many old Oak (Music) Publications, or attempt to explain the theory of flight in the 1920's, or First Aid in WWI, or 'etiquette for young maids' etc, or anything that you think "Who the hell would want this?"... I am a 'Renaissance Man', and interested in things technical as well as artistic. Some thing like a programming manual for a Univac, or a magnetic memory core plane, for instance... I play anything keyboard (piano, harpsichord, pipe & reed organs, piano accordions), whistles, Symphonie (hurdiegurdy), hammered dulcimer, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp, misc percussion, but also I have some old 'folk music for guitar/banjo/etc' books. I am concentrating on my collecting these days in the music field, but that is not essential - if you see something that screams 'Weird Shit Man'...'

BTW, I have the full set of Mudcat CDs.... Weird Shit Man...

I am into humour too BTW. If you want to learn something about me, see my profile, or visit http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~rhayes/vfoolshm.htm - my personal page is off that.... Weird Shit Man...

If you want to send me a T-shirt - I am about 6 ft tall and nearly 200 lbs. at least XL - 110cm + chest size - cotton ones shrink, you know. XXL or larger - I like to wear the really large ones as night shirts. I don't yet have a Mudcat one. I like Royal/Navy blue.

Last year I got some real Maple Syrup, for instance. Yum!

Things don't have to be brand new - see the bit on old books, music, etc above. Old or unusual instruments - they don't have to be big or expensive.

Favourite author - Robert Aspirin - don't have his last one, and they won't bring them into Australia. for some stupid reason.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 05:32 PM

How old are you=i'm about 30
gender=I'm a man Waht you favourite colour=Black
Waht book you like=I like a book about dinasours
Waht T shirt size=BIG
Waht fil you like-I dont like films
Waht music you like= I l;ike folk music
Waht jewelly you like= I dont like any jewellries.
Waht you collect=Nothing.

I like a book about dinasours, no, jewleriesles, or book, or film, or t sirts or anyrhing else.

if they dont want to give me a book about dinasours, then i dont want nothing.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Snuffy
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 07:48 PM

So, my Snuffy Chuffy Secret Santa, I said I'd give you some clues at the weekend, so here they are:

1. what is your age range? - getting too close to 60
2. gender? - male
3. Do you have a favorite color? - blue
4. favorite authors/ type of book? - non-fiction
5. what books have you really been wanting? - none spring immediately to mind
6. what type of music do you like? - Traditional; unaccompanied; source singers; music hall; shanties; parodies
7. what cds have you really been wanting? - field recordings of source singers (ODGs)
8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? - none spring immediately to mind
9. what is your t-shirt size? - XXL
10. do you collect anything? if so, what? - not really, apart from LPs, CDs, tapes and songbooks. And really, really cheap instruments (under £5)
11. what are some of your other hobbies? - real ale (CAMRA), quiz,
12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? - I don't use it
13. anything else you feel is important - let your gifts tell me about yourself and your physical and spiritual homes

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST,Charmions' Charming etc etc.....
Date: 15 Oct 05 - 01:40 PM

Yooohoooo!

You really should post some hints you know. Guess you don't mind smelly socks then.

CCCC

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST,SharonA's Slightly Spooked Santa
Date: 15 Oct 05 - 08:16 PM

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE, Sharon, Sharon, Sharon! Come on, where's yer hints?!!

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Tig
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 02:56 PM

See, I told you I would post when I was older :-)

1. what is your age range? - 54

2. gender? - Female

3. Do you have a favorite color? - Royal blue, strong colours rather than wishy washy ones but not pink

4. favorite authors/ type of book? - old herbals, sci-fantasy (we have all the Anne McCaffery and Pratchett)

5. what books have you really been wanting? - Replacement copies of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books - mine have fallen to pieces with overuse.

6. what type of music do you like? - I have a fairly eclectic taste in music although I'm not into rap

7. what cds have you really been wanting? - Nothing at the moment

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? - Rarely watch movies due to not having mastered the technology of the video player

9. what is your t-shirt size? - XL.(large in the USA) I like black picture tees.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what? - Dragons, oil lamps, unusual earrings.

11. what are some of your other hobbies? - Aromatherapy (I am a qualified practitioner), herbs, working with crystals

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? - definitely silver. I have pierced ears

13. Pease include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. - I am Type 2 diabetic so no sweet stuff please. I like surprises, so feel free to send me anything you like.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Oct 05 - 08:17 AM

1. what is your age range?
at xmas I will be 49
2. gender?
        Male
3. Do you have a favorite color?
        Green
4. favorite authors/ type of book?
        very poor reader
5. what books have you really been wanting?
        don't really
6. what type of music do you like? very catholic tastes, love Richard Thompson, John Martyn

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
        Don't

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting?
        don't
9. what is your t-shirt size?
        Xlarge
10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
        no

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
        camping, football (Soccer), in particular Celtic, Crosswords, especially Auraucaria of the Guardian

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
        no, I don't wear jewelry

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like.
I am a vegetarian and don't wear leather.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: ShadyLady
Date: 18 Oct 05 - 11:18 AM

1.What is your age range? I'm just ten.
2.Gender? Total GIRL!!!!!!
3.Do you have a favourite colour? Four- pink, yellow, red & black.
4.Favourite authors/type of book? I LURVE J.K.Rowling & I like Celia               
Rees. I also like whitty books like Pratchett.
5.What books have you really been wanting? I've really been wanting the
Harry Potter set but I've already got the first & sixth ones.
6.What type of music do you like? Anything of my dear secret santa's,
rock pop like McFly & Avril Lavigne, (not like Sugar Babes or
Jamelia,) & also folk.
7.What C.D.s have you really been wanting? Eminem,(Encore if possible)
Avril Lavigne & Evan Essence.
8.What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? Star
Wars 3 & the latest Doctor Who series & that's about it. Oo! Also
Harry Potter 4.
9.What is your t-shirt size? 7-8 or 8-9 or 9-10. Any of them will fit
me.
10.Do you collect anything? If so what? I collect porcelein dolls and   
   fairies.
11.What are some of your other hobbies? Playing pool, singing, drawing
   cartoons & playing cricket.
12.Do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewellery? I dunno. I don't
   wear jewellery that much.
13.Please include anything else you feel is important that would help
   your secret santa know what you would like. I'm allergic to body
   glitter and I like sylvanian families, polly pockets & barbies.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST,Art Brooks' bad-tempered benefactor
Date: 19 Oct 05 - 09:06 AM

Hey there Mr Brooks! I must warn you that calling your dear SS "Grumpy" is not the way to get your every wish at Yuletide!!!

Do you like chocolate??

SS

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Hollowfox
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 11:36 AM

Here's this year's update. (Yay, I finally learned how to copy-and-paste!)
1) 56, but don't let that limit you.
2) Female, but don't let that limit you.
3) Depends on what the object is. My mother says I got my color sense in a Crayola crayon box. I tend to wear blues, greens, rose shades, and black.
4) Mostly fantasy and science fiction, for fiction. Mostly folklore and storytelling for nonfiction, plus whatever I'm pursuing at the moment. History, nature, oddities in language, humor, the list goes on and on.
5) Used books are wonderful, as long as all the pages are there. If you give me something you instinctively think I'd like, I'll never tell you if I already have a copy. However, a nice used copy of Secret History of the Mongols would come in handy. Or R. J. Stewart's agan Imagery in English Folksong. And I just gave away my beloved copy of Post Wheeler's Tales from the Japanese Storytellers; come to think of it, anything by Post Wheeler is a Good Thing.
6) Traditional English-language, first and formost. Especially ballads. But I also enjoy opera, novelty/humor songs, spoken word (history, humor, or both). Used is good.
7) Ooh. T.S.Elliot's reading of Old Possom's Book of Practical Cats (fat chance). Or, if you're in England, Taffy Thomas's Take These Chains From My Heart (A do-able one at last!). Casettes are fine,or used recordings, likewise anything you think might be interesting.
8)Songcatcher, Topkapi (with Peter Ustinov), Sword of the Valiant (with Sean Connery) Macumba Love. Again, used videos/cd's are fine.
9) extra large (alas!)
10) Nothing cutsey! I seem to have an accumulation of dragons, bells, and nature themed figurines.
11) Embroidery, cross stitch and latch-hook. Reading, camping, cooking, baking, eating, and drinking. Nature. Cats. And a bit of medieval re-creation
12) I have both, but tend toward silver-tone.
13) Unless you actually run across something on this list, don't break your neck sticking to this list. My tastes cover a broad enough range that I'll probably be ecstatic with whatever you choose. In the past SS exchanges, I;ve been delighted with (among other things) local candy, Christman tree decorations, and cd's of local bands from my kind and perceptive SS's. No live animals, please, though; I'm up to capacity. Don't be scared, just have fun.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 09:59 PM

I'm also looking for two Bernard Cornwell books - The Bloody Ground and Battle Flag. Don't mind if they're second hand, but do prefer paperbacks as they are easier to hold with arthritic thumbs.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST,A UK Secret Santa
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 02:02 AM

Just found out (via Google and a number of Web siytes that the latest posting date - for arrival by Christmas - to The US of A is 28/10/05.

In my case I have just enough time put my Santees present on the sliegh.

The newspaper idea is excellent. I shall wrap pressie in pretty paper and fold the local paper around it and put the whole lot in a padded envelope.

Fortunately I have a day off on 28/10 and can include the above in the other things herself finds for me to do.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: MBSLynne
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 02:52 AM

Oh bugger! Looks like our family's Santees pressies will be late then!

To add to my hints list...as a seller of herbs and someone who gives talks on them etc, I have started collecting old herb books. Old cook books and household books are good too

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Dave Earl
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 02:57 AM

That was me Lynne!!

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Dave Earl
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 03:16 AM

And what I should also have said that this is the "Surface Mail" date. Air Mail is much nearer to Christmas but rather more costly.

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST,karen k
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 03:48 AM

Age range:
Gender: Female

Favourite colour: Navy blue, orange

Type of music: Gospel, Ballads

Wanted CDs: Anything interesting, local, personal...specially my SS's own stuff

T-shirt size: 2x or 3x

Collect: lapel pins from places I've been (or from where my SS is from) and teddy bears

That should do it.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST,grandmother of 3 need help
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 01:44 PM

i am in need of financial help for my 3 grandchildren ages 13, 9, and 8 2 boys and 1 girl. there mother is single and she work very hard and i would love to help her out this year for christmas. can anyone help us it will surely be a blessing. thank you

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: MMario
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 01:49 PM

Granny of 3 - I would suggest contacting your local council of churches.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Alba
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 02:43 PM

Another Year, another Hint thread..lol...has anything changed in my wee world of weirdness.....most likely, so here goes Santa:>)

1.What is your age range? Between 21 and 50
2.Gender? Girl/Woman
3.Do you have a favourite colour? Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose.
4.Favourite authors/type of book? Non Fiction            
5.What books have you really been wanting? None really
6.What type of music do you like? Anything by my Santa or a fellow Mudcatter, Apalacian and Arcadian
7.What C.D.s have you really been wanting? ?
8.What movies (vhs is in the price range) None, I have an awful lot of Movies and do not own a VHS player only DVD so...
9.What is your t-shirt size? Medium. I am beginning to dislike big, baggy Teeshirts:>)
10.Do you collect anything? If so what? Fairies, Pentagles and Candle Holders
11.What are some of your other hobbies? Gardening, Photography and Walking
12.Do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewellery? Silver only
13.Please include anything else you feel is important that would help
   your secret santa know what you would like.
I like prezees...so do your thing Santa. I will be a grateful Santee.
Letting me know more about where you come from would be great especially if it has a Musical History..Thanks a million, Love and Light. Jude

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Alba
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 04:47 PM

Dearest Secret Sanity Clause..heehee

Better late than Never...:>)

I am so sorry for my lack of communication!!
Life indeed has gotten in my way these last few weeks but I am slowly but surely getting back to normal..???? wherever that is.
Thank you Kat ma Dear for offering to help my SSC..
I will add that I am, as always, being goodish....
Love and Light and Chrimble Blessings
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Alba
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 04:50 PM

Damn, Ding and what the *&*%!!!
I truly am out of practice....Oh Nurse Rachett is it medication time soon...
J

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: GUEST,Alba's Secret Sanity Clause
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 10:23 AM

At last she speaks. Me and the reindeer were well scundered. We weren't sure what to get you. You nearly ended up with the tie and socks Mrs Clause got me last year, I'm keeping the fuzzy slippers.

So you want a wee clue about me. Well let me see yes I do play music. I'm not nearly so famous as some around these parts. Even the dog howls when I play the tin whistle but what does he know. He drinks out of the toilet. He's looking at me now with the furrowed brow over the top of his newspaper. I swear to God he could read your mind. You darn't speak. He has the ould ears pricked up. He knows somethings up. Anyway Alba my dear if you have been truely good then something interesting will be wending its way to you very soon. Over and out for now, SSC.

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 03:58 PM

Refresh!!

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 04:54 PM

OK....Sharon...come on.....post some hints for your poor Santa.....

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: SharonA
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 08:37 PM

OK, Sorcha! Pesky little Nor'Easter got in my way yesterday, but it's over now. So then, Sorcha and Santa, here goes...

1. Age: 49.
2. Gender: Female.
3. Favorite color(s): Blue, primarily. :^) Also aqua, purple, maroon.
4. Favorite books: American history, especially 1700s-1800s; biographies from that era; Gnosticism and early Christianity.
5. Books wanted: "War Letters" edited by Andrew Carroll; "The Mystic Christ" by Ethan Walker III; "The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis" by Elaine Pagels; "Weird U.S." or "Weird Pennsylvania" (or any book in the "Weird" state series).
6. Favorite music: Singer/songwriter humorists -- any from your area that I should know about?
7. CDs wanted: "Some Days" by Lou and Peter Berryman; anything by Christine Lavin; anything by Spike Jones except his Christmas CD; "The Truth Comes Out" by Susan Piper; "Semi-Conducted" or "Toast" by The Arrogant Worms; "The Music in the Wood" or "Full Throated Abandon" by Tanglefoot; sea chanties.
8. Movies wanted: "A Star Is Born" (Judy Garland-James Mason) -- the RESTORED version with out-takes and still photos that bridge the "lost" footage while the audio of that footage plays.
9. T-Shirt Size: Large.
10. Collecting: Cat items (figurines, ornaments, plaques, suncatchers, etc.). I've been searching unsuccessfully for an Enesco figurine in the Calico Kittens series entitled "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine". I'm also missing the Christmas ornaments from the Carlton Cards/American Greetings series "Merry Mischief Makers" dated 2001 and earlier (featuring kittens Miss and Chiff).
11. Hobbies: Besides songwriting for guitar and trying to learn various other instruments of mine that have been collecting dust, I like to visit craft shows, flea markets and thrift shops.
12. Jewelry: Either gold or silver is OK, though I rarely wear jewelry and I have more than I'll ever use.
13. I'd like the 2006 "Mutts" (comic strip) wall calendar; but I'd especially enjoy any postcards/photos/books about the distinctive sites and/or eccentricities of my Santa's locality (for example, the huge statue of Amos the Amish farmer in front of Zinn's Diner in Pennsylvania).
Negative hints: Please, no gifts of fragrances (candles, potpourri, cologne) or food, because of medical and dietary restrictions. I don't have much interest in cooking, and cookbooks or recipes won't inspire me to change. The same is true of gardening; I worked for a seed company for years so if I never see another seed packet or bulb it'll be too soon!

There ya go, Santa. I apologize again for my tardiness in posting this. Better late than never, they say, and I hope they're right! I promise I'll be good from now till Christmas, and hopefully I'll only get 11/12ths of a stockingful of coal!!

Remorsefully,
SharonA

Subject: RE: BS: 2005--Secret Santa Hints
From: SharonA
Date: 23 Nov 05 - 03:53 PM

Here are a couple of even-later belated entries for my "CDs Wanted" list:

Anything at all by Allan Sherman.
Anything by Stan Freberg except "Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America: Volume 1, 'The Early Years' and Volume 2, 'The Middle Years'" (the boxed set -- I already have this and love it! Rumble rumble rumble, mutiny mutiny mutiny...)

Thank you, O Most Benevolent, Gracious and Munificent Sainted Elf!

Bootlickingly yours,
SharonA