BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Helen
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 02:14 PM

Pseudolus,

I've been at Mudcat since 1997 and I've met 4 Mudcatters. But who's counting? :-) And in the case of Mudcat it's quality and not quantity that counts.

In my case it's the fact of living on a very, very large island surrounded (girt) by sea with a relatively small population. (Who's Gert?)

Helen
in Oz

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Megan L
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 03:14 PM

aw cum oan santa gies a clue
ahm lukin forward tae word frae you

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Pseudolus
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 03:39 PM

Helen,
   I've had the pleasure of meeting Seamus Kennedy, although I've known him since before hangin out here at Mudcat. So you're right Helen, it's quality not quantity!

   I really need to get out to a gathering sometime.... :)

Frank

P.S. Ya think maybe Seamus put out the word? and warned everyone about me? :)

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Blackcatter's Batty and Bothered Santa
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 05:50 PM

The elves have been travelling far and wide in an attempt to fill your requirements. They are threatening to demand an increase in mileage allowances and extra beer rations!!!

They reminded me that at this time of year I need to wish you Happy Samhain if I do not want to get into trouble.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 04:15 AM

Oi, Elves!! You are not employed as General Festival Elves, get back in those green tights and jingly hats and get on with your work!

But just in case, it's a busy week here....

Happy Samhain, Eid ul Fitur, Diwali, All Saints Day and Rastafarian Accession of Heile Salassi!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: My guru always said
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 03:51 PM

Hey Santa!!! Have we met? Or am I barking up the wrong wall-chart?????

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Seaking
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 05:08 AM

My Secret Santa is obviously very shy this year....

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: MMario
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 09:17 AM

The elephants may have intimidated him SeaKing.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 01:26 PM

Well, Santy, I am a 38 year old girl folksinger - fiddler - bellydancer - knitter - graduate student (literature). I have many interests and am not at all particular about what Santa brings me. However I do enjoy trinkets and geegaws (and sweets!) that have to do with your part of the world. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney's Secret Santa
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 01:32 PM

After much deliberation, Sandra, I believe I have come up with the perfect surprise for you. It will be on its way Down Under very soon, so as to get there in time for the holiday.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,The SS of My Guru Always Said
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 02:32 PM

No, we have never met. Have you looked at the world globe yet? :-)

Your Secretive Santa

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: My guru always said
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 03:13 PM

Santa Dearest!! Well, I don't have access to a globe, but as your hints get broader so I get closer to my goal *grin* Are your seasons the reverse of ours in the UK?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,The SS of My Guru Always Said
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 01:42 AM

Ah, now you are getting closer to the answer.

Your SS

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: freda underhill
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 04:44 AM

dear santa

i am far away from home, but look forward to returning there tomorrow. when i check my letterbox, will it be a jackalope or a pardelope? a surprise? a letter of promise? i am pleased to be returning.. will you?

(who gnose what awaits me?)

fun. derhill

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: My guru always said
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 05:45 AM

Many thanks my Own Dearest Secret Santa

Aha, simple I may be, but with major hints like that I should be able to whittle it down *grin* Seems you are also from an Island Nation!

(Now for a little fine-tuning) More huge hints please....

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: greg stephens
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 05:47 AM

To my Yuletide Benefactor: if you are unsure as to how long six feet is, I suggest the best way to figure it out is to straighten the alligator(or crocodile) out on the floor. It can be quite difficult to make it stay straight, a rope at either end tied off to opposite doorknobs or something may be necessary.(Don't make the common mistake of tying off to drawer handles, these animals are quite powerful and can pull drawers right out). Then you lie down beside it. If it's longer than you are, then it's too big to be my present.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 05:50 AM

It looks like there are 88 Santa/Santees this year from the content of the threads, but it also looks like there are 20 who haven't heard from their Santas.

Come on you Elusive Santas, hint to your Santees and spread that Christmas Cheer!

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,The Info gathering Pixie
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 06:11 AM

,,,yes Guest point well made.
It would also be helpful if some of the Santees who haven't let their Santa's know their likes and dislikes posted some info too!!
That way furry, petite sized, Pink Bedsocks don't go to a Mudcat Misters (unless that's what a particular MM wants) and that old Christmas classic bottle of "Old Spice" doesn't arrive to grace one of the Mudcat Women's dressing Tables...( unless that's what any of the MW requested!!)**BG**
Info is power, the power to shop/make/the right choice for the right Santee and the difference between getting a pressie someone likes or a pressie someone just plain   .... get my drift....!!!!!
54 days till Chrimbo....anyone still got info to share...don't be shy..***pixie smile***

TIGP

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 08:26 AM

wow! my pressie is almost on it's way!!

thankyou dear Santa

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Den's Delighted Yuletide Elf!
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 09:36 AM

I need some hints so I can send a Present you might like,
I'll search and search, you can be sure, for something that's just right.
..but as you know I need a clue about you dearest Den!
So if you would, please post some hints and....
I'll check back here again.....SOOON
Yours Yuletidely
DDYE.....aka Elves on a Mission inc.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 10:06 AM

That's odd. All this time and I haven't heard a peep out of my Santa.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Den
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 10:42 AM

How poetic. I'm happy to know that I have a Santa. I have been good all year, or as good as can be expected. Anyway I'm pretty easy to please. I'm into loads of stuff. Irish trad. Texas folk; like Guy Clark, Townes VanZandt. Although I do have most of their stuff. I collect Asterix the Gaul stuff, especially the little Plastoy figures. I'm a soccer nut. I like the colour green. I'm a graphic design book junky. And on and on.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: mooman
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 11:12 AM

No peep for me either!

moo

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Cllr
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 01:23 PM

I hav'nt seen my santa either...

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,CLLR's Secret Santa
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 01:39 PM

I'm sorry, mate. I have not forgotten you. I just have not been around these parts much, trying to get my bloody elves iin line....Can you believe the little bastards actually went on strike? They said I wasn't giving them any pay or benefits...and they wanted Christmas off...I feed them, I clothe them...and the benefit is I let the little blighters live in the warmth under a roof...instead of outside in the cold...I sent my reindeer after them...and they'll sort things out in short order.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Crane Driver
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 02:19 PM

No sign of my Santa this year either - and my Santee hasn't shown much interest in my initial anonymous ramblings either. Looks like I'm in for a quiet time this $mas.

Ah well,


Happy Easter.
Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Emma b's
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 03:13 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Emma B's Secret Santa
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 03:18 PM

Hi Emma B! I haven't forgotten you but am busy as a bee gathering your special gifts. There's still time for coal if I get any bad reports so stay good!

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 05:06 PM

Dear Secret Santa,

I am a little bit worried about you. I've played along because I think that's what one must do in order to not upset the um...hopelessly demen..., no, I mean those who live in a different reality. In that vein, I do hope you remember what it was Major Benjy suggested, as long as it's not some kind of fish!

Thanks so much, no matter what, Dear, dear Santa,

kat(I DO believe in Santa, I DO believe in Santa!)

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,to all those with tardy Santas
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 05:15 PM

Ouch! Bummer!!!!!!!!

I have dispatched the elves hither and yon, barraging my Santee with weekly cards. So now I address these wishes to all of you, named and unnamed, who have not heard from your Santas. (Those named I have addressed by said monikers; those unnamed, if you had groused publically, I would have named you too.)

Mooman, I wish you manifold the peace you wish to all of us so bounteously. I also wish you a giant PIECE of Christmas pudding!

Cllr, I wish you all the ColLoRs of the rainbow to decorate your life.

Crane Driver, I wish you a smooth highway for your journey, and may others do the heavy lifting.

Stephen Lee, may your you and your new bride have a life as full of unexpected surprises with happy conclusions as your wedding.

Seaking, may you find everything your heart desires under the tree and in life in general.

Megan C., may you always see clearly the right way before you. C also stands for cake, carols, and Christmas—may the three come together abundantly.

Alba, may your voice echo from the mountains and return to you all the beauty you give to the world.

JacquiC, may you and your Kendall live long to make music and merriment together.

To you and everyone else whose Santas have not yet shown up, may it be because they are sooooo engrossed in preparing something very special for you that they have lost track of time and all else, and have simply forgotten to post a wee message to their dear Santees.

God bless us every one!

A lonely Santa

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 05:29 PM

Micca hasn't heard from his santa either...

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,El Punkoid Nouveau's Santa Ancienne
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 05:39 PM

Your svelte and sexy sometimes Saint
Would have more fun observing paint,
Which dries so slowly (near the Pole)
The stillness nearly kills the soul!
But still, with paint, something DOES change
Although quite small in breadth and range;
Unlike the still where Vixen, Dancer,
And my svelte self await your answer.
Therefore, I urge you, do give forth
With hints to us so far up North.
Or else we'll stop at Mrs Grundy's
And buy you brand-new Big Girl undies.

EPN's SA

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: number 6
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 07:14 PM

That person who told me last week that there isn't a Santa is full of it.

There really is a Santa ... yup he's True as me and you.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Cllr's SS
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 11:37 PM

I left you a hint. Right on this thread. Now, be patient or all you will get is coal from Newcastle!
SS

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Previous Cllr Hint
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 11:39 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 01:12 AM

And. Oh, Father Christmas
If you love me at all,
Please, send me a big, red, round
India Rubber Ball.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Megan L's Elvish Elves
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 01:54 AM

Megan me girl! We were wondering where you were. You weren't in Santa's toy cupboard so we thought perhaps you were outside monstering Rudolph.

We have been very busy helping Santa choose some goodies for you and soon, very soon, we will be making The Big Trip to the post box.

Unfortunately we couldn't send the champagne so we decided to drink it ourselves (geddit? oursELVES? no?.......never mind) and it was very nice so thank you.

Best Regards
The Elves

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Den's Delighted Yuletide Elf!
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 05:58 AM

Oky Doky...now we're sucking Yuletide Diesel Den.
So Green, Eire Trad, Footy, Astrix, Texan Folk and Graphic design Books.
Sure , not a bother there at all.
Being that you and this particular Elf have more in common that ye know I am sure that I can come up with a few somethings to make ye smile this Yule season.
So...I'll away and see what I can magic up for your good self. This Elf will of course be back (frequently) to keep ye informed of my progress!
DDYE

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Cllr
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 06:36 AM

My apologies dear SS I must have missed the Oct 9 posting. It has been a busy month. I became a full time student at Warwick university at the begining of October and I am currently in Boston Just finishing off a week at Harvard (JFK school of government) I amm going to NOMAD festival tomorrow in Connetict I then fly back to UK on Monday. apart fromthat my hints are the same as in previous years. Cllr

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 11:45 AM

Cllr - will we not get to see you on this trip? I thought you were headed north to Maine? It doesn't look as if I am going to make it to NOMAD. Damn!
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 01:54 PM

My Santa has been a no show, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Alba's Secret Sanity Clause
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 03:04 PM

I hope you have been good
For its time to tell you see
Exactly what we should
Place beneath your Christmas Tree

The elves and I are waiting
We want to hear from you
So don't be hesitatin'
Come on Alba give us clues

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 07:16 PM

Whats made you change your mind Number6?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 10:05 PM

Having been a SS twice last year I appear to have only one Santa this year and she/he is very ppppp!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: number 6
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 10:09 PM

Something arrived to me from the North Pole ... and a very nice present it is. It will certainly protect me from being 'socked' by someone who doesn't appreciate my guitar playing !!!

Santa's a great Jolly guy indeed.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Giok's Confuseled Clause
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 01:37 AM

pppp? Procrastinating puzzling (or, puzzled) something or other? Or just very very pianissimo? Rumor has it that you've been chasing around the States, anyway. Santa's here! Honest! Scrounging around for fishy or car things--or maybe, fishy cars? Santa is less up on either of those things than he is on many other things--but Santa doesn't whine.   Anyway, I hope you're safely home from your wanderings, or else having a good old time and will be safely home eventually. Be of good cheer!

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,The SS of My Guru Always Said
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 05:55 PM

Fiji, it is!

Well done, clever Santee!

;->

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: GUEST,Snuffy's Chuffed Secret Santa, well I AM!
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 07:46 PM

Done, I say!
It's on the way
By flight, by sea,
Pressies from me!

I forgot the tights!
No Red Truck Ale;
The postal Mights
Said "at my peril!"

So, watch your post
It must get there
Or, they're all toast!


SCSSWIA!

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Nov 05 - 06:57 AM

If anyone is in contact with Dave's Wife, tell her to PM me her address or she won't even be getting the coal!

SECSY
LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Silly Secret Santa Signals - 2005
From: My guru always said
Date: 06 Nov 05 - 07:02 AM

ROTFLMAO!
Fiji?
Doesn't chocolate melt there?*!!??