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11 Oct 01 - 02:27 AM (#569586) Subject: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond A few of the other MB's I post on usually do one, and I don't remember seeing one here or maybe I missed it... Would go like this... One Body takes it upon themselves to run it... The people interested email their postal addys to that person, and post here to a hints thread... The One Body randomly picks names and emails the details back... Once you've received yer person, you come here to the hints thread and look 'em up... To that person ya send a gift, from your Mudcat alter ego... Just curious... |
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11 Oct 01 - 09:28 AM (#569691) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Hollowfox Sounds interesting. You willing to run it? (The international aspect of the 'Cat might make it better to "regionalize" it, as they say in govtspeak.) |
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11 Oct 01 - 09:36 AM (#569698) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Mary in Kentucky It would be fun...but I don't want _________, or ___________, or surely not ___________! |
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11 Oct 01 - 09:46 AM (#569705) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Jack the Sailor All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth |
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11 Oct 01 - 10:35 AM (#569737) Subject: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond I have no time of late to run it... and Mary... yer not allowed to pick who you want... it's not in the X-mas spirit... Hfox... no need to... all the other MB's I frequent are just as international as Mudcat... and it works fine for them... You just gotta be willing to suck up the price of postage when ya join... |
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11 Oct 01 - 03:40 PM (#569973) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Liz the Squeak That sounds like fun.... Did it at the office last year and I got the guy who likes wearing leery (loud) ties so guess what I made him....!! LTS |
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11 Oct 01 - 03:49 PM (#569980) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Mary in Kentucky Liz, if I were your secret Santa I'd send you some chocolate, perhaps some Bourbon Balls. (that's candy) |
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11 Oct 01 - 03:56 PM (#569985) Subject: Mudcat Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond So, all we ned is a brave soul to run it eh? I'm kinda surprised this thread hasn't had more hits... |
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11 Oct 01 - 04:04 PM (#569994) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Noreen Sounds fun to me, Clinton. Never come across the idea before. |
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11 Oct 01 - 04:47 PM (#570037) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Pseudolus Clinton, PM me with the details on how to run it and I'll do it. It sounds like once everyone has their "person", the one running it has little to do but watch the fun......does that sound right? Lemme know......I'm in!! Frank |
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11 Oct 01 - 04:54 PM (#570041) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond on the way Pseudolus |
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11 Oct 01 - 05:30 PM (#570065) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Mary in Kentucky Frank, I was waiting to see if many people were interested...but since YOU VOLUNTEERED...seriously, if you need help, count me in.
Qualifications for "he/she who runs the show": |
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11 Oct 01 - 05:35 PM (#570068) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond Why does this person need tact, a sence of humour or to look like santa??? All they have to do is collect names, pull them from a hat and forward them to the people that need them... |
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11 Oct 01 - 07:45 PM (#570144) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Mary in Kentucky Tact and sense of humor for when 10 million people whine, "But I didn't want CH's name." (My son worked at McDonald's drive thru when they had the Beanie Baby give away toys. Every car held up traffic to negotiate a different toy.) Honesty to not finagle the draws. (I once worked in a company where we had routine meetings in which our boss discussed news items he wanted us to hear...and we always had bets on what he would say. We had to have an honest referee to make the calls, especially since bets were involved.) And look like Santa, well bah humbug, I kinda think Santa's cute. |
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11 Oct 01 - 07:49 PM (#570148) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond I think Santa is actually Tom Bombadil!! LOL!! No negotiations... full stop... otherwise there's no point in doing the random draw... |
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11 Oct 01 - 08:15 PM (#570166) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Allan C. I think it would be fun - especially if we worked it like one of those pyramid chain letters. Everyone who submits their name after me sends me a gift and then the last person in the list gets to move up one level. And then... How do you like the plan so far? *G* Actually, I like the Secret Santa thing and would like to participate. It looks as though we have a namekeeper. What's next? |
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11 Oct 01 - 08:57 PM (#570182) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: catspaw49 I'm kinda' surprised this hasn't had more hits myself. Generally..........Anyway, the Secret Pal/Santa idea is always fun. So do we all trust ol' Frank enough to blind draw the names without "rigging" it??? I mean the "Pseudo" part of his handle and all...........LOL........Okay Frank, I'll trust you.......I'm in. After you get the details, I'd start a Cap title thread explaining it and asking for players...."SECRET SANTA PAL...JOIN NOW" or something, and then give it a few days to draw. We ought to be able to get several more in.....If we can't get at least 26-30, it won't be nearly as much fun. Once the pairs were selected, we'd ahve one helluva' lot of guest postings on the Hints thread!! Spaw Spaw |
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11 Oct 01 - 08:58 PM (#570183) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Blackcatter Hi all, I'm up for it - I love the idea of getting a present from some exotic local such as Newfoundland, Iceland, Ireland, or Newark... My guess is the the next step is to set up a spending limit (everyone got their currency calulators out?), then figure out mail-by dates to get them to the recipiant by the end of December. Maybe a safe "mail-by to send would be December 1 - that should may Hanukkah observers happy (Dec. 10 - 17). pax yall. |
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11 Oct 01 - 09:00 PM (#570184) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Susan from California I'm in! |
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11 Oct 01 - 09:03 PM (#570185) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Allan C. "...far away places with strange sounding names...like, Smegma." |
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11 Oct 01 - 09:05 PM (#570187) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Blackcatter Would that be Smegma, Georgia? |
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11 Oct 01 - 09:10 PM (#570188) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Allan C. No, it isn't, BC...And stop calling me Georgia! |
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11 Oct 01 - 09:27 PM (#570192) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: alison I'm in slainte alison |
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12 Oct 01 - 02:18 AM (#570289) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Helen I'm in, too. You'll need to allow a couple of extra weeks perhaps for the Antipodean players, so maybe mid-November should be the cut-off date. Helen |
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12 Oct 01 - 03:37 AM (#570323) Subject: Huh??? From: Clinton Hammond What is an "Antipodean player"??? |
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12 Oct 01 - 03:53 AM (#570325) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: The_one_and_only_Dai Put me down for one, pseud... |
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12 Oct 01 - 04:27 AM (#570333) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: sian, west wales My mother was one of 8 brothers and sisters and this was standard stuff for them at Christmas when they got older and married (with lots and lots of kids). Works great! Re: posting, every national postal system has it's 'mail-by' dates - the overseas date for Britain is usually end of October, which I've always faithfully ignored. Usually if I get something in the post by end November it can get to N. America in time for Christmas. sian |
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12 Oct 01 - 04:29 AM (#570335) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: sian, west wales Drat - I was also going to ask if we put a top limit on value? A bit tricky perhaps, as you'd have to pay 10 UKP for something that would be 10 US or even Cdn dollars but ... Would 5 or 10 be about right? sian |
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12 Oct 01 - 04:58 AM (#570339) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Morticia I'm in....sounds like fun :) |
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12 Oct 01 - 07:31 AM (#570395) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Tinker Count me in... |
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12 Oct 01 - 07:32 AM (#570396) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: GUEST,Firecat Sounds fun!! |
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12 Oct 01 - 10:18 AM (#570472) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie Count me in! |
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12 Oct 01 - 11:06 AM (#570505) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Dani Me too! Dani |
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12 Oct 01 - 11:55 AM (#570538) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Clinton Hammond Good to see such a response... Stay tuned for an official announcement thread comign soon... I'll also be postng a hints thread where you'll go to answer a few simple questions to aid yer SS in picking out a gift fer ya... ;-) Doller limit? I'd go up to 20 US... maybe even 30... |
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12 Oct 01 - 12:00 PM (#570542) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: CapriUni Clinton -- Antipodean players would be two people from opposite sides of the planet from each other... |
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12 Oct 01 - 12:37 PM (#570586) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie I would say keep it to $20 or less since some of us are poor starving artists. :-) |
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12 Oct 01 - 12:45 PM (#570595) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Sorcha OK,OK, I'll get in too. $20 US sounds like enough to me. |
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13 Oct 01 - 02:18 AM (#571079) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Helen Antipodes is a term often used for Australia, and antipodean is the adjective/description. In fact, CapriUni is right: it refers to diametrically opposite places, items, etc, but the Brits were being a bit egocentric at the time when they took to calling Oz the Antipodes. In fact Britain is also the antipodes of Oz. Enough of this: on with the show. $US20 would be about $AU40, with the exchange rate the way it is at present, so that would have to be my upper limit. Helen |
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13 Oct 01 - 04:19 PM (#571381) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Hollowfox I'm in. Kim C, and all you other starving artists, remember that the gift doesn't have to be bought with money. We're all into some aspect of the folk arts here, if you paint with a broad enough brush. As one who is drawing-impared, I wouldn't turn down a nice sketch, myself. Or home baked cookies. (Darn, now I'm all hungry and it's an hour until supper.) |
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13 Oct 01 - 08:52 PM (#571493) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Gloredhel Count me in, but how are we going to get people's addresses? |
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14 Oct 01 - 12:04 AM (#571584) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: GUEST,Robin Count me in, sounds like family! Robin |
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14 Oct 01 - 01:14 PM (#571813) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Bat Goddess Well, I'm in -- from the wilds of New Hampshire, New Knighted Snakes. And I'd LOVE a new Antipodean player cuz all my Antipodeans have been just laying around since my old player bit the dust. Bat Goddess |
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14 Oct 01 - 03:58 PM (#571920) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Mary in Kentucky I'm in too! |
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14 Oct 01 - 05:14 PM (#571973) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Firecat I forgot to say count me in!!! |
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14 Oct 01 - 09:30 PM (#572113) Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat ever done a Secret Santa??? From: Helen Gloredhel, To register for Secret Santa you need to send a Personal Message to Pseudolus, with your postal contact details & e-mail address. To do that: click on the Quick Links box on the top of this page, scroll down to "Send a Personal Message" & click on that. Then click Go.
There is a http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=40046&messages=22 Helen
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