BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 01:41 PM

More postcards. This time from Australia with beautiful rhymes. No problem if it not here for Christmas. I will be thrilled to open it whenever.
But I won't guess where you are really after the flogging I took last year.
Happy HO HO!
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,SRSsss's Ssssecret Ssssanta
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 02:39 PM

Yesss, yesss, yesss, yesss, yesss, yessss?

I'm ssstill here, Sssstilly. You haven't sssslipped my mind. It'sss jusssst that I alwaysss sssseem to ssssstall till the lassssst sssecond to sssend Ssssecret Ssssanta pressssentssss. Sssso sssssorry to be sssuch a procrassssssssssstinator.

Sssssince that'sssss the cassssse, thisssss isssss a ssssplendid time for lasssst-minute presssssie requessstssss!

Ho, ho, ho, hissss, hissss, hisssssss

SRS's SSssss

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Tabster's Pére Nöel du Nord.
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 02:58 PM

Well Tabster, the reindeer are on their way with a little something cultural for you. Be on the lookout for a little silver wrapped parcel with sparkly trimmings.
No peeking before Christmas now!

Ho ho ho

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,RangerSteve's Secret Santa
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:24 PM

Just back from the mailing place. Long lines and cranky customers did not deter me. You will have your present in time for Christmas.
Ho Ho Ho

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 06:14 PM

How about a million dollars in small denominations?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 07:42 PM

Monopoly money is cheap and easily obtainable, SRS...

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,SINSULL's Surprisingly Southern-fried Santa
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 08:44 PM

Oh goody, you got the postcards. Then your parcel can not be too far behind - that is after customs have poked and prodded it, shaken it, squashed it and batted it round the room a few times :-( So there is a faint chance you may get it this week.

What happened last year? Do tell!


Here are a few more hints:

* I have met your local elves in Real Life, and very nice people they are too!

* We like to have lots of BBQ's - in fact we will probably have one on Christmas Day.

* I like to travel and collect postcards, as you have noticed. My brother lives in one of those places.

* I didn't REALLY make any of your prezzies out of dryer lint - honest!

*You will find out who I am when you open your package!


Love from your well-travelled SSSSS

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: freda underhill
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 08:57 PM

Santa Clues, I admit to speculating as to your identity. my crystal ball is a little cloudy but it seems:

* you have a beard, but not a white one
* you are a singer of songs (some of them rather bawdy)
* you are a dancer, maybe with bells on your legs and a flowery hat
* you are not John Warner (that's who I thought you were at first)
* you are an English folkie with a quirky sense of humour


(thinks)....

I'm hoping more will be revealed in a week!

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: JennieG
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 11:15 PM

Another postal delivery has come and gone and still an empty mailbox......(sniff)

I have been trying to be very very good.........(sob)

not so cheerily
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,FU's SS
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 09:11 AM

You're everywhere and nowhere, Santee, that's where you're at
Maybe right about the bells on, but not the flowery hat.
Santa Clues is an Immortal, what d'ye think of that?
You're guessing who I am in 3D, but what about the 'Cat?

And it's high ho silver lining, everywhere you go, o Santee,
Your summer sun is shining
But will it clear the mist, round this terpsichorist.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Helen
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 03:03 PM

Secret Santa,

I had a quick scan through the info you linked to but I haven't had a chance to read it all, so at the moment I'm not much further ahead on the quest to discover where you are, or in the case of the gooey-ducks, where you are no longer. Maybe another clue to narrow it down would help. A little about yourself, perhaps, so that I can try discover who you are?

Your mystified Santee,
Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 03:49 PM

what the Mordor is a terpsichorist?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 04:07 PM

Terpsichore

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,SRS's SSsss
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 04:12 PM

Sssstilly, I sssaid "lassst-minute requessstssss", not lassst requessstsssss!

By rightsss, I ssshould put you on the naughty lisssst for thissss, but I sssssee you've been a sssuperbly nicssse Ssssecret Ssssanta Hintssss Thread sssstarter and refressssher for sssseveral yearssss now. Sssso no coal in your ssstocking thissss time.

But that was clossssse!

Ho ho hissss!
SRS'sss SSssssssssss

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,P.Sssss. from SRS'sss SSsssss
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 04:17 PM

P.Ssssss. -- Have you guesssssed ssso far that all thessssse sssss's are a clue to my ssssobriquet (that isss to ssssay, my name)?

Sssso, how many sssss's do you sssssuppose my name possssessssessss?

Ho hiss ho...
SRS'sss SSsssss

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 04:56 PM

i know this treat may only be worth a dime but im wearing lip gloss for the very first time

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Micca's far away Secret Santa
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 07:57 PM

Alittle birdie has told me that you are bemoaning the fact that you pressie hasn't yet arrived.

Fear not, my friend, all will be revealed in due course.......

You certainly haven't been forgotten!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST, ClaireBear's Apologetic Santa
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 12:05 PM

Well, uh, there's been a glitch in the wrapping and packing department here at the North Pole. Can't blame the delay on sloth, beecause Sloth has been busy ironing the Santa suit and gassing up the reindeer.

No, probably the fault of the effect of global warming on the space/time continuum. And maybe the fact that it gets dark too early and we can't have Daylight Savings Time all year round.

Alas, you will probably not receive your package of goodies (all selected, but not wrapped!) before December 25th. However, there is a very, very good chance it will be in your hands before the New Year and well in advance of Old Christmas.

Sigh. All Santa wants for Christmas is two more weeks before Christmas!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: ClaireBear
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 12:37 PM

Dear Santa,

Not to worry. I should thank you for saving me from the temptatiuon to open my goodies before Christmas (though of course I would never, ever do such a thing).

As a child (in 1961), I spent six months living in Spain, where at that time Santa was unknown and Christmas was just a church celebration. But on the Epiphany, Santa's good buddies the Three Kings came by on camelback and left pressies for me and the other good girls and boys in our shoes, left on the windowsill for that purpose. (The camels must have been tall; I lived on the third floor of an apartment building but the pressies still arrived.) I suspect that Los Tres Reyes Magos will be good to me this year!

Thank you for keeping in touch, Santa!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Joybell
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 06:37 PM

Santa? Santa? Anxiously watching the milkcan mailbox. I'm really, really good.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 06:58 PM

Of those I think MIGHT be participating, there isn't anyone with more Ss in their moniker than are in my own. I don't think I have a schizophrenic twin unbeknownst to me, but I see one name that I've crossed paths with before, over in the UK, starts with a B. . .

Hmmmm.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: freda underhill
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 08:02 PM

FUSS..

You may notice I'm no longer Promising to be good
The parcel's very tempting, and I think that I could..
But the only thing that stops my prying little grasp
Are the eyes of a Knight, (and a sword in his grasp?)
I was tempted and tried, and oft made to wonder,
To examine your riddle and pull it asunder…
but.. An Immortal Terpsichordist
(has Santa been hitting the turps?)
An eternal elusion .. til next Monday.. it's confusion!

f.u. :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Greg Stephens' Woeful Secret Santa
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 08:53 PM

Has the package not arrived yet? Bloodygrumblelazyelves. I was assured that it would get to you in five days time when I posted it a week ago last Friday. (looking at the watch)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,FU's SS
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 10:57 AM

Next Monday will do fine if that is when your mid-winter/summer celebration occurs. I know that there are some who will open their packages today, it being the solstice; others may care to wait for the New Year or for the birthday of their preferred deity.

Whenever and whatever you celebrate, that will be the right time to open the package, rather than giving in now too easily. But there are no explanations inside - they will only be provided once you have had time to ponder the contents and their meanings.

Santa Clues :-?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,SRS'sss SSsssssss
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 04:03 PM

Not even clossssse!

Hisss hisss hissssss...
SRS'sss SSssssssss

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 05:40 PM

Back to the drawing board.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 05:55 PM

Santa Clues

I will wait til Christmas day, because that's the day of presents. i don't worship anything except nature, my children and each moment. there are no explanations to life, although some tell me there is no such thing as an accident.

I hope you have a very happy solstice, Santa, and that you and yours have a very happy Christmas too.

best wishes
freda

ps Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: JennyO
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 08:54 PM

I'm really hoping something turns up today - it's the last day for postal deliveries - I have some of my pressie, but my Santa told me there was more. Am I right, Santa? I'm being good and not opening the package I have already.

Are you there, Santa?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 11:32 PM

Our last postal delivery has been and gone and still nothing......(sniff)

and I have tried soooo hard to be very very good......(SOB)

(that's me crying not a description of my Secret Santa)

WAAAAHHHHHHHH............

Very Unhappy JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,catsPHiddle's tickled 2 B her SS
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 11:39 PM

I forgot that you and Micca are probably more of the Solstice persuasion than Christmas revelers. If that is the case, I hereby remove the spell from the package that prevents it from being opened until Christmas.

Happy Winter Solstice!

sitting in the dark on the shortest day of the year,

your secret santa

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Dec 06 - 01:52 AM

Sinsull has a couple of Ss, but she was doing something with a liquor bottle and torturing a different Ranger this year. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Joybell
Date: 22 Dec 06 - 03:41 PM

Last post been and gone for me too, Jennie. And I haven't ever got last year's present yet.
Still that's not the fault of this year's Santa. The mail's back next week. Maybe then. My Santa sounds nice though busy. Have a wonderful Christmas Santa.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: JennieG
Date: 22 Dec 06 - 07:37 PM

The mail will be back on Wednesday, but we are going away on Wednesday am for 10 days - oh well - hopefully I will have a surprise waiting for me when we come home.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 12:23 AM

I see more "Ss" in Sandra in Sydney and Sian, west wales. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: ClaireBear
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 10:19 AM

SRS, has it occurred to you that all those SSSS's might signify a sound (like the one some reptiles make) rather than letters in a name? It has to me, but I can't think of a member named Ol' Rattler, Bluebelly or Dragonsbreath...

And no, it isn't me; bears never hiss. Just trying to help.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 10:35 AM

That did occur also, and there are a couple I've tried on the tongue ("Vectis" comes to mind). But by sound alone there isn't a lot to work with. Maybe my SS has a lisp and achieves a quality of Ssss sound that wouldn't occur to me?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Bill t'bodger's befuddled and belabored Sant
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 01:58 PM

Dear Bill t'bodger,

Don't you worry, never fear.
I'm slow: your pressie will appear.
Perhaps a New Year or three kings
Will bring your gift. How bells will ring!

Intentions were to mail it early.
My malady made straight paths curly.
I have a box full of good cheer
Yet the best part did not get here;

Some music sweet to grace your home,
To cheer your heart when you do roam,
Has still to jump inside your box.
I promise I will not send rocks

Or coal to dirty up that treasure
Packed securely, in good measure.
Your box is here. I do regret
I've made you wait. Yet you will get it!

Your deeply apologetic but determined Santa, whose lobster elves and moose team are standing by to depart on their dangerous mission to deliver your precious package the moment the music arrives. ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,SRS's SS's sssempiternal susurrusssss
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 04:30 PM

Perusssing your guessssesss isss ssso much fun! A lisssp?? That'sss hilariousssss!! Thisss all ssstarted when I wasss told I wasss SRS's SS, which sssounded to me like sssusurrusssss. It is a fortuitousss coincssidencssse that my sssobriquet happensss to have that cssertain sssomething in it likewissse. Ah, but what ssseems to be sssimilar may not be! Don't let the ssssound decssseive you ...ho hisss ho...

Sssstilly, your presssie hasss been ssssent. It'sss all up to thossse Ssssanta'sss helperssss at the USsss Posssst Officssse now.

I sssincsserely apologissse for my tardinessss. Ssssanta had ssssome trouble getting the Sssssuperglue to ssstick to one of your giftssss.

Your pressssie may not ssssurfacssse ssspeedily, but ressst assssssured that it ssstill containsss my bessst wissshesss for a sssprightly, merry Chrissstmassss and a posssitively Sssaturnalian ssseason.

You may desssire exsssplanation of sssome of your pressssie'sss contentsss, which I will be mossst pleasssed to sssupply here or by Private Messssage asss necssessssary, oncssse I am unmassssked. Then I can ssstop sssearching for sssynonymssss with sss's on the thesssaurusssss webssssite!

Ssssincssserely,
SssRSss'sss SSsssssssss

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,SRS'ss SS'sss Possstsssscript
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 04:40 PM

If it'sss any consssssolation, the pressssie from my Ssssecret Ssssssanta hassssn't sssshown up on my doorssssstep yet, either. But it'ssss okay with me if my Chrisssstmassss is exssstended for a ssshort bit. I haven't losssst confidencssssse in my SSsss ssssso far...

SRS'ssss SSss

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 04:51 PM

I am taking this opportunity to announce that I will not be RangerSteve's Santee next year no matter what! That bottle is not welcome here.
I know so many Secret Santa Secrets I am about to bust and not all of them involve liquor bottles - only two.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Alison's Frosty Friend
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 03:08 PM

Well, it is on it's way... Hopefully the reindeer won't get lost... Sorry if it's late... Actually, it will be a bit late... Oh, well, Merry Christmas...At least you can prolong the season...!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Edain's concerned Claus
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 05:47 PM

hello, where are you?

no posts since October, are you well, have you received your pressie?

Santa-less Mudcatters have a thread to post their concerns about lack of contact, but what about us Santee-less Santas?

ssssssad Ssssssssssantee-lessssssss Ssssssssanta

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 09:22 PM

Still a little short on clues here, but I'll go back and read through the thread once I finish playing santa here at the ol' homestead.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Crystal's Secret Santa
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 07:27 AM

Happy Christmas Crystal - I've not heard a peep out of you since I posted your gifts, I trust they've reached you Ok?!

Ho Ho Ho x

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,SRS'sss Sssurreptitiousss SSsss
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 04:08 PM

Ssssome more cluessss for Sssstilly:

When is an "s" not an "esssss"?

Assss you facssse New Orleanssss, I ressside ssssomeplacssse on your left.

Hisss ho ho...

SRS'sss Ssssecret Ssssanta

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,My Guru's Held- Over, Unmarried-Xmas Elf
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 05:14 PM

Dear Ed,

As I'd told you earlier, I can't leave the UK until you've reported to the thread that you've recieved and opened The Big Box and listened to the contents of the "pre-present" that you've been passed. This means I've had to spend Christmas in the UK, whereas I'd planned to be back to the Pole for the Holidays at Elf Central enjoying a break before reassignment. I've stayed in far worse places and drank worse stuff than the Harvey's Sussex Bitter at Murray's, but I'd planned to be long gone by now.

I had also told of Being able to sit in with the house band at Murray's even after my bandmates had left, and how young Nottalpha Sprite was getting a bit clingy and possessive about wanting me to settle down locally. Well, that all came to a head when I was reluctantly dragged over to an all too traditional family Christmas dinner at her parents residence. If being a foreigner, travelling man and sometime musician was not bad enough, being an elf turned him completely hostile and absolutely livid with rage. After repeated barely audible racist under-the-breath mutterings about "not wanting any 'Spelves' raised in the family" and how "Elfish should leave the building and return to sender", I took it as a much needed opportunity to storm out in the middle of the meal (an extra large Cornish Hen that amply served five) and end things right there before fisticuffs broke out. Surrey bout, that!

Unfortunately, word has gotten through to me by way of Nottalpha's sister Nearleah that she has only to be given the word and she'd be packed in an hour and ready to run away with me. "Miss Surrey" may love company, but I don't think I do any longer. I'm also tenatively booked for a gig for New Year's Eve at Murray's.

I hope you have The Merriest Season Ever and can acknowledge reciept of your cornucopeia of goodies as soon as possible so I can sneak out of here and get back home in "one piece on earth".

Your troubled Scout-Elf,
Elfish Pressently
(relocated, but still here)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: SharonA
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 05:25 PM

As I recently have said
On the "Silent Santa" thread,
I've got nothing from my Santer
'Cept some poetry and banter.

Waaah! *sniff*

Sharon

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 11:38 PM

As a dyslexic, I had to think about that for a minute, which is my left hand. . .

I'm working on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: My guru always said
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 10:28 AM

Dear Elffish Pressently, abject apologies! I was so sure that I'd posted a couple of days before Christmas that I'd received a 'pre-Christmas parcel' of songs, but it seems my post has been lost in the ether. Perhaps I had been under the influence at that time *grin*

So sorry to hear that you have been delayed by this lapse, but obviously the tentative New Years gig is good news! If only I knew where Murray's was, and if I weren't away in Essex at a Barn Dance that night I would certainly come along to hear you & the Band. Is there a Flautist in it too perhaps?

I have indeed started listening to the pre-Christmas tape, what a variety of styles there are. I got half-way through the compilation tape while I was doing pre-Christmas stuff in the kitchen and it certainly set the scene, thank you!

The Postman has not yet come all the way up the drive with the 'big box' but I'm sure this will happen soon. There was a false alarm today, but it turned out to be an indicator unit for my car to replace one I broke on the way to a Mummers Play on Boxing Day. Not nearly as exciting as a present from my own Dear Secret Santa. I shall continue to be good and am sending positive thoughts to You for 2007!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Tig
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 02:41 PM

Firecat is watching the catflap......

She's said she will give it until her birthday (old Christmas Eve) until she stops believing. Santa - please send a message!