BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: artbrooks
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 09:59 AM

Whoever Super Ted's santa is: I think he needs one of those counting doohickies.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,CET'S Secret Santa
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 12:59 PM

Saw your hints, CET. My elves are working at it, and will send it by that manic service, Bi-Polar Express.

Santa

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: BaldEagle2
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 01:36 PM

I think my elves have been drinking too much happy juice.

But they have left some indeciph .... unfathomib .... tricky clues as to where they live.

*thinks* "Wonder where I can get me one of them Acme Automated Santa Traps?   If I bag the big guy, them elves will surely come a'running, and then I can sure show em what happens to little ones who pull too hard on my tail feathers..."

*returns to reality and wanders off to find if there are any remnants in the whisky bottle ....*

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,HOPEFUL
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 02:03 PM

TO: SANTA BABY
WHAT IS BIGGER THAN A BREAD BOX? CUDDLY AND SNUGGLY?
WILL NOT FIT IN THE STOCKING ON THE MANTLE OR UNDER THE TREE?
NOTHING THAT REQUIRES ASSEMBLY, INFLATION OR BATTERIES..
IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? PROBABLY SO....OH WELL, I AM JUST
NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO ANOTHER COLD LONELY WINTER HOLIDAY

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 02:54 PM

To my Secret Santa:

I am alive. That means that if you were bettin' I was dead so you could save a few bucks by weaseling out of this Secret Santa thing, you're shit outta luck.

However, I am very easy to please. About the only gift I can think of that wouldn't be appreciated would be an accordion. And most years I would probably even appreciate the accordion. It's just that I have a surplus of firewood this year due to our little visit from Hurricane Ivan and I'd rather burn it than an accordion.

Last year, I got a rock from Bat Goddess. It's a really cool rock and I love it. It's sitting on the window ledge beside my computer as I type this. It is very quiet and well-behaved.   

If you have any mismatched socks I can use them to wrap pottery to take to art shows.

See? I was serious about the "easy to please" bit.

Bruce

(Who likes all kinds of acoustic music except "chick singers" like Tori Amos, wears extra-large size shirts, hates clothes that have to be ironed, wears baseball caps religiously to keep from getting his bald head sunburned, likes off-the-wall movies, doesn't wear jewelry, will eat anything, plays 6-string steel-string guitar, 12-string steel-string guitar, 6-string nylon-string guitar, Dobro, banjo, and has no preference as far as string brands go.)

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: CET
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 05:40 PM

Hooray, my Secret Santa exists!

Edmund (counting the days)

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Foolstroupe's Secret Santa
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 05:49 PM

earwig willies???? I thought you working on being nice? Be very careful young man or Santa will get very angry and ... nevermind. So what do you know about earwig willies? Are they in proportion? Do they come in assorted shapes and sizes? Do they have all the usual male appendage problems - erectile disfunction? premature ejaculation? social diseases? Are earwigs social?

Now you know that your SS is female. hee hee

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,BaldEagle2's SS's elves
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 10:01 PM

Hey Elfies you seen what that 'Ol Baldeagle is upto he only want to get one o' dem acme contraptions to trap 'ol Santa....... now dat just aint nice....... and he called us 'Remnants' and he thinks we live in a whisky bottle....serve him right if dem reindeer drop santa's goodies in that darn ocean as they fly across it......watch dem tail feathers Mr BaldEagle..........
HeHeHeHe

Elfies (catch us if you can)

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 05:58 AM

My SS has been awfully quiet lately. I hope that means s/he's been busy!

Allison

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:42 AM

Hello, 4-S

I don't log in for a day & what do I see - pressies accumulating for my (non-existant) chimney. Thankyou, thankyou, plural pressies is a Good Thing & Much Appreciated.

However, the only chimney here is on my doll's house & it is not open at the top. I'd better get a knife or something sharp to it or the pressie will just bounce back into space when dropped towards the chimney.

2-S

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Charmion's slightly behind secret santa
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:59 AM

I apologise for the delay in writing, had a small reindeer crisis, that needed dealing with (never store the carrots near the sherry). You now have my full attention and I await hints as to what you might like for christmas (if you've been a good girl of course)

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:30 PM

Aw, c'mon, bee-dubya-ell -- last year you got more than a rock from me! You make it sound as if it was the only thing in the package!

(Of course, I threw it in at the last minute as a total afterthought and I'm really glad it made so much of a hit. It's a very nice rock, gathered just down the road from me, and full of garnets. Got more of 'em piled in the side yard. Just sent you a little one cuz the Postal Disservice makes it so darned expensive to send rocks to people and Florida is a looooong way to throw from New Hampshuh.)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Batman (BG's secret santa)
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:40 PM

Hey, Batty Goddess, your image is batiful. Dont bat your eyes this way, spread those big bat wings and flyyyyyyyyy - like the foxy ole fruit bat you R.




A rather Battered secret S.

looking forward to sending some salt n batter.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,KimC's Aunty Santy
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 08:51 AM

It's been a busy week of bonfires, birthdays and borées but I've finally got your parcel sealed and adressed. I've just filled the sleighmobile up with winter fue....uuuuee......el and given the elves the rest of the day off so - it's off to the post office and then Aunty is going to slip into her little red high heeled dancing shoes and Strip some Willow.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 10:11 AM

"foxy old fruit bat"

Hmm . . . kinda has a ring to it. (Oh, maybe 'cept that "old" part . . . "Young at heart . . . slightly older in other places.")

Maybe on my next business card, right after "thanatolithologist" and "vulcanized cephalopod afficionado."

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 11:05 AM

Dear Linn,

I apologize if I made it sound like the rock was all I got for Christmas last year. The other loot was cool too, but the rock is, well, a ROCK.

You can rest assured that my Secret Santee will receive a few choice bits of splintered wood from some of my trees that were destroyed by Hurricane Ivan. Hopefully, he or she will interpret my sending those splinters as an attempt to share a unique experience in my life, and not merely an attempt to us the postal service as a means of debris removal. Whether or not he or she cherishes them as much as I cherish my rock is up to them.

Hmm.... I wonder how much it would cost to just mail all this crap to people? Let's see... 200 trees at an average of, say, four tons per tree, multiplied by 37¢ for the first ounce and 23¢ for each additional ounce...

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: artbrooks
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 11:27 AM

Well shucks, Bruce...if'n ya mail me three-four oak rounds, that'll be ok. I kin split'm myself.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 11:46 AM

I have a theory I call "interactive table cleaning."

We're "table sitters," Curmudgeon and I. Life revolves around the table in the center of the house. And stuff accumulates on the table. I'm constantly sending clippings and stuff off to people whom I hope will find the enclosures interesting. Sometimes this transfer helps keep the piles on the table under control. Mostly it's a losing battle.

Once when I was explaining the process to a friend, she asked if I sent this stuff to people I knew or to addresses taken at random from the phone book. Wow! What a concept! "Hi, you don't know me but here are some interesting items from my table that I hoped you might find interesting . . ."

I've never gotten up enough nerve to try it. And, besides, actually shovelling out cubic footage that way does get pricey -- as bad as sending rocks through the post.

I just consider myself lucky that I came home from the Nottingham Library sale a little while ago with less than I donated yesterday. (But I DID mail a book off to a friend yesterday, too . . .)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,shang hai frank's secret saint nick
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 01:24 PM

your pressie is currently splashing it's way to you
via Nantucket Sleigh Ride--hope it survives the salt
sea spray and that you get it o.k. It may arrive while
you are out of the country..will there be any one there
to pick it up? You can open it with one slice of the sword.
your One Whale of a santa.
Embracing tiger, carrying to mountain.
Hajime!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Tinker
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 01:27 PM

Dear Santy, My gift arrived and I am dutifully putting it up in a safe place in the dining room closet. (note to self: read thread closer to Christmas to remember Which "safe" place you put this package a month ago...) I do not want to chance accidentally invoking the "good girl/bad girl " magic which you have woven around this gift. One question though.... my birthday is kinda almost Solstice so I've always felt a kinship to both holidays... Can I choose, or is the magic date specific???? Which do you celebrate Santa???

Thankfully & Thoughtfully

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Charmion
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 10:15 PM

To my Secret Santa:

Reindeer like sherry? Who knew?

I did post hints, but they're in another thread. To save valuable shopping or manufacture time, here's a reprise:

1. what is your age range? I'm 50
2. gender? Female

3. Do you have a favorite color? Dark green (Rifle green); Imperial purple; indigo.

4. favorite authors / type of book? Complicated serious detective stories like those by Ian Rankin, Minette Walters and Val McDiarmid (unfortunately I have already read their entire oeuvres, alas!) I also like Terry Pratchett, but have read all of him, too.

5. what books have you really been wanting? Volume III of Simon Schama's History of Britain and the first book in that exciting new detective series that you know about and I do not.

6. what type of music do you like? Old Blind Dogs, the Buena Vista Social Club, Old Crow Medicine Show, Doc Watson -- anything with a really good guitar.

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

8. What movies (vhs is in the price range) have you been wanting? No thanks -- I find most movies don't repeat well

9. what is your t-shirt size? XL (I like them big and floppy, with a wide neck, especially V-neck if possible)

10. do you collect anything? No. No! Noooo! (Except books and CDs, but they don't count as "collecting", do they? They're, um, essential equipment, like the furnace.)

11. what are some of your other hobbies? playing guitar, wrestling with the mandolin (it's still winning, but I'm gaining), writing (I do a military history column in the Canadian Forces newspaper), cookery (especially French), following Edmund around battlefields

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Gold, but don't buy me jewellery because I can't wear the fake stuff and the real is too expensive.

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

I'm not big on cuteness so, if geese in sunbonnets is your bag -- well, don't go there. Also, second-hand is good. Clothing should be washable and able to withstand feline assault.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,All Secret Santa/Santee participants
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 11:43 PM

Hi! from the North Pole. I just returned from Santa's House where he and Mrs. Claus where having a big party celebrating his return from his vacation. Yes, the sign is off the chair and he is keeping it warm and entertaining lots of little ones. I tried to check his list to see how many of us where on his good list but he wasn't about to let me see it soooo we'll all have to wait and see which list we're on. (Thank goodness he got back from the warmer 48 in time to get things going at his house.) The reindeer are looking good and fit. Elves are VERY busy.   Hoo, hoo, hoo.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: KathWestra
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 10:00 AM

Well, I'm late checking in as usual. Working busily to find something appropriate for my far-away Santee (who has NOT posted anything helpful on this thread), and doing it in time to send it on its long journey. I was really glad to see the note from my very own Santa, since I'd been wondering if the elves would be able to find me in my new Maine home.

Santa, I've been relatively good (by Mudcat standards?) this year. It would be mighty nice to get something besides coal (although that was always the threat on St. Nicholas Day in my Dutch household when I put my shoe out before going to bed on Dec. 5 for Sinterklaas to fill). Hints: Think crafts. I love handmade, close-to-the-earth stuff. Pottery that can be used. Mittens made from yarn that still smells of lanolin. Earrings (with wires) made from interesting beads (I'm mostly a blues and greens kind of girl). A piece of wood or stone made into something beautiful. A wonderful naturally heart-shaped stone you've picked up from your favorite beach. Dark chocolate.

Now I've gotta get back to my own Santa duties. Thanks, Santa, for inquiring. I haven't had the fun of thinking about a Christmas list in years! Kathy

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Jaze's pious SS
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 12:48 PM

I'm sorry not to have been in touch... too busy praying...well praying that I can find something suitable in the Santa grotto anyway. I just MAY have found a little something but you will have to keep being GOOD not mad...why are you mad? who is driving you mad?...should they be driving if they are mad?....are they driving you to an institution?.....ah noooooo watch out ...NUNS!!!!!!! ruuuuunnnnnn!....eek

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Moonglows secret Santa
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 12:57 PM

In the depths of the forest something stirred
at the back of the sofa the pussycat purred
they are waiting for Christmas which cant be deferred
and the chiming of sleighbells is distantly heard

"
Christmas time is here, by golly, disaproval would be folly
Deck the Halls with hunks of Holly, fill the cup and dont say when
kill the turkeys, ducks and Chickens,Etc

enough clues, I am searching for
"Just the thing I need....How Nice.."
More later

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Mark Cohen's Secret Sanity
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 03:13 PM

So, about those hints... I need some help here before I send the elves all the way to Honolulu (not that any of them are complaining. I have 4,357 volunteers for this particular delivery job...) Check in here, Dr. Mark, and let the lil guys know what they're supposed to be making for their favorite island doc. Thanks. Sanity Clause

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,SS to the spell-shifter Tinker
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 06:38 PM

Dear Tinker:   An interesting point! Does Santa arrive occasionally at Solstice? Or on Birthdays?

Well, I've never heard of it happening before, (except to impatient persons who can't wait to open their pressies but I guess it's a possible. After all, a precedent has been set for presents to be opened before Christmas by the permission for the previous present to be opened early.

Hmmm, well..... we'd need to get the spell altered by knowing the actual Birthday date and that's a tricky one. Is it something you'd prefer to keep to yourself (as you won't be able to contact me directly just yet)?

Perhaps you could arrange to have your birthday added to the list in Members info? Why not go the whole hog & post a profile? I'm sure Pene Azul would be happy to oblige! The list of profiles seems to be sadly lacking even with prolific MadCatters....

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Blackcatter
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 08:45 PM

Santa does indeed arrive on the Solstice. He's been doing that for some 13 years at my home. The nice thing is that just like you never have to send him a change of address, you don't have to send him a change of religion either.

By the way,

Santa dropped by Orlando on his recent vacation and took one of my tours. He looked in fine shape, and enjoyed walking through the cemetery one evening.

I mentioned the Mudcat and he said to say hi to one and all and wanted to thank us for helping with the holiday spirit.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 09:26 PM

I saw Mark Cohen mention on another thread that he's studying for his Board certification exam in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, which he takes on Monday. He posted that on Saturday. If you don't hear from him soon, it may be that he is too busy just now.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,The SS of LF and the Elves S/He Rode In With
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 09:53 PM

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,The SS of LF and the Elves S/He Rode In With
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 10:11 PM

Bleedin' stupid foolish ill-advised nonsenseical imbecilic puerile comatose computers....

Aw right, mate, listen up and listen up good. I got your bloody present, even though I had to travel far for it, over mountains higher than Snowden, higher than Everest, through raging torrents and across glaciers, battling the elements and hostile natives every step of the way. Indeed, I walked through the very Valley of the Shadow of Death, accompanied only by Donner, Blitzen, Dasher, Dancer, Comet, Cupid, Prancer, Vixen, Billy, and these seven &%#@#$!! elves the Spouse has told to keep me out of trouble. Even though I've sworn that I won't again spend so much time delivering "gifts" to Certain People again, I'm still not believed.

Can you imagine that? Me, the SS of He of the Plumbic Digits? My own spouse thinking that I can't be trusted? Do you know what it's like listening to Elf Chatter all day? Yip, yip, yip! It's worse than those damned Pekingese that the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire used to keep as lapdogs. And just because one Yuletide when I was delivering her presents (an emerald and pearl necklace) I stepped on one of the little bastards and, thinking that it was a piece of rubbish, kicked it for a goal into the hearth, she threw the pot of tea at me and called me a name that Vicky R. certainly wouldn't have approved of.

So, for whatever it's worth, I'll be sending it along right soon now, unless I think of something else to include, which I might.

Mooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sincerely yours,
X (His or her mark)
Your Mostly Secretive Santa

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Sorcha's Secret Santa
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 06:56 AM

He! He! He!

Boy, is your present so heavy! It is packed with yummy goodies. Rudolph said "I'm not carrying that!", but I'm working on him.

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Animaterra's Quiet (but kinda nice) Secret S
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 01:13 PM

Dear Animaterra

I may seem to have been a tad on the quiet side, but I'm not the noisiest of Santa's!

My elves, as I speak, are scouring the shelves of the local shops for the finishing touches before despatching via reindeer and sled (courtesy of UPS or someone of that ilk!).

Despair not! Your secret Christmas WILL arrive!

Share and enjoy!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Crane Driver, help!
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 01:32 PM

Hi! I'm checking on your address. Is this right?
(Personal info removed from public now that it's been answered. joe clone)
Your SS.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: My guru always said
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 03:37 PM

Hey Santa, you get around don't you!!! New Mexico (or possibly not) on the 8th, then Texas on the 10th. Well, I just hope you're not wearing those reindeer out too much before the big day *grin*

Lovely to get postcards, Thanks! Even if I'm not sure whether to believe in them or not - one thing I do believe in at the moment is Santa!!

Hope you've had safe journeys & that all is well with all your household, even those pesky elves (ooooh, don't tell them I said that will you?)....

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 03:58 PM

Silly Santa, those weren't nuns, they were penguins!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: SussexCarole
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 04:07 PM

Boo hoo I'm still Billy No Mates

Neither my santa or my santee want to play. Think I'll cancel Christmas this year!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Crane Driver
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 04:39 PM

Hey Santa -

That's pretty good - almost right.

It's Clos St Cenydd, not Cerydd.

Otherwise it's spot on.

Please tell Sussex Carole's Santa that it's the same address for her!!

We wish you a thingly whot not,
Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Blackcatter
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 08:49 PM

I haven't been able to find shipping deadlines for international packages online (the USPS site doesn't seem to think that's important this year, I guess).

So if people could help others out - what are shipping deadlines for/from various Mudcat locals?

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Firecat's Secretive Santa
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 08:54 PM

Well, things are beginning to come together. One of the elves is haunting used book stores, and is finding some interesting things besides Ten Thousand Unique Things To Do With Frozen Raindeer Crap," and another one is working her little elvish fingers to the bone making souvenir trinkets.   When does the ice pack close off the North Pole? I want to get these out before the last boat leaves, and the raindeer are talking about striking unless they can get book royalties.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 05:56 AM

Oh, Santa, I never doubted you for a minute! I wonder if you realize, though, how many hints you dropped in that last post!!

Allison

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,CapriUni's SS
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 07:24 AM

Well everything is gathered together ready to be packed in the sack and loaded onto the sleigh....soon it will be winging (is that appropriate for reindeer??) it's way to your chimney. Don't forget to leave out a mince pie and a glass of something nice!

Love....

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Tinker
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 09:46 AM

Okay, Okay I admit, I was trying all the techniques my teens try on me .... But I did send a profile of sorts to Jeff. My Birthday is on the 22nd and my daughter is three days after Christmas and a son just after 12th night, so it begins to blurr into one long celebratory season. I don't often get surprised though so this is a bit of a treat.

I suppose attempting to shift a spell at great distance could inevitably take an unexpected twist or turn, especially with all the elven magic about your way this time of year. I'll just have to put my feet up with a bit of chocolate and practice patience.

Repentant, but anticipatory

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Jaze's very silly indeed secret santa
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 12:39 PM

....ahhh trappist penguins. Wondered why they weren't talking much. Hang on a minute I must be living upside down if I can see penguins....could have sworn I was near the North Pole!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Tinker's smiling SS *grin*
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 03:50 PM

Delighted to be able to read your profile Tinker, although have gleaned much of your musical tastes & character from your posts & my spies. Many thanks!

Good girls should always be rewarded, and so the spell has now been adjusted to your choice of opening day, but only either your Birthday or Solstice, so don't rush to the dining room closet & open it just yet! I think I can guarantee a surprise......

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Amergin's SS
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 04:09 PM

Hee Hee Hoo Hoo! Maybe your parcel is on the way! Maybe that is, if it has to travel a long, long way. Maybe it's not on the way yet. Maybe I live quite close. Maybe there's a second surprise heading off in the other direction for someone very dear to you. Maybe that one hasn't left yet either.
Just thought I'd keep you posted. Amergin's own SS.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Back from somewhere;MGASSS
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 07:35 PM

Hi, My Guru--thanks for your good thoughts. I'm glad the housemate and computer hog (and able computer guide and assistant) let you know I wasn't having any bad times. And oh, my goodness--what a project you undertook that Sunday morning! Around here we call that being a serious overachiever!

Somebody on the trip mentioned that your address reads like poetry and I agree.

Anyway, the Winter Holiday ( I can say that, can't I, since we are both in the same hemisphere--hint, hint--) projects continue to march around here. Have to watch the cats--they tend to carry off unattended bits and pieces. It's almost time to start packing the sleigh--

Love,

Santa

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: jaze
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 08:57 PM

Oops. Are penguins only in the south pole??

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 07:18 AM

Iam wrighting this note because I am really really really, fed up. I am playing the game with my santee, but MY santa has not put a word in at all WHY. Have I got one, have I killed a blackbird, what have I done wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: artbrooks
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 07:30 AM

Holiday mail dates