BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin

Subject: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 08:40 AM

I have a Santee! Many thankyous, Stilly

I've read their hints, & have some ideas

hee hee heee

ho ho ho

sandra

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From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 10:19 AM

I don't got nothin'. Nobody like me and so I don't like nobody. Nyah. So there.

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From: Firecat
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 10:23 AM

I have my Santee! Yay! Now to find out what he/she likes...

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From: ranger1
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 10:55 AM

Hey, where's mine?!

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From: Becca72
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 11:16 AM

Santa is Coming


Thanks, Stilly!

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From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 02:43 PM

I got my Santee! Now the fun begins.........
















Hehehehehehehe....................

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 03:11 PM

I haven't received mine yet....but I'm hoping for one who's cute, young, female...and wouldn't mind self portraits of me wearing depends....in various sexy poses.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Greg Stephens' Santa
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 03:19 PM

Greg me boy, you didn't give Santa much to go on. How about answering a question or two: Are you a coffee drinker at all? Like spicy things or barbecue?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 03:54 PM

lol Amergin

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 04:14 PM

All Santees have been assigned.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Becca72's Concealed Claus
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 04:40 PM

Hello...

Hope you've been good this year.

Thank you for the hints. I have sent the elves searching with swatches of material in your favorite colors.

One other piece of information is required. What is your view on candy?

CC

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 05:38 PM

Santa wouldn't torment anyone. You guys must be...

Impostors!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 06:01 PM

I dunno, Joe....Santa has been tormenting me with coal ever since I was a boy....

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Firecat's Santa Imposter
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 11:34 PM

I believe in Joe Offer. I am an Imposter.

Hmm...Firecat is in the UK. Do they eat liver in the UK? I could send some. Raw liver is very interesting to post. If it is delivered at all it is generally a different colour from when it started. She didn't say whether or not she ate meat. She could be a Vegan, having come here on a starship from Vega. Well, I have time to search everywhere, to the very ends of the Earth, to find something "appropriate."

Or she could be a Dalek or have been with The Master on Gallifrey. Oh my goodness! Thank the lord that I have a Tardis.

Subject: Yo! Anne Lister. Where are you anyway?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Nov 13 - 11:45 PM

My sleigh is never going to find you. UK, I get that, but where ua Monmouthshire?    I hear that last year my elves were a little slow and that your gift was costly to receive.   Any hints in how I can avoid that this year?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Firecat
Date: 08 Nov 13 - 03:26 AM

Squee!

As to the meatistness, the only meat I will eat is free-range chicken. I was vegetarian for 10 years, though.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 08 Nov 13 - 08:51 AM

Oh, hello Santa! Didn't see you there. I was being good. No really. Don't listen to my wicked step mummy.

I definitely believe in candy! Preferrably chocolate of the dark variety :-) Maple, however, is evil and must be stopped along with its minion, the raisin.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: billybob
Date: 08 Nov 13 - 12:52 PM

Whoo hoo, I know who I have to send too,
such fun, off to find some goodies........................

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Amergin's Amiable Arctic Representative
Date: 08 Nov 13 - 01:13 PM

Hmmm, so you like photography, writing and pretty young things, eh?
Give Santa a little time to figure out how to lure her into the shipping package...

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Anne Lister
Date: 08 Nov 13 - 03:19 PM

Oooh - so that Guest was my Santa? And I didn't get a close look at you!
Monmouthshire, dear Santa, is on the south eastern side of Wales, just before you get to England. It has a noble history and was the birthplace of Charles Rolls (as in Rolls Royce), Henry V and many others. So setting your reindeer's SatNav to the post code given will bring your sleigh to our door, pretty much.
Normally speaking I know you don't have any trouble with the taxman and import/export duties as you simply fly above their heads ... but gifts from outside the UK coming in are free of tax if the value is £36.00 or below as long as you haven't put any special delivery charges on top of the value of the goods.
Does that help?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: greg stephens
Date: 08 Nov 13 - 05:33 PM

I like spice. I like coffee. I like local music. There's enough hints for my kindly Santa.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Becca72's Concealed Claus
Date: 08 Nov 13 - 05:37 PM

Glad to hear it.

One of my elves has raised another query. Do you have pierced ears?

CC

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Nov 13 - 06:37 PM

If not, your elf can take care of it for her.

I've got a secret santee too and is s/he going to be surprised! I know I was, because I didn't thing any Catters were in Antarctica. Of course, it IS summer there at the moment so there are probably beach parties and things.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Nov 13 - 07:17 PM

I have a santee, but it's a deep dark secret, so I can't do hints. Quel bummer.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Nov 13 - 08:53 PM

ooh, Rap, lucky you - is Iceboy back?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Firecat
Date: 09 Nov 13 - 12:35 PM

Bump

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From: GUEST,Maeve's Meditative MidWinter Magus
Date: 09 Nov 13 - 06:08 PM

To let you know that I am here and thinking of you, my dear. Wondering what would please you best ... The reindeer are excited about visiting your part of the world and at least one elf is already licking his lips at the thought of lobsters. We shall see what we can do.
If you could see your way to providing a bowl of chowder, that would be much appreciated - and possibly a glass of Moxie?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,becca72 on the mobile
Date: 10 Nov 13 - 05:15 PM

I do have pierced ears :-)

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From: dulcimer42
Date: 10 Nov 13 - 06:01 PM

I have not heard from my Santa yet. Are you out there Santa?

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From: GUEST,Jacqui's Jocular Jack Frost
Date: 10 Nov 13 - 06:36 PM

So, I am guessing you want me to get you the Best of Tupac Shakur and the 2 Live Crew box set.

I am sure I can come up with that, though, customs might not like it. I suppose I could smuggle it inside a blizzard or something.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 10 Nov 13 - 06:43 PM

Santa, please don't forget to put air holes in the box this time!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Nov 13 - 10:56 PM

I got a Santa!

Being a very polite person, if you DID get me the item mentioned I would have to listen to it, but then you might have Kendall hunting you to the ends of the earth for poluting the air with 'noise'. Would it be worth it, do you think?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Elf in charge if international deliveries to
Date: 10 Nov 13 - 11:08 PM

So if the postal workers ask , I shall tell them I am shipping worthless reindeer poo. That should avoid taxation. But they might think that's toxic waste. Better come up with a better idea, but it shall definitely be something officially of low worth! Can 't have you paying to receive a gift cram Santa,

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: maeve
Date: 11 Nov 13 - 05:35 AM

Dear Maeve's Meditative MidWinter Magus,

Thank you for your thoughtful missive.
Regarding your subtle request for Moxie, Lobster, and Chowder-
While we would be delighted to prepare a welcoming meal
for you, we are inland from coastal waters and sou'east from Moxieland.
Even so, we have plenty of moxie and will happily lob some well-stered chow onto our Santa Plate over der.

Kindly caution your elves to conduct their recognizance visits without
disturbing the bantams- they work hard and need their sleep.

Thank you,

Maeve Being Good

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,The Hollow Secret
Date: 11 Nov 13 - 10:27 AM

Dear heart, you said "info to follow". Wherezit? Cinders and gummybears may be your lot.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 12 Nov 13 - 03:51 PM

I just thought I'd refresh this to remind my Santa to put air holes in the box when s/he ships that girl over. I know some people like that sort of thing, but dead ones aren't much fun....they just lie there.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: ranger1
Date: 12 Nov 13 - 03:59 PM

Santa? Where ya at? I been good this year, honest!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Amergin's Amiable Arctic Representative
Date: 12 Nov 13 - 04:03 PM

(slaps forehead) AIR HOLES! I knew I forgot something last time.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,The Upside-down Santa of Vectis
Date: 12 Nov 13 - 05:59 PM

Well, it appears that the ordinary postal services have restricted and prohibited almost anything that could possibly be sent to New Zealand. We shall have to find an alternative extraordinary method of transporting your gift, on dragon-back perhaps?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: artbrooks
Date: 12 Nov 13 - 09:22 PM

Santa?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: ranger1
Date: 13 Nov 13 - 12:08 AM

Art, maybe your Santa and mine are getting tipsy in some pub together.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Nov 13 - 01:04 AM

mine must be there, too!

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From: GUEST,guest ranger1 s secert santa
Date: 13 Nov 13 - 03:36 AM

So you have been a good girl? That's all I was waiting to hear!

Do I leave your present under the tree? I hope you have snow out there in the woods because my reindeer cannot fly without the white stuff.
Will be putting on me boots and jolly red coat and flying your way soon..................................

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From: vectis
Date: 13 Nov 13 - 04:49 AM

To my upside down santa:

Foodstuffs that have been manufactured are OK, handmade stuff is the problem as are vegetation and animal products. You would't believe what I had to leave behind when I emigrated down here. Sorry :-(

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: ranger1
Date: 13 Nov 13 - 07:30 AM

Yay! My Santa isn't getting tipsy at the pub with Art Brooks' Santa! Sorry Art! But you still have Sandra to commiserate with.

Alas, Santa, no snow yet. Hoping for a bunch by Christmas, though. And I don't have room for a tree indoors, so I'll just leave space on the table, along with a plate of cookies and a beverage.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Jacqui's Jocular Jack Frost
Date: 14 Nov 13 - 01:33 PM

Hmmmm. You might just have a point there, Jacqui. Of course, I could just distract him with some naked llamas, so that I might make my clean getaway.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Becca72's Concealed Claus
Date: 15 Nov 13 - 01:13 AM

Thank you for that. The elves are hard at work as I type, hunting down suitable items.

Don't forget, I see all. ;-)

CC

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,MyGuruAlwaysSaidSlyFoxSanta
Date: 15 Nov 13 - 09:08 AM

Your list is inspiring some careful thought
Though none of your gifts is newly bought
Your Santa's been searching the whole year through
In hopes special gifts will bring smiles to you,
Like the light through a stained glass window.

Though you try to guess my identity
You are wrong- that's my helper- it is not me.
Please believe any hints from Reynardine
That fox and family are pals of mine
And they're paid to distract you, Santee!

Sing for your supper,
Sing for your tea,
Sing for the festival,
Sing for me.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Nov 13 - 10:05 AM

I ain't got no Santa.... Here I am, crouching in the corner of an alley behind the garbage cans, the blizzard winds blowing through my too-well-worn coat, eating what moldy french fries I can find and trying to heat my poor frozen hands with the matches I couldn't sell, the snow freezing my feet through the holes in my soleless shoes, and in the distance there is music and feasting and gaiety and warmth, but alas! the is none for me, a poor outcast without a Santa.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,MGASSFS
Date: 15 Nov 13 - 10:12 AM

For the Poor Wandering One who awaits his Santa...

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 15 Nov 13 - 10:15 AM

Man, them librarians do know how to paint a verbal picture, huh? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: billybob
Date: 15 Nov 13 - 01:23 PM

Is there a Santa out there for me??? Not in the pub with Art's is he?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Nov 13 - 03:17 PM

Paint a VERBAL picture? That's from LIFE -- do you know how much librarians make????

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 15 Nov 13 - 04:04 PM

Too much for playing with books all day. ;)

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: artbrooks
Date: 15 Nov 13 - 06:59 PM

I am sitting here in the pub all alone - those other Santas are REALLY missing! Please Santa, save me before I get so far into the troughs of despond that I order a Coors Light.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Nov 13 - 07:10 PM

ART! Buddy! No!! Listen, you can work through this. All Is Not Lost!! Life really IS worth living! Don't do that to yourself!! A Bud Light if you must, but never a Coors Light!! If you do that you're throwing everything away! Everything!! Santa might even put you on the "Naughty" list!

Come on, I'll get you to Group. Yeah, I'm in it too. The I-Haven't-Heard-From-My-Secret-Santa Group, or the IHHFMSS Group. Yeah, coffee's okay. So's hard liquor. But none of that...you-know-what. No CL. That'll rot your tubes.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: My guru always said
Date: 16 Nov 13 - 04:19 AM

Hoorah, my Santa is here!

Thank you Santa, for your fantastic Sly Fox poetry, you obviously know how much I love Foxes! There are two young Foxes who visit our garden daily at the moment, are they your Helpers??? I'm sure they'll eat mince pies as everyone know they have a sweet tooth, but they prefer the meaty scraps and also the nuts and seeds scattered for the birds.

You also know I love stained glass, have you been peeking at my photos?

How will I find you Santa Dear, with your confusing Foxy ways? Torment indeed *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Jenn's Very Patient Santa
Date: 16 Nov 13 - 08:28 AM

way back on 07 Oct 13 Art said - Jenn and I are in. We're currently traveling, so give us a few days to update the hint list. Anywhere is fine.

Maybe the reason Art's Santa is not communicating is he & Jenn have not posted their hints!!

Coal or Coors Light might be be heading to The House of Brooks.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: artbrooks
Date: 16 Nov 13 - 10:39 AM

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Actually, it's on the other thread.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Art's Staggering Santa
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 04:48 AM

Hic Hic
This is Art's Santa staggering back from the Local - did I see Billybob's Santa there? Well I have no idea - I was too busy looking through my beer glasses. And now there is the sleigh to pack and the reindeers to feed and I have a headache from too much celebration.

Stand by Art. Do not panic - moves are afoot

Staggering Santa

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Becca72's Concealed Claus
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 03:07 PM

Another query has been raised by the elves - you'd think they would know these things!

What is your birthstone?

Thank you in advance.

CC

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney's Soggily Swimmin Santa
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 03:01 AM

From over the ocean
From over the sea
A parcel of goodies
Will be winging to thee

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 05:24 AM

YAH!!!!!!

I have a Santa - I must confess I was feeling a tad left out when one by one the other Santas appeared

not that I'm saying you were late or anything, wonderful Santa

thankyou thankyou thankyou

happy sandra

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 11:32 AM

Hello again, Santa. :-)

My birthstone is garnet and I LOVE it!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Billybob's brilliantly bubbly Santa
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 02:11 PM

Hello there young lady - I guess you've been waiting for me a while. The elves messed up my computer and it has been in the shop for a few days. Anywho, it's back now and the elves have been put on double duties to make up for their mischief and to make sure that there will be a bagful of goodies heading east.

Now, do you wear earrings? Danglies or studs is the next question. We need the answer to make the right selection - Mrs Claus has way too many of the things and can quite easily donate a pair for such a worthy cause.

By the way, we do know that you have been exceptionally good this year so there will be no chance of coal turning up in your bag this time.

I've got to go now, lots still to do.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Maeve's meditative MidWinter Magus
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 04:08 PM

Oh, we have been so busy! And yet I doubt if even one bantam has stirred in the night. All is now fully prepared for you and gifts have been chosen with care. Now to wrap them and box them and hope that they arrive in good order...I am of course trusting to you to keep your standards of behaviour high, as I don't always get ready as promptly as this and there are still some weeks to go in which you might let yourself down badly.
I shall be posting one elf on permanent surveillance duties, just in case, with the magic potion to transform the contents of the box into dust and ashes, but I sincerely hope he won't need to use it. If you leave the occasional snack or beverage out for him he will, I'm sure, be very grateful.
Hohohohohohohoho .....

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Elf in charge of Annie Lister
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 05:15 PM

Ms. Annie,   It's a long ride there and I'm wonderin' when to head out. If I get overly rambunctious and get your present to you too soon, would you kindly promise to just hang on to it until Christmastime before opening?   Better to have it securely in your hands than to have it idly lying on the shelf in Santa's rural Shoppe branch here in Smalltown U.S.A.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,sarah the flute's santa is choosing another
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 05:41 PM

These helpful elves are pressing all the wrong keys so I'm off to feed them to the reindeer!
Glad you're being good but the coal will be on hold... just in case.


right, I shall go through my stash of superb Christmas type gifts as soon as Rudolph has eaten the last of the elves.

Have fun

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: maeve
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 06:03 PM

Dear Maeve's meditative MidWinter Magus,

How wise of you to be so well prepared early in the season! It must be due to your many, many, many years of experience. I shall endeavor to behave in such a manner to make you proud.

By the bye- you said "I shall be posting one elf on permanent surveillance duties...". It is indeed thoughtful and meditative in the extreme for you to tell me, but I must say we have already spotted your little helper. I hesitate to ask... but did you not think it a mite extreme to have him appear in the form of a weasel? Dancing around between the chicken coop and the stone wall in broad daylight with the bantams out and about, and wearing a white coat when the grass is still green... It does make one wonder. He is welcome to munch on voles, but not the chickens.

Anyroad, I thank you for your efficient and thoughtful efforts.

Maeve-too-busy-working-to-misbehave

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 11:35 PM

I have a Santa...appears he's an alky. Huh - I guess I'll have to lay in a big dram of good brandy to put next to the chimbley.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,The Upside-Down Santa of Vectis
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 02:59 AM

Such a shame you have had to leave so much behind when you moved to the other side of the World, but it will have brought you much Joy, of that we are certain.

My helpful Dragonets and I have been researching suitable gifts for one such as yourself, and methinks we have been successful. We would be interested to hear how you will be celebrating Christmas without the British weather, do tell!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,The Subtle Santa of Firecat
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 10:23 AM

Ich bein toksan busy pourquoi les batards in the governments, so je me fait votre Jule gift ASAP. Esta uno caballo, uno caballo muy grande, uno palamino la meme de el caballo Roy Rogers, Trigger. Buy a saddle.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Art's Staggering Santa
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 02:12 PM

Ho Ho Ho
That sounds a swell idea to me. Bring on the whiskey, brandy, cognac, black balsam
Hic

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: billybob
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 07:12 PM

OOOOOh Santa, I knew in my heart you would not be in the pub, hope the elves have been banned from your computer.

I love earings, danglies or studs, I love them all. My mother told me you should never leave the house without your earings or lipstick!

thank you Santa, I will try to be good.
By the way how did you know I like bubbly? My favourite brilliant drink,
hic, sorry and I only had one glass
x

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: maeve
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 08:56 PM

Hmmm... On the other hand, Oh Wise Midwinter Santa, was it your designated elf who was just now howling wildly with the rest of the local pack of coyotes...in our orchard, near our chicken house???

Thinking hard,
Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Firecat
Date: 22 Nov 13 - 03:34 PM

Oooh, exciting! Merci beaucoup for the update!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Becca72's Concealed Claus
Date: 22 Nov 13 - 03:49 PM

The elves have returned with interesting items. I can now begin to package and prepare them for transportation (the items, not the elves!).

All being well, I should be loading up the swallow for the trip to you before the month is out. Not sure how long it will take, however. I know the velocity of an unladen swallow, but I am experimenting. If it works out, the reindeer might be out of a job.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 22 Nov 13 - 04:36 PM

I HAVE A SANTA I HAVE A SANTA I HAVE A SANTA
wOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

StF

Being REALLY good

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Nov 13 - 09:32 PM

No...Santa. I'll go to the ND/BYU football game tomorrow at ND and cheer for BYU. It's a cheap way to commit sewer side, since that's where they throw you after they beat you up. Then I'll join Art in a Coors Lite.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Rapparee's very moral Secret Santa
Date: 23 Nov 13 - 11:08 AM

Well I have been allocated a Santee called Rapparee. And I looked this strange word up and it seems to mean some kind of vagabond rogue who goes around stealing stuff and stabbing people. I can tell you I am not going to waste my hard-earned money buying presents for this kind of misbegotten outcast rapscallion who probably comes from Limerick where the postmen are too scared to deliver parcels anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Rapparee's very moral Secret Santa
Date: 23 Nov 13 - 11:08 AM

Well I have been allocated a Santee called Rapparee. And I looked this strange word up and it seems to mean some kind of vagabond rogue who goes around stealing stuff and stabbing people. I can tell you I am not going to waste my hard-earned money buying presents for this kind of misbegotten outcast rapscallion who probably comes from Limerick where the postmen are too scared to deliver parcels anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Stringsinger
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 09:56 AM

Santa sports too much weight to be hanging from a cross.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Firecat's Amoral Santa
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 09:37 PM

Well, unless you've been MUCH MUCH better than my elves report you have been I'm keeping the pressies. I never would have thought...well, young lady, I'm shocked. Just shocked at such behaviour. Even the reindeer were shocked. As for the elves, they just sit in a corner giggling and sometimes I here the word "Firecat" followed by even more giggles.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Firecat
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 06:59 AM

I'm always good!

Not to cast aspersions, but did you know that even though the reindeer claim to be boys, they're actually girls? Boy reindeers don't have antlers at this time of year.

The elves are probably jealous of my height. As my husband says, they're failed jockeys.

Are you sure they're not just trying to get me in trouble?

*polishes halo*

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 10:45 AM

Santa,

Are you using African or European swallows?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,The Modest and Unassuming Santa of Firecat
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 02:07 PM

I found that some of the elves have given me defective reports. They have been disciplined (flogged while hung by the thumbs from the rigging) and serve as an example to the others. Any further false reports will have the reporter(s) keelhauled. Keelhauling is a harsh punishment you will say, but remember that this is the Arctic Ocean and a harsh environment.

Old Santa is not one of those nicey-nicey employers. Besides, where's an elf going to get a job in this economy? Hogwarts isn't hiring and scraping for one's self in the countryside isn't exactly a flat in Soho or even in Glasgow.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Maeve's meditative Midwinter Magus
Date: 25 Nov 13 - 06:14 PM

Maeve, my surveillance elf is far too astute to be detected ... she is unlikely to be in animal guise, whether stoat, weasel, ferret, coyote or porcupine and although her singing voice has been criticised it has never before been described as "howling wildly". I suggest you put all of your efforts into better behaviour (it is misleading to think that if you are working hard you are necessarily behaving well ... much depends on what kind of work you are doing) and don't try too hard to spot my elf. The occasional bowl of porridge (I believe you refer to it as "oatmeal") left in a quiet spot might help (sweetened with honey and cinnamon, if it's not too much trouble) and if my elf doesn't eat it perhaps some other creature might.
You have, however, successfully worried my reindeer now about the presence of the coyotes. Rudolph wonders whether a glowing proboscis is likely to scare them off.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 28 Nov 13 - 05:59 AM

Just thought I'd pop this up in hopes to get lots of goodies from my santa....instead of coal....like I get every other year.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: maeve
Date: 28 Nov 13 - 10:02 AM

Dear Meditative Santa,

I am sure your elf is both subtle and clever, but I worry that yesterday's gale may have been a challenge. I do hope he/she wasn't sheltering in the grape arbor when the wind lifted it and redeposited it a foot away?

As for behavior, I defy anyone to behave poorly when sharing home, land, and life with such a treasure of a husband as I married. Kindly tell your elf that a warm welcome awaits within our house. No need to shiver outside in hopes of porridge- come along inside and have a bowlful beside the woodstove while I spin this year's fleeces.

Cordially,

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Firecat's Cruel Santa, Elf Employer
Date: 28 Nov 13 - 09:08 PM

Those elves mentioned earlier have been dealt with and the reindeer are fatter and sassier than before.

We now can watch you through your television, computer monitor, mobile phone, and other devices. We have photographs and recordings detailing your every move both inside and outside your home. Santa is superior to the NSA, and never think otherwise.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Severn
Date: 29 Nov 13 - 02:14 AM

My Santa's so secret that I'm beginning to question his or her existance at all. My house brownies Hash and McGhee who keep watch over my townshack haven't heard anything of any strange elves snooping about yet and Mudcat has thus far left me in a state of cluelessness. I hope I hear from you sooner than later. If Santa's been waiting for Black Friday, I think Robinson Crusoe has called him back home unexpectedly. Please make yourself known so that we can make your task as easy as possible. Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST, Severn's Stealth Santa
Date: 29 Nov 13 - 08:14 AM

Bwaaaaahaha! Ve haf our vays...

In conference with the NSA even as I type... Not sure when I can get the cats in harness, but we've been singing "Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow" for a week now...

SSS

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: vectis
Date: 30 Nov 13 - 03:51 AM

To my upside down Santa

I will be having a barbeque followed by a spot of surfing down on the local beach which is what most Kiwis seem to do.

I may even be really lucky and get to build sandcastles with my granddaughter.

How will you be spending your chilly Christmas?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 13 - 09:18 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Nov 13 - 09:48 PM

Just a quick note for My Guru Always Said - I have installed the advent calendar and it's ready to go for tomorrow! Thank you so much! I think Jeri sent one last year and it was such fun - next year I need to beat people to it and send them out. These Jacquie Lawson Edwardian Advent Calendars are charming. Thank you!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 08:15 AM

I've got two of them. Got to see if they open and play OK on my I-Pad as I will be away from the desktop for most of December!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 02:21 PM

Hmmm...granted I've been pretty busy and distracted lately with some very unholiday events, but I just went through all the posts again to make sure I hadn't missed anything...

My Santa is silent...

Encouragement is to be encouraged...but please bear in mind that my brain is fried (actually, I hope I put it and my vocabulary in a safe place where I can retrieve them later) and I'm emotionally exhausted. Even the simplest of puzzlements may be overwhelming.

But, Santa, you COULD let me know you exist...

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: dulcimer42
Date: 01 Dec 13 - 04:10 PM

Like the old song said, "I'm gettin' nuttin for Christmas......"

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Dec 13 - 11:00 AM

Goodie goodie goodie! My Santee is a librarian in Ohio and she likes dragons and so do I! This should be fun! (Rubs little elvish hand together gleefully.)

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Dec 13 - 11:14 AM

And now that Santa is finally getting organized, Mary Hermance, may he know what Post Wheeler and Arthur Waley books you already have, just in case he has a lucky find?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: My guru always said
Date: 02 Dec 13 - 11:38 AM

SRS, very glad you got the advent calendar, hope you enjoy it! Thanks for all your hard work in herding us Christmas Cats!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: vectis
Date: 04 Dec 13 - 04:37 AM

YAY!!!

The elves left a pressie in my mailbox today :-D

Thank you so much Santa. I have a few ideas of who you may be but I reckon you might have moved recently.

YAY! I gotta pressie!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Maeve's mystical and mysterious meditative M
Date: 04 Dec 13 - 03:26 PM

The warmth of your welcome is appreciated but you will realise there is little point in a surveillance elf if she is made too comfortable by the object of her duties. And we appreciate your concern, but again you will realise that my elves and my reindeer are used to adverse weather conditions and can, indeed, foretell much of what will happen atmospherically.
Your package, my dear, has been entrusted to paid messengers so that it doesn't get caught up in my usual Christmas deliveries. I have NOT marked "Do not open until December 25th" on the box, and trust to your good judgement, and the only clue to its origin will be an obscure address for potential return if it were to go astray ... but I trust it will travel well.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Becca72's Concealed Claus
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 01:44 PM

I've been testing both out, and decided they work well as a team.

All being well, they will be beginning their flight from Claus Towers to you tomorrow. I'll confirm it then.

CC

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 02:22 PM

Still...nary a peep.

Santa? Are you out there?

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 02:32 PM

Oh, thank you Santa!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST, Severn's Stealth Santa
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 04:08 PM

Each time I got the cats herded together, one would sneak off. Get a harness on one, and the other would disappear. Finally capitulated and farmed the job out -- New Knighted Snakes Snail Mail Service got the job. Sent Priority, so you should have it reasonably soon.

But...the wrapping says wait until Christmas...;-)

SSS

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Becca72's Concealed Claus
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 10:30 AM

I have just dispatched an elf to the swallow shed to attach your interesting box to a line of creeper.

Please let me know when it arrives safely. You may open the external wrapping, but the box itself must not be opened until December 25.

CC

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 11:38 AM

I'll be on the look out, Santa. Thank you!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,The Upside-down Santa of Vectis
Date: 06 Dec 13 - 04:23 PM

It's great news that your parcel has arrived so early, but I had asked the delivery dragon to ensure that you received it 'just in time'. You just can't get the staff, can you?

We will be having a fairly quiet traditional Christmas this year. Some of our family are away doing other things, so there will be less of us around the table. Not a BBQ or sandcastle in sight and there may even be some snow.

You mentioned that you have an idea who I am, but that I might have moved recently. Quite unlikely, I assure you, as I find that this North Pole residence is perfectly habitable, though not to everyone's taste.

Hopefully you will find your gift to be suitable, but beware, if you are bad or you open it before the big day it will turn into a lump of polish coal. Compliments of the season to you and yours.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Art's staggering Santa
Date: 07 Dec 13 - 07:56 AM

Actually Art's staggeringly good Santa has good tidings having stayed sober long enough to hitch up yon sleigh and head off into the night. Keep a look out Arty boy things are happening skyward

hic!

The staggering Santa

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: artbrooks
Date: 07 Dec 13 - 10:19 AM

Be careful, Santa - you know that recent research has proven that all eight of those reindeer are female. They may take you straight to the mall, and I'm a ways away.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Dulcimer's Delinquent Deer Driver
Date: 07 Dec 13 - 03:00 PM

Sorry I took so long getting to you, but the special elf who's assigned to you had 41 other dulcimer-ers to take care of before you. However, he states that out of the 42 checked out so far, you've behaved the best of the lot, take that for what you will. You will make out quite well this Christmas as a result. So, things are heating up after being kept at a dull simmer and choice goodies (my choice, of course) will be soon on the way to reward your patience.

Let Nothing You Dismay,
Father X-Mas

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Anne Lister
Date: 07 Dec 13 - 03:54 PM

I have received a parcel! It was waiting for me when I staggered home from a day in a busy town centre - now it's sitting below the tree, ready for opening on the due date.
Thank you, Santa! (I'm assuming it's from my Santa as I can't think why anyone else would be sending me a parcel from Indiana!).

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Barb'ry's Sneaky Bearded Santa
Date: 07 Dec 13 - 09:09 PM

Dr. Barbara,

Did you think I'd forgotten you this year? Absolutely not! Wire reports (lists are so old school - Santa uses Google.com now) indicate that you were a very good girl.

The elves have assembled a streamlined parcel-like-object to slip into the bag on the sleigh. Assuming your rooftop is suitable for landing, said-parcel will be delivered via reindeer. If our satellite GPS and Google Earth search indicates loose tiles or bumpy thatch, we will engage the services of a parcel delivery partner.

Yours cordially,

BSBS

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Dec 13 - 10:53 PM

Congratulations, Anne! You've been accepted as quarterback on the University of Notre Dame football team!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Severn
Date: 07 Dec 13 - 11:19 PM

I got a Christmas package from a Mudcatter who signed their name on the box that came from New England. I assume that it's you, dear Santa, but if not, please tell me otherwise. I've been known to receive other surprise boxes from Catter friends or fans. I just need to be sure that it's from the official Secret Santa, not that I open anything before Christmas morn. Thanks..

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Anne Lister
Date: 08 Dec 13 - 07:16 AM

Well, if that's the case, Rap, more fool them! Unless the rest of the team are also asthmatic and sedentary?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST, Severn's Not-So-Secret Anymore Santa
Date: 08 Dec 13 - 08:39 AM

Severn, it is indeed from your no-longer "Secret" Santa...me, Bat Goddess.

The admonition to not open does NOT apply to the outside shipping box. Everything inside it is wrapped, and will thus tease you every day until Christmas while they are sitting under the tree (or potted palm).

Oh, you may read the card, but you may want to avoid reading the letter.

Guess I farmed out delivery to an okay outfit!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Severn
Date: 08 Dec 13 - 01:50 PM

I worked for that outfit for 37 years. I'm post-postal now.......

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney's secretive santa
Date: 09 Dec 13 - 04:24 AM

Watch out Sandra the reindeer should be with you very soon.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Dec 13 - 05:35 AM

thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou

happy sandra

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 09 Dec 13 - 08:22 AM

Just to let my SS know I am still being ultra good ...with only the odd slip up here and there

StF

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Dec 13 - 11:56 AM

There are a couple of wild cards in play this year.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Dulcimer's Secret Santa's elf-service counte
Date: 09 Dec 13 - 12:17 PM

Dear 42,

I must say you don't look a day over 39.

My name is Elfish Presently, Santa's research elf assigned to your case. I must say I was intrigued to be sent to exotic Spiceland Indiana. I wasn't even sure there was much of anything exotic in Indiana, but I was definitely pleasantly proven wrong by the wonders of your thriving metropolis and your year-round seasonal festival.

I walked past the salt mines and the pepper mill where you urned your first celery. I passed by the bakery where local dillatantes were preparing dill-dough for pickle bread. I passed the church where they'd mustard up all the unsavory sinner-men to convert them to true bay-leafers. I met up with Rosemary and that nut Meg who helped drive my caraway with a rye smile or two. Meg did a Pole Dance like I'd never seen up North! All was very impressive, I must say!

I managed to observe you while parcely hidden behind the mint. (I always wanted to ex-spearmint at being a Mint-Spy!). So, rest easy. Your dreams will be fulfilled and filled full.

Anyway, I've found out that spice IS truly the variety of life and you can be assured that your box of bounty will cumin thyme for your Merry Christmas.


Enjoy!
Elfish Presently
Research Elf
North Pole



P.S. Only 57 more dulcimists to go. I'm glad I was instrumental in helping.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Billybob's Brilliantly Bubbly Santa
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 04:48 AM

Hello Ms Bob - your package is on its way, courtesy of a very helpful elf who delivered it, well wrapped, to the local Post Office on Monday.

I will leave it to your discretion whether you open it now or on Christmas Day.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 05:19 AM

I have a parcel!!

a large parcel!!

from New Zealand.

it is sitting on the floor at the moment & will be opened on Christmas day when I will thank my lovely Santa properly

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Sarah the flute's furtive Santa
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 09:03 AM

I know, I told you I was watching... Mind you, last Thursday's slip up was a bit hard to miss and what that old man must have been thinking when you - no, least said soonest mended as me old Dad used to say.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Mary Hermance's not so experienced Secret Sa
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 10:13 AM

My Secret Santa trainer informs me that I should have labeled this message as above if I ever wanted to get an answer: And now that Santa is finally getting organized, Mary Hermance, may he know what Post Wheeler and Arthur Waley books you already have, just in case he has a lucky find?

Fond regards,

flat learning curve.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Jacqui's Jocular Jack Frost
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 11:39 AM

I feel I must have to apologise. My elves went on strike due to poor working conditions and low pay, ok, no pay. For some reason, they felt they were due some sort of compensation for all the work they've done for me over the centuries. I did, and still do not, agree. They refused to work on your pressie, and get it out in a timely fashion. In fact,t ehy refused to do any work at all, feed the reindeer, clean up poop from the stalls, test Rudpolph's virility, for somereason with that last, they started demanding rubber gloves before they touch him there. I forbade them, said Rudolph want's it to feel natural.

Anyway, to make a long story short, the lazy bastards refused to see things my way. That is until I introduced to them the fine old Roman tradition of decimation. Now that there are a 10th less elves to ruin the holidays, and a few fatter polar bears and abominable snowmen, the rest are more than happy to make up for loss time and take up the slack of the decreased work force. I will make sure that, if need be, the reindeer make a special trip to your house so an elf may hand deliver your gift. Sorry about the delay.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 12:02 PM

My Santa is still silent...

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 02:06 PM

Probably the more to torment you, Linn!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Firecat's Flying Fatso
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 03:01 PM

So, your gift might be a little late. I was feeding the elves to the reindeer when I was taken up by an officer of the law. It appears that there is some law about feeding elves to reindeer -- it causes tooth decay or root rot or black tongue or something -- and I have spent the last few days in durance vile. This has put me behind time, but I managed to go free when I reminded the judge that I had a "naughty and nice" list and he was on it and that I **could** give it over to the press. How quickly can YOU say, "Case dismissed"?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 04:16 PM

Firecat's Flying Fatso...I think the illness you are referring to is Elf In Mouth disease....

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 06:18 PM

Santa! Plenty of time yet. I applaud your method of getting the elves to do their jobs - such pesky little critters they are! Correct use of the word decimate - that would please Kendall. He cringes when he hears of anything being 'decimated'. It's a hard life being a pedant!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: billybob
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 07:34 PM

Oh my goodness, I have a very heavy Parcel ! Thank you Santa, Not sure I can wait till the 25th to open it??? Cant squeeze it, tried shaking it, but the wrapping is very well sealed, really tempted..... but its bedtime !!
Thank you Santa,so excited xxxxxxx

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Firecat
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 08:02 PM

Thanks for the update!

Don't worry about it being late. As long as Rudolph doesn't get pulled over by the police for using psychedelic drugs to fly, it will be fine. If it doesn't make it here for Christmas, it'll make it here for my birthday (Old Christmas Eve!)

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 10:38 PM

There are some pretty good looking teases and hints passing through this thread. And a few folks who don't seem to have put in an appearance. Yet.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 06:39 AM

OMG....slip up last THURSDAY !!!!! I remember the slight abberation from saintliness on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday but no not Thursday too. I have been rumbled by Santa ...or the old man!

StF

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 02:36 PM

I haven't heard from mine in a while...but that's all right...he probably discovered all the naughty things I did in the last year...I really tried to get one passed the old man....ah well, he's too clever for me.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Bat Goddess's Panting Santa
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 04:49 PM

Sorry for the delay, but fear not, I've been scouring (well, driving) the world 'round to find just the right thing(s) for you. A question or two has come up:
In your beadmaking, are you doing lampwork, Sculpy, paper, or what other kind of beadmaking? For shippable food, do you prefer chocolate (what kind), a sweet or savory something,a favored comfort food? You're allowed to choose more than one. Gotta go, it's time to wax my runners and get another something.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: dulcimer42
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 05:44 PM

So glad to hear from the research elf assigned to my gift delivery. My, you have a way with the spicy words!    Actually, Spiceland was not given its name because of the Many kinds of spices in the area though.   It was the spicebush Lindera Bezoin   which used to grow all over the area. The Quakers who settled the area named thetown Spiceland, because of the fragrance of this particular bush.    Although I am not one of them,   the Quakers are still in abundance in the area.   Their church is right in the center of town. So you might tell the rest of the elves that they best not get too tipsy on eggnog or other spirits of the season before stopping here.   I'd hate for Santa to be run out of town by one of the local Quaker leaders.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Amergin's Amiable Arctic Representative
Date: 13 Dec 13 - 10:22 AM

Amergin - we need to talk, my friend. You have some 'splaining to do.

Also, Santa is still trying to lure a young lovely into the shipping box....must find the right kind of bait. Gemstones, perhaps...

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 13 Dec 13 - 11:09 AM

I have a Santa!!!

No, I'm not making beads at all -- just stringing them together in interesting combinations...if I ever find the time again. (And I probably will MAKE time for it after all this paperwork and tying up of loose ends and flying off to funerals and plannint Tom's memorial, etcet etcet finally settles down a bit.) And start practicing letterforms in slate, which is something else that was on hold while dealing with Tom's illnesses.

My favorite sweet is actually NOT chocolate, but caramel...however caramel and chocolate makes a really fine combination. I prefer good chocolate, but it can be milk, dark or even white "chocolate" (which really isn't chocolate, but I love it.) I also like very good fruit jellies. Oh, and dark chocolate covered candied orange rind. My favorite dessert is actually espresso Romano with a good dark rum...but that might be difficult to ship. What I REALLY enjoy are foods or candies that I'm unlikely to run across in my neck of the woods -- regional specialties. I have a very adventurous palate...

Thank you, Santa, for reassuring me!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: maeve
Date: 14 Dec 13 - 01:54 PM

Dear Santa,
A ginormous parcel with obscure return address has been delivered and I thank you. I shall leave it intact until Christmas Day morning, when my own True Love and I will delve into its secrets.

Yours in gratitude,

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Dec 13 - 09:41 PM

A past Santa sent me a parcel from S.S. Anta (Sandra's Santa), something Australia Post would not have allowed as we have to show ID when posting overseas.

Another Santa wrote my name & address in both To & From boxes - good thing they didn't make a mistake as the Lost Mail office would have probably not appreciated the contents as much as I did.

sandra (also looking forward to opening a big parcel)

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Ranger1's Secret Santa
Date: 15 Dec 13 - 05:59 AM

The elves have been busy finding goodies to pack, finding a box big enough was a problem but using the elvish magic they managed to squeeze everything in! Took ten of them to get it to the post office but it should arrive in time for Christmas!
Sitting back feeling pleased with themselves for doing such a good job!Now for a mince pie and egg nog!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,MyGuruAlwaysSaidSlyFoxSanta
Date: 18 Dec 13 - 02:15 PM

Dear Hils, your gifts are packaged well
In layers, then sent to your own sweet dell.
From Santa- a friend in a faraway place
To you- bringing laughter and smiles to your face,
Like the light through a stained glass window.

This Santa's a redhead, that much is true
More redheads will hide in my package to you.
I'm grateful for hints from old Reynardine,
And now he yips in a manner refined,
"Happy Christmas to all and a New Year divine!"

Sing for your supper,
Sing for your tea,
Sing for the festival,
Sing for me.

PS Only the elves and bluebirds know when your parcel will arrive-
kindly enjoy it as soon as you like, whenever it appears.

MyGuruAlwaysSaidSlyFoxSanta

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 18 Dec 13 - 04:18 PM

Ah yes...I was afraid of this. I am sorry, Santa...I promise I will not tell my cousin's little girl that I will steal all the presents from you, so no one gets any but me. But you know, she did do the right thing. She told my grandmother on me....to stop me.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 07:10 AM

WooooHooooo
A pressie has arrived...but I have not opened it yet - I will wait for the day (then I can have more presents than the rest of the family heh heh!)
I think, by sleuthful deduction that the culprit Santa might be Barbry - going by return details on the packet.

Thankyou and I will say I proper thankyou when I know whats inside
ooooooh exciting !

StF

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 09:24 AM

Thank you, Santa!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 09:54 AM

When I got home last night I had a parcel from the Royal Mail waiting for me!! Thanks, Santa. I will resist the urge to open it until the 25th.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Bat Goddess's Sneaky Santa
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 01:36 PM

I have assembled all the elements, And Now (mwa ha ha) - they will be shipped! The Box should get there in time for Christmas (that's a location hint about me). hehehehehe, Santa

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Becca72's Concealed Claus
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 02:47 PM

Glad it's arrived safely. I was starting to wonder - but my swallow wrangler did tell the elf that the swallows would take about a week.

Mind you, I will need to have a word with those swallows. They were supposed to deliver the interesting box themselves, not subcontract it to Royal Male. Wonder which it was - Harry, William... Philip?!

Not long to go now. Hope when you open it, you like the contents.

Merry Christmas!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 03:55 PM

Harry would be right up my alley, except he's rather too young for me :-)

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 03:57 PM

Wait a minute, Becca....your Santa swallows?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 04:18 PM

LOL, Amergin. Irrelevant as I am female...

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Severn
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 04:32 PM

So Becca's swallows never came back from capucino? They just dumped the package off at the P.O. and went on a long coffee break? Little birdies, you are SO busted! If I were a swallow right now, I'd be saying, "GULP!".......

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: dulcimer42
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 08:48 PM

I'm just SO excited that I have a Santa, somewhere out there.   I just LOVE surprises and can hardly wait!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 09:04 PM

Becca, you're FEMALE? How long has this been the case?

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 19 Dec 13 - 09:06 PM

Ever since the operation she had a couple months back, Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Firecat's Fat Flying Fiend In Furs
Date: 20 Dec 13 - 08:30 AM

Imprisonment does not become me. As for those elves who did it, I shall ensure that they are dealt with in an appropriate manner.

As part of your Christmas present, you may decide: 1. Drawing and Quartering, 2. Boiling alive (in memory of ol' King Henry, 3. Being slowly sawed in half with a wooden saw, or 4. Being made to accurately translate the entire "Aenid" from Latin to Greek to Aramaic. You may chose, my dear.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 20 Dec 13 - 08:46 AM

Since BIRTH, Rap...

Amergin - you'd better watch out; Santa Claus is coming to town.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 Dec 13 - 11:05 AM

I got a package from the UK. Amorphous in shape, no discernible smell...I don't think I'll have to call the bomb squad. Time will tell.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Dec 13 - 11:59 AM

That's ok, Becca. I'm use to getting coal. Though I must admit, some years I've been so naughty, Santa didn't even bother with the coal.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Dec 13 - 03:04 PM

Hi again Santa!

Erm, as much as I like the study of death, and methods thereof, I think a suitable - and mind-expanding - punishment would be the Aeneid translation.

However, to make it a greater punishment, could you make them translate it into Klingon as well? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Firecat
Date: 20 Dec 13 - 03:06 PM

Ooops, sorry! That GUEST a few minutes ago was me. My puter nommed my cookie!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Dec 13 - 08:20 PM

I hope, Sneaky Santa, that you will put your nom de Mudcat and real name in the package -- yes, it's fun to guess, but right at this point in time, my brain is...well, I'm not sure what my brain is, but it's definitely not fully functional.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 13 - 09:08 PM

Since birth? They didn't switch babies or something did they? I mean, mistakes have been made in the past and all.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Arts Staggering Santa
Date: 23 Dec 13 - 08:23 AM

OMG - have just found another amorphous parcel left here at the North Pole ...quick Art call the bomb squad!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: dulcimer42
Date: 23 Dec 13 - 09:09 AM

Santa.   Your elf arrived.   He must have had skiis on that sleigh to make it through the high water we have had here the past couple f days.   I must admit...   I did not wait 'till Christmas.   Well, there was not a "Do not open until...." tag on it.    A box of music!   For what more could one ask?   Maggie Sansone is one of my favorites.   Saw her at a festival out in Leesburg maybe a dozen or more years ago. I have one of the vocal samplers in my car right now. A great Christmas gift.   Thank you, Santa.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Severn
Date: 23 Dec 13 - 10:46 AM

Dulcimer 42,

I'm glad my package was a high water mark of a wet holiday season and worth wading for and through, even if you opened it early. There WAS some holiday music in there, so it's probably better that you did do.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Dec 13 - 11:04 AM

A parcel was sent to katlaughing's grandson Morgan. This news is for those of you who delighted in following her stories of the progress of that interesting young man (age 9).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: My guru always said
Date: 23 Dec 13 - 11:31 AM

Oh SlyFox Santa, how lovely it is to receive your rhymes!

I have little imagination myself so your clues of faraway places and redheads haven't helped me to guess your identity. Although Reynardine and his friends patrols our garden throughout the day, they have left neither hints nor gifts, but have been happy to eat the treats left out for them. One even caught one of our log-pile rats the other day - what a good Fox!

Thank you so much for being such a kind and clever Santa, I'm hoping that you will have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Amergin's Amiable Arctic Representative
Date: 23 Dec 13 - 03:18 PM

Ok, I finally got the young hottie stuffed in the shipping box and have outsourced the delivery to the USPS. I apologize for the delay, however there was a death in the Claus family which threw a bit of a twist on the holiday. You should receive it before the New Year, however. Please let Santa know when it arrives...

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Bat Goddess's Panting Santa
Date: 23 Dec 13 - 04:40 PM

I'll be glad to let you know who I really am, but the elves dropped the ball for part of your gift. (We had to chase that ball all over the North Pole, but we've got the sucker now!) The box is going to FedEx tomorrow morning. I hope it's not a day late, but there are twelve days of Christmas, right? As an added bonus gift, you can dope slap me when we finally meet.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Dec 13 - 07:57 PM

OH Santa! Is she the inflatable kind or is she living and breathing..at least before you closed the box.

No worries on the delay at all! I completely understand and in sad situations like that it would have been ok to wait even longer.

I really am sorry for your loss, and hope the new year brings forth happy memories of your loved one.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Dec 13 - 08:16 PM

I don't have any present. BWA! BWA! SANTA HASN'T COME YET!! SOB SOB!!

(Mind you, I haven't yet sent out my present.)

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Severn
Date: 23 Dec 13 - 10:20 PM

Mike, they're only sending you the gift paper. The rest of us are Santees, but you're merely a wrapperee. Give it your un-rapt attention when it comes, or watch it on paper-view ......

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Dec 13 - 11:38 PM

well said, Severn

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 10:19 AM

LOL Severn

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 11:46 AM

You do indeed have a Santa, Rap, and a very fine Santa indeed.

I should note here that I tampered with the list a bit, I inserted myself into the game in order to have an extra player so someone could send a gift to parties who didn't know they were on the list, hence the references to Art and Carol Thieme.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Firecat
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 12:29 PM

Groan, Severn!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 09:23 PM

Looks like there was a perfect trajectory on that Art and Carol Thieme delivery! It landed at ground zero on xmas eve - how great is that! (See the thread.) A special thank you to the Santa who had that task!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Bat Goddess's Secret Santa
Date: 24 Dec 13 - 11:25 PM

Well, I'm just about ready to take off. I sent your box by FedEx, and they said it should get to you on Boxing Day. I'm sorry for the delay. Perhaps I should have dropped it at your place myself. I hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: jennbrooks
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 01:52 PM

Hi, Santa in Australia with a name not very legible on the customs declaration but thank you for the lovely package, which did arrive in good time. The little ornaments are beautiful and will not be confined to Christmas, and did you make them? And nothing makes me happier than a cookbook and this one looks pretty comprehensive. Thank you, thank you. I hope you are having a Happy Christmas or any such festival as preferred, and good wishes for a happy new year!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 07:31 PM

the reason the name is not legible is a friend posted the pressie!

yes, I did make the ornaments & am pleased you will make use of the cookbook. If you have any trouble with terms in the cookbook, just ask & I'll try to interpret Aussie English to American.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: dulcimer42
Date: 25 Dec 13 - 09:13 PM

Santa, I have especially enjoyed the cd of Christmas tunes from the British Isles.   I've played it every day for the past 3 days.   Now I shall move on to a new favorite.   Thank you for the gift of music. There is no better gift.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 08:01 PM

No package as yet. Ah well, patience is a virtue, I suppose.......

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Dec 13 - 09:35 PM

Oh, dear. Will check with Santa.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Jacqui's Jocular Jack Frost
Date: 31 Dec 13 - 12:39 AM

I do apologise for being behind on this. My labour force has been giving me grief again. They sabotaged the assembly line here in the NOrth Pole again. Blighters. I think we caught the one who did it, but he hasn't copped to it, yet, even after extensive polar water boarding. We will try putting him on the ice rack tomorrow. Friday will be the day it goes out, but because of the issues we've been having, it may be in stages. I hope that is ok. Cheers!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Firecat
Date: 31 Dec 13 - 04:00 AM

Nothing here either. Still being hopeful of it being here by my birthday (Sunday), but starting to think it won't be. :-(

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,The Upside-down Santa of Vectis
Date: 31 Dec 13 - 06:17 AM

Copied from Thank You thread in case you don't look there.....

Glad to hear you liked your Pressies and that you've had a couple of days introducing your Granddaughter to the beach and sea recently.

Not sure who I am then? We had a quieter Christmas this year but all is OK here as always. Happy New Year!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Firecat's Fiendly Fat Flyer
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 10:46 AM

My dear, you have NO idea! I do so beg your pardon for this unavoidable delay in the delivery of your gifts. It was Christmas Eve, I was boarding my slay...ah, sleigh...when a young man in uniform asked me to step aside. They then searched me...ME! SANTA CLAUS!...and searched my bag of presents. The confiscated the little toy drums and little toy trains as not being conducive to good order, and as for the dolls -- well, I have rarely encountered such dirty minds! THEN they threw me into gaol, confiscating the stub of my pipe so I did not even have the solace of bubbles encircling my head like a wreath (I gave up smoke a century back).

I met the most unpleasant people there! If I had my naughty and nice list with me I could have checked it, but I am quite certain that they are on the "naughty" side.

But I was finally freed and the warders all apologised, explaining that an overly zealous airline security person was at fault. I accepted the apology and offered to discipline the clerk for them but they declined my offer of boiling the wretch in oil.

Anyway, your package may not make it in time for your birthday, but you WILL receive it soon.

As for those people I met in prison, well, they shan't be getting any presents for years and years, if ever. That includes the screws.

But I do hope you enjoy yours. I have selected them especially for you, you know.

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: Firecat
Date: 01 Jan 14 - 03:18 PM

Yay!

Sorry to hear you've had to go through all that kerfuffle.

I'll keep an eye out for it - except for the couple of days the husband and I are in Cardiff for my birthday treat. Bit tricky to keep an eye out from that far away :-)

Thanks for the update!

Subject: RE: BS: 2013 Secret Santa tormenting can begin
From: GUEST,Firecat's Fiendly Flying Fatso
Date: 04 Jan 14 - 10:44 PM

Firecat, wird Ihr Weihnachtspaket in der Post am Montag. Es würde in der Post morgen sein, aber das Amt nicht geöffnet ist.

Berandu izatea Barkatu, baina lehenago esan dudan bezala, iratxo ziren obnoxious eta arrazoizkoa izatea. Arazo hori izan da betiko zuzendu. Eta espero dut zure urtebetetzea zela zoriontsu, pozik, zoriontsu izan zen!