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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Burke's Secret Santa Date: 31 Oct 01 - 01:24 PM Your list made it so simple for me...hope you like your treasure. But do not open it until Christmas! Or else! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Blackcatter Date: 31 Oct 01 - 01:10 PM I'm feeling lonely... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Firecat's Secret Santa Sweetie Date: 31 Oct 01 - 11:45 AM Ahem, Miss Firecat--I hope that you have been a good girl this year because you are getting a box of goodies. Posted from the US today............ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Mrrzy Date: 31 Oct 01 - 11:43 AM I got my package (didn't even look suspicious even though I did not know the name of the sender, they used a real name rather than a Mudcat one) - so I'm still in the dark about who it is! Hee hee! But I'm being SO good, I'm waiting till the solstice. AND I have had a BRILLIANT idea for my Secret Santee... what was that upper limit on $$$ again??!? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Bat Goddess Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:20 AM My, my, Santa Squid -- I NEVER do anything naughty that I would be ashamed of. I'm always naughty in ways to be massively proud of and talked about and elaborated on by my worshippers forever! Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:08 AM all secret santas should post some could be feeling left out |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Kim C Date: 31 Oct 01 - 09:47 AM It could be Frankenweenie. ;-) And he could be bluffing, too. ;-) ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,KarenB, what happened to my cookie??? Date: 31 Oct 01 - 09:39 AM I just received a PM from a VERY distraught Secret Santa who inadvertantly signed his name to a post in this thread. we Pm'd back and forth and have decided that very few Mudcat members if any even know his first name.....so the secret is still on. In fact, other than my husband who received all of the names and addresses, myself and this particular secret santa, I don't know if anyone knows anything other than the Mudcat sign-on. However, not all of you are quite so anonymous, so PLEASE be careful with your posts......ok? *BG* KarenB |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: SharonA Date: 31 Oct 01 - 09:26 AM Sharona to Secret Santa... Come in, Secret Santa... CQ, CQ... Hailing frequencies open... (Oh, dear, I hope I haven't been SO naughty that he doesn't even want to talk to me...) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Santa Squid Date: 31 Oct 01 - 08:58 AM Has the Diety of Chiroptera been a good little goddess? I am up to my tentacles shuffling lists, checking them twice and trying to decide if you are naughty or nice. then again - this is the 21st century - so perhaps nice - with a tinge of naughtiness is allowable? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Fortunato Date: 31 Oct 01 - 08:50 AM Merry Christmas, Ella. I'm glad the 'Chicks' arrived safely. No, I didn't make the Christmas Stamp pin, but I'm very glad you like it. I'm just a guitar player, and not crafty at all. I thoroughly enjoyed being your secret Santa. The jokes and warmth came at a good time for me, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to be a part of your Christmas. I hope to come to the UK to visit Micca and Gervase sometime soon, and perhaps I'll get to meet you as well. I'll PM you as well. In the meantime follow this link to my picture and imagine I'm giving you a Christmas hug. Click here
Happy Holidays, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST, Cookieless, Allan C. Date: 31 Oct 01 - 07:59 AM It is nice to know that I didn't get lost in the shuffle. I think I didn't mention that initially I drew my own name! It would have made the shopping part a lot easier; but the surprise factor would have been shot to hell. I drew a new name though and have figured out something great! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,AllanC's secret Santa Date: 31 Oct 01 - 07:40 AM Just thought I'd send a quick note to let you know you haven't been forgotten. I hope you're being a good boy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,alison Date: 31 Oct 01 - 07:31 AM Hey, are we not supposed to keep these until Christmas?.. what are you doing opening your pressie in October???? lol mind you.. if mine is Sean Connery.. could my secret santa tell me so I can let him out befoer then....... *grin* slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 31 Oct 01 - 04:32 AM Dear Secret Santa... I think I know who you are, but I'm not quite sure... I received my parcel last night. Yesterday was not a good day for me, and coming home to see a nice brown parcel leaning against my door in the dark made me all excited and cheered me up. Thank you very much for my lovely present, it has exactly the same song I heard on the radio! It's brill, and I'm listening to it at work now! I love the pin too, did you make it - it's excellent. My mom saw it and said what a nice touch. I love it. I think you may be a, Mrrzy... a Blackcatter... or Carol C... though I don't think Carol participated so don't know who you are... Trying to suss out the writing is driving me nuts.. Cheers, and big thanks again. I like my secret santa! And was a lovely surprise. What an excellent idea! Ella xx PM, I'd like to thank you! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Dani's Santa Obscura Date: 30 Oct 01 - 07:54 PM Oh, Dani, I've been thinking and looking over your list. Is there any one special item out of them all which you really, really, really, really want? Also, the writer's book, is it a special edition or does it come out every year and you want the newest, or....how about a Letter to Santa to help me out? Here's to sugarplums dancing in your head!
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Peg's Secret Santa Date: 30 Oct 01 - 04:58 PM Hi Peg, Have you been a good little girl all year? [Patronising, condescending Santa-type voice - including one of those annoying pats on the head] Well, I'm just about to post off your gift - and it's not coming from the North Pole. I looked at your hints and also at some of your recent postings. There were some excellent hints in one of those, and you didn't even know at the time that you would need to give SS hints. P's SS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Test-guest - have I lost my cookie? Date: 30 Oct 01 - 04:53 PM Testing testing 1-2-3 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Kim C Date: 30 Oct 01 - 03:56 PM I think they are----- seems like we got a catalog from them not too awfully long ago... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: SharonA Date: 30 Oct 01 - 03:35 PM Is Edmund Scientific still in business? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Kim C Date: 30 Oct 01 - 03:08 PM Did you get your goodies already?!! I checked out McPhee's. Lots and LOTS of fun things there. Mister was wanting a hula girl for the dashboard... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Fortunato Date: 30 Oct 01 - 03:04 PM OH HO. My secret santa's name is Frank. Somehow I had envisioned a tall, titan-haired, buxom, chorus girl type. The kind that looks good in white mink and black Italian boots and a strapless red Santa suit. Does the description fit, Frank? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: SharonA Date: 30 Oct 01 - 02:54 PM ...or perhaps, given the time of year, Frankenstein? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: SharonA Date: 30 Oct 01 - 02:47 PM Y'mean it's not short for Frankincense? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Jeri Date: 30 Oct 01 - 02:38 PM Somebody around here needs to quit signing their posts! ;-) (Want me to delete it, quick-like? Before anybody sees it?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Bat Goddess Date: 30 Oct 01 - 02:30 PM And American Scientific and Surplus at http://www.sciplus.com/ Another source of suitably weird stuff (like bags of eyeballs). I do truly lust after Charley Noble's rubber squid, though, and I've been checking bait shops and not finding one like it. Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Fortunato's secret Santa.......... Date: 30 Oct 01 - 02:29 PM I'm pretty close to deciding which way to go for your gift Fortunato....but, since the deciding is half the fun, I may take a few more days to make up my mind.... Frank |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Jeri Date: 30 Oct 01 - 01:03 PM Archie McPhee's |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Kim C Date: 30 Oct 01 - 12:15 PM what's Archie McPhee's? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Bat Goddess Date: 30 Oct 01 - 12:05 PM I'm on their mailing list -- and other specialists in weirdness. I get frequent flyer miles. BG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: SharonA Date: 30 Oct 01 - 10:45 AM Sounds like Bat Goddess could use a gift certificate from "Archie McPhee's"! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Bat Goddess Date: 30 Oct 01 - 10:01 AM Sorry, Santa Squid! I've not been spending a lot of time on-line lately for various reasons, even after Jeri started teasing me about her above posts. Ah, yes, I have, ah, "eccentric" tastes. Our house, an owner-built post and beam cape on 33 acres of treed and rocked hillside, is decorated in rubber lizards and rubber snakes, crawling up posts and draped around beams. The walls are filled with gravestone rubbings -- my life's work, pre-1825 mostly, particularly interested in typographic ligatures; how's THAT for obscure? -- maps, and deer skulls (the smaller skulls are on the shelves. I collect rubber squid, flamingoes, hippocampuses, printing paraphenalia and rubberstamps. (I used to have a business called The Rubbersmith, specializing in folk music, Thomas Edison, and gravestone rubberstamps -- wanna buy a rubberstamp company? -- but it didn't leave me enough time to do the art stamping I enjoy. (Come to think of it, working for a living as a graphic designer & copyeditor doesn't leave me enough time, either.) In another lifetime, I'd be a marine archaeologist. Curmudgeon and I give each other body parts, uh, RUBBER or other artificial materials, body parts for sigificant gift giving occasions -- such as museum quality repro skulls, a rubber bag full of eyeballs, a ball made out of rubber fingers, paper clips that look like ears and pencil sharpeners in the shape of a nose, etc. (The 10 year old next door LOVES to visit!) The origins of that custom is lost in the mists of pre-history. Oh yeah, bats. We should really get a government grant as a wildlife refuge (not to mention musicians -- they're wildlife, too, eh?) cuz we've got a nursery colony of Little Brown Bats, a window grey squirrel "terrarium" and flying squirrels in the dormer (drat!). Goddesses (especially Sarasvati), maps and globes, shells and bones and skulls and rocks and crystals and just interesting old stuff. The only thing I "need" is slate cutting tools, now that I've acquired some direction, good advice and a coupla good books. Does this help? If my Secret Santa is AllanC, slate from your quarry, but postage/shipping would be mucho buckso, alas. Does this help? Jeri, Sinsull, Micca, etc. could be PMed. Linn, the Bat Goddess, Cat Goddess and Type Goddess (would you like serifs with that?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: SharonA Date: 30 Oct 01 - 08:42 AM I guess I have a Silent Secret Santa too, Blackcatter. Where are ya, SSS? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Liz the sqUeAks SeCret SaNtA Date: 30 Oct 01 - 05:18 AM mumble mumble mumble... Look Mrs Nureyev, I can't help it if Rudolf Nureyev is still not home, yes... I know he's on the Bakerloo line still. But if Liz isn't telling what can I do. Old Rudolf is like a gnome possed when he doesn't get his requests answered. What's that, his pants are fousty... well, he should be okay, I'm guessing he has freshend up in the loos. oh, hem hem... HEY! Gnome number two, how's the modelling of the Chocolate covered Sean Connery going for Liz, I know she wanted him in her stocking last year, but I'm trying to go one better...... what's that, Sean won't sit still long enough for it to set... SEAN... SIT STILL. Liz, I'm doing my best. Can't promise my plan will work... Love Your slighlty stressed and worn out Secret Santa x |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: alison Date: 30 Oct 01 - 01:44 AM and just how did you persuade Sean Connery into such a small package? *grin*..... I have nearly finished organising my gift... hopefully send it off in the next few days... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: alison Date: 30 Oct 01 - 01:41 AM yay.. great...... but will it melt in the heat? slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Alison's Secret Santa Date: 30 Oct 01 - 01:24 AM Alison: Your package has been mailed. Expect a white box 30cm by 20cm by 8cm. It'll get there eventually. Cheers |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Blackcatter Date: 30 Oct 01 - 12:32 AM Where oh where is my Secret Santa... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Blackcatter Date: 29 Oct 01 - 03:55 PM Greetings all, Since I don't have much money I believe I am of common wealth too. pax yall |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Gloredhel's Secret Santa Date: 29 Oct 01 - 01:58 PM Ho ho ho well Clinton in the interests of peace and goodwill and the spirit of Mudcat, I think the santees who dont give all th hints shoulld stay in the I promise Gloredhel, no CDs with Danny Boy ho ho ho |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Clinton Hammond Date: 29 Oct 01 - 01:08 PM With other SS's I've been part of online.. not filling out the entire questionnaire got ya booted out of the SS circle... It's called being uncooperative... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock's Secret Santa Date: 29 Oct 01 - 01:02 PM I bet Kim is right! Remember Kim "_________, always on top." LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Fibula Mattock Date: 29 Oct 01 - 12:50 PM Yeah, I had thought of that MMario! I'm still none the wiser. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie Date: 29 Oct 01 - 12:47 PM Bet I know! Bet I know! I ain't telling! Mwahaaahaahaaa!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: MMario Date: 29 Oct 01 - 12:42 PM Lessee - wonder if people realize that Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and several other states are "Commonwealths" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Gloredhel's Secret Santa Date: 29 Oct 01 - 12:11 PM Glo - o - o - o - o, o - o - o - o - o, o - o - o - o - oredhel, in a Celtic way - o I'm trying to decide if not fillling out the entire questionaire counts as being naughty. . .depends on wether youve been brushing your teeth twice a day and flossing or not but you can tip the scales toward nice if you add more to yor list of hints Ho ho ho, Im from a Commonwealth too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 29 Oct 01 - 10:32 AM I have not guessed yet... just lately they have put on a once a week stage coach from Heathrow to Wales, but it's run by a load of threadbare, ready for the old mules home team of four rusty old looking Welsh cobs... (that's a breed of horse). Which of course gives the donkeys a day or two off as they only run on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the Stage Coach runs on High Days and holidays... oooo can't wait!
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: GUEST,Ella's secret Santa Date: 29 Oct 01 - 09:29 AM Don't worry Ella, its not elves, they don't pack well, far too squirmy. PM me if you've guessed or thread here to let me know your present arrives. It ought to be there soon. Do they haul the mail on donkeys up from Heathrow to Wales? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 29 Oct 01 - 08:24 AM perhaps you have a really really secret santa... a covert santa...
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Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa HINTS THREAD PART THREE From: Morticia Date: 29 Oct 01 - 07:40 AM Darn, not a word from my secret santa....do you suppose he/she's heard all the rumours? |