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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Pushkin Date: 29 Oct 02 - 05:26 PM Helloooooooo Santa................... |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Helen Date: 29 Oct 02 - 10:51 PM To my SS on the other side of the pond, I want you to know that I will appreciate whatever you choose - the more you like it, and the more that it says about you, the better. The hint about purple is aimed at making it easier if you have to choose between different colours. But I'm sure you know that already. I'm sure that you are just teasing. That isn't to deny the fact that I do have a purple addiction, though. At the supermarket one day I saw a little girl excitedly telling her mother about a purple water bottle, or something equally mundane, that she had found on the shelves. I wanted to quietly warn the mother that purple-addiction doesn't get milder over time, but in fact gets more acute. I catch myself sometimes getting just as excited over little, silly things which I don't need, and have no earthly use for, that just happen to be a lovely shade of purple. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,MMario's Secretive Santa Date: 30 Oct 02 - 12:26 AM M-M-M Mario (reminds me of K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy. . .) What kind of "favors" do you favor? Those that you wore on your hat until they practiced deconstruction--of what were they composed? Do you have a preference for design, material, symbolism, etc.? “Your Secret Santa” and clues galore |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Mudlark Date: 30 Oct 02 - 02:51 AM As I pondered weak and weary Thinking bout my santa deary Wondering where he or she might be Thought perhaps I shouldn't mention This growing sense of mindless tension So my sadness none could see... On the other hand.... WHERE'S MY SANTA???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Trevor Date: 30 Oct 02 - 07:43 AM WAAAAHHH! WAAAHHH! IAINTGOTTASANTA! WAAAHHH! |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Micca Date: 30 Oct 02 - 07:49 AM I am perplexed, I received a postcard this morning with a cryptic message on it, it COULD be from my SS, its from Phoenix. AZ, the problem is, I dont know any 'Catters in Phoenix AZ, but I do know an Ex-wife!!!!!!MMMmmmm, this needs thought!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Genie's Santa To Be Date: 30 Oct 02 - 10:35 AM Here's a ho hO HO from From Genie's SS. I've been a Mudcatter forever, but lurk more than post. I've only left 718 messages since I registered, but more are there from before. Hear Me, Oh Hear Me, my tastes and handle have changed over time. Though always a beginner of the traditional, I am a master of the non-musical. Can you guess who I am? I'm not living where I'm from, but enjoy where I am. Look for the epicenter and I'll be close at hand. I look into the mists of the future, and help people on their way. PM me today! I'm gathering stuff for my visit. I do have a question though. What are your feelings concerning the use of MP3's downloaded from the internet. All dead and gone or out-of-print for though I look to the future my heart is in the past. Your SS |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: MMario Date: 30 Oct 02 - 10:41 AM favours ranged from small pins, to ribbon, to beaded, to cloth, to clay - (the hat was stolen this summer - with all remaining favours upon it - boo-hiss!) I have no preference *grin* usually a favour has much more to do with the giver then the givee... |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Chanteyranger's Secret Santa Date: 30 Oct 02 - 10:43 AM Oh Chanteyranger, where are yooooooooooooouuuuuuu? You haven't posted since 23 Oct, but you've got a Santa and your Santa wants feeding (with information). Any of you guys who knows where he is, give him a poke from me and tell him the elves are getting restless. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Amos Date: 30 Oct 02 - 11:44 AM Mudlark: If your Santa is a varlet Or a base, amoral harlot, Be not downcast, low or blue, I'll wear double hats for you!! Should your Santa prove a mummer (Surely Christmas' worst bummer!) Never fear his recrudescence! I will send you DOUBLE presents! luv, A |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Rangeroger's SS Date: 30 Oct 02 - 12:28 PM I'm not having much luck with that hardbody request, so I'm pulling a 180 - at least part of your pressie will have the synaptic propensity of a pelt. (bonus points to whoever recognizes the quote!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,katlaughing's real Secret Santa Date: 30 Oct 02 - 03:11 PM There was a post on October twenty-third That I found patently absurd Purportedly from Katlaughing's Santa Claus, It's a load of bollocks and I know because I'm it, they're not, and that's my final word. Except to propose this before quitting A hypothesis worth submitting: Due to Polar over-staffing Two Santas are assigned to Katlaughing, She's a good girl by twice; its fitting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Robin2's Secret Santer Date: 30 Oct 02 - 03:45 PM Ho Ho Ho Haven't seen you round the 'Cat of late. Hope you haven't flown off for the winter or anything! Looking at your hints, I see that we have some interests in common. Why, we could almost be twins! Oh, wait, we are... (hint!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Mudlark's SS Date: 30 Oct 02 - 06:06 PM Neither a varlet nor a harlot, thank you very much, Amos, nor a Santa dreary, one hopes. Mudlark, thou hast need of patience. Just because Walmart has had their Christmas decorations up for a month doesn't mean your SS is a dud if you haven't received a gift (or hint) yet. Worldwide web means your SS could be anywhere in the world, and it might take a while to get back to cyberspace. Also, being a first time SS, your SS still learning the etiquette and expectations of this august position. Since discovering that Mudlark is the person to whom gifts are to be given, your SS has been researching the elusive Mudlark, to better prepare for what's to come. The first part is the reading of all of Mudlark's posts to discover her how better to be her Santa - a labor worthy of Hercules! That woman posts a lot more frequently than her SS. What has been discoverd by this dedicated research? (1)She likes garden fresh cucumbers. Unfortunately, it's not cucumber season in her SS's garden. (2)She would rather sit on her porch and sing cowboy songs than attend a concert by a professional folksinger (an oxymoron if I ever heard one). Sounds reasonable to me. (3)Her real age, which, contrary to her SS hint is at least a decade away from crone-ism (and within 15 years of her SS's age, one way or the other.) So have no fear; your SS is busy preparing more than coal for your stocking. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: rangeroger Date: 30 Oct 02 - 08:34 PM Well, I tried to cheat and use Google to ferret out my SS's quote, but got no hits at all. The hardbody was only a pipe dream anyway. Dire prognostications are sounding better every day. But, to bring it back to perspective. I'm over 50, I love to read most anything. I listen to all kinds of music,except top-40countrywesternhip-hopdisco.I play guitar and sing and am learning electric bass on the fly.(playing every Sunday with my church's worship team.) rr |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Robin2 Date: 30 Oct 02 - 08:57 PM ooooh, such a hint! You are right, I haven't been around much, my son got married, and I had pnumonia, but I come back just in time to find all these hints! Oh goody, goody, goody, this is too much fun twins, uh? Robin |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Amos Date: 30 Oct 02 - 09:09 PM Mudlark's SS: No offense, I hope, I was merely trying to stir you into speech! It's amazing, isn't it, the things people will dream up as labels when you're not there in self-defense?? Anyway, scurrilous categorizations duly withdrawn -- glad you're on the job! Regards, A |
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Subject: RE: To Genie's Secret Santa From: Genie Date: 30 Oct 02 - 09:33 PM My, Santa, how mysterious you are! I'll have to muse over your posts for some time, I'm sure, if I'm to have a chance to guess your true identity. Downloaded MP3s are fine (though they don't produce great sound quality on my current system.) I tried to PM you, but wasn't able to do it (probably that pesky "guest" thing). "Epicenter"...hmmmmmmm..... Genie |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Genie's Secret Santa Date: 30 Oct 02 - 10:18 PM Hi Genie, Sounds like you've been a good little girl (woman). My elves have been checking up on you. They are very pleased with all the people that they see smiling in retirement centers around Portland, and the humming in the halls, the tapping of the feet. They were worried about reports that you've runamuck, but that seems to be over now. Keep doing what you're doing but watch out for imac attacks and remember old songs are the best songs. Ho Ho Ho. Here's another clue: If you didn't know better you would say that I ome in two. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Mudlark Date: 30 Oct 02 - 10:19 PM Dear Amos....Recrudescence??? Who needs presents, even double presents with a word like that stuck in one's stocking! Thank you for the reassurance...you are a prince among wordsmiths... Dear SS...Thank you for YOUR reassurance, and be assured in like kind that you are way ahead of me as I've yet to figure out how to address my Santee anonymously--I only hope he has more patience than I. As for musical tastes, I hasten to add this cunumdrum...I live in the country, I live in the west, but country/western is not what I love best. And while I might be disappointed to find coal in my stocking I wouldn't take amiss a few logs of seasoned oak...nights are getting a tad chilly. Sign me another first time SS.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Guest: RangerSteve's Secret Santana Date: 30 Oct 02 - 11:07 PM Wot ho, RangerSteve...were you getting worried? Beginning to think your Secret Santa had gone south for the winter, or some other direction? Have no fear, I'm on the job. In fact, I've already stuffed a couple of presents for you into my sack just today, found in the middle of nowhere, on the way to somewhere, a happy bit of serendipity. The Universe works in mysterious ways. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: katlaughing Date: 31 Oct 02 - 12:17 AM Dear Secret Santa, I'll take a real one, anyday, over one and a poser. Thanks for the lovely bit of verse! Oh, frabulous day! This is so much fun!! kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Mudlark Date: 31 Oct 02 - 12:40 AM PS to Mudlark's SS... "Santa dreary, one hopes."...that's santa DEARY! DEARY!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: katlaughing Date: 31 Oct 02 - 01:24 AM To my REAL Santa: I meant to say, I'd rather have ONE REAL than one real and one faux clas!*bg* |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Robin2's Secra Santet Date: 31 Oct 02 - 09:56 AM Ah, you're back! Good to hear from you. Hope you're feeling better after your bout with pneumonia, and congratulations to your son and his new wife! Yes, indeed we are twins. Cosmic, isn't it? (hint!) Ho ho ho, Your SS |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Susan in CA's Anon-e-moose Reindeer Musher Date: 31 Oct 02 - 02:19 PM Ho-hum, ho-hum My Santee must be shy I think I've found the perfect gift But no hints will tell me why. Oh, Susan in ol' Sunny Cal Are you there? Have you been online? Please come on back and let me know What gifts for you would be fine. I might be a mile high or Swim near the fishes of the sea But if you don't post, you'll never know T'were I really a musher or me! |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Bat Goddess Date: 31 Oct 02 - 02:36 PM Does the Goddess of Bats (or the batty goddess) have a Secret Santa? Is he/she too secretive to risk asking any leading questions? Too tongue-tied to come up with a witty quip or tease? Please reassure me you exist. Ask me something silly -- like what kind of food do my rubber squid eat. C'mon, I wanna play. Leap right in to the merriment. I know it's only Hallowe'en . . . and there's no snow yet for reindeer tracks. But I need to be reassured or I'll have to write to the paper. Please, kind newspaperman, is there a Secret Santa? Whine, whine, whine (sniffle). Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Mudlark's SS Date: 31 Oct 02 - 02:59 PM RE: "I've yet to figure out how to address my Santee anonymously" To send anonymous notes to Mudcat, you just have to delete your Mudcat cookie. To do this right-click on "Start", left-click "Explore". Double click on "Cookies" (under "Windows") Find all "Mudcat" cookies and delete them (or just select all and delete all cookies. Next, scroll down and doubleclick "Temporary Internet Files", and delete any mudcat cookies there. Open up your browser to Mudcat and click "Membership." If your personal info is not there, when you post to Mudcat it will be from "Guest". If it's easier, just go to a computer where you haven't entered your Mudcat info and send it from there. To double-check, click "Preview" before you submit your message and see what appears in the "From" box. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Amos Date: 31 Oct 02 - 03:02 PM For that you can just go to Membership==>Reset Your Cookie and Log off. You will then be anonymous Guest until you do it again and reset it with your member name and password. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Micca Date: 31 Oct 02 - 03:04 PM or to simplify go to the box at top left drop the menu down click on "Logoff2, this will lo you off Mudcat, go back to the threads and fill in the, now blank, "from" box, create and post. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 Oct 02 - 03:47 PM Or you might even open a browser where you don't have a cookie. On my computer, IE does, Netscape doesn't. Easier even than that, I use Anonymizer.com for various things and since I have a little icon on the tray at the top of my browser, a single "click" and I'm invisible. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: SharonA Date: 31 Oct 02 - 04:49 PM Oh, dear, I've been away from Mudcat for a few days and missed my SS's note. Sorry, Santa! Please don't turn my present into coal!! ...or would that be a coal-black cat, singing in the alleyway? (I have a cat that I say is black, just for the sake of convenience, but he's actually black-brown-gray – and sometimes mahogany red or a dusky purple depending on the lighting!) (He prefers to "sing" in the hallway, all through the night long when I'm trying to sleep!) A big mouse? Is this a clue??? Hmmm... my Santa said (s)he was at work... at 2:30 in the morning, Mudcat time (US Eastern Standard Time)... so either (s)he works a graveyard shift in the US or has a day job across the pond... but which pond???? Oooh, mysteries are so... so... mysterious! But, of course, all shall be revealed in time... in a couple of MONTHS!! Auugghh! (Here's where I start singing the Chipmunk song: "We can hardly stand to wait! Please, Christmas, don't be late!!!!") |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: SharonA Date: 31 Oct 02 - 04:55 PM Pedant alert! I misquoted the song; it should have been "We can hardly stand the wait!" That does it, I'm gettin' nuthin' but coal from Santa now... *(hanging head in shame)* |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Mudlark Date: 31 Oct 02 - 09:43 PM HoHO...Christmas comes early! Thanks to Amos, my very own Secrt Santa, and to Micca and Stilly River Sage for anonymous log-in info. The next guest you see may be me! |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Sarah the flute Date: 01 Nov 02 - 06:48 AM Hello hello secret santa .... have you been checking out my threads???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 01 Nov 02 - 08:19 AM Hi Rangeroger's SS, "pulling a 180" sounds like "The Dukes of Hazzard," but they would never say "the snyaptic propensity of a pelt." |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Sarah the Flute's SS Date: 01 Nov 02 - 10:29 AM Ms. Flute, are you getting anxious? :-) Yes, I've been perusing some of your old threads. Your Santa is very busy, but no worries! Your gift should make it across the water in time... But of course if you want to give a few hints here, that would be appreciated as well! Your SS |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Bat Goddess Date: 01 Nov 02 - 10:34 AM Maybe my Secret Santa is still in hibernation. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: SharonA Date: 01 Nov 02 - 10:37 AM Sarah the Flute's SS: I can tell you that she is a very meticulous person! She was my SS last year; she sent me several small pressies and each was individually wrapped – even the rubber gloves!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Micca Date: 01 Nov 02 - 10:37 AM Phoenix??????? Albuquerque????????? WOBH!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Fortunato's Secret Santa Date: 01 Nov 02 - 11:33 AM One thing I can assure you young man is that you are in for a big surprise!!! I can't tell you what that means but when you open up your gift, you'll DEFNITELY figure it out!!! Anyway, you will be visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present (emphasis on the word Present!!) and the Ghost of Christmas future!!! OK, I know the idea is an old one and not original at all but it's ALL part of the plan.....Keep tuned to this thread!!!! Ho, Ho, Ho!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Nov 02 - 11:52 AM
Sounds to me like another way of calling something "dead meat." Perhaps the translation is necessary before the quote is discovered? SRS just wasting a little time this morning at work |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Amos's Secretly Insanity Date: 01 Nov 02 - 12:54 PM Saw a DVD Monday that might suit anybody who had a player, and a liking for Celtic Music. H.R.W Sanitary Close |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Catherine Jayne Date: 01 Nov 02 - 02:23 PM Santa's Secretary here..... Popped in at the post office the other day. The last post for all those santas posting to the USA is the 19th November......However they couldn't tell me what the last posting date for airmail is...they think...the last week in November to be safe..... Hope you are all having fun SS |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Ol'Spaw's SS Date: 01 Nov 02 - 04:09 PM I's perplexed ,still lookin for dem darn prawn books, crawfish but no prawns aaaaaagggghhhhh SS |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: John MacKenzie Date: 01 Nov 02 - 04:29 PM There's a prawn shop on the corner, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Amos Date: 01 Nov 02 - 05:09 PM Dear Insanity: Don't live up to your name and get one of those WalMart Shamrock Collections of Irish Outtakes, okay? :>) But feel free, I can play DVDs on my G4, if no where else, and that'll be fun. Thanks for being my Santa... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Ol'Spaw's SS Date: 01 Nov 02 - 06:22 PM Giok is dat de one run by Miss Doris (Day)? dint think she would like prawn books like Ol'Spaw do SS |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: GUEST,Oh Bat Goddess-I've been here all along Date: 01 Nov 02 - 06:47 PM Yes I have been here inspecting this thread from the very first til now and I actually have given some clues although you didn't realize it. Got you thinking? I'd say I know a thing or two about you. You can leave any other info, but if I can manage it, I have an idea as to what I will send you.---Bat Claus |
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Subject: RE: BS: MYSTERY SANTA GOOFY HINTS From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 01 Nov 02 - 08:42 PM If kat got two santas, did I get none? sniff, sniff |