BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints

Subject: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Someone's Super Secret Santa
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 10:10 AM

Santa's Executive Compiler of Secrets this Year has spoken, and I have a Santee! Yippee! In the weeks to come I'll post tantalizing tidbits of clue minutia for my Santee. . . who shall remain nameless for the time being. . .

Yes! It is begun!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Smiler
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 10:16 AM

I've decided I want one of those things from the helpful hints thread, its an empty aluminum cigar tube filled with angry wasps which apparently makes a wonderful inexpensive vibrator.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 11:03 AM

Does the cap screw on with a left or right handed thread. I only ask because it could make a difference whether it's being used north or south of the equator. A bit like the water down a plughole. Also, does one dare to make air holes so the creatures can breathe? What is the average diameter of a wasp sting?

These questions, and their associated answers could prove vital.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,EmmaBs SS
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 11:12 AM

Fill out the hints thread or you get NOTHING!

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Smiler
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 11:14 AM

Ming, some very good points indeed and agree they need answering, I'll still order one but not use it until we have the test results.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 11:26 AM

Smiler - just ordering the tube for now, or are the wasps included?

Just a small point but who is doing the testing, and will the results be published and, if so, where?

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: greg stephens
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 11:28 AM

While actually in use the airholes may well be of little use. Perhaps they should be taped over during periods of activity, to avoid sting related problems.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Smiler
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 11:47 AM

Ming, they both come together, I understand they have asked for volunteers for testing.

Greg, tape alergies could be a problem

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 11:48 AM

Make sure you don't use double sided tape....

I'm impressed with the speed this has appeared..... and the even greater speed with which it plummeted to the common level!!

SECSY
LTS

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 11:57 AM

I can see this device attracting all sorts of unwanted attention from the Health & Safety bods as well as the insect cruelty lobby. Taping over the holes 'during periods of activity' might not work if the activity is spread over (for instance) an evening. Constantly removing and replacing the tape would hinder spontenaity and may not be enough to ensure the welfare of the contents.

Would it need a CE mark?

Would it need to be sterilised after use, if so, what about the wasps. Or is boiled wasp a delicacy? We seem to have opened up a whole can of worms here.

Now there's an idea.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Smiler
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 12:04 PM

Ming, apparently worms were used in a prototype unsuccesfully.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Secret Santa to Poseidon
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 12:11 PM

or possibly Neptune? Aquaman? Triton? The Submariner? Aegir?

boy at my age it's hard to keep track of the youngsters...Ao-kuang? or was it Chac-oayeb-xoc? Dylan? Manannan-MacLir? Nadan? Nereus?

it was one of them watery god-types - maybe Ngurunderi? I'm pretty sure it wasn't Nicor or Nootaikok. whatever.

So young fella, you like acoustic music - does that include acapulco?

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 12:31 PM

The holes would be in the lid of course, as it is always open to the 'air.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Sandra of Sydney's Secret Santa
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 12:34 PM

Or just call me 4S ;) Just please do not drink me all up or there will be nothing left of me to go down your chimney this summer!

I noticed you mentioned things like jewelry and Andre Norton books, so which of those should I NOT get for you? And what mudcat cd's have you been wanting?

Come on my dear and sit on my lap, just do not be afraid to talk about anything that comes up. Just do so quietly or Mrs. Claus may yank my beard out by the roots ;)

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 01:34 PM

Do I have a Secret Santa? For that matter, do I have a Secret Santee?

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 01:38 PM

Noone has told me about a santee either. Are they rolling out slowly or have we missed something?

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 01:39 PM

Sorry, Liz just read other thread - can't have you starving to death can we.x

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 01:48 PM

I think the wasps and tube discussion should go somewhere else--start your own thread or revamp the old one. They're not germane to the Santa hints, and we want serious Santa Banter here, please!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 02:37 PM

Whos's germane does she want a wasp and tube?

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 06:02 PM

Get a rabbit.

Or a life.

Some of the Santees have to wait until tomorrow.... used up my quota of computer time today, need to rest my mousing finger.

SECSY
LTS

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Amergin's SS
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 06:38 PM

HAAAA! HAAAA! I'll be back! Watch this space!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Open Mike's Secret Santa
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 07:59 PM

MMMMMMMMMMMMuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaahhhhhaaaaaahhhhhhaaaaaa.

You are mine, ALL MINE!!!

MMMMMMMMMMMMuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaahhhhhaaaaaahhhhhhaaaaaa.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Chanteyranger's Secret Santa
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 10:41 PM

You can run, but you can't hide. I know where you aaaarrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Fiddle-dee-dee, catsphiddle's Santa!
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 10:53 PM

I know where you live! Okay, so I'm usually only there for a nanosecond each year, but I remember the place! I'll linger over the choice and slow the delivery somewhat this year.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 01:12 AM

Well, I was Un Offically told who my Santee was...I can't seem to find that person. The person seems to have started just one thread 3 years ago...and then disappeared. The Santee doesn't even show up in the Santa Sign Up thread. Guess I should PM Liz....Iz confoozeled.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 01:21 AM

Maybe you got a lurker, Sorcha?

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 01:31 AM

Ya, but the person HAD to have signed up on the sign up thread, no?

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 01:34 AM

I haven't anyone yet. Did I miss a posting about them being doled out over a few days?

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Amergin
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 02:23 AM

Not necessarily, sorch. Yours could have sent her a PM.

And Kat yeah she is doling them out bit by bit...depending on how well her energy lasts... ;)

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Blackcatter's Secret Santa!!!
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 03:58 AM

'ello there Mr Blackcatter......Before I can sort out your prezzie you need to fill in an upto date Hints form!!.....I is not a mind reader...Im working on though!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Spaw's Secret Santa
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 08:07 AM

Well, Mr Spaw, you don't seem to have contributed to the Secret Santa Hints thread. Unless I hear to the contrary, I shall assume a tinned fart will be suitable.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 08:15 AM

jayzus! Doesn't 'Spaw have ENOGH farts already? Try "Lrry the Singing Lobster" - I'm sure that will be a hit!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Firecat's Confused Clause
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 08:27 AM

What's a Firecat? Who's a Firecat? A little help here, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 09:01 AM

I got me a santee and you can't guess who it issssssssssssss!

But boy! Is he, she, or it going to get a surprise!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Bee Dubya Ell's SS
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 09:54 AM

A gift for you I have to get
But you ain't given me no hints yet
So help me out of this awful fix
Or else for a present you might get ... NIX

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Bat Goddess's SS
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:30 AM

It is the cause, it is the cause, my santa,--
Let me not give you orange, you Bat Goddess!--
It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her squids;
Tho she may start to eat the pie from without
And move towards the centre
Nor yet religious, shall she lie like a mermaid
Surrounded by water, bubbling from her gills
Yet be a Bat Goddess, of the night and of the tree
free.
Free to eat eggs with mayonnaise flavored with Pommery mustard,
To wear purple and to sing!
Let her voice ring!


A certain Catter, or be that Uncertain...

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Alaska Mike's Secret Santa
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:58 AM

This is toooooooo easy. Mike is so close to me, the North Pole that is. But beware, I'll be watching you, with a little help from the elves of course. Might even show up in Alaska to check things out personally.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Hollowfox's Santa [very secret!]
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:05 AM

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Jenny G's Secret Santa......
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:06 AM

OK, Jen, luv, I've never even heard of you....you had best be giving some hints over in the Hints thread or you'll get coal and corncobs.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Hollowfox's Santa [very secret!] AGAIN!
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:13 AM

Darn! done gone pushed the wrong danged key there, silly santa.
I done looked you up in the members section girl, and you aint there. Got to have some idee what'n heck sort of person yo' is.
If'n you want my elves to start work on your present, I'm gonna need some help.

Ho ho ho, an' all that.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,John MacKenzie GIOK's Secret Santa-type Pers
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:20 AM

A note landed in my North Pole-mail today (routed from Squeakyville) bearing your name. Are you naughty? Are you nice? Santa can do a little homework, but if you'd cruise by the hints thread, it wouldn't be such a bad thing.
Ho Ho Ho

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:28 AM

Hello, Santa

dunno about sitting on your lap. Wouldn't want Mrs Santa getting wrong ideas.

Lotsa' pressies ia a Good Idea.

One CD I could not get when I was buying in bulk from Dick & Sandy was MMario's.

And as for jewellery (how we spell it this side of the pond) - well, I like earrings (for pierced ears) & pendants.

Fortunately I'm only completing 5 series of Andre Norton's books & not collecting the lot!
Crossroads of Time (1956), Quest Crosstime/Crosstime Agent (1965), Forerunner (1981), Forerunner - the second venture (1985), Uncharted Stars (1969), Firehand (1994 - Norton & Griffin), Voodoo Planet (1959, orig. publ. under the name of Andrew North), Postmarked the Stars (1969), Derelict for Trade (1997 - Norton & Smith)

Dear Santa

I hope you can look favourably on this list, especially as it only a modest little list

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,John GIOK's Santa Person
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:41 AM

I thank you, my elves thank you, my reindeer thank you....
Ho Ho Ho

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Robin2's Secret Santa
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:53 AM

At last I've got my SECSY note
(And Liz has got our thank-you vote)
So Secret Santa I will do
And send a gift to Robin2

SS

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Rapaire's Secret Santa
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 12:20 PM

Aha!! Well now I suppose I shall habve to file your prezzies alphabetically and according to the dewy decimal system. Mmmm this needs thought!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,4S or Sandra Sydney's Secret Santa
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 01:04 PM

Thank you so much for the tips, my dear! I will have my top Investigative Elves look into this for me! they are top notch almost as good as North Pole Yard!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Ol' Leadfingers Secret Santa
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 01:08 PM

Hi-ho, Silver!!

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 02:51 PM

Shucks, Santa, you don't have to file alphabetically. How many ways can you arrange fifty dollar bills? Just file 'em numerically, by the number on each corner.

The Dewey number for US money is 33.40973.

Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 02:52 PM

Oops. The DDC number is really 332.40973

Subject: RE: BS: SECSY Silly Secret Santa/Santee Hints
From: GUEST,Jenny G's SS
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 02:55 PM

Nevah mind, darlin', I found your little hints......hee hee hee....the jig is up now!