BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: vectis
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:23 PM

Hi Santa
I've put some ideas into the appropriate thread for you. Hope they help!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 11:15 PM

That's just fine, Chrissie Judy. ...and a "Whup! Jamboree" to you, too. Sounds like you know sea music well! You're my lind of Judy.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Crystal
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 04:43 AM

Yes troublemaker, but I wasn't the one all the blokes were oggling! And it wasn't MY idea!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Louisey's Lucky Little Elfen Person
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 06:34 AM

Good girl for posting. I am gathering quite a selection of potential boyfriend material. In order to give you an idea of the choices, I include a few links:

Spoon-player
Comes with good references and his own milk cow;

Computer whiz well rooted;

Great Lung capacity with own set of pipes.

As to the other things: my elves have been instructed and are busily working!

HoHoHo!

LLLEP

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Louisey
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 01:28 PM

Oh gosh, I'm quite the lucky girl! Thanks awfully Elfen :)x

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Pseudolus
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 01:37 PM

Hello Santa, Pseudolus here.....Are ya out there?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 02:05 PM

My Dearest Santa,

I am all agog, having such a dee-light-full time deciphering your cleverly hidden clues. Thank yew!:-)

Being the bestest I can be!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: SharonA
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 04:48 PM

O Secret Santa, dear and kind,
Upon the Hints thread you will find
I've put my wishes there with glee.
I hope one's in your sack for me!

And meanwhile, I will try to sort
Out what your Clues might be report-
ing on your secreted ID.
Which word, which rhyme, which phrase is key?

A "wing of bat"? An "eye of toad"?
Are these but signposts on the road
To guessing who you really are
Or am I wand'ring lost, afar?

Hmmmmmm....

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: artbrooks
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 04:56 PM

My Santa hasn't been around lately...I hope that he/she is ok, and attending to important things...like pressies for moi.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: SharonA
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 05:03 PM

Gosh, Louise's Lucky Little Elfen Person, the Spoon Player looks a lot like an ex-boyfriend of mine! Hard to tell with his hat on, though -- I'd need to see where his hairline begins. But he's just the sort of guy who would put on that sort of costume... or a straw boater and vest... or (my favorite) his Elizabethan outfit with lute, floppy hat and tights. Just picture your Spoon Player as a late-middle-aged Jewish guy from the late Middle Ages!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,The Secret Santa of Katlaughing!
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 10:45 PM

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Well, I tied two swallows to the packet and tried to send it, but they didn't seem to like that.

I'm not sure if they were African or European Swallows.

So I am hopeful that when they come to their senses and realise just who is in charge here, your pressie will be on its way!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Severn
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 11:18 PM

Dear O Shy And Secretive Santa,

Could it be that we have met or at least chatted a bit in the past?

Oh, and by the way, still no elves of yours have been sighted. The cat was replaced in the trio tonight by a genuine live garden gnome from somewhere in the area. I have printed out a few of the Mudcat gnome threads to leave outside for him to get a laugh from. Maybe I will actually get to approach and meet him soon. They got into some old Byrds and Beatles stuff tonight. If I keep this up, the House Brownies will start expecting this kind of service 365 days a year...

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 11:43 PM

Hmmmm...I hope I don't have to wait until the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano (which happens to have been my mom's b-day!)**bg**

Still trying to be good:->

Thanks, Santa!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:37 AM

"Sniff"

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,vectis' secret santa
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 09:28 AM

Hey Dragon Dame - what's Christmas? (It's all Vietnamese to me..)


(R U B-ing GD?)


your very Secrette Santa!!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 10:39 AM

So i hiv bin nice tae ma santa, weel that rules oot thon scunner in Lairg :)

Afew others i thought wur respectable turned oot on closer inspection tae be english still a suppose they canny help that poor things.

So i wull hae tae try a few mair guesses ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Nancy King
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 03:28 PM

My poor patient Santa asked about 2 weeks ago for hints, and then pleaded again a week later. Sorry, Santa! I've been busy! But I just did post new clues (distressingly similar to those from previous years) on the other thread , so I hope that'll help!

Anxiously,
Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Elmer Fudd's Clueless Secret Santa
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 03:40 PM

Yes, Elmer, you DO have a Santa, but unless he/she gets a hint or two, you're likely to end up with a stocking full of coal! Please? Just a little bitty clue?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 09:15 PM

Howdy Mr. or Ms. Claus. Golly, I'm happy to meet you too! Well, everybody knows that Elmer Fudd is an international man of mystery and intrigue, faster than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound--oh wait, that was some other superhero. Pay no attention to that man behind the cape.

Uh, lemme ponder a bit, get the old gray matter up and running, and I'll drop a hint or two onto the appropriate thread with a resounding thud--I mean Fudd.

Elmer

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,SharonAs Secretive Santa
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 06:12 AM

SharonA she once looked out
ere the feast of Stephen
"Say where is that pizza boy
With my deepan crisp and even?"

Tho the snow was on the ground
She was warm and toasted
"I've been good, so won't get coal"
So she softly bo-o-asted

On the drive appeared a man
Dressed in funny clothing
"parcel here for SharonA"
so she started gloating

Hold you hand, another man
Appears in stranger livery
It's the coalman coming bye
Making a de-live-eryyyyy!

Is it prezzie? is it coal?
theres no way of telling
happenstance perhaps no more
'til the days reavealing

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Selchie - (RH)
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 08:33 AM

Oh Secret Santa,

So glad you're there
I'm looking for hints, but where?
I'll no longer fret ~
Is that a clue I get?

I'm being so good
Never ever bad
The best little Merperson
That anyone's had

But wherever are you
And what do you do?
Do you play guitar
Or am I way off by far?

At my rhyming you'll scoff
My timing's not off
Some weeks to go yet
And some answers I'll get

My hints are up there
For great Christmas-times
Think I'll stop now
I've run out of rhymes

Awaiting clues & answers Santa Dear.

Rosie x

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 02:38 PM

All right, all right, O Santa Mio. I done gone and left some specifics on the "Hints" thread.
BUT that doesn't mean that I've been good! That's for me to know and you to decide. Ho ho ho.

Elmer

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: freda underhill
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 10:17 PM

Dear Santa,

I have been good for a week, and have ventured up north here and there, tho haven't left any messages.

Will continue, taking it a day at a time.

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Anne Lister
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 03:38 AM

Dear Santa
Every planet has its north, I'm told, so now all I have to work out is which planet?
I'm a humble sort of person and easily delighted with gifts.
By the way, just to warn you - we don't have a real chimney. Wouldn't want you to get stuck, so I'll leave my stocking hanging out of the window.

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Tabster's invechiata uomo con barbe bianco
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 03:57 AM

Ho ho ho, Santa don't need no chiminee, I can osmose thro all walls. Now if you was considerin' leavin' yo laig in dat stockin' well...............maybe, just maybes you might get a bigger present. Mind you I wouldn't tell Mr Steve I suggested ya to do that!
Jus in case you is worrit, I is a male SS.
I am on the same planet as you, most of the time, but I'm at least two countries away from you in a straight line!

Buon Viaggio

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,FU's SS
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 06:43 AM

"I have been good for a week" you say
But why stop just at one?
If you have managed well thus far
You surely could go on.
And on and on and on and on
Till Christmas time comes round
And if you're good till then there'll be
Some presents to be found.

Santa Clues x

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Sion Corn for Hilda Fish
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 03:42 PM

ah, now, that's a clue in itself, I suppose ... but
Hilda Fish, Hilda Fish
I wonder what you really wish
Will come travelling through the airmail post
For Christmas?
Some music, now, you're sure to get
So that's one of your wishes met
But is there anything else you'd like
From your Secret Santa?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Pseudolus' PSecret PSanta
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 04:26 PM

I'm on the case
Psearching for that Pspecial Psomething
(apart from the dust!)
Look out for a PSnailMail clue Psoon
PPP

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Anne Lister
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 06:37 PM

Clues so far, then ... Celtic in origin, speaking Italian but with a strange American twang. And a straight line in which direction, I wonder?
And have we ever met, St Nick? Otherwise I'm impressed with the quality of your research!

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,FU's SS
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 08:05 PM

Here's some serious Santa Clues for you to be chewing on:

My first is in Santa and Claus they say
My second's in reindeer but not in sleigh
My third's in Underhill but not in Freda
My fourth is in follower but not in leader
My fifth is in fourth but not in third
My sixth is in dicky but not in bird
My seventh - no clues: it may not exist:
Are there just six - or twelve - in my list?
I hope that my clues don't cause you to chunder
Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder.

F.U.S.S. (Santa Clues)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 08:38 PM

Two thoughts, Jacqui:
One, stop that disgusting sniffling. It will not attract a Santa.
Two, Have you considered that I might be your SS? Too evil to comprehend, no?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: hilda fish
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 03:43 AM

I never was very good at this,
I give rhymes and couplets a big miss
Particularly when 'this' rhymes with 'kiss'
and....... oh shit, I've got 'miss';
so let's give it a go and hope for the best
'Best' COULD rhyme with 'this' or 'kiss'
or I could think of something out 'west'
and competely avoid 'kiss' (which is for the 'best)')
'cos 'west' and 'best' - you know what I mean.
......just thinking of a rhyme for 'best'
Now I've got 'mean' and all I can think of
Is 'clean' which is a bit of a clatter (!!).
Not good, not good, gotta do better!
Then again, what does it all matter?
Aha! 'better' and 'matter' I stutter!
Dare I conclude with 'utter'
Too too stupid and simple.
Now I'm stuck - with - ample!
Not one wish stated, actually about a dozen.
I did that last so I can conclude with 'cousin'.
Nah, bring it all on and hope for the 'best'
I'm gonna just leave this rhyming 'mess'.
(with apologies to all of yoos who are rooly good at this rhyming stuff)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Auntie Podean
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 04:00 AM

The above to be read with an Aussie accent

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 07:03 AM

tempted i may be, and oft fried,
down under,
this time by a Santa
who's truly a trick
while all your clues are
so cunning and all scan
you're suspiciously sydney
and so verbally quick
ahoy there me Santa
methinks that I know ye
but if its you, then you've stated quite clear
you do NOT look like santa, or even like Karl Marx
and when singing full throttle
your voice booms out clear
but Santas are sneaky
and tricks are aplenty
especially in Mudcat
when plots are all hatched
and so while i wonder
and have my suspicions
i await the last chorus
when truth be dispatched...

f.u.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 07:06 AM

ps i have been very good again today!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 07:26 AM

Tough Freda, better luck tomorrow!

G.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 07:34 AM

:-)

thanks, Giok!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,FU's SS
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 09:46 AM

"suspiciously sydney" is it that I am now, me liitle larrikitten? Sydney may be a hot place, but as a guess it's not even warm. It will definitely be reindeer, not six white boomers (nor yet Johnson's crocodiles), looking for your house on the red and dusty road.

As for Karl Marx, I wouldn't try to Kapitalize on any similarity: my beard is far too short. But you could be near the truth with "your voice booms out clear": people have been known to jump when I start to sing. But usually they stay to hear the rest.

F.U.S.S. (Santa Clues) WITHOUT RHYME (OR REASON) TODAY

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Guest , Hollofox's SS
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 12:16 PM

Hello,

Hello, Hollowfox.

Are you there, are you still being good & looking forward to all the fun of the Christmas season.

So here we go:

A clue's on it's way
Not posted on Mudcat,
But posted today

Sealed in an envelope,
Winging it's way
Santa is sending clues in the mail?
Will you discover or will you still fail?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Artbrooks extremely efficient Santa
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 01:53 PM

Ho ho ho from the land of the continuous rain.. Have gathered up your presents from supermarkets from Ings to Ingleborough and all points betwixt and between. My poor little reindeer are almost flown out with all the searching and flying and all.
Anyway, 'twas all worth it in the end and your parcel is wrapped up and awaiting the good will of the nice lady in the Christmas elf post office down t'road.
stay good or the parcel will spontaneously combust..
xxx

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Artbrooks's apostrophe challenged santa
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 07:16 PM

Sorry, Artbrooks - did you out of an apostrophe on the last posting and it's a real pet hobbyreindeer of mine too!
(Hides burning face of shame in large pile of coal)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,My Guru-zez News Is Ruses and Perusings & M
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 07:29 PM

Dear "Ways" or is it "Said" (or is it still unsaid? Or don't you want to say?),

Another sharp report (No, I've not been fired....) from your ever- diligent Scout-Elf.

Well....diligent most of the time. I did take a few hours off to practice with my band. I play bass and sing and the other two Elven, Bishop and Jones, play Stratocaster-uke and drums, respectively. I consider Bishop to be the best electric uke player under two feet high since the legendary Less-Paul. We're still looking for a band name, if you've any suggestions.

(sigh!)...Should an elf want to "Make It Big"?

And I thank you for the good wishes to The Boss in the "Land Of Mountains and Snow" (and occasional other places in the Northern Hemisphere when Santa gets Claus-trophobic), but please take some time to take pity on your own Elf ('s Elf Pity, it is!) stationed right here in Surrey and trying to take his fringe benefits off the top. And shadowing a woman whose desires are "few and far between' doesn't always give one much to write home about. That said, new items ARE being added to augment your fast-accumulating future prosperity. So watch this space, so that you can tell others exactly what space you seem to be staring into.

Your Rockin' Scoout-Elf,
Elfish Pressently

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,MeganL Secret Santa
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 05:29 AM

Not all those with scots blood in their veins live in gods own country..........must have done something bad in a past life ;-)

now theres a wee clue fir ye

santa xxxx

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,MeganL Secret Santa
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 07:34 AM

bin shopin

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,MeganL Secret Santa
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 08:00 AM

e Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben
He was an old prospector with a vision bleared and dim.
He asked me for a grubstake, and the same I gave to him.
He hinted of a hidden trove, and when I made so bold
To question his veracity, this is the tale he told.

"I do not seek the copper streak, nor yet the yellow dust;
I am not fain for sake of gain to irk the frozen crust;
Let fellows gross find gilded dross, far other is my mark;
Oh, gentle youth, this is the truth--I go to seek the Ark.

"I prospected the Pelly bed, I prospected the White;
The Nordenscold for love of gold I piked from morn till night;
Afar and near for many a year I led the wild stampede,
Until I guessed that all my quest was vanity and greed.

"Then came I to a land I knew no man had ever seen,
A haggard land, forlornly spanned by mountains lank and lean;
The nitchies said 'twas full of dread, of smoke and fiery breath,
And no man dare put foot in there for fear of pain and death.

"But I was made all unafraid, so, careless and alone,
Day after day I made my way into that land unknown;
Night after night by camp-fire light I crouched in lonely thought;
Oh, gentle youth, this is the truth--I knew not what I sought.

"I rose at dawn; I wandered on. 'Tis somewhat fine and grand
To be alone and hold your own in God's vast awesome land;
Come woe or weal, 'tis fine to feel a hundred miles between
The trails you dare and pathways where the feet of men have been.

"And so it fell on me a spell of wander-lust was cast.
The land was still and strange and chill, and cavernous and vast;
And sad and dead, and dull as lead, the valleys sought the snows;
And far and wide on every side the ashen peaks arose.

"The moon was like a silent spike that pierced the sky right through;
The small stars popped and winked and hopped in vastitudes of blue;
And unto me for company came creatures of the shade,
And formed in rings and whispered things that made me half afraid.

"And strange though be, 'twas borne on me that land had lived of old,
And men had crept and slain and slept where now they toiled for gold;
Through jungles dim the mammoth grim had sought the oozy fen,
And on his track, all bent of back, had crawled the hairy men.

"And furthermore, strange deeds of yore in this dead place were done.
They haunted me, as wild and free I roamed from sun to sun;
Until I came where sudden flame uplit a terraced height,
A regnant peak that seemed to seek the coronal of night.

"I scaled the peak; my heart was weak, yet on and on I pressed.
Skyward I strained until I gained its dazzling silver crest;
And there I found, with all around a world supine and stark,
Swept clean of snow, a flat plateau, and on it lay--the Ark.

"Yes, there, I knew, by two and two the beasts did disembark,
And so in haste I ran and traced in letters on the Ark
My human name--Ben Smith's the same. And now I want to float
A syndicate to haul and freight to town that noble boat."

I met him later in a bar and made a gay remark
Anent an ancient miner and an option on the Ark.
He gazed at me reproachfully, as only topers can;
But what he said I can't repeat--he was a bad old man.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: GUEST,Chanteyranger's Chrissie Judy
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 03:16 PM

And now me boys we're off Holyhead .........

Know nowt about Baseball - how's Cricket instead?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 02:34 AM

Dear Santa -

I know nothing of Cricket. Yank sports fan here. Thanks, though. Check out my other hints, though...rockabilly, trad English, etc. or just surprise me!

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: sian, west wales
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 05:31 AM

So .... I ain't got no Santa? Or have I missed something?

sian, west wailing

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 06:29 AM

sneaky santa, you've done your homework on me so well, that it seems like you know me (it was that song reference that did it!) i am confused, amused & bemused.. and amazed.

you are a very cunning santa! but santa, i am friends with a wise woman who has a brain like a computer. she has given me some strange insights....

boomer, baby boomer? definitely not Karl Marx - maybe a santa from another realm? and not my auntie podies..? i am working hard to piece this jig - saw together!

freda :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Clues and Nudges
From: Micca
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 07:44 AM

I am confused, I have had a card from Denmark.. easy peasy I thought
then one from Australia....Oh Oh!!!
now another from Colorado......
I think there is a Syndicate operating here...