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Originally posted by spookyfish
If I were to guess, I would say it's a gift exchange involving the "regifting" of unwanted items.
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Indeed you are correct.
I suspect that the rules vary, but here's the way the game was played at Big Ed's last week.
Each person who wants to participate brings a wrapped gift. The concept is that you bring something that you received and don't want, but some people just like to buy random weird stuff to bring. Like that fish mounted on a plaque that sings "Take Me To The River." Or the big t-shirt that has a bikini-clad hottie's body air-brushed on it, or the Hulk Hogan biography.
The participants then draw numbers -- the person who gets "1" selects and opens the first gift. The person who draws "2" can either pick and open a new present, or take the present from person 1 and so on. Under Big Ed's rules, a gift gets retired after the third steal, and at the end of it all, person 1 can take anyone else's (Not Retired) gift.
It sounds cheesy, but it is fun. And one man's junk is another man's treasure -- I was very happy to end up with a copy of the Chieftans' Christmas CD. Mrs. Not Bob was less thrilled with the set of Santa Claus martini glasses, but her office is having the same sort of exhange at their holiday luncheon on Friday, so she has something to bring.
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