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12-20-2005, 12:42 PM
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#1891
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Podunkville
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PLF is just a boy whose intentions are good.
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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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12-20-2005, 12:51 PM
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#1892
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Steaming Hot
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Giving a three hour blowjob
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PLF is just a boy whose intentions are good.
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Originally posted by baltassoc
For a tradition surrounding a holiday of peace and goodwill, it can be very cutthroat.
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I got #3. It was cutthroat and the devestation (hi PLF!) wreaked was indescribable. A mess of blood, wrapping paper and battleship pieces. |
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12-20-2005, 12:54 PM
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#1893
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NYC
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I like this stomach...
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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
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Perfect ratio.
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12-20-2005, 12:55 PM
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#1894
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Glasgow, natch.
Posts: 2,807
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Christmas Tunes
YADBP (yet another Dan Band post) from str8: Video for their
instant holiday classic "I Want To Rock You Hard This Christmas" --
safe for work unless people at your work would be offended by the lyric "Have a very merry motherfuckin Christmas" in the chorus.
http://www.sideonedummy.com/the_dan_...k_you_hard.php |
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12-20-2005, 12:59 PM
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#1895
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
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PLF is just a boy whose intentions are good.
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Originally posted by Not Bob
Like that fish mounted on a plaque that sings "Take Me To The River."
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FYI, this is the sort of thing that can lead to the greatness that is the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir.
The website doesn't at all capture how truly awesome it is to see 250 singing bass do "Day-O." Especially when the lobsters get involved and start dancing.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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12-20-2005, 01:11 PM
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#1896
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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12-20-2005, 01:12 PM
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#1897
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Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Flower
Posts: 8,434
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PLF is just a boy whose intentions are good.
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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I got #3. It was cutthroat and the devestation (hi PLF!) wreaked was indescribable. A mess of blood, wrapping paper and battleship pieces.
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Hi! 
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Inside every man lives the seed of a flower.
If he looks within he finds beauty and power.
I am not sorry.
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12-20-2005, 01:20 PM
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#1898
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Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Flower
Posts: 8,434
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PLF is just a boy whose intentions are good.
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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Really? I am not familiar with that team. And where is your pal Ironweed today?
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My guess is that he is still walking to work.
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Inside every man lives the seed of a flower.
If he looks within he finds beauty and power.
I am not sorry.
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12-20-2005, 01:25 PM
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#1899
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Wild Rumpus Facilitator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In a teeny, tiny, little office
Posts: 14,167
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!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by ltl/fb
IF YOU SIT ON THE BOARD OF A MAJOR SUBSIDIARY, YOU MAY NOT TAKE THE LAST 2.5 WEEKS OF THE YEAR OFF.
that is all.
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Ah, the first Xmas in-house. Don't worry, dear, by next year you'll have figured out how to play the system and take the last two weeks off as well.
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Send in the evil clowns.
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12-20-2005, 01:28 PM
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#1900
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Wild Rumpus Facilitator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In a teeny, tiny, little office
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Litigation strategies
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Indeed. My last job had that sort of gift swap thing. I think ours was called a White Elephant party, and it had a two page listing of all the rules, because it was taken very seriously. My ex-bosses all remember fondly how totally cut-throat I was at it, apparently.
Just because I stole something that I didn't really want from a paralegal because she wouldn't shut up about how much her kid would want it for Christmas. Unfortunately, someone later convinced me to give it back to her after the party. I totally should have kept it. Just out of principle.
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Weakling.
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Send in the evil clowns.
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12-20-2005, 01:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Throwing a kettle over a pub
Posts: 14,743
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Litigation strategies
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Originally posted by taxwonk
Weakling.
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2, and the first time I read it, she gave the present back to a paraplegic.
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No no no, that's not gonna help. That's not gonna help and I'll tell you why: It doesn't unbang your Mom.
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12-20-2005, 01:38 PM
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#1902
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I wanted to rollerblade but couldn't find my spandex shorts
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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
My guess is that he is still walking to work.
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I took my Segway. Who's the nerd now, huh? Huh? That's right. |
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12-20-2005, 01:39 PM
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#1903
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Steaming Hot
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Giving a three hour blowjob
Posts: 8,220
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PLF is just a boy whose intentions are good.
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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
My guess is that he is still walking to work.
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I saw him on his bike this morning, puffing away.
eta stp |
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12-20-2005, 01:41 PM
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#1904
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: State of Chaos
Posts: 8,197
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No. Although in my house the first one to suffer was Skipper, the totally asexual little sister. As if her total lack of curves and the cursedness of being Barbie's plain little sister weren't enough, I made it worse by cutting off her long blonde hair.
Who came first, Skipper or Jan Brady? |
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12-20-2005, 01:42 PM
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#1905
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pop goes the chupacabra
Posts: 18,532
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PLF is just a boy whose intentions are good.
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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I saw him on his bike this morning, puffing away.
eta stp
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You got the puffing away part correct, at least.
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