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11-08-2007, 06:42 PM
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Flaired.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Out with Lumbergh.
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by patentparanyc
This is perhaps unoriginal but Hammacher Schlemmer and The Sharper Image are great for those unusual gifts for the person who has everything.
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hepful. maybe I haven't made this clear enough. if you are responding to posts of mine, you are doing me a great disservice. I do not want to know where you buy people useless crap.
I'm taking the over. Anyone want to raise the line to 500?
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See you later, decorator.
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11-08-2007, 06:49 PM
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#4742
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Throwing a kettle over a pub
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Mr. Man's birthday is in 3 days. He claims not to want anything. I kind of overdid it last year and I've been traveling a ton this fall (aside: Phoenix is not cold and rainy right now) so he may get his wish of nothing. Just Cowboys-Giants with friends at a local sports bar and lots of free drinks.
If anyone has an awesome idea for what to get for the guy who has everything and who generally doesn't need any more "stuff". PM me. Or post about it here and ruin the surprise if your idea is any good. Either one.
ETA: Nickelback tickets and/or A Cooler Girlfriend Who Will Go To Nickelback Concerts With Him are both overly obvious responses here.
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Let him get a hooker in Vegas.
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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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11-08-2007, 06:50 PM
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#4743
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
Posts: 14,276
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Mr. Man's birthday is in 3 days. He claims not to want anything. I kind of overdid it last year and I've been traveling a ton this fall (aside: Phoenix is not cold and rainy right now) so he may get his wish of nothing. Just Cowboys-Giants with friends at a local sports bar and lots of free drinks.
If anyone has an awesome idea for what to get for the guy who has everything and who generally doesn't need any more "stuff". PM me. Or post about it here and ruin the surprise if your idea is any good. Either one.
ETA: Nickelback tickets and/or A Cooler Girlfriend Who Will Go To Nickelback Concerts With Him are both overly obvious responses here.
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Is there time to make him something? I'm in the middle of knitting a lot presents for Christmas, and the two knitting presents that I've given over the last few years have gone over fairly well. If I can finish the skull blanket I'm making right now in time, I think it will absolutely floor the recipient.
I also made a set of racy plates at a paint-your-own-pottery place for a friend that went over very well.
Obviously making crap is much more time consuming than buying crap, but if it's late, the excuse is generally well received and the gift tends to be more personal.
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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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11-08-2007, 06:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: on an elliptical
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
hepful. maybe I haven't made this clear enough. if you are responding to posts of mine, you are doing me a great disservice. I do not want to know where you buy people useless crap.
I'm taking the over. Anyone want to raise the line to 500?
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I will try to refrain from being hepful to you.
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All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.....
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11-08-2007, 06:55 PM
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#4745
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Corner Office
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
hepful. maybe I haven't made this clear enough. if you are responding to posts of mine, you are doing me a great disservice. I do not want to know where you buy people useless crap.
I'm taking the over. Anyone want to raise the line to 500?
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I'm not taking bets from someone who goes and primes the pump like this.
I'm predicting 200 posts by notfrommensa and ty@50 tonight.
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I will not suffer a fool- but I do seem to read a lot of their posts
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11-08-2007, 06:58 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'm not taking bets from someone who goes and primes the pump like this.
I'm predicting 200 posts by notfrommensa and ty@50 tonight.
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I keep hoping that I will develop carpal tunnel before I hit 50, but no luck.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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11-08-2007, 06:59 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
skull blanket
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Is this like a do-rag or a blankie with deadheads on it?
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delicious strawberry death!
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11-08-2007, 07:00 PM
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Corner Office
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I keep hoping that I will develop carpal tunnel before I hit 50, but no luck.
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actually you had your hands cut off under a wildly criticized sharia ruling, but there is voice recognition software in the future, so it's all good.
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I will not suffer a fool- but I do seem to read a lot of their posts
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11-08-2007, 07:00 PM
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It's all about me.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me?
Posts: 6,004
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Mr. Man's birthday is in 3 days. He claims not to want anything. I kind of overdid it last year and I've been traveling a ton this fall (aside: Phoenix is not cold and rainy right now) so he may get his wish of nothing. Just Cowboys-Giants with friends at a local sports bar and lots of free drinks.
If anyone has an awesome idea for what to get for the guy who has everything and who generally doesn't need any more "stuff". PM me. Or post about it here and ruin the surprise if your idea is any good. Either one.
ETA: Nickelback tickets and/or A Cooler Girlfriend Who Will Go To Nickelback Concerts With Him are both overly obvious responses here.
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I got an amazing gift last year. I was given a volume of poetry that contained my favorite poem ever. And it was signed.
Could you find him some [NickelBack] memorabilia signed?
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Always game for a little hand-to-hand chainsaw combat.
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11-08-2007, 07:01 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pop goes the chupacabra
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I keep hoping that I will develop carpal tunnel before I hit 50, but no luck.
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But by 50, there will be voice activated posting.
(which could make things a real problem--hank, 800?)
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11-08-2007, 07:03 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pop goes the chupacabra
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
If anyone has an awesome idea for what to get for the guy who has everything and who generally doesn't need any more "stuff". PM me. Or post about it here and ruin the surprise if your idea is any good. Either one.
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Photo album with photos of you both?
Anything from the pooty store? (hi diane!)
2 tickets to paradise?
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[Dictated but not read]
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11-08-2007, 07:04 PM
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#4752
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Corner Office
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
But by 50, there will be voice activated posting.
(which could make things a real problem--hank, 800?)
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no problem there. I'm deaf mute, hence the comfort in making the Helen Keller "water" posts.
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I will not suffer a fool- but I do seem to read a lot of their posts
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11-08-2007, 07:05 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Monty Capuletti's gazebo
Posts: 26,202
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I had an epiphany at a Nickelback show that I owe in large part to them, so they can't be all bad. I went to a show (despite my general dislike of the band, because Mr. Man liked them) of theirs about a week after that whole Great White concert fire fiasco and about two songs in, we were standing in the pit and the Nickelback roadies set off some huge pyrotechnics on the stage. My immediate reaction was to glance around to try to find the exits.
Then I realized, like a flash (a large fireball, reaching ever closer to something flammable, if you will), that life is too short to go to concerts of bands that you don't like. Ever since then, I've let Mr. Man go to his heavier shows alone and I'm pretty sure that we are both happier as a result. Who wants to go to a show with someone who doesn't want to be there?
So thanks, Nickelback, for sucking so damn hard!
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It's not really the hardness of their sound that's the problem for me. It's the awfulness of their general songwriting. They're like Creed.
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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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11-08-2007, 07:06 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Rose City 'til I Die
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I got an amazing gift last year. I was given a volume of poetry that contained my favorite poem ever. And it was signed.
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Wh actually wrote "There Once Was a Man from Nantucket"?
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Drinking gin from a jam jar.
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11-08-2007, 07:08 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
Posts: 14,276
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Not to change the subject but...
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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Is this like a do-rag or a blankie with deadheads on it?
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The latter. I'm knitting 117 six inch squares (69 white and 48 black) that I'll sew together to be a 54 x 76 inch blanket with a big ass skull on it. I suspect he'll love it. Or at least he'll tell me he loves it.
ETA: It'll hopefully end up looking something like this.
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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
Last edited by Replaced_Texan; 11-08-2007 at 07:14 PM..
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