Bakers Dozen

A toy or other gift you wanted for Christmas/Hanukkah/etc. as a kid, but never got

  1. A mini-bike
  2. Legos
  3. Pellet rifle
  4. My own 8-track player. (Yeah, just as well I never got one- but I really wanted it at the time!)
  5. Pony
  6. Opera cape
  7. A cool sword
  8. Electric train set (My brother got one a few years later but by that time, I didn’t care.)
  9. An archery set (My dad said he thought I could handle it, but didn’t trust my sisters.)
  10. Ten ladies dancing

A toy or other gift you wanted for Christmas/Hanukkah/etc. as a kid, but never got

  1. A mini-bike
  2. Legos
  3. Pellet rifle
  4. My own 8-track player. (Yeah, just as well I never got one- but I really wanted it at the time!)
  5. Pony
  6. Opera cape
  7. A cool sword
  8. Electric train set (My brother got one a few years later but by that time, I didn’t care.)
  9. An archery set (My dad said he thought I could handle it, but didn’t trust my sisters.)
  10. Ten ladies dancing
  11. A real chemistry set

A toy or other gift you wanted for Christmas/Hanukkah/etc. as a kid, but never got

  1. A mini-bike
  2. Legos
  3. Pellet rifle
  4. My own 8-track player. (Yeah, just as well I never got one- but I really wanted it at the time!)
  5. Pony
  6. Opera cape
  7. A cool sword
  8. Electric train set (My brother got one a few years later but by that time, I didn’t care.)
  9. An archery set (My dad said he thought I could handle it, but didn’t trust my sisters.)
  10. Ten ladies dancing
  11. A real chemistry set
  12. A make-up set (My mother: It wouldn’t help you at all!)

A toy or other gift you wanted for Christmas/Hanukkah/etc. as a kid, but never got

  1. A mini-bike
  2. Legos
  3. Pellet rifle
  4. My own 8-track player. (Yeah, just as well I never got one- but I really wanted it at the time!)
  5. Pony
  6. Opera cape
  7. A cool sword
  8. Electric train set (My brother got one a few years later but by that time, I didn’t care.)
  9. An archery set (My dad said he thought I could handle it, but didn’t trust my sisters.)
  10. Ten ladies dancing
  11. A real chemistry set
  12. A make-up set (My mother: It wouldn’t help you at all!)
  13. New undershirts.

Next: Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with
  3. Horrible songs like “Christmas Shoes,” “Stepping into Christmas,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
    But I love Christmas anyway. Fooey on the theme!!!

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with
  3. Horrible songs like “Christmas Shoes,” “Stepping into Christmas,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
  4. Advertisers who insist on using their Christmas ads after December 25th

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with
  3. Horrible songs like “Christmas Shoes,” “Stepping into Christmas,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
  4. Advertisers who insist on using their Christmas ads after December 25th
  5. Getting loud about not drinking the Christmas Cheer Kool-Aid will, like, get you thrown off airplanes and stuff (in other words, if you’re not in a holiday mood, keep your face shut and go along with the herd; no one wants to hear your grumpy ass)

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with
  3. Horrible songs like “Christmas Shoes,” “Stepping into Christmas,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
  4. Advertisers who insist on using their Christmas ads after December 25th
  5. Getting loud about not drinking the Christmas Cheer Kool-Aid will, like, get you thrown off airplanes and stuff (in other words, if you’re not in a holiday mood, keep your face shut and go along with the herd; no one wants to hear your grumpy ass)
  6. TV networks playing all those Christmas movies and specials really messes up their regular program schedules.

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with
  3. Horrible songs like “Christmas Shoes,” “Stepping into Christmas,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
  4. Advertisers who insist on using their Christmas ads after December 25th
  5. Getting loud about not drinking the Christmas Cheer Kool-Aid will, like, get you thrown off airplanes and stuff (in other words, if you’re not in a holiday mood, keep your face shut and go along with the herd; no one wants to hear your grumpy ass)
  6. TV networks playing all those Christmas movies and specials really messes up their regular program schedules.
  7. Too damn many people out and about, making it impossible to do normal non-holiday errands without crowds and parking nightmares.

we really are just a bunch of grinches, aren’t we?

Bah, humbug! :smiley:

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with
  3. Horrible songs like “Christmas Shoes,” “Stepping into Christmas,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
  4. Advertisers who insist on using their Christmas ads after December 25th
  5. Getting loud about not drinking the Christmas Cheer Kool-Aid will, like, get you thrown off airplanes and stuff (in other words, if you’re not in a holiday mood, keep your face shut and go along with the herd; no one wants to hear your grumpy ass)
  6. TV networks playing all those Christmas movies and specials really messes up their regular program schedules.
  7. Too damn many people out and about, making it impossible to do normal non-holiday errands without crowds and parking nightmares.
  8. Spending money on a bunch of worthless shit for the benefit of ungrateful assholes.

:smiley:

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with
  3. Horrible songs like “Christmas Shoes,” “Stepping into Christmas,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
  4. Advertisers who insist on using their Christmas ads after December 25th
  5. Getting loud about not drinking the Christmas Cheer Kool-Aid will, like, get you thrown off airplanes and stuff (in other words, if you’re not in a holiday mood, keep your face shut and go along with the herd; no one wants to hear your grumpy ass)
  6. TV networks playing all those Christmas movies and specials really messes up their regular program schedules.
  7. Too damn many people out and about, making it impossible to do normal non-holiday errands without crowds and parking nightmares.
  8. Spending money on a bunch of worthless shit for the benefit of ungrateful assholes.
  9. Just when I get in the swing of it, it’s over.

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with
  3. Horrible songs like “Christmas Shoes,” “Stepping into Christmas,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
  4. Advertisers who insist on using their Christmas ads after December 25th
  5. Getting loud about not drinking the Christmas Cheer Kool-Aid will, like, get you thrown off airplanes and stuff (in other words, if you’re not in a holiday mood, keep your face shut and go along with the herd; no one wants to hear your grumpy ass)
  6. TV networks playing all those Christmas movies and specials really messes up their regular program schedules.
  7. Too damn many people out and about, making it impossible to do normal non-holiday errands without crowds and parking nightmares.
  8. Spending money on a bunch of worthless shit for the benefit of ungrateful assholes.
  9. Just when I get in the swing of it, it’s over.
  10. Xmas Categories in the Bakers Dozen are started days after Xmas day.

I reject the premise of this round utterly, but hey, a game’s a game…

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with
  3. Horrible songs like “Christmas Shoes,” “Stepping into Christmas,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
  4. Advertisers who insist on using their Christmas ads after December 25th
  5. Getting loud about not drinking the Christmas Cheer Kool-Aid will, like, get you thrown off airplanes and stuff (in other words, if you’re not in a holiday mood, keep your face shut and go along with the herd; no one wants to hear your grumpy ass)
  6. TV networks playing all those Christmas movies and specials really messes up their regular program schedules.
  7. Too damn many people out and about, making it impossible to do normal non-holiday errands without crowds and parking nightmares.
  8. Spending money on a bunch of worthless shit for the benefit of ungrateful assholes.
  9. Just when I get in the swing of it, it’s over.
  10. Xmas Categories in the Bakers Dozen are started days after Xmas day.
  11. Radio ads and music start just a day or two after gorramn Halloween

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with
  3. Horrible songs like “Christmas Shoes,” “Stepping into Christmas,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
  4. Advertisers who insist on using their Christmas ads after December 25th
  5. Getting loud about not drinking the Christmas Cheer Kool-Aid will, like, get you thrown off airplanes and stuff (in other words, if you’re not in a holiday mood, keep your face shut and go along with the herd; no one wants to hear your grumpy ass)
  6. TV networks playing all those Christmas movies and specials really messes up their regular program schedules.
  7. Too damn many people out and about, making it impossible to do normal non-holiday errands without crowds and parking nightmares.
  8. Spending money on a bunch of worthless shit for the benefit of ungrateful assholes.
  9. Just when I get in the swing of it, it’s over.
  10. Xmas Categories in the Bakers Dozen are started days after Xmas day.
  11. Radio ads and music start just a day or two after gorramn Halloween
  12. Having to hear about the imagined ‘War on Christmas’.

Ways in which Christmas is the worst time of the year:

  1. Over-eating
  2. If you don’t have anyone to spend it with
  3. Horrible songs like “Christmas Shoes,” “Stepping into Christmas,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
  4. Advertisers who insist on using their Christmas ads after December 25th
  5. Getting loud about not drinking the Christmas Cheer Kool-Aid will, like, get you thrown off airplanes and stuff (in other words, if you’re not in a holiday mood, keep your face shut and go along with the herd; no one wants to hear your grumpy ass)
  6. TV networks playing all those Christmas movies and specials really messes up their regular program schedules.
  7. Too damn many people out and about, making it impossible to do normal non-holiday errands without crowds and parking nightmares.
  8. Spending money on a bunch of worthless shit for the benefit of ungrateful assholes.
  9. Just when I get in the swing of it, it’s over.
  10. Xmas Categories in the Bakers Dozen are started days after Xmas day.
  11. Radio ads and music start just a day or two after gorramn Halloween
  12. Having to hear about the imagined ‘War on Christmas’.
  13. Elf on a Shelf.

A New Year’s resolution for 2015 that you might actually achieve

  1. Finish writing another novel

A New Year’s resolution for 2015 that you might actually achieve

  1. Finish writing another novel
  2. Read a new author, listen to a new musician, try a new food

Same one I have every year.

A New Year’s resolution for 2015 that you might actually achieve

  1. Finish writing another novel
  2. Read a new author, listen to a new musician, try a new food
  3. Replace Vanity, Toilet, and shower in my bathroom.