My favourite crappy gifts this season are the “singing” christmas trees, wreaths, poinsettias, etc… that you see in every drugstore. Some of them are motion activated, so every time you walk by you hear the same lame rendition of a hackneyed christmas carol.
I’m tempted to give the singing christmas wreath to one of my snooty acquaintances.
Quand les talons claquent, l’esprit se vide.
Maréchal Lyautey
Those computer chip singing Santa’s, cards, wreaths, trees or whatever. The technology has gone far beyond the ability of those tiny speakers to reproduce the sound and they are awful! They set my teeth on edge when one of them goes off with that tinny, buzzing set of tunes or songs!
Plus, it never fails, put them in cards and someone just has to set them off, jam them open and poke them back into the rack where they annoy everyone until someone finds the damn things and shuts them off.
anomoly22:
Why do you thimk we English export all that stuff to the US? We wouldn’t actually eat any of that stuff ourselves. We stick to high class stuff like warm beer, mushy peas and BSE infected beef.
I once lost my corkscrew and had to live on food and water for several days
(W.C. Fields)
I may be being dense here, but when you all refer to getting a tin of popcorn as a gift, is this actually, well, a tin full of popcorn? It seems like a lot of packaging when a tin of corn kernels would do the trick too no?
I think what they’re referring to is a tin of popcorn divided into three sections-one section has regular popcorn, one has cheese coated popcorn, and the third has caramel popcorn. I remember getting a couple of those- the ones we got were about 2’ high by 18" in diameter. Pretty good.
I just threw out a still-full tin of popcorn from last year. Yuck.
The trend this year in the office is “cookies on a stick”. The cookie (I’m eating one now) tastes like corn starch. Why can’t they just distribute cash?
Formerly unknown as “Melanie”
Oh, and Uke, if you send me a cookie on a stick from your department, you’re dead meat.
Formerly unknown as “Melanie”