# Here are the bizarre contributions to our White Elephant

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**Created:** [December 19, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-are-the-bizarre-contributions-to-our-white-elephant/280629 "2004-12-19T08:21:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-are-the-bizarre-contributions-to-our-white-elephant/280629/1 "2004-12-19T08:21:42Z")

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My friends and I had a White Elephant party this evening. When the party date was announced a few weeks ago, my friend took me aside and warned me- no gag gifts. He didn’t want me embarassing him at his apartment when some pretty girl he’d like to get to know better opens up some gift to find a huge rubber penis inside 😛

So I was good, and got a decent gift- a $10 gift certificate to EB games. Since my friend had warned me, I figured everyone else would play nice too, and everyone would get a mutually acceptable gift. Uhhhhh

THE GIFTS

1.) A $10 gift certificate to EB Games (my gift)  
2.) A Bionocle figure (my friend’s gift)  
3.) A book on Dali plus a gift certificate to a craft store (actually pretty neat)  
4.) Refridgerator magnets of cat asses 😕  
5.) A 486 motherboard+processor 😛  
6.) $10 worth of generic golf balls  
7.) A pair of ninja climbing claws (WTF? :eek: )  
8.) A Simpsons trivia game  
9. A DVD encoder  
10.) A jar of marshmallow creme.

In some bizarre twist, my gift was the least desirable, and I wound up getting it back through the selection process after a few rounds. I was really hoping to get the ninja claw thingys though. The most popular gifts?

The magnetic cat asses and the jar of marshmallow creme 😕 . TWO people wanted that marshmallow creme sooo bad. Because, you know, a $10 gift certificate could be anything…but a jar of marshmallow creme is A JAR OF MARSHMALLOW CREME! 😛