But being stoopid I don’t know who sent it 
But a HARDY THANKS!! for all the cool stuff 
SpideyJr. loves the ASTEROID thing-a-ba-jobby© and it keeps the cat hypnotized for hours on end. Sadly, SpideyJr. dumped the 3½ X 5’s in the fishtank so I will never know what was on them. Hopefully nothing crimial.
I am stumped as to what the circly-spinny-colourwheel thing is, so whoever you are, fill me in PLEASE!
It’s a frying pan/conduction heat thingy so you can cook yummy fat-free stuff [hurl].
Shit, I don’t even remember this. I think it’s somthing from a junk drawer in the kitchen, but I really don’t remember. I was throwing junk in the boxes over the course of a few days. It’s not a vibrator, is it? 
BTW, what’s the significance of the new name?
Yea! And, that would make my last 4 armadillo/Texas mugs not quite as bad. How am I going to torture, I mean treat my next white elephant giftee?
It is the very same Neil Finn, also from the band Crowded House. He’s my boooooyfriend.
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You’re quite welcome. I’m glad you liked the stuff!
I don’t think I knew your daughter was a “Katie”, too. Lucky that!
Not unless you’re into burning and scarification. Not that there’s anything wrong with that… It looks like a stapler, except instead of where the staples go, there’s a heat element that heats up incredibly fast when pressed. After a little bit of experimentation last night - we kept our clothes on - I have decided that it might be some sort of plastic bag sealer. Sound familiar?
Sir Andrew Aguecheek was one of Shakespeare’s best comic characters. Never really in tune with what was going on, but he always helped the play along. He was the first character from “serious” literature I found that shared my name. Apart from Lear’s Fool, I always loved this guy the most, and found that we shared some characteristics besides a name.
So, you parents named you “Sir”? What were they thinking?
-Rue.
That’s it! I think it must the patented EuroSealer[sup]TM[/sup] from the junk drawer in my kitchen. Mystery solved.
I got my elephant! I was on the phone with a friend, and she laughed so hard she might actually come find the SDMB. Lunatic13 needs to get some SERIOUS therapy!
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[li]a set of three matching trays with flowers that look like something my grandmother would have displayed in her living room. (The note says that porcupine sent them in the first elephant swap, so they have a provenance!)[/li][li]a baggie with unbelievably ugly shades of nail polish, a leather ponytail holder (possibly useful), a roll of film from a company I’ve never heard of, a key ring from M&I bank (I had my first real bank account with them! They have since vanished into mergerland, I think.), a keyring with one of those little push the numbers around puzzles, a cheap tacky gold chain, and, um, some kind of personal adornment, I think, involving string and polished rocks[/li][li]a Barenaked Ladies CD - Cool![/li][li]a copy of The Onion - always fun[/li][li]some kind of bizarre spatula/tongs combo that has already been banished from the kitchen[/li][li]a spagetti portion measurer - always useful[/li][li]an autographed copy of “The Little People on the Hill,” which, despite the title, seems to be the privately printed autobiography of an older woman from Wausau. My husband is a third generation Wausau-ite, I’ll see if any of his relatives knew this family[/li][li]a Polaroid SONAR camera - does it work?[/li][li]Oh My! Wow! A reproduction of the Last Supper! It is in 3D, it has the tackiest thin tarnished metal filigree frame I have ever seen, and IT LIGHTS UP!!! Words fail me![/li]
Thanks, Lunatic13!
(Where is Ashland?)
You know, when this is all said and done, we should have a vote for the “Whitest of the White Elephants”.
You know, the All-Time-I-Can’t-Believe-That-Some-Sane-Businessman-Would-Devote-Precious-Resources-To-Creating-This-Kind-Of-Cra…stuff[sup]TM[/sup] Award.
A 3D, lightup version of the Last Supper…Wow…It ain’t art until it’s got batteries, I always say!
I am so glad these are making their way across the country. They were given to me as a joke many years ago and had been sitting in the farthest reaches of my kitchen cabinets until the first SDMB White Elephant Swap.
My mother, who has a somewhat quirky sense of humor, used to have her home office decorated in religious kitsch. I don’t think she had a 3-D lightup version of the last supper, but she did have several lit lenticular Christian objets d’art. (for those who don’t know the name, a lenticular is one of those things that shifts from one picture to another when you move your head.) One of them featured Jesus on the cross; from one angle his eyes were closed, but as you walked by it, he would open them and look at you. It was the creepiest thing imaginable. If she still had that stuff I would have forced her to give me one of those things for the White Elephant exchange.
Speaking of the W.E., I was delayed in sending my box - it’s been riding around in my car waiting for me to be able to make it to the post office, because my company no longer allows its employees to send personal mail through the mail room, even if we pay for it. But I SWEAR it will go out today.
The patented EuroSealer is still in my junk drawer, so Aguecheek, I have not clue WTF that last thing was that I sent you. I don’t remember having 2 of them…
Ok, Aguecheek, could it be a glue gun?
I just picked up my white elephant and made the mistake of opening it at work…thanks ** Boscibo **. She sent me a lovely postcard of Hudson Wisconsin…well it would have been lovely if they had gotten close enough to show any of the town, a couple of old golf balls that look like they had been there since before the last ice age, a deck of Minnesota state lottery playing cards (unopened), something that she accurately described as a “heart thingy: her bf’s ex-gf made it… Yuck”, a white enamel pan with a lovely floral motif on it, a great crystal doorknob (it will make a good paperweight) and the piece de resistance…a giant unpainted Mickey Mouse sculpture. I’ll give it to my mom to paint, I don’t have a clue what I am gonna do with it afterwards. Thanks again Boscibo I errr appreciate all the ju err stuff you sent me.
Keith
Damn, forgot the battery operated pool game, featuring authentic pool sounds…
Keith
Not a glue gun. Damn. Uuhh, what else…made in China, on the thin side of the “stapler,” there is a little divot for a thumb to press, and over the divot, there’s an arrow pointing both left and right. Battery case and heat element are on the thick side.
Rue - They thought about naming me “Mister,” but they decided that they didn’t want to name me after my dad. 
K, it’s not the Eurosealer, but it looks like a prototype version. It’s longer, and black, with no title attractively emblazoned on the top. After that, I’m stumped.
I got my white elephant package today! Thank you, Tattva!
And, it had a cute elephant drawing on the outside of the box. It contained:
– A Ricky Martin calendar (for 2000). Super cool! I suspect Ricky might be visiting another Doper during a future White Elephant.
– A Columbia, MO utility company calendar (this time for 2001 – woohoo, three more months of use!)
– A map of Oklahoma. This is going right in the important “Bag of Maps” that I keep for road trips.
– About two feet of chain. This is very mysterious.
– A Pokemon (I think) graduation card, blank, so I can use it.
– Butterfly hair clips, which I will use. I’m just getting to that age where I think it’s ok to wear 8th grade girl fashions, and not realize right away what a huge dork I look like.
– A combination mousepad/picture frame. I figured this out for myself!
– A roll of brown yarn, and a great quantity of Premium Braided Kevlar Ultra Tough Ultra Sensitive Fishing Line, most of which is no longer on its spool. These will be beautiful additions to my drawer of craft supplies for crafts I start but never finish.
– A seashell, now perched on top of my monitor.
– Coupons.
– Magnets, including the Missouri 2000 football schedule, which will go nicely with my 1999 Buffalo football schedule magnet, still on my fridge.
– A t-shirt, with a corporate logo on it, “CAT” – I’m really dumb, but should I know what this is?
And the best thing:
– A print-out of an email from “Mrs. L.” with a recipe for Poppy Seed Cake. By the looks of the paper, you have already made this recipe. How is it? Is it good? And what the heck is “Milnot”?
Today I got a box from dentarthurdent.
It contains
a slightly used candle in a jar of undetermined scent
an 8-ball from a pool table
a clock with a fisherman on it that makes an strange sound
Two CDs Billy Joel River of Dreams and Toad the Wet Sprocket Dulcinea
some twine
1 quart of dehydrated milk
one bronze guitar string
one Bowl Appetit! (three cheese rotini)
one fake flower lei
one automobile air-freshner
some sort of lip-balm type device that has logos from Volvo and Motrin
(do they make stuff that goes on lips?)
A ‘Five lunches and the Sixth is Free’ card from East Side Mario’s with three lunches already used.
(I wonder where they are)
A GE tv remote controll
an Intel pentium processor
a strap for something (or anything!)
a Yo-Yo
a floppy disk with the CD-Rom driver for a Toshiba 5302B
4 CD-Roms (Grolier Encyclopedia, Teach yourself CGI Programming, The Animals! 2.0, and Family Pharmacist)
the owners Manual to a 1989 Nissan Maxima
and the crowning glory, the greatest white elephant gift of all time and of all pan-dimensional universes…
A car.
Well he gave me the car keys so when I find the sucker it is mine. Oh yes I shall have it.
Thanks!
Well, the chain was part of a futile effort at where I work to prevent staplers from being stolen. See how well that worked??
And the CAT t-shirt is from Caterpillar, the heavy machinery company. I have like 3 of them already - they sponsor an egg catapult contest at my university every March.
The cake is good. I had accidentally printed off 2 copies of the email, so I thought you could have one.
I’m glad it finally arrived. Dang, slow USPS.