You poor Baker! I’m sorry. I’m sending yours tomorrow. It is going to be so superfine, you’ll forget all the lonely days of waiting… (or you’ll be so nonplussed you’ll forget all the lonely days etc.)
Hey SilkyThreat you are quite welcome, sorry about the nasty chips but I’m giving them out to everybody I know. I’m very happy that your family liked the elephant.
::looking around::
But where is mine? They say giving is better than receiving, but it’s not fair that all these people are having so much fun while the rest of us sit here with nothing 
I’m sending it out on Saturday… so, to my person, you have not been forgotten.
I forgot to say thanks for mine: thanks, Jodi!
I got it last week and it was full of fabulous items. I’m using the box it came in to ship my elephant stuff in today so as to pass on the very accomplished drawing of an elephant. I’m going to tell the guy I have a crush on at the post office that I drew it. Shh.
Hey, what is the brass sort of cuppy thing that’s red on one end and green on the other? It’s oddly familiar, but I can’t figure it out. Do you measure drinks in it? But then why is it painted red and green? All I know is, it is way cool. If you whack it with a pencil it makes bell noises in different pitches. And what is the rubber purple thingy with weird nubbins? (No, it is not that! Gol! It’s like a pet toy or something, you gutterminded people.)
I also got dishes and a keychain and a subway card in case I go to Seattle and a fab pillow sham and a trash can! And an overdoor hook–how could you give that up? I’m using it as we speak, for a towel. Oh, and a painfully cute rabbit. He has little shiny paw pads made out of different colors of vinyl. I mean, the adorability quotient is enough to make you tear up if you catch sight of him unexpectedly. I named him Wayne. Call him: The Wayner. He’s going on a trip today.
Many, many thanks.
So I’m out running an errand for my new internship in the PR office on campus, and on the way back I decide to dawdle a few more minutes and check my mail. Hrm: bill, useless memo, useless memo, and… a little orange slip of paper stating that I have a package. I knew it could only be my elephant. But I couldn’t actually pick it up 'cos I had to go back to the office, and a box full of bizarre treasures would be an inappropriate distraction.
My god, it was the longest afternoon of my life.
I made it back to the post office JUST before they closed, then rushed back to my room and tore into this Christmasesque present. Well, Christmasesque if Santa were cleaning out his basement and scrounging through rummage sale free boxes.
Mad props to No Longer Patrick for the following:
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[li]A metal Slinky Ya know, when I was a kid I never had a metal slinky; all mine were lame neon plasctic that always got tangled up or broke. So this is way cool.[/li][li]A Matchbox toy car a double decker bus with “Berger Paints” on the side. Vroom Vroom![/li][li]A Pokemon Bowl Buddy[sup]TM[/sup][/li][li]MediRex which is, apparently, the oh-so-clever dinosaur mascot of mediregs.com[/li][li]Metal pot basket thingy Or, pardon me I just read the label on the bottom, a ‘4" Square Galvenized Topiary’ Of course it is[/li][li]A braid of Sweetgrass[/li][li]Some kind of antennea(?) contraption I’m not sure. Help?[/li][li]Silky padded hangers with little ribbons oh, fancy.[/li][li]Canvas shopping bag with CANADA stamped across it. Cool. AND I can actually use it.[/li][li]Sheets with different floral patterns These are lovely in a godawful kind of way. They all seem to be for queen beds, and I have a twin, but the minute I have a queen sized bed, these will be shoved in a very deep part of the closet.[/li][li]A Coleman QuickPump [sup]TM[/sup] II An inflato thing for airbeds. And it works! I don’t have an airbed, but I’m sure I can think up some other perverted use for it ::devilish grin::[/li][li]A box of salmon The fish itself is in some sort of hermetically sealed pouch, and claims to need no refirgeration and have a shelf life of “several years.” All the same. Even if I weren’t vegetarian I don’t think I’d eat boxed fish. I have cats at home that will probably be absolutely tickled with it, though.[/li][li]A Canadians Pocket Digest Some sort of baseball thing from 1986[/li][li]Borstius’ Primer of Bible Truths: Short Questions for Little Children, circa 1950 Dear Zeus, THANK YOU for this! It’s so gloriously disturbing! It’s beautiful… I’ll put it on the shelf right next to my 50s era ‘Encyclopedia of Sex’ and ‘Moon Sign Almanac’[/li][li]PhoneKleen[sup]TM[/sup] 18 moist-wipe pads to “kill staph and most germs on hard, nonporous syrfaces in one easy step” Finally. 'Cos my phone was just filthy.[/li][li]Treffpunkt Deutsch, on tape Is this a “Learn German” kind of tape? I listened to a bit of it and I still couldn’t tell.[/li][li]Classical Beatles, on tape At first I just glanced at this and thought “Beatles! Neat!” Then I looked at it a bit more closely. ::shudder::[/li][li]Santana: Supernatural, on CD Except for the one song I heard 40,000 times on the radio, this is actually pretty cool.[/li][li]Bubbles! In a clinical looking vial, and for some reason I thought it was Holy Water at first (to match the Bible primer, I guess, I dunno). But, still, bubbles!![/li]
Whoo! And I think that’s everything. No Longer Patrick, you rock!
Rue,
My psychic vibrations tell me that a package is clearly in your future. 2-3 days even. (Probably doesn’t include weekends, so it might be a little more)
I’m sure we all wait with breathless anticipation to hear how you will describe the gifts from your benevolent donor.
And I haven’t gotten mine yet, either. Oh well. Good things come to those who wait. At least that’s what mom said.
Just reading about all this useless crap makes me smile. I keep coming back and rereading old posts, even. It’s just what a gal needs when the world seems like it’s going to hell.
It just arrived, so I’ll open it “live”…
Oh, and it came from the sweet and charming bean_shadow.
[li]The Kansas City Star’s Sport Section. Oh wait, that’s probably not one of the elephants - just packing material. Ok, continuing…[/li][li]A Hawthorn Generating Station pin. With a cool looking eagle on it, too. Is this where you work, bean_shadow?[/li][li]Some Mother’s Son movie soundtrack CD. Never heard of that movie, but I love music, so this is great.[/li][li]A blue Major Accent Highlighter. How’d you know I lost my blue one the other day?![/li][li]And an orange one, too! I didn’t have an orange one. Nifty![/li][li]And a HOT PINK one - Woo Hoo![/li][li]A box and a half of black Papermate felt tip pens. (were you cleaning out your office supply cabinet? hehe)[/li][li]A black Sharpie. Another one I can use. Mine’s all dried out![/li][li]A black metal twisty thing with wooden balls on the ends. I’m completely clueless what this thing is or does, but it sure looks interesting![/li][li]A Bocktoberfest '98 guitar-shaped keychain. (What’s Bocktoberfest?)[/li][li]A C3PO PEZ dispenser. Spiny Norman will be SO jealous![/li][li]A deck of playing cards. And not only are they all there, but the Jokers are Snoopy. Another thing Spiny will try to confiscate from me.[/li][li]A whole bunch of melted mints.[/li][li]A whole bunch of LifeSavers Creme Savers candies - not melted, so these will definitely be enjoyed. Yum![/li][li]And PEZ to go in my cool dispenser. You thought of everything![/li][li]A Gomer’s Northland Fine Wines & Spirits business card-shaped magnet. It says it’s “the most unusual store in the Northland.” What could they possibly do to wines and spirits that’s so unusual??[/li][li]Another keychain - this one with a red plastic hook thingie on it. That could come in handy.[/li][li]A tiny egg-shaped Sylvester head with Tweety Bird perched on top of it, holding a paint brush. Adorable, and will be joining my little Care Bear and Kinder Egg truck on top of my computer monitor at home.[/li][li]The Seville Suite CD. And I notice it’s the same composer as the other CD, Bill Whelan. Can’t wait to hear it.[/li][li]A rubber bat. The rodent kind, not the baseball kind. And he’s got bloooooood all over his face. Spooooky. hehe[/li][li]A satin Easter Bunny Box adorned with pink and green sequins and beads all over the top. Truly tacky! LOL[/li][li]5 VERY pretty sterling silver bangle bracelets. That’s all I wear anymore is silver jewelry and I didn’t have any bangle bracelets. These are definitely not white elephants - I love them![/li][li]A 4½ x 5½ cotton American Flag. Now this was a wonderful thing to send me. It’s just a little thing, but I will always treasure it.[/li]
Thank you so much, bean_shadow. I am eating my candy, wearing my bracelets, listening to my new CD (The Seville Suite one - lovely music. Oh wait, it just got REALLY LOUD! Oh My!), and looking forward to taunting Thomas with my PEZ dispenser.
Jeg elsker dig, Thomas
Heh. The fighting’s started already…
Via ICQ:
Colfire: A C3PO Pez dispenser??? GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!
Good luck, buster. You’ve got to fight off an 800 yard long hedgehog for it. Mwuuuaaaahahahahahaha!!
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Nope. It’s a Station that closed down, for some reason, and my dad worked on it a bit for his construction job. I got about a ton of those.
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I never use them anymore. Heh.
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Ah yes. That’s supposed to be a back massauger (sp?). You can use it as a paperweight or something.
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I have no idea. Something else my dad gave to me but I never used it.
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It is very unusual. It plays classical music, it has weird dusty stuffed animals for sale, and it has a pet fair every year to celebrate the birthday of it’s mascot, a Basset hound.
Glad you liked all your stuff Shayna!
Oh, for the love of all that is good and decent…please get rid of those sheets! Didn’t you see my post? They’re just packing! They’ve served their time! Sheets - Be Gone!
That’s it exactly. We got cable recently and that thing is so incredibly neat, it just had to be passed on. There’s a whosit (I think) attached to the wires that’ll let you plug it into the cable input on your TV. I think I had more fun playing with the dials than watching TV. I always felt it was something Marvin the Martian might own.
Isn’t it great? I was hoping that it would have little questions like “How do you recognize an Agent of Satan?” and other '50s-esque religious instruction, but no such luck.
Yep, there’s a second tape, but I couldn’t find it. My sister used them in university. I have no clue how I ended up with them.
Beatles Muzak. John’s still spinning in his grave over that one. Bruh.
Now that I got rid of the Classical Beatles, I certainly can . Enjoy with my best wishes. [sub]Lose the sheets![/sub]
What the? My sig showed up in the preview. Ack!
Hey newbie! [sub]like I’m not:rolleyes:[/sub] You have to re-click on your sig after preview for it to show up in the post
Oo boy! Oo boy! Oo boy!
:::: sits by the window, with a big grin on her face ::::
Rue, we could sing campfire songs!
Thanks, Thinksnow. 
I’ve been looking for an excuse to procrastinate (who wants to write a thesis anyway?)
Yay!
Elly
Ok Ok, My own stupid fault, I neglect the SD for a little while (must be something to do with imminent exams) and what happens…
I got a box made up here…
Who wants it??
sniff sniff please have my box…
I actually got mine last week so forgive me from posting late.
I got a variety of Christmas knicknacks including two gold Wizard of Oz tree ornaments that I LOVE, Garfield soap (which my daughter stole from me), a glass swan candle (is this from a Lady Desire home Tuppersex party? I won one just like it at a party I had a few years ago), some other things that I am trying my hardest to remember. I will look through the box and report back later.
Thank BAKER!!!
I am mailing my package off tomorrow - promise. Sorry I am so slow, it’s been one of those months.
I hope my person got her package. I sent it out on the Infamous Tuesday, even though I doubt it moved at all that day. But it should have made it to MN by now…
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Oh, okay. Actually I’ve already used one of them to made a little fort in my dorm room, and I might do the same with the other two if I get bored this weekend (Who says all college students do is drink & party?) so, nyah, they are semi-useful.
I’m a two time loser so far. . .I still haven’t heard from purplebear about my Round I package, and I ain’t got my box from this go-round either. <snif snif>
slinks out of the room, head bowed and trying reeeeallly hard not to cry
Zappo
Oh. Well. If you’re making forts, never mind then.