# I'm giving my son a rock for Christmas. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 25, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346 "2010-12-25T06:38:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/21 "2010-12-25T15:47:22Z")
If you need more stocking stuffers, I suggest paper and scissors. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/22 "2010-12-25T15:48:27Z")
A molecule of your own?? Must be nice. When I was a kid, we were only allowed to play super gently with it because we knew it would be returned the next day. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/23 "2010-12-25T15:50:07Z")
It [kicks more ass](http://guitarsolocharliebrown.ytmnd.com/) than you might think. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/24 "2010-12-25T15:50:21Z")
I wish I had a rock, to wind this piece of string around. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/25 "2010-12-25T16:05:37Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > If a small rock ruins my son’s Xmas, **njtt** , it’s clearly not about the holiday. I’ll let you know if he still loves me this afternoon, okay? I’m late to the thread, but I’ve learned that if you want to know what things bug a kid, you really need to go to another kid. I have 2 sons and heard the most amazing statement just the other day: Michael- “Sean! You’re being SO BAD! Santa’s not going to bring you coal, he’s going to bring you Homework…!” :eek: :smack: 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/26 "2010-12-25T16:09:49Z")
> [@Mr.Me](#): > > I wish I had a rock, to wind this piece of string around. I want a prosthetic forehead to wear on my real head. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/27 "2010-12-25T16:18:42Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > One Christmas I got a single molecule. And not even a good molecule. I think it was Iron. > [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](#): > > A molecule of your own?? > Must be nice. When I was a kid, we were only allowed to play super gently with it because we knew it would be returned the next day. ☹ You guys are lucky. I was given some atoms and told to make my own damn molecule. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/28 "2010-12-25T16:30:22Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > You guys are lucky. I was given some atoms and told to make my own damn molecule. You rich guys. All we got were some protons, neutrons and we had to find our own electrons. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/29 "2010-12-25T16:43:47Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > You rich guys. All we got were some protons, neutrons and we had to find our own electrons. Luxury. Our parents just yelled from another room, “Get your own quarks and start assembling your ‘presents’ on your own!” ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/30 "2010-12-25T16:59:17Z")
Quarks? You had it lucky. We were just given string. Theoretical string at that. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/31 "2010-12-25T16:59:31Z")
You guys all had it lucky. The kid across the street, his parents claimed they gave him neutrinos. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/32 "2010-12-25T17:11:06Z")
I wanna rock. excuse me [COLOR=“RED”] **I WANNA ROCK!** ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/33 "2010-12-25T17:12:14Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I wanna rock. > > excuse me > > [COLOR=“RED”] **I WANNA ROCK!** And what makes you think we’re going to take it? ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/34 "2010-12-25T19:13:47Z")
My brother-in-law did get coal in his stocking as a child one year. Other presents did follow but it did serve as an eye opener as he really was being a shit that year/season/whatever. Makes for a good story all these years after and it probably helps to keep his kids in line while they’re still young. And then there was the year my wife’s family made the car trip to Manitoba and mom or dad forgot to pack the presents . . . ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/35 "2010-12-25T19:39:24Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Quarks? You had it lucky. We were just given string. Theoretical string at that. You had string? I guess everything is relative. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/36 "2010-12-25T19:39:29Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I wanna rock. Me too. I wanna rock. And a clock. I wanna rock around the clock tonight… ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/37 "2010-12-25T19:51:39Z")
He loved the rock. Took it to the bathroom and washed it so it was shiny. Next year’s gonna be easy-- more rocks! The mom unit was not amused, however. so I’m fucked anyways. Youv’e seen [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV-SpT69IZ8), right **Zebra**? ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/38 "2010-12-25T20:59:39Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > He loved the rock. Took it to the bathroom and washed it so it was shiny. Next year’s gonna be easy-- more rocks! > > The mom unit was not amused, however. so I’m fucked anyways. > Youv’e seen [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV-SpT69IZ8), right **Zebra**? Glad the Kid liked it. Sorry his mom didn’t. I would have thought it was hilarious. I wish I’d thought of it. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/39 "2010-12-26T01:50:38Z")
Twin number 2 was being a pain at the local store where all things go on deep discount when nobody wants them anymore, he’s bringing me all of the toys that we’re Cool last year…Star Trek, GI Joe, etc. Finally I looked at the nearest things near me and said "If you don’t stop, You’ll get a rug for Christmas, pointing to a Persian hanging up on the wall. A few minutes later I peek around the corner to see two well behaved twins, in the toy section, speaking in the same monotone voice “Daddy’s gonna buy you a ruuuuug” so it became the phrase of the season He’s a real car nut, so the realization that He REALLY got a rug, but it was cool and had lots of roads printed on it was doubly awesome…one of Santa’s toys had some ripped and re-taped wrapping, and a post-it note that read: “It got a little bumpy in New York, I’m sorry for the rip, so I left you a rug, too.” ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346/40 "2010-12-26T05:10:35Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > And what makes you think we’re going to take it? I suppose you asked Santa for an electric twanger? What do you want to _do_ with your life? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-my-son-a-rock-for-christmas/565346.md?page=3)