# Secret Santa 2002! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363 "2002-11-12T03:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/201 "2002-12-07T18:32:49Z")
OK OK if any of you are looking for ideas for me how about Xmas music one of those puzzel type toys (like get this ring off these horse shoes without using a tire tool) If you are a hot chick, a picture of you in your underwear. Something like your username. I might send a stuffed zebra or some zebra print boxers. If you got your name from a book, send me that book. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/202 "2002-12-07T18:34:04Z")
If Green Bean has my name I hope she doesn’t take my last suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/203 "2002-12-09T15:24:32Z")
Boy, my SS is on the ball! I’ve already gotten my package. I swear I’ll send mine out soon! ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/204 "2002-12-09T19:23:19Z")
[evil laugh]Since my user name is my home town, I had to drive to a whole different town to post my package on Saturday. I hope my ruse works![/evil laugh] ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/205 "2002-12-09T22:52:41Z")
Well, **Dazzling White Diamonds** , it got here today rather than this weekend. Cute puzzle you put in the card to help me figure out who it was. 😉 (Of course, it helped that I remembered seeing someone post something about their giftee posting a wish list a little too late! ;)) For those of you who don’t get to see it, it’s a beautiful knicknack. It’s a block of… well, I’m not really sure of the material. It’s clear, whatever it is. And inside is etched what looks like a beautiful bell. It’s three dimensional. I’m absolutely in love with it, and it’s going right on the front of my curio shelf! You picked a perfect gift, without even knowing! For my giftee, I have bought the gift, I just have to find time to wrap it up and get it sent out. But it should be on the way by the end of the week. ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/206 "2002-12-10T02:45:41Z")
**TruePisces** … Whew! I’m glad it got there… I was starting to get worried! And the hint… well, I was never one for subtlety. Ahem. 😉 I asked the young man what the material was, and he told me it was crystal. Now, I’m sure it’s not Waterford\*\*[sup]TM[/sup]\*\* or Swarovski\*\*[sup]TM[/sup]\*\*, but I thought it was mighty pretty. And I’m so glad you feel the same. 😃 and, if you look closely, you’ll see two chairs on either side of a table that has a veranda over it… and on the table is a vase with a flower in it… my hubby told me that they did that with lasers… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Khadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Khadro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadro)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/207 "2002-12-10T03:09:39Z")
Ok, I have the present… but for the last 2 days I’ve forgotten to bring it with me to send it. But it WILL get there, that I promise you, Secret Santa 'Ceiver. That sounds so crap, but I am gonna leave it there. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/208 "2002-12-10T03:28:25Z")
There should be a Secret Santa check in thread. Nobody knows who got whom (who got who? whom got which? Which got what?). You can pop in the thread and say you got your gift so the people who sent them can see that they were gotten (see if they were got? got to where they were getting?). ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/209 "2002-12-10T06:01:42Z")
I received my gift today with a cute card. And the package is kind of…liquidy…sloshy. Could it be a beverage? Fluids for my car? A giant bottle of perfume? I hope he got what I sent. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/210 "2002-12-10T11:44:12Z")
Once I held it the right way, I could see exactly what it was! 😃 (Ok, **Verrain** was the one to hold it the right way. But if you hold it upside down, it looks almost bell like!!! :o ) ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/211 "2002-12-10T14:08:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Czarcasm \* > \*\*Nooooooooooo! > > Well, now you have _two_ copies of the **The Body**. \*\* Which were waiting for me when I got home yesterday. Thank you! Robin ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/212 "2002-12-10T15:32:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Encinitas \* > \*\*[evil laugh]Since my user name is my home town, I had to drive to a whole different town to post my package on Saturday. I hope my ruse works![/evil laugh] \*\* (looks at package of White Chocolate he got from Secret Santa… Queen Eileen’s, 548 South Coast Highway… **Encinitas,** CA) Well, ahem, I’m not _really_ sure who my SS was, but I got some really nifty chocolate, a christmas ornament, and the soundtrack from Farscape, to which I am listening right this very minute! Thank you, Secret Santa, wherever you are! ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/213 "2002-12-10T18:48:29Z")
Opps! Guess I wasn’t as sneaky as I thought mailing the package from the next town over. Glad you like your present **Ethilrist**. I made the ornament myself (it’s a gourd). ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/214 "2002-12-11T06:06:02Z")
Well, _I_ have some self-control! I got mine today, and haven’t opened it yet. I was going to wait for Christmas, but the way you people are going on, I might have to open it now. . . . . . . 🆒 Cool!!! 🆒 It’s a copy of _What If?_, ed. by Robert Cowley, essays on alternate history by military historians. I’ve never read it, and now that I have it, it’s just what I always wanted! Thanks, Santa, whoever you are! (BTW, I did put my package in the mail on Saturday, as I promised above.) ---
**Author:** ![Shera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Shera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shera)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/215 "2002-12-11T07:00:24Z")
I am sending mine out tomarrow so my giftee sould have it by this time nest week. Gee, I hope he likes it. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/216 "2002-12-11T14:55:43Z")
I just got mine! And since I try to be like Scrooge at the end of the book and I live in the past, present and _future_ and I keep the spirit of Christmas in my heart **every day** I had no choice but to open it! Cool! Toys! A Lego R2D2! Sweeeeeeeeet! Thank you Secret Santa! The force will be with you, always. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/217 "2002-12-11T15:50:47Z")
The gift I ordered arrived, and as soon as I get one small item to add to the box, it will be on its way. In fact, if I can send the Perfect Child[sup]TM[/sup] to the store for me this afternoon, I can have it ready to go tomorrow. Ho Ho Ho ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/218 "2002-12-11T21:25:26Z")
I got mine! It’s a really pretty dreamcatcher, sort of a grayish blue in color. Thank you whoever you are!!! I’m going to examine the package more closely to see if I can figure out my giver. My gift will go in the mail this Saturday. It will be two packages actually, as the items I am sending are rather different in size and texture. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/219 "2002-12-12T02:19:08Z")
I couldn’t wait…opened my fluidy one today and it turned out to be a most wondrous purple glitter lamp! How on Earth did my Santa know that purple is my favorite color? And I wanted one of these lamps too! Hmm…somebody out there is psychic! 🙂 Thanks, Santa!! ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/220 "2002-12-12T18:17:50Z")
OK, my gift is in the mail. I suspect the recipient will figure it’s me when she looks at the return address. Oh noble giftee, all I’ll do is remind you of what you listed for your wish list! CJ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363.md?page=12)