# Secret Santa 2006 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 19, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073 "2006-11-19T21:54:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/321 "2006-12-21T02:34:28Z")
[QUOTE=Canadiangirl] congodwarf: I’m very glad you liked it…I was afraid the syrup wouldn’t make it intact! I love aero bars too…especially dipped in hot tea so the outside melts then you just lick that off, then do it again. I’m glad you like the rice - just a tip - it has to be cooked a lot longer than the icky white stuff…give it a rinse before you toss it in a pot. Lynn (Canadiangirl) [/QUOTE] I will keep both those tips in mind. Well, I already ate the Aero bar. It lasted about 5 mintues before I gave in. I made myself some of the Chai this morning. It had much different directions than what I’m used to. I actually followed them. Oh my god, I had no idea Chai could taste like that. I suffered through 9 hours at work before I could make another cup. I have one simmering on the stove as I type. I can smell it in the living room. I’m so excited! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/322 "2006-12-21T02:42:38Z")
I got my gift today–and _THANK YOU_ **GorillaMan!** He kindly sent me some English Cranberry & Apple Chutney. How do I best taste this? Does it go best on crackers or toast? 🆒 Man alive, this is cool! To my giftee: my apologies! It’s going into the mail tomorrow (busy week up until today). Tripler A busy week indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/323 "2006-12-21T02:51:36Z")
**Jodi** , remind me to make sweet love to you. It’s my way of saying thanks for the toys. I’ll put em together and play at my desk. Wheeeeeeeeeee! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/324 "2006-12-21T03:24:26Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] **Jodi** , remind me to make sweet love to you. It’s my way of saying thanks for the toys. I’ll put em together and play at my desk. [/QUOTE] Darlin’, if that’s the plan, you’d better eat the chocolate first for strength . . . . to put the toys together. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/325 "2006-12-21T03:32:14Z")
So, um…about these…“toys”… Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/326 "2006-12-21T03:38:29Z")
Hmmmm. Making “sweet love”, eating chocolate for “strength” (stamina?), “Darlin’”? Just what kinds of toys did you _send_ him, **Jodi**? 😃 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/327 "2006-12-21T03:45:57Z")
An 8 by 10 inch glossy photo entitled “shooting gallery”. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/328 "2006-12-21T04:09:11Z")
[QUOTE=phall0106] I just wanted to say thank you again. My hair looked damned good this morning. [/QUOTE] Cool. Merry Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Tamryne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tamryne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamryne)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/329 "2006-12-21T04:35:02Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] Well, imagine my surprise this afternoon when I opened up the door and found a FedEx package sitting out in the hall! I did have the patience to wait until I’d gone downstairs and put my laundry in before I opened it. I got: Aunty’s Chocolate Fudge steamed puddings homemade chocolate-frosted cookies (er…these got a little smashed up in transit) homemade brownies 4 packs of Land O Lakes Cocoa Classics in different flavors Cocoa Spice Yogi Tea a little box of chocolate candies from The Cookie Jar 4 Dove dark chocolate Promises and 4 Hershey’s dark chocolate Kisses It appears that my Secret Santa somehow psychically deduced that I have a fondness for chocolate. 😉 Thanks, **Tamryne**!! [/QUOTE] Your very welcome! Sorry the cookies got a little smashed up, they were rather crumbly and it didn’t even occur to me that they might fall apart during shipping :smack:. I hope you like the chocolate goodies! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/330 "2006-12-21T04:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=Tamryne] Your very welcome! Sorry the cookies got a little smashed up, they were rather crumbly and it didn’t even occur to me that they might fall apart during shipping :smack:. I hope you like the chocolate goodies! [/QUOTE] Pssst…next time just ask her how she liked the Homemade Cookie Flavored Ice Cream Mix-ins you sent! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/331 "2006-12-21T11:15:36Z")
Woohoo! I got a package yesterday, didn’t have time to open it last night because I had to go out almost straight away. Thank you **EuroMDguy** - a box full of marshmallow body parts, just what I always wanted! And the other “thing” will definitely keep me very occupied, although at the moment I’m ‘occupied’ trying to keep the cat out of the box! ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/332 "2006-12-21T12:31:01Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] Woohoo! I got a package yesterday, didn’t have time to open it last night because I had to go out almost straight away. Thank you **EuroMDguy** - a box full of marshmallow body parts, just what I always wanted! And the other “thing” will definitely keep me very occupied, although at the moment I’m ‘occupied’ trying to keep the cat out of the box! [/QUOTE] You’re welcome - I stood 3 long hours at the stand buying the ‘thing’. I must have tried out a gazillion of them… ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/333 "2006-12-21T12:39:49Z")
I forgot to mention but so far no sight of any SS gift here - let’s hope it’ll be here on Friday ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/334 "2006-12-21T20:57:25Z")
Got a call from my wife, there is a box with Royal Mail stamps and such on it. ::: Does happy dance::: I get home on the 24th, I don’t know if I can hold out till the 25th. No word yet from the person I sent mine to. I wonder if it got there? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/335 "2006-12-21T21:57:18Z")
Mysecret santa says he/she hasn’t received my gift. ☹ Damn you USPS! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/336 "2006-12-22T00:47:27Z")
No SS gift from the mailman today, but there are two more mailing days this week, and I really don’t mind if it’s late, either. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/337 "2006-12-22T02:50:56Z")
I don’t have mine either. There’s still a couple days, though. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/338 "2006-12-22T04:37:00Z")
For the record, **Quasi** , I sent **TLOUNE** two Lego cars that can be built separately or _combined to make a third, bigger car_! And a bag of Giaradelli chocolates, which can be combined in your stomach to make you fat and happy. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/339 "2006-12-22T04:49:36Z")
**Siege** , If you’re listening, your SS gift should arrive no later than tomorrow. I sent it today FedEx guaranteed overnight to be sure you’d have it before Christmas. Let me know if it doesn’t make it tomorrow coz then they’ll have to give me a full refund! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/340 "2006-12-22T05:37:09Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] For the record, **Quasi** , I sent **TLOUNE** two Lego cars that can be built separately or _combined to make a third, bigger car_! And a bag of Giaradelli chocolates, which can be combined in your stomach to make you fat and happy. [/QUOTE] **Legos**??? I _love_ Legos! No wonder **TLOUNE** responded the way he did! I saw a program on my German satellite station where the Lego company built a replica of the Allianz 2006 Football arena, and I thought back to my boyhood and how much fun those were. You got Legos, Dude! Quasi [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073.md?page=18)