Oh! Oh!
Me too! I’m in!!!
I still got junk…er… stuff that needs a home far FAR away from me!
Do you still have my contact info and address and panty size thinksnow??
We allhave your panty size. It was part of the original e-mail with the addresses. So… pink and frilly this time, or red with black lace again?
Panties? I sent him a HAT.
God help me. Now I’m picturing how he must be wearing it.
Astroboy, you owe me a seeing eye dog.
I’m in, if you’ll have me. But I never hear that my recipient got her goodies, so it my have gotten misplaced along the way. Anyone find a flying pig on their doorstep?
::shyly peeks around corner::
uh, I’d like to play…
I wanna play!
Im in, in fact I sent a note yesterday with my RL addy. I’ll send it again if you need me to.
Sir Rhosis
Okay, here are the folks, new and old, that I have:**
[li]bad news baboon[] MonkeyMensch[] dobbinaire[] Lsura[] J. Thompson (I need a Dopename)[] Arden Ranger (new addy)[] delphica[] bobkitty[] skerri[] monster[] SpoilerVirgin[] Sir Rhosis[] Soda[] Mobius74[] Shayna[] cazzle[] porcupine[] Turbo Dog[] Pucette[] dentarthurdent[] Fisherqueen[] Elenfair[] NoLongerPatrick[] Tequila Mockingbird[] Alice-in-wonderland[] Bean_Shadow[] Francesca[] pcubed[] SilkyThreat[] Booker57 (needs to send IRL info)[] Briminator[] Rue DeDay[] Eonwe[] Gravity[] Paul The Younger[] pandora[] Tattva[] Ellen[] BunnyGirl[] Miss Pippi[] enPhantBlanc[]FairyChatMom[]seawitch[]Verrain[]CrankyAsAnOldMan[]amarinth[]Superdude[/li][li]Diane[]GingerOfTheNorth[]rockingchair[]Grace[]Baker[]beegirl13 (I need IRL addy and name)[]Kat[]AstroBoy14[]Pammipoo**[/li]
And these are the people that I show as having not received their packages from the first go-around (and you know what that means!):**
[li]Amarinth[]Zappo []Cranky []Pandora []Cazzle []AbbySouthernAccent []TheLoadedDog[]Chef Troy[]Beadlin[]Whammo []Callie *[/li]
The crazy-mix-o-matic multi-function trans-lux muti-plexing-randomizer *will be fired up again in just a couple of days and once it starts, you can’t open it up to add anything new, so if you haven’t sent your info, you are running out of time.
I volunteer to send old stale cookies to all the people that got the shaft in the first one.
Or maybe I’ll just crochet doilies. To me, doilies are very white elephant.
How dare thee send the wonderful items I decided to bestow upon thee? Thou shalt get stricken with a really bad cold if you do! Nah just teasin’ actually And I’m in again I’ll send you an e-mail soon.
Dude, I’m in again.
Right now my e-mail is bein’ funky, so hopefully you can use this as my confirmation, or maybe someone nice could e-mail thinksnow to say I’m in.
(p.s.:The e-mail address that would be me would be bouvia@rpi.edu)
I’m in again.
HOWEVER: I never received my package from the first exchange. Thinksnow, I think you should take the names of the people who volunteered - VOLUNTEERED! - to take part in this and then behaved abhominably by not honoring an agreement that they weren’t under any obligation to enter into in the first place, and post them here so that they may a) be held up to the shame and ridicule they richly deserve, and/or b) try to explain why they are laying down on the job.
I’m not kidding about this. I want to know who blew me off. If you have an excuse, you slacker, I’m waiting to hear it.
Yeah! I’m with Chef Troy. It’s oddly depressing not to get someone’s old crap in the mail when you’re expecting it. But you know what makes me feel better? These magic words: multi-function trans-lux muti-plexing-randomizer
I’m still all a-tingle. blows a kiss at thinksnow
Okay, I’m in again.
::eyes room for more junk to send::
heh heh heh
‘Sometimes you just gotta say “WTF”’
I’m in too
Oh YEAH? All I can say is that I’d best get Cranky’s name.
PAYBACK IS A BITCH
Cartooooooooooniverse
In a word: no.
I’ll check to make sure they are not in this time around and will fire off another email to them today, but I’ll not hang them out for “public ridicule.”
Granted, everyone offered to do this and it was supposed to be fun and light-hearted and everyone should have been able to share in both the giving and receiving, but if you only did it so that you could get something and now want to bust their chops because you didn’t, well, like you said “the people…volunteered - VOLUNTEERED! - to take part in this” and while it sucks and these people let you (and others) down, there really was no obligation except for their own feeling of community.
Heck, now they are probably wouldn’t send anything simply because they don’t want to get the “you’re late” backlash. (But those that haven’t sent their original elephant, and I know who you are, really should think about throwing something in the mail.)
New business, info received for:**
[li]Spyderman[]Booker57**, and **[]The Punkyova**[/li]and TheMightyTikiGod is in, too.
Sorry, I don’t agree. Sure, there was no LEGAL obligation, but that’s not the only kind of obligation in the world.
Moreover,I resent the implication that taking part in order to get something is somehow unworthy. Getting a package in the mail is the whole freaking POINT of this. That is exactly why EVERYONE took part, and you have no right to give me a hard time for expecting people to live up to their agreements or explain why they didn’t.
Posting names or not is, of course, your call to make. In any case, my suggestion that they be held up to public ridicule was mostly tongue-in-cheek. However, they DO deserve to be called on their behavior or they will have no incentive to change it.
As for all of you reading this: if you agree with me, I would appreciate you taking the time to post and back me up. The barbarians are at the gate, people, and you may think it’s silly to make an issue of it over this white elephant exchange, but as the saying goes, “for want of a nail…” If you don’t speak up, you lose your right to complain.