# The Straight Dope Secret Santa 2004 Exchange! New, with Improvements! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269 "2004-11-23T14:10:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/101 "2004-11-29T00:10:25Z")
**jsgoddess** check your email. I just sent you one. **Devena** my email to you bounced back. You are in, but I wasn’t sure if maybe you had been kidnapped by aliens or something. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/102 "2004-11-29T00:17:08Z")
To the list is also: \*\* n.sane asecretk jsgoddess elenia28 \*\* The first ones who signed up and they were buried in my email. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/103 "2004-11-29T00:18:23Z")
I’m still not on your updated list of participants. I just emailed about that as well. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/104 "2004-11-29T00:18:41Z")
**kat** is on this list too. Sheesh. :smack: I thought this would be so easy. Note to self: Do not volunteer for Dead Pool 2005. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/105 "2004-11-29T00:21:06Z")
Yay, I’m in! I’m in! I’m one of the cool kids now! Um, that sound of crickets I’m hearing, that’s just a coincidence, right? RIGHT??? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/106 "2004-11-29T00:27:05Z")
**Iris** is now in. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/107 "2004-11-29T00:28:49Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > **jsgoddess** check your email. I just sent you one. You sent me two! And a one-a, and a two-a “I got two emails from Shirley Claus Underneath a spam Enzyte Bob…” ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/108 "2004-11-29T00:34:49Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Um, that sound of crickets I’m hearing, that’s just a coincidence, right? > RIGHT??? A lone newspaper flutters by. ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/109 "2004-11-29T00:54:33Z")
Just sent a third e-mail from a different account. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/110 "2004-11-29T01:01:38Z")
I just sent my email. Yay! I like: chocolate with nuts Starbucks coffee snowmen cats cooking humor…like Bill Bryson and David Sedaris ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/111 "2004-11-29T01:35:38Z")
What about me, **Shirley** , did you not get my email? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/112 "2004-11-29T02:35:52Z")
Are we supposed to know who we’re sending to yet? Because I don’t… ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/113 "2004-11-29T02:57:51Z")
Hmmm, I;m not on the list but I sent an email out the first day. :dubious: Sending again… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/114 "2004-11-29T03:45:21Z")
> [@MidnightRadio](#): > > What about me, **Shirley** , did you not get my email? Gah! **Midnight Radio is in** The deadline for this is December 3rd, Midnight, EST. If I don’t die from total confusion first. Give me about a day or so to sort everyone out, match everyone up and then I will email everyone who their Secret Santa recipient is. I will also post here that I have sent out emails in the event I have a total and complete brainfart. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/115 "2004-11-29T03:50:53Z")
\*\*Gail Krys92gp Hugh Jass \*\* I have you all…bwahahahahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/116 "2004-11-29T11:56:48Z")
E-mail sent. You will not only receive a present, you will have the **honor** of being Iceland’s Secret Santa. Imagine that for prestige on the boards. Anyway Stuff I like: Small gadgets,crystal animal thingies,anything Harry Potter or Simpsons,80s stuff any music except rnb,souvenirs that have got your bit of the world on(like my Guernsey teddy bear),brightly coloured decorative things to live on mantelpiece 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/117 "2004-11-29T12:30:03Z")
**Iceland Blue** is officially in. I probably won’t be on line for the rest of the day as I have to work at my daughter’s preschool and we are having a playdate today. Woooooo, I’ll take anyone’s board meetings and raise you 25 games of Candy Land. if I survive this ( it’s iffy at this point) I can survive a stuffed hotmail box. There is that phrase again. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/118 "2004-11-29T14:22:34Z")
OK, I’m going to try this one more time. I’m going to include an 800 number in the email. If it bounces again, Shirley, would it be too much trouble to call? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/119 "2004-11-29T14:26:03Z")
But if the e-mail bounces, how can she call you? ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269/120 "2004-11-29T15:22:39Z")
Did you ever get my e-mail? I’ve sent three or four times. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-secret-santa-2004-exchange-new-with-improvements/276269.md?page=7)