This morning I shot a white elephant in my pajamas

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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N.Sane, you are INSANE!
You call this junk!? It’s like a Christmas bunch of stuff!

Cracked Guide to the Movies

Mint Cracked! Mazagine, May 03

MAD LIBS party game

2 of the best Far Side cartoons ever

An invitation to her rl graduation. !!! Whoa !!!

A can of WHOOP ASS

Molly (in the snow)

3 packs of stickers, like for letters and stuff…

Irish Blessing Note cards, pack of 10

CD: Sing Along With Putumayo

DVD: Shake, Rattle, & Rock! - starring Renee Zellweger

VHS: Nurse Betty - starring Renee Zellweger

Computer CD: Syracuse Language: Hebrew

Rubbery purple thing (which I will wear to church)

Work out on the Go instructions

[looks at purple thing, notes illustrations in above instructions, realises what rubbery purple thing is]

Roger Ebert’s Questions For the Movie Answer man

Control top sheer panty hose, X-Tall (brand new. down! you pervs…)

A cute story about there being no spoon - The Legend of the Spoon

Matrix samples, other hair care samples (no spoon, get it?)

3 spoons (state memorabilia from Hershey, PA, Zanesville, OH, and Juneau, AK)

3 novelty switchplates (FIGI)

Studded candle

A manly, very manly, compact bumbershoot

VOODOO - to help me find a wealthy man (I guess we’ll watch Renee Zellweger together)

16 postage stamps

The Clap

Brightliner

Mech pencil

Letter opener

Gum

Cocoa

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS! - and two campy movie postcards

A doll (Barbie?) which looks surprising like a cross between my last SO and the girl I’m seeing now - Dressed up in a super cute outfit! I LOVE those new fall fashions!

Surreal, let me tell ya! So, you know I’m Texan, have a thing for Renee Zellweger, like skinny blonde girls, am a movie buff, think Cracked Mazagine parodies are high art, need a haircut, like Sci-Fi, am part Irish, need more exercise, try to read Hebrew, lost my umbrella, love to whoop ass on people… coincidence? Or am I now hopelessly in love with you?

As with all good things, this was worth the small wait. Thanks, N.Sane

:smiley:

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She gave you the clap? I had no idea that we were giving away that sort of thing.

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You know… that little toy thingy that is a couple of plastic hands that clap together when you shake it. The Clap.

What were you thinking? :wink:

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Yay Shirley :slight_smile:

Glad you liked it :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=N. Sane]
I feel like such a heel–I can’t find the box lid, so I don’t know who to thank for the cool stuff. :smack:

That was me N. Sane. Glad you liked the loot :slight_smile: .

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YAAAAAY! La Elephantissima has arrived at Chez Jayjay! Thank you so much for adopting poor little elephantless moi, HillBillyQueen!

Let’s see what we’ve got here…

A beautiful Christmasy “Joy” towel set (washcloth, face towel and bath towel, dark blue, with silver embroidery of “Joy” with a little wreath of holly in the ‘o’)

A bunch of incense…we use this stuff!

A Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones CD: “New York”. I’ve been intrigued by Norah Jones since she became fairly famous but never actually got around to checking her out…now I have driving-to-mom’s music for the weekend!

“Money, Money, Money” by Ed McBain. Not familiar with the author, but I’ll read anything once. :slight_smile:

A set of leather strip shoelaces.

Two kitty mugs. Beautiful!

Three adorable little wicker baskets. Teeny-tiny!

A pack of baby’s-breath and a pack of poppy seeds.

An afghan booklet from Red Heart Yarns. Yay! Knitting patterns!

A pack of inkjet-ready iron-on transfer pages. Ooh…I see kitty t-shirts in my future…

A Twiddlebug! From Sesame Street! EEEEEEEEE!

And…

YARN! YARN! YARN! My stash grows! BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And it’s pretty yarn, too. Three balls of a very pretty raspberry colored boucle yarn. Now my mind is working in overdrive to figure out a really great project to use these on…

Thank you, HillBillyQueen! Thank you! Yaaaay!

runs off to frolic in his new yarn

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Can you tell I snooped around and read some of your posts? :slight_smile:

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js_goddess, that is!

I actually received my package on Friday, but we went out of town this weekend and I haven’t had time to enumerate my gifties. I’m at work, so I hope I haven’t forgotten anything.

A lovely Christmas-themed candle ring - artificial greenery, pine cones, and glitter-dusted poinsettias (I love Christmas stuff!)

A cutesy wooden painted angel that says “Angels In Training on it”

Two 2004 calendars (one from UPS, one depicting Scenic Barns of Ohio)

A calendar of her home county

A Derek Jeter bathtub duckie

Some promotional items from a bank (insulated mug, pen, pocketknife)

Two tasty Salty Peanut candy-bar thingies (can’t remember the name, but we scarfed those down in about 15 seconds)

I know there was a book in there, and two computer programs on CD

But the one thing that almost made me cry was … a Chia Pet (Chia Pig, to be exact). Ever since I have known what they were, I have wanted one. But I’ve never been able to rationalize paying $19.99 for a terracotta planter and some seeds. Oh Happy Day!

So, when’s the next one???

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I can’t tell you how glad I am that you like the Chia Pet!

I never grew it. I think one of my cats would’ve eaten the darn thing.

Yay! It has a home. :smiley:

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I just checked my mail and found my White Elephant from** Dazzling White Diamonds** waiting on me.

Once I wrestled it into my apartment, I cut it open to find what goodies it brought me and found:

  1. A handwritten letter with really pretty handwriting.
  2. A few plastic paper plate handlers with some paper plates to go with them.

As a lazy bachelor, these will come in handy. I’m even eating off one right now. :slight_smile:

  1. A chip bag clipper.

It’s in use right now too… don’t want my tortilla chips to go stale.

  1. A paperback novel.
  2. A birdfeeder
  3. A pair of wooden chopsticks.

Now I just need to learn how to use them.

  1. A “geriatric laxative” gag gift.

Won’t need that for another forty or more years, hopefully.

  1. A really pretty phot frame.
  2. A rose, “just for me”. :slight_smile:
  3. A small shoulder bag that’ll come in handy.
  4. Some sort of Twinkie toy container with a cowboy hat.
  5. A doolie/coaster(?)
  6. A Purdue TRAX keychain
  7. A Purdue TRAX coffee mug
  8. A bottle opener keychain.

Now I don’t have to wait to get home to drink my Senorial Sangrias. Whoo!

  1. Some sort of knick knack with a detachable head and a sticky top.
  2. An old mobile phone

That one threw me for a loop.

  1. And a geography lesson. I had no idea the Wabash river was where it was. Learn something new every day.

Thanks, DWD! :slight_smile:

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Aw, thank you. I’m blushing.

They’re very simple to use… I use chopsticks all the time. :wink:

That thar’s ta put yer twinkie in, man. :smiley:

It’s a wicker trivet that is probably as old as I am (I’m not tellin’!).

If you haven’t guessed, those came from work. :smiley:

That also came from work. You have no idea how many of those little ‘sticky men’ are stuck to the office ceilings in the IT department here.

Nah, it’s actually much more useful than that… it’s a calculator shaped like a mobile phone. :wink:

Glad I could help!

Aesiron, sweetie, I’m glad you liked your elephant. I’m also very VERY glad it got there!

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This morning a white elephant thundered its way up the steps at the picker palace!

Inside a verysecurely taped package :slight_smile: I found the following lovely and cool items:

A National Geographic Map of Mars

A small buttpack containing the following:

A Grant Thornton Highlighter
Some kind of clip like for chips, but with a belt clip attached
2 LOTR playing cards (Aragorn & Legolas)
A Scooby Doo contact book
A Smiley Face coaster

A painted tin called “American Baseball” and filled with:

Assorted baseball cards!
A few random football cards (seems to be all Miami Dolphins)
some xeroxed clippings of some ‘New of the Weird’ type things

a small floppy disk container containing:
2 slinkies: 1 traditional and one multicolored and star shaped
a mini etch-a-sketch (Cool!)
A Gillette Mach 3 Mini Mag Lite
A bar of cucumber-vanilla soap from the body shop

A painted wooden box with a picture of somebody (St. Nick) on a sleigh. Definitely NOT Santa Claus, though - the art is more like Russian folk art. Inside this box were:

a rubber frog
a ‘popper’ champagne bottle - haven’t seen on of these since i was a kid. cool.
a small stone sarcophagus that opens up.
A twisty green rubber thingy. Not sure what this is for.

Also another cool wooden box with:

4 Scooby Doo pencil erasers
a magnifying ‘bug cube’ like when I was a kid
the rake from a mini zen sand garden
a little magic trick
a little bent steel rocking thingy with two stick figures balancing on a seesaw. That’s on top of my monitor now!

Thank you so much, Rocking Chair! You rock.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go play with my Etch-A-Sketch.

P

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i’m glad your elephant arrived in one piece.

yep, that is a russian box. the clip thing is a golf towel clip. i usually use one when cooking, that way the hand towel is always with you, and doesn’t fall off your shoulder. i’m a dolfan. the twisty green thing is a stress thing, you twist the green thing instead of people’s necks…

enjoy!!!

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Sooo - is there anyone still Elephantless? Please post here or e-mail me, if so.

:slight_smile: