# What are you asking Santa to give you this year?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 16, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415 "2006-12-16T18:02:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/1 "2006-12-16T18:02:26Z")
Me, I’m asking for a girlfriend and world peace.
Oh, and about a pound of plutonium.
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### Author:  [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/2 "2006-12-16T21:58:28Z")
Nothing. I don’t do xmas.
But I already got a cheese log from somebody who knows I don’t like presents, my pesky younger sister. Brat.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/3 "2006-12-16T22:02:39Z")
Lungs that aren’t full of goo.
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/4 "2006-12-16T22:03:39Z")
I want a Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker. I’ve been watching Jacques Pepin, who says they’re ideal for making stew and soup after work in record time. I usually only have time to quickly grill a piece of chicken or something after work, and I’m sick of it. Jacques has sold me - now to ask Santa to get moving on this.
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### Author:  [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/5 "2006-12-16T22:11:52Z")
Santa, that beautiful redheaded vixen with the great ass, already gave me my wool field jacket and a Happy Hacking Lite II keyboard.
Thanks honey.
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### Author:  [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/6 "2006-12-16T22:55:23Z")
Man, I’m getting boring. I’d just really like one of those laser rangefinders for my golfing.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/7 "2006-12-17T02:23:28Z")
No more surprises that cost me money (TV died; co-payment for physical therapy; installment payments for new glasses; recent trip to urgent care and meds).
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### Author:  [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/8 "2006-12-17T02:59:20Z")
Since I’ve been unemployed, except for a few temp jobs, since July, I’m asking the big guy for a job.
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### Author:  [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/9 "2006-12-17T03:37:18Z")
I honestly don’t know what I would want for Christmas that I haven’t already bought or not bought specifically so Mrs. Small would be able to get me a present she knows I would like. I asked my sister for a cd and my other sister for a dvd.
I guess - because Santa has the cash onhand for this, I’m sure - I’d like to have a Xbox 360 and Gears of War. I thought the game looked lame at first, when I saw it in commercials. I stayed with some friends that had it for a week, thought nothing of it until the next to last day. It was 5 am and I was extremely bored and it was the only game I could find. Turns out, it’s addicting…
Brendon
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/10 "2006-12-17T04:35:40Z")
I was gonna ask for my dream woman, like every year, but that got trite. So I asked for a 43 year old menopausal divorcée who loves cats and big band music and owns her own house.
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/11 "2006-12-17T05:58:01Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder]
Me, I’m asking for a girlfriend…
[/QUOTE]
Well, I had an unpleasant surprise tonight. The gal that I’ve been eyeing – a dear, close friend – showed up holding hands with this jackass of a guy.
Mind you, that’s not merely my evaluation. In our circle of friends, we pretty much all recognize that this fella is a questionable character. At least one of my female friends said that she would never date this guy in a million years.
So now, I want to ask Santa for wisdom on whether I should let this woman know of my (admittedly tentative) feelings for her. Nuts.
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/12 "2006-12-17T06:08:55Z")
Got everything I can use- I’ll just get a book- and a case of beer 🙂
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/13 "2006-12-22T13:27:40Z")
From Drabble:
Norman: What do you want for Christmas, Wendy?
Wendy: Good health, world peace, and a date with [hunk of the moment].
Norman, at mall: Boy, she sure is hard to shop for!
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/14 "2006-12-22T13:45:46Z")
Same thing I ask him for _every_ year and never get: A Höfner [Paul McCartney Beatle bass](http://www.voxshowroom.com/northcoast/hofner/hofner_gallery/index.html) in _blue_.
I _know_ there’s one out there, but I guess the reason I’m **not** getting it is because in some ways, I have been _bad_ this year, so this will give me an incentive to strive to be an even better boy _next_ year.
Not to mention it would be a hell of an anti-climax!
Quas
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/15 "2006-12-22T14:01:19Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug]
I was gonna ask for my dream woman, like every year, but that got trite. So I asked for a 43 year old menopausal divorcée who loves cats and big band music and owns her own house.
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Damn – 9 years too old and I’m never-married, not divorced. So close, and yet so far. 😛
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/16 "2006-12-22T15:04:31Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally Posted by **Beware of Doug**
> I was gonna ask for my dream woman, like every year, but that got trite. So I asked for a 43 year old menopausal divorcée who loves cats and big band music and owns her own house.
[QUOTE=twickster]
Damn – 9 years too old and I’m never-married, not divorced. So close, and yet so far. 😛
[/QUOTE]
I got you beat. I’m one year too young, not divorced (but things may be headed that way - long story), I have 2 cats and if I’m lucky, I’ll get to keep the house.
And I was gonna ask for a pony. 😉
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/17 "2006-12-22T15:07:45Z")
Ambition! A driving force to push me into completing the three VERY LARGE goals I have set for myself for 2007.
Lots of eye candy. Maybe the local firehouse could start doing drills at our office.
Oh, and world peace and all that.
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### Author:  [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/18 "2006-12-22T15:17:40Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder]
Me, I’m asking for a girlfriend and world peace.
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You’re not thinking big enough. I’m asking for _two_ girlfriends, _universe_ peace, a boyfriend, an airplane with a really hot pilot, a cyborg bodyguard, a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range, a private continent and a ham sandwich.
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### Author:  [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/19 "2006-12-22T16:26:40Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug]
I was gonna ask for my dream woman, like every year, but that got trite. So I asked for a 43 year old menopausal divorcée who loves cats and big band music and owns her own house.
[/QUOTE]
Honey, have I been searching for you\*…(insert come-hither winking smilie here)\*
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-asking-santa-to-give-you-this-year/384415/20 "2006-12-22T16:48:58Z")
[QUOTE=black rabbit]
Santa, that beautiful redheaded vixen with the great ass, already gave me my wool field jacket and a Happy Hacking Lite II keyboard.
Thanks honey.
[/QUOTE]
A Santa like black rabbit’s would be just fine with me- she doesn’t have to be redheaded but certainly can be!
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