# What did you ask "Santa" for this year?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 24, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294 "2010-12-24T17:11:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/1 "2010-12-24T17:11:26Z")
Inspired by the Christmas present to yourself thread, I thought I’d start one about what you asked for.
I asked Santa Bro for a Kindle and Santa Dad for a **good** vacuum. I should point out that our family are big Christmas gift givers. We don’t bother on birthdays (except for the children) but we go to town on Christmas.
And you have to report back tomorrow whether Santa was forthcoming or not…
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/2 "2010-12-24T17:22:18Z")
The same thing I ask for every year.
_The domination of the world!_
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### Author:  [@Al\_Bundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al_Bundy)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/3 "2010-12-24T17:53:31Z")
My only wish is to be pain free and remain so.
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/4 "2010-12-24T18:56:59Z")
Santa is going to get me a pair of water-aerobics shoes. But, being a frugal Santa, he is going to wait for the after-christmas sales.
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### Author:  [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/5 "2010-12-24T19:36:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> The same thing I ask for every year.
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> _The domination of the world!_
So what do you think the odds of getting that are? Are we all going to be living in **Johnny L.A. Land** come tomorrow morning? And don’t you think world domination is going to take a huge time committment?
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/6 "2010-12-24T19:40:28Z")
I asked for a unicycle, a longboard (both of which I already have but I want new/better ones :D), and a countertop oven. So far I know I got the countertop oven.
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### Author:  [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/7 "2010-12-25T16:28:46Z")
Santa is 1-2 this year with Santa Bro scoring with the Kindle (LOVE IT!!) but no vacuum from Santa Dad. But that’s OK, he got me a lovely bracelet.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/8 "2010-12-25T18:39:01Z")
I got a Ryobi cordless drill, and Cuisinart food processor. Yay!
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### Author:  [@lemac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lemac)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/9 "2010-12-25T18:52:04Z")
I asked Santa for hot air from the Sahara to melt all that nasty snow.
Instead, we got -4°C and another 15cm of snow on top of the 10cm of snow we already got. ☹
WORST. CHRISTMAS. EVER.
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### Author:  [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/10 "2010-12-25T19:46:29Z")
The same thing I wish for every year.
His list of naughty girls.
Slacker still hasn’t come through yet.
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### Author:  [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/11 "2010-12-25T20:19:29Z")
Ain’t no Santa this year; no one, in other words, from whom I have sufficient expectation of receiving a gift that I have any business asking for something in particular. My dad sent large checks to all of us this year, so that I will begin the year not-in-arrears – still massively in debt, but not “one emergency away” from getting evicted or having the power cut off. I couldn’t have asked for that.
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### Author:  [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/12 "2010-12-25T21:29:11Z")
I asked, as I always do, my wife and kids not buy me any gifts. Rather, take the money they had allocated and donate it to the Semper Fi Fund.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/13 "2010-12-26T00:08:21Z")
Peace on Earth, goodwill towards men. I love the classics.
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### Author:  [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/14 "2010-12-26T02:43:58Z")
Asked for Wii Fit, didn’t get it. However, I got more than enough money to buy it for myself, so I will.
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### Author:  [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-ask-santa-for-this-year/565294/15 "2010-12-27T05:49:55Z")
I didn’t know I was suggesting it for Christms, but Mr. NewSpouse heard that I wanted an Eskimo Smoke Ring before we depart Alaska for parts East nest summer. He gave me the online catalog printed out, and said, “Make your choice!” I got JUST what I wanted, plus a notch up: the heavyweight ranre Nelson Island Diamond pattern. (See [ooomigak.org](http://ooomigak.org) …)
AND he surprised me with a lovely Whale’s Tail pendant made of mammoth ivory, in my stocking. I didn’t know we were doing stockigs until the last minute. His family gave me one, too, filled with little gifties from Hawaii.
And then there’s the Hawaiian Islands cruise, coming up in February … Someone must love me vey much …