### Author:  [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2002, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/1 "2002-12-16T04:25:58Z")
It’s Christmas, and… I don’t know what I want. 10 days to go, the List is empty.
Dopers, help me figure it what I should ask for. Or better yet, tell me what I want.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2002, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/2 "2002-12-16T04:38:52Z")
A big lump of coal- _cackles_
_slap_ \ Whaat? I meant it in a GOOD way. Winter is coming, you know. Best to stock up on coal. Oh, and if your friends come over and want to know what you got them for Christmas, you can say, “Here, have a chocolate, I got these for you.” And they’ll bite into them and you can all have a good laugh.
Or, you can carve a new nose for your dog out of coal. Like Donner did for Rudolph in the Rankin Bass Rudolph special. Of course that was kind of cruel…but still.
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### Author:  [@lesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesa)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2002, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/3 "2002-12-16T06:59:13Z")
I don’t know if this will help, but here are some “clutter-free” gift ideas:
[http://flylady.net/pages/FlySpecial1.asp](http://flylady.net/pages/FlySpecial1.asp)
Are you having trouble coming up with hints because you already have everything you want? Or for some other reason?
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2002, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/4 "2002-12-16T07:20:35Z")
World peace? Your two front teeth? A little brother?
Cash is always nice.
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2002, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/5 "2002-12-16T07:35:48Z")
You want to be wildly generous to the elderly that you meet at SDMB…(heh, heh)
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### Author:  [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2002, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/6 "2002-12-16T09:13:27Z")
I think that you should ask for a pet. If you are female ask for a pony, if you are male then ask for a playboy bunny.
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### Author:  [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/7 "2002-12-17T01:14:35Z")
I have my two front teeth still, and a little brother (the little snot), and I got a pet last year. Abbie, the most adorwable shelty ever and I wuff her very much.
Hm.
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### Author:  [@Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xavier)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/8 "2002-12-17T01:29:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> if you are male then ask for a playboy bunny.
Ditto if you are female. Then send me the tapes.
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### Author:  [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/9 "2002-12-19T00:19:39Z")
I guess I’ll ask for some CDs.
Or if I maybe can convince my peoples for a guitar.
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### Author:  [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/10 "2002-12-19T00:38:53Z")
You need [The Muppet Family Christmas](http://r2.us.rmi.yahoo.com/rmi/http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi/rmivars%3ftarget=_top?cid=6250&PAGE=PRODUCT&PROD_ID=67917&fp=F) DVD. What can be more Christmasy than Janice saying “Christmas cookies, man!”
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### Author:  [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/11 "2002-12-19T00:55:18Z")
Well, I have _The Muppet Christmas Carol_, but it’s not this nice. Being on DVD and all.
:reflects:
Oh! I remember this! I saw it on Odyssey, or the Hallmark Channel or something. I believe I enjoyed it last year.
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/12 "2002-12-19T04:00:52Z")
Ditto the coal, but you should really modernize and ask for energy stocks instead.
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### Author:  [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/13 "2002-12-19T19:00:25Z")
I dunno, I’m kind of wary what with the stock market and all. I think if I go that route I should invest in something hard.
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### Author:  [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/14 "2002-12-19T20:25:03Z")
I know what I’ve thought about the last couple days is the new 20th Edition of Trivial Pursuit. And I haven’t told anyone yet.
haha
I suck.
But I WANT it!
Maybe my grandma will get me some more awful clothes from Wal-Mart, and I can return for a gift card, and get the Trivial Pursuit. haha Now there’s a plan.
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### Author:  [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/15 "2002-12-19T20:27:11Z")
I said 20th Edition of Trivial Pursuit. I think it is something like the 20th anniversary, or Last 20 Years edition.
I get confused. haha
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/16 "2002-12-20T13:49:00Z")
Mod’s - I’m not sure if I’m allowed to do this or not, if not, please delete it and except my apologies…
## The following is an excerpt from a 1986 Saturday Night Live skit, the speaker being Steve Martin.
If I could have one wish for christmas, it would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sings in unison all with smiling faces.
If I could have just two wishes for christmas, the first one would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing while happy and smiling, the second would be for 30 million dollars to be given to me on a monthly basis, deposited in a swiss bank account.
If I could have just three wishes for christmas the first would be for all the children to hold hands and sing, the second for 30 million dollars to be deposited monthly in my bank account, and the third would be to have absolute power over all the creatures of the earth and sky and the whole universe.
If I could have four wishes for christmas, the first would definately be that children crap, the second would be the 30 million dollars, the third would be absolute power trough the whole universe and the fourth would be that every year, one month would be set aside, and i would have a 31 day orgasm.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-want-for-christmas/143018/17 "2002-12-20T15:48:12Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Khadaji \*
> \*\*Mod’s - I’m not sure if I’m allowed to do this or not, if not, please delete it and except my apologies…
>
> \*\*
er, except should be accept - but maybe you can make an exception for the bad spelling…