See, “Goofy” was capitalized, so I thought you meant THE Goofy. He’s my favorite cartoon character and I get a lot of Goofy stuff from people. Last Christmas, my sister got me the Goofy phone. It’s so awesome!
Anyway, when we were getting married, we went to Target to register. They give you one of those scanning guns and you pick your stuff. So Omega Red dared me to scan a small (1.5 oz.) bottle of Scope. His aunt got us a huge bottle at the shower, which was really funny. She also got us the Batman cup that we had asked for. That one wasn’t as a gag though. My husband wanted that.
I haven’t ever gotten much in the way of gag gifts, but I once gave one. It was probably the best gag gift I’ve ever seen actually, especially since no one was ever able to tell if it was originally constructed as a gag or completely sincerely. The object in question was a bright green plastic molded fish, of the general type used by children playing in the bathtub.
It was 3 feet long.
I think he was just mocking you…
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cygnus,
The bookends I’d referred to earlier were/are absolutely beautiful. Typical metal “T” shaped base, with a pewter largemouth bass about 6" tall attached to the outside of each bookend. There was a matching keychain ornament just under an inch across.
Under different circumstances, the gift would have been lovely and well appreciated. I keychain dangle I attached to the boat key and still have. The bookends, I may still have in storage. Being a packrat I probably still have them.
The folly is that I don’t own a lot of books and the house just wasn’t configured to set up a bookshelf that needed classic bookends.
My wife and I are in the process of moving. By next week we’ll be in our new home. A place with literally hundreds of linear feet of built-in bookshelfs. Plus we’ve acquired a couple of wall-height cherry bookshelves over the years.
So I still can’t use the darn things. Maybe I’ll take the fish off of the bases and hang them as wall ornaments.
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Every year I attend a friend’s Christmas Party and white elephant gift exchange. I don’t suppose that gifts sent or received through this really count for this thread. But there have been some beauts!