# White Elephant 2008 Update Thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 11, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043 "2008-09-11T01:10:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/21 "2008-09-14T02:23:32Z")
I had been holding off from shipping mine out until after today’s yard sale\*. There were a couple of items that I intentionally overpriced, just because I was hoping they _wouldn’t_ sell – they were too perfect as elephant chow. Should be shipping out on Monday.
\*Which, truth be told, was pretty much a scam. It was a combo yard sale/open house, and we couldn’t have cared less about if people bought stuff…we just wanted people to come inside and look at what a huge house this is and _fricking buy the thing already!!_
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/22 "2008-09-14T02:59:55Z")
OK, I need to PM these hosers and I can’t figure out how to do it with the upgrade.
Can anyone assist?
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### Author:  [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/23 "2008-09-14T03:49:50Z")
**alice** ,
Go to User CP, look at the left bar under Private Messages, click on Send New Message. It always takes me several times to find that link, but I PM’d someone earlier today, so it was fresh in my mind.
ETA: If you go to the user’s profile, there’s a link under their title…
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/24 "2008-09-14T07:26:35Z")
I sent you a PM. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/25 "2008-09-14T16:15:45Z")
> [@Autolycus](#):
>
> I sent you a PM. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Errr, I haven’t received it yet.
I’m starting to panic - I don’t want to have two extra packages to send out before we’ve even started.
Could you e-mail me please - I PMd both you and pantheon last night and I have no responses - I wonder if PM is not working correctly…
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### Author:  [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/26 "2008-09-15T12:36:52Z")
I did not receive a PM but I did find your email. Sorry to alert you unnecessarily.
Hoser#2
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/27 "2008-09-15T18:53:49Z")
Excellent! May the God of Elephant Packages reward you with much bounty. Yes, I know that sounds dirty. 😃
> [@pantheon](#):
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> I did not receive a PM but I did find your email. Sorry to alert you unnecessarily.
>
> Hoser#2
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### Author:  [@MizTina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizTina)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/28 "2008-09-19T02:59:10Z")
just a bump so it doesn’t get lost in the intermiasma.
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/29 "2008-09-19T04:56:49Z")
Ha ha! According to the USPS, my box has almost made its way to its [del]victim[/del] destination!
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### Author:  [@MizTina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizTina)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/30 "2008-09-20T17:09:20Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#):
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> Ha ha! According to the USPS, my box has almost made its way to its [del]victim[/del] destination!
Crap, I’m jealous. I mailed mine 10 days ago, but I sent it priority(trusting that it would live up to it’s title)and find out yesterday even though I kept the reciept, I cannot track it.
So much for time saving. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/31 "2008-09-20T18:08:30Z")
I will work on mine this weekend and mail it out Monday!
There, now that it’s written down I have to do it.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/32 "2008-09-20T19:07:11Z")
Mine is slowly but surely building. It will get mailed by the end of the month, for sure. But I want it to reflect a unique set of sources.
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### Author:  [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/33 "2008-09-20T20:01:27Z")
I think my box is full enough to go out on Wednesday. 🆒
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/34 "2008-09-20T21:00:58Z")
i was thwarted in my attempts at the post office friday, and saturday. i am hoping that monday will be the charm.
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/35 "2008-09-22T02:00:02Z")
My box is packed, addressed and ready to go out, first thing tomorrow. It’s got a lot of goofy stuff in it. I hope my Elephantee likes it!
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/36 "2008-09-22T02:14:53Z")
P.O. says mine arrived yesterday. Bwahahahaha!!!
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### Author:  [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/37 "2008-09-22T15:37:41Z")
I’m slacking. The only progress I made since last week was…uh…OH!! I have a box to put my stuff in! I swear I’ll try to get it out this week. Maybe on my lunch break I’ll collect some goodies.
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### Author:  [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/38 "2008-09-22T17:37:44Z")
I’m slacking too, I have a box, I have some stuff to put in it, I want to wash the dusty stuff, that’s what’s holding me up.
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### Author:  [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/39 "2008-09-22T19:03:44Z")
How do you get down off of a white elephant?
You don’t, you get down off of a goose.
White Elephant has been sent.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/40 "2008-09-22T19:24:07Z")
I’ve just returned from what was to be a four-day trip to the mountains, but what turned into a six-week excursion into the unknown. The horrors I faced were unimag…oh, wait…I mean the post office…I’ve just returned from the post office. My elephant has been released into the wild, and should be there before the end of the week.
I apologize for not doing my normal “commenting on each item with a post-it note” (although if I didn’t mention it here, you’d have never known I did that anyway). I also hope you have a _very_ good vacuum cleaner.
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