Big & Hairy
I had to look that up on IMDB. It sounded too much like a porn movie…
My wife spent the day home yesterday and got a visit from the post office - two packages!
One package would be great, you say? Yes, it would, except looking at the postmark leads me to believe it sat in the local post office for weeks on end, waiting to be free of it’s inhumane cage and into my waiting arms.
The second package, however, is my own elephant, returned to me for insufficient postage. That’s would be funny, except the post office weighed it for me! I’m going to repack it tonight and send it express tomorrow. My sincere apologies.
The elephant I received contains (from my poor memory since I’m at work):
A Dark Angel figure
A hat
Books, including some Neil Gaiman
A card shuffler
Uhhh… I’ll have to report back tonight when I can re-inventory.
Thanks for the ele, and I again apologise for the screw up.
I still haven’t gotten mine, and tomorrow is the 15th. 
Is the diamond shape significant? I tormented the cat with it for a while - that was fun
I believe my cousin’s daughter will get a kick out of the little girl movie - I’ll save the little boy movie for my grandnephew. As for The Passion, not only am I not Christian, I’m Jewish, so I think I’ll save it for the next mystery raffle my chorus holds. Someone will enjoy it.
I feel the love 
I haven’t gotten mine yet either, but mine was supposed to come from over the pond. I’m just hoping mine hasn’t run off with my other package that got lost a few months ago.
Mine was corralled and led to the post office.
However, the post office workers did not seem overjoyed to see it. I sincerely hope they have not left it to rot in a back room.
Maybe it’s met up with the elephant coming in the other direction, and they’re having a pachyderm party somewhere in Central Europe?
Well, I verified with Ryan_Liam via email that he received his elephant, so I don’t have to worry that someone has run off with his wonderful stuff. It doesn’t look like he’s going to come back to the thread to post what he got, so from memory:
A USMC duffle bag, never used, liberated from the Marine Corps when my brother got out in 1990
A “decorative” plate with a wolf picture on it that my husband insisted go—I wonder when the daughter that gave it to us a couple of years ago will notice that it is gone
Three small easels for holding framed photos
A small photo album
A commuter mug
Several temporary tattoos
Several novelty pins/buttons; the only one I remember for sure is a FedEx Don’t Panic button
Four CDs: Joe Henry - Trampoline; Train - *I Am * single; Various Artists - Revolution: A Tribute to the Beatles; and a CD my son burned of Annie Lennox and Chris Isaak songs
Two Frisbees—one regular size and one about 3 inches
A small fishing game
A small Zen garden
Some cubicle signs
A wood hanging thing with an elephant painted on it
A cribbage board (missing the pegs)
I can’t remember anything else…it wasn’t a huge elephant because it had to go across the pond. Ryan was saved from receiving a dozen old cassette tapes (Journey, Deep Purple, Sammy Hagar, etc.) due to the distance. I’m sure he thanks Og for that; he wasn’t all that thrilled with the CDs I sent so the cassette surely would have been his undoing. 
My elephant still hasn’t arrived.
Love makes the world go round. That and tacky silk flower bits used as packing material. Glad to see multiple happinesses. (It sure didn’t take Tristan long, did it?)
I also haven’t received one, but I’m more worried about melondeca’s well-being at this point - good thoughts your way, melondeca! - so I’m not concerned about the exact date.
I do hope you get yours soon, Mika! I will send large, elephant-y-type thoughts your way. 
Doh, of course, the reason I had originally posted: If I can volunteer for it, and Mika never receives her package, I’m willing to make her up a box.
Well, as happens everytime, people come into the thread and start bitching before the deadline that their packages haven’t arrived, and then lots of caring souls offer to send them off packages.
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The deadline is tomorrow - I said it once, and I’ll say it again - until the 16th, QUIT YER BITCHIN’!!! For the love of Pete people - lets try to give people at least until the deadline until we string them up, OK!
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On the 16th of November, PROVIDED YOU’RE NOT RECEIVING FROM AN OVERSEAS ELEPHANTER, you may post here and I will contact your elephanter about the status of your package. As some of the posts in this thread reaveal, we have some dopers laid up in bed, and otherwise unable to ship out their packages. Lets give those people a break and an opportunity to follow through with their elephants, ok?
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If you haven’t received a package, but you also haven’t sent yours out - guess what - I have no sympathy. When you send your package out you are free to bitch and complain, but until that time, shut it.
Finally, if anyone wants to contact each other to send each other boxes of crap, be my guest, but it will not be done under the guise of my Elephant thread. I have very gracious volunteers waiting in the wings to send out extra packages - do not start harshing my buzz by messing with THE SYSTEM!!!.
Thank you, that is all.
salute 
I didn’t realise there were volunteers in the wings, and I would rather do things under the guise of your Elephant thread - I just wanted to be sure.
Well good then. If, after an appropriate amount of time and opportunity has passed, you are still willing to send out an extra package, you can send me another e-mail and I’ll assign you someone.
Additionally, if you don’t recieve a package in a timely fashion (I’m not sure what the status of your Elephanter is) then I will either send you a package myself, or have one of my gracious volunteers do so.
It’s the SYSTEM people. The SYSTEM! You don’t not mess with the SYSTEM!!
I mean, you do not mess with the system. Or you don’t mess with the system. Obviously you don’t not mess with the system - that would be silly and a double negative, which I hate.
Do you see what this does to me? Do you SEE?!?!?!
yes, but we still appreciate you volunteering to organize it every year {{{{A_in_W}}}}
I just got back from the post office and am happy to report that your elephant is marching his priority butt out of West Virginia as I type. Thank you for your good thoughts and for your patience.
Now, as I promised in my last post, a list of what I recieved from OneCentStamp.
A children’s book “Hallelujah! A Christmas Celebration”
A copy of “The Godfather” (I had never read it but I loved it and now I want to be in the Mafia but since I am neither male nor Italian chances are slim.)
A Utah license plate
A Swift Boat Sailors Association license plate cover
Fuzzy green bunny ears
A little plush ghost purse that contained a big plastic spider
Truck Stop, A Car Wars roleplaying supplement (Umm, thanks)
A recorder like the one I had to play in grade school
A set of drumsticks
A little glass thing that my husband said is a television tube but I am not so sure
A Groundskeeper Willie action figure (I loved this)
A video copy of “We Are the World” I am so watching this the next time I get drunk out of my brand new
Saint Arnold brewery glass. Which will sit on one of my new
Beer and vodka coasters. And while I drink, I can look at my
AA chips 
. (Which side are you on?)
I almost forgot. Everything came packed in paper towels which came in so handy for cleaning my new house. Thanks OneCentStamp.
I’m glad to hear you’re OK.
With running commentary by the gifter. 
I love it because of the black baby Jesus.
That’s a copy from the first year it was published, 1969. Don’t bother taking it to Antiques Roadshow, but it’s cool looking and a nice conversation piece. And a great book.
The very definition of “mundane pointless stuff I must share.” 
From my mom’s brother, one of the very few Vietnamese sailors to serve on an American swift boat. I fear the man.
What can I say? I thought you’d look cute in them.
Thrown in as an afterthought; it was sitting on my desk as I packed.
The box is from Truck Stop, but the contents are actually the original game IIRC. It’s a fun one.
Now, with a four track recording console (not included), you can emulate the flute/organ intro from “Stairway to Heaven” (it was actually John Paul Jones playing the recorder). 
Everyone needs a pair, even if you don’t play the drums (I do). They’re just fun.
It’s a preamp tube for a guitar amplifier. It’s an ECC83 (12AX7 in America), made by the JJ/Tesla company of the Slovak Republic. Very nice.
The video is funny and the song is even worse than you remember.
Saint Arnold, Houston’s oldest microbrewery. hic
Everyone needs coasters. I tried to make them Texas-specific, just so they’d be something you couldn’t get in WV.
Cool that you recognized them as chips from a 12 stepper. However, you’re thinking of the wrong 12 step program. leer
You’re welcome, and it’s good to have you back!
Ele is on his way. His handler said Ele should reach his destination on Friday, but if he gets a good tail wind, he could show up on Thursday.
I am OK as I can be right now so thanks. The AA seemed like a logical jump after the glass and the coasters. I forgot to thank you specifically for the Newcastle Brown Ale coaster. It is one of my favorite beers.
Uh…
and if one has sent off an elephant (which already was received) and one is getting an elephant from overseas, but one is moving, so if one’s inbound elephant hasn’t been sent yet it may be better if it’s put on hold until one can provide a new address…
can one say anything on the 16th or not? It’s, uh, a completely hypotetical situation, of course.