Aaaaauugggghhhh! OK, I’ve gotta balance spoiling the surprise of who your elephanteer is with putting your mind at ease (with a dollop of common courtesy thrown in), so I’ll go for the latter and 'fess up. I’m yer man. I’ll just assume the position then shall I? :eek:
[Blues Bros]An old friend came in from outta town, my tux didn’t come back from the cleaner’s, there was an earthquake, an avalanche…[/Blues Bros] Yes, I have been slack sending yer gear, and I do feel appropriately guilty. It’s on its way at long last, but it does have to come from Sydney, Australia, so it me just a wee bit longer.
[sub]OLD JOKE: Q: What’s the quickest way to Texas? A: Well, if I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.[/sub]
And I really did take the “box of crap” idea seriously; you’ll probably finally get hold of it, rip it open, and think, “ummm… okaaaay”.
After all that grovelling ** **, I am going to plead “not guilty” to one part. I did send off an email a couple of weeks back. Either Thinksnow had the wrong addy for you, or I mis-typed it, and sent it to some medicine man in Burkina Faso who will be waiting with much anticipation for his “white elephant”. Dunno what happened there. Anyway, apologies once again, and by way of apology, I decided to refrain from including a jar of Vegemite (poor Thinksnow wasn’t so lucky).
Back into grovelling mode:
Man, this guy went over and above the call of Doper duty on this one. A whopping great big box sent EXPRESS with UPS to Australia. How generous is that? I freaked when I thought about the cost of doing that. What with the time zones an’ all, I think I got it even before it was sent! And to send it to a slack-arse such as I! Thanks again, mate!
I’m not your person, but you send me your address and I’ll send you some really nice crap. Heck, I might even part with another of my Texas armadillo mugs. We won’t tell Mr. Cazzle that I’m not really your White Elephanter.
More people with no gifts? Gaaahhhh! Okay, all of you send me your addresses. I’ll send you stuff. I got lots of stuff. More than enough stuff to pack 30 White Elephant boxes. And, if I run out, I’ll ship you Mr. Grace. He’s about as useful as the rest of the stuff.
Or, you just might get a box of candy. Anyhoo, I’ll send packages. I hate that people haven’t gotten gifts.
I know that I haven’t got anything yet, but I’m still optimistic - my elephanter has sent 2 packages now, so surely one of them will arrive, right? RIGHT?
I’m still here too alice_in_wonderland. So wanna play jacks ? I’m sure we can find a guy named jack to play with us somewhere. Oh who am I kidding, we can’t even find 2 elephants .
Okay, I think enough time has gone by, I’m going to fire off a round of emails to the people who are, as of yet, slacking off.
I know special circumstances may be in effect, but since I’ve not gotten too many emails from folks (but I have from some), I’m kinda pissed off about this.
**, I am going to plead “not guilty” to one part. I did send off an email a couple of weeks back. Either Thinksnow had the wrong addy for you, or I mis-typed it, and sent it to some medicine man in Burkina Faso who will be waiting with much anticipation for his “white elephant”. Dunno what happened there. Anyway, apologies once again, and by way of apology, I decided to refrain from including a jar of Vegemite (poor Thinksnow wasn’t so lucky).
: An email would be nice so I will know that the person who got my name hasn’t forgotten me :
