# You'll never guess what my great-aunt got me for Christmas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 23, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277 "2004-12-23T03:34:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/21 "2004-12-23T12:27:14Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > black cord attacked to one end. Attached, too. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/22 "2004-12-23T12:40:01Z")
Hey, she nailed the $15 gift limit. Cut her some slack. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/23 "2004-12-23T15:10:49Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I’ll take your personal messager and raise you one Hillshire Farm Jumbo Sausage Log as the Oddest Christmas Present I’ve ever received. > It was from my disabled brother. It is the only present I remember from him. He was hungry when he bought it. 🙂 I think this is really sweet, actually, Shirley. And no, a 1A battery is not enough power! ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/24 "2004-12-23T17:00:53Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I’ll take your personal messager and raise you one Hillshire Farm Jumbo Sausage Log as the Oddest Christmas Present I’ve ever received. Not to be used interchangably!!! ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/25 "2004-12-23T17:20:13Z")
**Milquetoast** , you can buy vibrators that look almost exactly like that marketed as personal massagers. I don’t know if they still carry them, but Spencer’s Gifts used to have day-glo colored ones in brightly colored, but non-suggestive boxes. If someone saw the package and were very sheltered on sexual matters, as I imagine FundieAuntie may well be, I could totally see someone thinking they were personal massagers rather than, ahem, _very_ personal massagers. ---
**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/26 "2004-12-23T19:00:32Z")
Although, in the spirit of Christmas, I have to wonder if your mom didn’t see the expression on your face and take pity on you. Maybe she hates sports trivia, but knows you like it, and is going to return that crazy thing and buy that hair stuff she’s had her eye on. Come on, at least that’s a story that won’t keep you up at night. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/27 "2004-12-23T20:42:08Z")
Just don’t ask Mom how “Bob”\* is, she might tell you! D: \*Battery operated boyfriend ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/28 "2004-12-23T20:54:53Z")
The question is, are you going to let your mom know the type of use this item is put to in the real world? If so, get the reaction on video – it should be priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/29 "2004-12-23T21:30:29Z")
I got a hardboiled egg for Christmas. Yes really. It did not survive a 3 hour train and bus journey and I arrived at the family home to find it had gone off. The front room now smells a l’oeuf mal 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/30 "2004-12-23T22:26:37Z")
Maybe she was re-gifting it. Hopefully, un-used. ---
**Author:** ![Cranky\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cranky\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cranky_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/31 "2004-12-23T23:25:29Z")
originally from Dmark: Maybe she was re-gifting it. Hopefully, un-used. EWWWW!! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277/32 "2004-12-24T07:32:00Z")
> [@Cranky Hermit](#): > > EWWWW!! Wow…that I grossed you out enough to post your 14th post in 18 months, I feel very honored! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-never-guess-what-my-great-aunt-got-me-for-christmas/281277.md?page=1)