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Hmmmm.
With us, presents are for the kids. We grownups don't give presents to each other. After all we can buy whatever we need (well, almost). But the kids get presents. Lots.
By the way - anyone know why they package toys so that kids can't get the toy out of the package?
For chrissakes, one automatic police car required a screwdriver just to get it out of the package. A screwdriver! Just to release the car from the package it was in! Of course we didn't bring one, that's just not the thing you bring for Christmas, is it?
Kids just want to tear off the paper, open the package, and get the toy out to play with. And then they package toys like it's Fort Knox or something...
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cruel and unusual toy makers ;)
I got star wars monopoly, got a bunch of montreal canadiens stuff and then your standard clothes and things.
Nah - not to take this OT, but it was your standard Hasbro (very big toy maker) type toys. Stuff you get at Toys'R'Us and such places. It is really annoying, especially stuff for little kids is often far too hard to get out of the packages.
Nevermind, I'll bring a blowtorch next X-mas. Perhaps lighten up the nearest "my little pony" castle in the process of unpackaging a firetruck. At least that would be bizarre.
Just what I needed
No books this year, which is kind of sad, but quite frankly I didn't give any either. My sister gave us a DVD: Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides. I think that might be bizarre--I'll let you know.
This is bizarre, but cool. I got a flashlight that doesn't require batteries. You store up power with a crank that folds up into the handle. Perfect for the car when you seldom need a flashlight, but when you do need one, you really do. And, of course, the batteries are always dead then.
Yeah, I'm a fan of those, and also the radios that work by the same technology. Didn't get one for Christmas, though. :(
I love my Freeplay Plus radio. Crank and solar power. Has both radio and a light. Just put it in the sun while outside working. Or crank it when the power is out for light and news.
Bizarre gift of my day may be. 5 tubes of toothpaste from my mother-in-law....my favorite all-natural kind but still, kind of strange.
These were small stuffed critters -- giant microbes reproduced at 1 million times their actual size.
On second thought, no, I can't compete with stuffed germs.
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Kinda like waking up to a lump of coal in the stocking eh?
This is bizarre, but cool. I got a flashlight that doesn't require batteries. You store up power with a crank that folds up into the handle. Perfect for the car when you seldom need a flashlight, but when you do need one, you really do. And, of course, the batteries are always dead then.
I bought my son one of them. He goes camping a lot, and always forgets things like batteries.
As for me, I got a reproduction 'Dr Who' scarf, as worn by Tom Baker....
Matt
well the real present was us beatin you last week pmac :)
but I empathizewith:
My significant other got me SEO software, I did not have the heart to tell him that it does not work.
They haven't quite understood it have they?
Almost didn't have the heart to tell my mother that the (very nice actually) camera bag she got me was designed to fit a regular "consumer" digital camera, and might-if-i-stretch-it fit the body of my dSLR... but definitely not my lenses :(
And we've always got a few sharp knives, screwdrivers, and heavy blunt objects around, as my family has this strange interest in wrapping all gifts to be
a) misleading/deceptive
b) creative
c) harder'n hell to open
Not all that bizarre by comparison to some of the previous posts, but it's the best I could come up with.
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Oh, and let's not forget the Star Wars collectable Christmas ornaments. I never put up a Christmas tree, and everyone in my family knows this. So why would I need ornaments for it?
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One of my co-workers noted that Star Wars is like, 25 years old, and an obvious cultural touchstone of her generation.
Still, I thought it was funny.
One of my co-workers noted that Star Wars is like, 25 years old, and an obvious cultural touchstone of her generation.
First Star Wars movie released 1977.
Latest in the Star Wars movie series released 2004.
Space Defense Initiative unveiled 1983.
Catch 22, remote themometer is still in transit. Can't smoke without one so it is sitting there taunting me.
Take care,
Brian
But that still wasn't enough this year. For one gift my 2-year-old got, I needed my laptop. Elmo-knows-your-name doll, a gift from a well meaning aunt. *sigh* Talk about weird and crule and unusual. Who had the bright idea to create a toy for a child under 5 that needed a parent to install, program and download instructions to it before you could play with it? Plus we still had to turn the thing off at night because while elmo may know my kid's name now (along with a dozen other details that I have yet to see it use), it apparently doesn't pay much attention to time because it would not stop singing even after the programmed in bedtime.
No weird gifts this year. People are starting to understand my tastes - I was gifted a couple of really good domain names.
Dave.
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[edit reason] Easy enough to find via google without the link [/edit]
