OT: Christmas Gag gifts

This company should have just what you want:

============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

In our family it's a chia pet. Those ceramic things that you get wet a sprinkle with seeds and "Presto", your Richard Nixon statue now has hair. We find the tackiest theme one we can.

marcella it's a long story

Oh yes, we had the chia pet gift exchange years too. They are funny. My new favorite store for gifts is thinkgeek.com. Some of their items are inexpensive and might work for a gag type gifts (others are more expensive high tech things).

Lynn

OOH OOH OOH I LOVE THIS STORE.

I just got the Planisphere Watch thanks to a contest I won at work that came with a gift certificate.

I have the little silver Binary clock with the Blue LEDs.

Great store. Jenn - also in gloomy northern CA right now.

I have an LED key chain from Thinkgeek. You should see how bright it shines at Theresa in Washington's house. The ex dropped his keys in the dark and it was pitch black there that night. Couldn't find them without my keychain!

Tigg (doesn't shop there anymore, but it's fun to look around!)

Oh, and I went to Christmas in Newport with some friends and their family does a "white elephant" exchange every year. Everyone brings a gag gift and when it is your turn, you pick one to open. If you like it, you can keep it, or if not you can exchange it with one of someone else's that you do like. I can't remember what I got, but I kept it. I can't remember what any of the gag gifts were now.

Glad you mentioned the "white elephant" gift exhange...because I've always wanted to actually give a white elephant at one....appropriate on more than one count, eh?

Sue D. in Ithaca, NY

Just learned a week ago where the phrase "white elephant" came from. According to The Word Detective site (excerpted):

"...According to legend, white elephants were so venerated in Siam that when one was found it automatically became the property of the King, and it was a grave crime to ride, beat, neglect or kill a white elephant.

"Now, elephants are not exactly gerbils, diet-wise, and keeping an elephant is a ruinously expensive proposition unless you can generate income using the critter for labor or transportation. The King, it is said, realized that the special status of his white elephants, coupled with their appetites, gave him a handy weapon against his foes. Anyone who displeased his majesty was given a white elephant as a royal gift, and within months, unable to do anything with it apart from feeding it, the recipient was invariably financially ruined. Thus "white elephant" came to mean an object for which one has no use, and which may even represent a substantial financial drain, but which is difficult or impossible to get rid of. ..."

--Heidi

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:59:01 -0600, Jack Campin - bogus address wrote (in article ):

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For a work-themed gag gift I highly recommend

I love the post-it notes.