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Posted Wed, 12/03/2008 - 15:28 — Brigitte Dale
Holiday shopping season is in full swing. Don't buy one of these gift no-no's for anyone on your list!
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I wouldn't mind some new socks. I keep poking a hole in the left one with my big toe and I don't know how it happens. I haven't altered my walking style or anything. It's a mystery wrapped inside an enigma...in a sock.
I love your squirrel nutcracker!
Brigitte - -
Don't give underwear, eh? Now ya see?? That's just what's wrong with this world. Why is it that whenever the question is asked, "If there was just one thing in your life that you could change, what would it be?" no one, and I mean NO ONE ever answers "My underwear!"???
i personally only ask for socks!! i love the feel of a new pair!!
Send all those spicey sausage samplers here to Wisconsin, we're not proud.
Some people are afraid of socks, socks make some people nervous at first, some even wait until they are married before sharing socks with another person, all in all, you just can't beat good socks. I'll take all the socks I can get.
WE; The erlenmeyers are great for beer, especially the later it gets.
I have socks on my list and I hope I get some! Socks are fun, but not plain ones. Grandma gives a package of plain white socks every year! :/
The wifey's hand spun & knit woolen socks can't be beat... sometimes customized for left or right foot, and much appreciated as a gift and every time they are worn.
Cookies in a tin are good, too.
C.R.
You are absolutely right about new socks. I must be getting old if socks have that much of an impact on my life.
I can't have a link to my own website in my signature? Come on, ABC!
Well if sahks are out, you could do as Reuters suggests and adopt an injured koala ***http://***feeds.reuters.*****com/~r/reuters/oddlyEnoughNews/~3/xC3n20uyZxI/idUSTRE4B21S520081203
Or, you could give 'The Gift'. It's kind of like reading the bible and being asked "what are you reading?" and then getting to say "the book" (bible=book) except instead they can ask you "what are you giving me?" and you can say "The Gift" and they can say "stop being so weird". The Gift, aside from being an opportunity to be cryptically annoying, is also a book, which somehow manages to elicit phrases like "fills a gaping but previously only dimmly recognized hole in my understanding of humanity".
It's actually titled The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde, though I think I've also seen it with a different subtitle. I imagine some editor somewhere thought the word "erotic" was freaking some people out. Though it was actually the reason I bought the book in the first place; I have a weird thing about words used etymologically in spite of popular connotations.
Cole
Is "etymologically" properly pronounced with six syllables, or seven?
WE
Wind Energy
"adj.
Of or relating to etymology or based on the principles of etymology.
etymologically et'y·mo·log'i·cal·ly adv."
I count seven, assuming apostrophes equal dots. But somehow I feel like that wasn't your question.
My wife loves socks - and vacuum cleaners - as presents. As for me ... I'm in agreement with your entire list. Although, now that California is a "hands-free" state and you can't talk on your cell phone while driving, a blue-tooth headset isn't a bad gift. Okay, bye!
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"There's a light, what light, inside of you." - Jeff Tweedy/Wilco
Have a nice day Brigitte...
PeaCe..!
Yusuf Alioglu
Brigitte! New sock are great. Have you ever been guilty of wearing dirty socks because of the new sock feel that will vanish as soon as you wash and dry them? I know I am.
I always tell my mom I need socks when she asks what I want for Christmas. She's on a fixed income and socks are cheap.
One thing I would add to the list is sweaters. I don't know what it is about Christmas, but for some reason it makes people want to buy the ugliest sweaters on the shelf. One year I got five sweaters, the worst part is I never wear sweaters.
Obviously the best gift this year would be an invisibility cloak.
Joe
I'm not sure what it was you were crushing with your squirrel, but it looked amazingly like Maddy's tail....hope I'm wrong on this one...
ew no! It was bread!
lol, good to know...
I'm hoping for socks, too, Osmyn. Gray silk socks with little lavender clocks on them. I feel comfortable in asking for this because I'm pretty sure they're not made. I was looking at my sock collection the other day, and some of them are getting pretty long in the tooth. I guess throwing socks away (ok recycling then, but into...what?) is like bailing out of a fighter jet - if the thought even crosses your mind, do it immediately. I agree about not buying someone a vacuum, unless you're willing to buy them a pump that will hold the vacuum. I'm thinking of getting my college-age nephew a set of 250 ml Erlenmeyer flasks to use as beer glasses; they're beautiful and damned near impossible to knock over. I drink my coffee out of one every morning. Really.
WE
Wind Energy
I'm down with the socks. My mother-in-law bought me a new pair of hiking socks every year, which I wore like slippers, but then she stopped two years ago and they all wore out so I had to buy my own pair this year. I'd totally recommend them; they're the heavy cushion smart wool type.