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On a music forum I visit from time to time they have organised, for the last couple of years, a Secret Santa thing. Being a music forum it is quite straightforward and they just tend to send CD-R compilations to each other, but this is TMO so that restriction would be out the 23rd floor window faster than a US Army experimental goat.
Q1. Would anyone join in?
A1. Yeah, I would, but I'd need one or two others with me ideally.
Q2. How the fuck would this work then?
A2. Well it's a Secret Santa thing isn't it, but through the post. You send a Xmas pressy to an allocated recipient who doesn't know who it's come from. Question is, should we rig it so the sender doesn't know who they're sending to either? Like, if people email me their addresses but use an alias - not RL name and not TMO name - so the whole thing is anonymous. Would that work? This is already sounding like a bad idea isn't it. I don't care...
Each forumite puts a selection of their files (music, video clips, scat-pron, personal letters, etc) onto a CD-R and sends it to Dang. He then sends it on to another contributor. Much fun can be had by trying to guess whose CD you've received.
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That should start a flood of applications. A surprise Christmas gift from the Black Mask! You've got to be in it to win it. Just sign here. Thank you. And the liability waiver, just... there. Splendid.
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Potential recipients should bear in mind that I am lacking in taste in nearly every instance. Unless you are a fellow kitsch fiend. Items currently adorning my mantlepiece (stone-clad electric bar fireplace, folks!) include (list not exhaustive): enormo gilt mirror; two (2) feather boas, one sea green, one shocking pink; pink glittery reindeer with two badges hanging from the horns (one from Jerry Springer: The Opera stating 'I've been seein' someone else', one asking 'how does it feel to be loved?'); broken china doll head of angelic child (evil); numerous faux-retro postcodes; press pass for Kill Bill II; bag of sweetie necklaces (past their best); beads; plastic earrings (large); wine glass with merlot dregs.
I hope I haven't discouraged anyone!
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We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.
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ah gwan then. I'll play.
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What's a "scat - pron " when it's at home then ?
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I would like to join in also but I don't think that I want owt off that Philomel!
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Looks like we've got six 'I'm in' shouts then, plus Misc perhaps though it's not clear from his post if he's just making a suggestion for the rest of us to mull over? Possible seven then.
This could be a splendid one-off chance to dump all sorts of rubbish onto someone else. Just pinch a ginormous jiffy bag from work and walk round the house dropping anything you don't want and can't sell into it till it's full. Then send it to your excited XmasTMOchild.
If you want, you could use a shoe box and they could pretend to be a Romanian orphan to add to the Christmas cheer.
Maybe people could suggest the sort of things they would love to have 'drop through their letterbox' on Christmas morning, or a few days after depending on when the postie can be bothered with it.
e.g.
A signed ASCII-art from Raz. A page of original research notes from Kovacs. An American washing-machine from Thorn. A picture of Orlando Broom.
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: This could be a splendid one-off chance to dump all sorts of rubbish onto someone else.
Fucking hell yes count me'n'TheGree in. We're about to put our flat on the market and are trying to lighten the load as much as possible for when we move to Glasgow or wherever it is we're supposed to be going (we pulled an atlas out last night, and did the old open-a-page-at-random-and-point thing: the first attempt was Africa], the second was by a big lake about 300 miles north of Moscow).
That means we're trying to offload lava lamps and space projectors and books and juggling equpiment and large tables and ashtrays on tripods and the like.
So, er, count us in. Though none of you fuckers is getting my space projector.
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I am reasonably sure froopy and I are in (together or individually). I'm sure it is manageable as long as we don't try to send anything too heavy (like our lovely American appliances).
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Woahhh! I believe dang is playing Satan's Little Helper, no? Shouldn't we send receiver addresses to dang then he can field them out to givers? And everyone sends dang a gift for being staunch.
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wadsdasd! You juggle mart? I got well into a bit, clubs, hoops, throwing with friends. then i er stopped. keep meaning to take it up again.I might throw into the mix my old boxed snes...anyway,it will probably be gaming related with a dvd full of YARRRRR goodies.
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I have some battered old clubs and hoops, yeah. I used to be able to throw with a partner, about fifteen years ago when I first got into it, but never with any real proficiency. I would love to try unicycling again as well, that's great fun. I only ever managed about twenty yards down the street, but I always felt as if I was justabout to get it.
quote:Originally posted by Sidney: so what is dang's email address then?
Yes, right, if this is taking off a bit then my email addy is dang65@yahoo.com
I'm still not sure if people want to keep the whole process anonymous, so you don't know who you're sending to and you don't know who you're receiving from, or just keep it traditional so you know who you're sending to?
As for it only being September and Christmas being around December time most years... well these things take some organising don't they, especially when you've got someone as incompetent as me in charge.
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: Can I play too? Though I'm not sure I understand fully.
Right, it goes like this:
1. You send your address to me, either completely anonymously, or with any name you wish to be known by. I will keep this information completely confidential apart from...
2. ...I will send your address to one other random participant. This person becomes your Secret Santa and...
3. ...they rustle up a mystery Xmas gift and send it to you. The nature of this gift has yet to be decided, but I guess the most obvious suggestions would be stuff like: A home made music compilation, either mp3 or audio cd; A book you've been trying to get everyone to read; A dvd you're desperate for someone else to watch, please; Something rubbish someone sent you last year and you've been trying to get rid of ever since; A pair of socks.
4. You eat a mince pie and sing Silent Night whilst gently rocking backward and forward with your head banging against the wall.
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But people would get tapes through the post from me, not secret underground tracks magickly "downloaded" from the computer to CD, as I do not have such facilities. Or they would get non-music themed gifts. Is this allowed?
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Elizabeth Duke ones for you, Masky my sweet.
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Excellent. I've got two addresses through already, so there's already enough for this scheme to work. Just send your address to dang65@yahoo.com - there's several months to do it in so no rush. And I promise not to send out my own address to everyone, as some scheming pirate has suggested I might do. I am wondering how many addresses I'm going to get from random lurkers that happen to have stumbled on this thread. Still, they might be the coolest lurkers ever. Sarah-Jane from CBeebies might lurk on here and send a pair of... no. No, she might not, you're right.
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