― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Sunday, 17 December 2006 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― RIYL Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Sunday, 17 December 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 17 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― AiLien (AMD), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 23 December 2006 08:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 23 December 2006 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katarina), Saturday, 23 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 23 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 23 December 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
it would have been hilarious if id gotten ai lien. i would have had to send it to my own house.
― sunny successor (katarina), Sunday, 24 December 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Sunday, 24 December 2006 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link
i sent mine yesterday.
kate, you totally got mail!
― AiLien (AMD), Sunday, 24 December 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Dude! SECRET Santa. I don't get how that's so hard. I'm not annoyed, you understand, I just think it's funny.
In any case, whoever gets mine, it won't be much of a mystery, what with the Irish post code and stamps and everything.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Sunday, 24 December 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
from wikipedia:"There is usually a gift-giving occasion, where all the presents are placed on a table, marked with the name of the receiver but not the giver. Sometimes the gift-giver will personally give the recipient the present, thereby revealing their identity. Some groups may choose to donate the money they saved on presents to charity."
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Sunday, 24 December 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― AiLien (AMD), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― tehresa (tehresa), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
I've only done work SS's and they were only secret up to the time of exchange.
For some really phenomenal accounts of a nightmarish workplace SS exchange, see Sarah's posts on the Chicago thread. Highlight: working balking at a $35 max, countering that it should be $35 MINIMUM.
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― grady (grady), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― AiLien (AMD), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― AiLien (AMD), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
i beg to differ!
also kenan is all like bah humpbug up thread and look at us all proving him wrong.
― grady (grady), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
I initially read this as "...has been in PRISON."
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― grady (grady), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 29 December 2006 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Me! That's how we do it here.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 29 December 2006 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katarina), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― AiLien (AMD), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 30 December 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
i hope the the almanac spawns several worthwhile ILE threads in the coming twelve months.
― grady (grady), Saturday, 30 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― grady (grady), Sunday, 31 December 2006 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
i think i've participated in this 3 times and never actually gotten anything. is abbott organising this again? i would be happy to do it, instead being part of it, but i would suggest that we add the option of a preference for a recipient in your own country, and that each "application" is accompanied by a list of 3-5 things that you like.
― smoove operator, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
there are like five oirish ilxors and four of them are dryballs imo
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
but i will sign up for this for the first time this year regardless
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
also, an option to only receive and not give, and an option to give an extra gift, that way no one misses out.
― smoove operator, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
I was thinking about this today and was going to offer to run it if no one else was.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 3 December 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
I've never done this before, but it could be fun. I'd be interested!
― Nicole, Saturday, 3 December 2011 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
*raises her hand* I want to participate again this year.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Saturday, 3 December 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
I can't run it this year because I'm both moving and going on vacation and wrapping up grad school semester all in the next two weeks. Also last year I sent out lots of extra gifts to many an ILXor to make up for bums and slackers and layabouts of yore who did not send packages ––– and I am still feeling MAD BURNT because my Secret Santa assignee never sent me anything. THAT is why people are grudgeful, Mark E. Smith!
― not uplifting (Abbott), Saturday, 3 December 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
To reexplain although it's quite clear:– I sent out 3-4 extra packages I did not need to to spread goodwill– the person asked to be my Secret Santa did not send me a gift– no one gets to talk about "panopticism" anymore because I know who the secret person is– and yet they did nothing– causing all this NAGL whining
― not uplifting (Abbott), Saturday, 3 December 2011 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
– also I may have misused "panopticism" but TO NO GREATER DEGREE THAN ANY OTHER INSUFFERABLE GRADUATE STUDENT ASSFUKHEAD
― not uplifting (Abbott), Saturday, 3 December 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
okay so i will do this:
email me at just1n379 at gmail dot com (the first part is NOT googleproofed - that is the actual address)
please include:
your full nameyour ilx name (not sandbox name)your addresswill you be receiving? y/nwill you be giving? y/nwould you like an extra person to send something to? y/n
let's make the deadline: DECEMBER 10, NOON, PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, 2011
― smoove operator, Saturday, 3 December 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
i forgot to add:
preference for same-country recipient?
if you have already emailed me, and you would prefer your recipient be in your country, let me know, otherwise i will assume you don't mind either way
― smoove operator, Saturday, 3 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
wtf @ option to get without giving??????
?
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
bc lots of ppl sign up but never send anything out - and lots of ppl like to send out extra gifts. this way, if you're just upfront about it, everyone gets something. like me and abbs both said: we never get anything!!
― smoove operator, Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
to the sandboxer that just ilx-mailed me: send me your full name, regular ilx username, and address, and i'll hook you up.
― smoove operator, Sunday, 11 December 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
can i get Z_S this year?
ooooh, how exciting! i dont' even know who you are, lol sandbox!
― Z S, Sunday, 11 December 2011 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYEdsrHdcghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYEdsrHdcghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYEdsrHdcg
― Z S, Sunday, 11 December 2011 06:52 (twelve years ago) link
<3<3
― kamb, Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Email sent smoove
― kamb, Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
I think I got mine already, anonymously? Thank you very much Santa, it is awesome!
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
i dont think i got the email mentioning where i am to send to
― kamb, Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
I have honestly never heard of (or read) anything by the poster I'm supposed to be buying something for. Apologies in advance for a potentially generic present.
― remy bean in exile, Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Kamb I emailed you a few days ago
― smoove operator, Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Fucking fuck I double checked, and I spelled your name wrong in the address
― smoove operator, Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah its an a. confusing for sure.
― kamb, Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Thank you Secret Santa! The quills arrived intact!
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
I have to post a picture of my xmas card when I get home today, because I can say without hesitation that it is simply the GREATEST xmas card of all time. And the gifts were perfect. Thank you secret santa, you know who you are.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
I am so worried about disappointing the recipient of my gift, it's not even funny.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I had to share my awesome secret santa card.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
WOW
― Z S, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
<3
:)
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Mailing mine out this afternoon. Excited!
― remy bean in exile, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
working on getting mine assembled for the recipient, about whom i know little but hopefully enough to please them...
― son, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
:) :) :)
THANKS SANTA!
― twice banned gabbage is death (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 23 December 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck! I'm so bummed I missed this
― Stevie :-D, Monday, 26 December 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link