― 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
name those ppl ffs!
NAME THEM AND GIVE THEIR ADDRESSES!
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
lol i think you might be surprised. no naming and shaming in this thread.
― smoove operator, Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
i really, really don't see why not...anyway i'll mail you when i get a chance.
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
bumpbumpbumpbump
― smoove operator, Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
can you give me some examples of appropriate gifts? i have moderate interest in doing this but it sounds kinda complicated and i don't want to be an asshole
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
you'll get your damned blood money i toldya
xp oh yeah should we include 4/5 ideas for the kind of things that would be good or leave it to chance
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
specifically, i don't want to be the kind of person who says she will do something and then doesn't do itnor do i want to get mad burnt because tbh i do like to receive presents as much as the next person
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
tbh if i get a guy he's getting posh artisan socks and if i get a chilXor she's getting posh artisan soap
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
artisan socksit's a man's world
― not uplifting (Abbott), Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
in fact would you take an order?
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
I got a terrific cookbook (and homemade cookies) one year and gave an equally terrific cookbook (and a Bollywood calendar) another year.
― jaq, Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
oh i forgot to set price limits - let's say no more than... $15?? does that sound right? more? less?
maybe include in your email 3-5 random things that you are interested in (eg cooking, rocks, birds, trains etc).
LL, i think funny little handmade gifts are appreciated (or should be). iirc i've sent a book (that was kind of a dumb one from me) and last time i sent a copy of abbott's drawings that we published.
― smoove operator, Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
really, the whole point is to just receive something interesting in the mail, because who doesn't love that
― smoove operator, Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
one time i mailed a giant bag of jasmine tea to ilx user casuistry but that was a really long time ago and it was also something i had sitting around the house
lemme think about it
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
good thing I'm not in this (or spendy) cuz one of you might get this:
http://shop.occulter.org/collections/object/products/half-a-person
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
i fucked up one year and didn't send anything. cant remember who to. sorry whoever that was.
can i get Z_S this year?
― kamb, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
email me your details and i will make it happen
― smoove operator, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
:)
― 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