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MindFad · Dec 24, 2002, 07:18 PM

I know some people who do it, some who don't. I decided I'd do it to a friend this year. He already knows I'm getting him A Link to the Past for his GBA, but I used my old box from the copy I got for myself and stuffed it with paper and put tetris for GB in there. I thought it would be funny. I still got him Zelda, of course.

So, what gag gifts did you get someone this year or in years past?

Nimisys · Dec 24, 2002, 07:27 PM

for my 18 year old bro: a pink stuffed monkey

wataru · Dec 24, 2002, 07:36 PM

My mom, apparently suffering from half-empty nest syndrome, has been talking about redoing the kitchen. Every other family member is against it, though, since there's absolutely nothing wrong with the kitchen as it is.

I got my mom a kitchen remodeling book.

Axo1ot1 · Dec 24, 2002, 08:51 PM

I got my mom an iBook! Muahahahahah! oh...

v0id7 · Dec 24, 2002, 09:52 PM

how about no present at all...yes, the poor kid made a card, inst that sweet? [not really i think its cruel but funny]

Mac Zealot · Dec 25, 2002, 12:43 AM

never been given any gag gifts.

though I think I'm going to take my xbox back.. now with all this talk about the gamecube I want to make sure I get what I'll enjoy more

Emotionally Fragile Luke · Dec 25, 2002, 01:01 AM

I got my sis the 10 gig iPod but she wanted the 5 because she only has about 2 gigs of MP3's and doesn't want to walk around with such an expesive thing. I exchanged it for the 5 gig and she couldn't be happier.

cheerios · Dec 25, 2002, 01:06 AM

Starwars dude... the key word in the title there is GAG. what's so gaggy about an iPod?

Emotionally Fragile Luke · Dec 25, 2002, 01:17 AM

Originally posted by cheerios:
Starwars dude... the key word in the title there is GAG. what's so gaggy about an iPod?

Oh, well I guess the GAG was on my that I get her the expenive one and she wants the cheap one. That made me gag, happy?

cheerios · Dec 25, 2002, 01:23 AM

not nit-picking, just wondering how it fit. no need to get snotty.

Emotionally Fragile Luke · Dec 25, 2002, 02:42 AM

Originally posted by cheerios:
no need to get snotty.

That was snotty?

cheerios · Dec 25, 2002, 04:56 AM

it's late, I'm not gettin' any, I'm grumpy. sorry. bad choice of words. i took offence to the "happy?" part of the post. felt it sounded as if you were a petulant teen. :Shrug: no harm meant, don't mind me, i"m just enjoying my typos for htre night.

rampant · Dec 25, 2002, 05:37 AM

Originally posted by cheerios:
it's late, I'm not gettin' any, I'm grumpy. sorry. bad choice of words. i took offence to the "happy?" part of the post. felt it sounded as if you were a petulant teen. :Shrug: no harm meant, don't mind me, i"m just enjoying my typos for htre night.

Drunk much?

cheerios · Dec 25, 2002, 05:58 AM

completely sober. on a starnge keyboard. :/

juanvaldes · Dec 25, 2002, 06:04 AM

If she was with me she would be neigher!

MikeM33 · Dec 25, 2002, 07:19 AM

Originally posted by cheerios:
it's late, I'm not gettin' any

You'd better make your move now Juan!

(sorry, but you can see how that bunch of words can be misinterpretted).

I sent my ex-wife a very convincing photoshopped home made post-card of myself wearing a Santa Claus hat on a yacht in the Bahamas with a "Merry Christmas" on it.

On the back I wrote. "Dear Maureen; I'm doing well as you can see. I never thought I'd say that money is not a problem, but it's not. Hoping you're having a happy holiday. Your friend; Mike"

She'll be knocking on my door on Thursday morning "Oh baby I miss you, I realize I screwed-up" etc., etc....watch

MikeM

Face Ache · Dec 25, 2002, 08:32 AM

I hope you're joking.

You're joking... right...?

G4ME · Dec 25, 2002, 09:15 AM

last year or the year before i put one of those fake winning scratch and win tickets in my dads stocking, it would have been perfect except i couldn't keep a straight face. He scratched off two spots and sat up a little, and when he scratched off that final one reviling that he had one 10,000 dollars, he sat fully up right and did a double take looked at the back, but by that time i was in tears, because my sides hurt from laughing. We took it to relatives houses and had fun with it for the rest of the day, although we almost kled my grand mother she was so happy.

Justin W. Williams · Dec 25, 2002, 09:47 AM

This year DaKiwi & I made her dad an unofficial member of the local news stations Stormteam Spotter Crew. He spent a good 2000 bucks on a weather station for his house. The station is OS X compatilbe though

http://www.davisnet.com/weather

Other great gag gifts is the picture of GW Bush my grandma gave us during the 2000 election. She is a big democrat, and my parents are big republicans. The picture still is up in the family room

Thrax · Dec 25, 2002, 10:07 AM

Nothing this year, but last year I got my aunt a Pokemon Pikachu handheld (her son makes fun of her for watching Pokemon) and my uncle a business book inspired by the Road Runner (he loves Road Runner cartoons and still has some socialist tendancies).

OwlBoy · Dec 25, 2002, 10:11 AM

Originally posted by G4ME:
last year or the year before i put one of those fake winning scratch and win tickets in my dads stocking, it would have been perfect except i couldn't keep a straight face. He scratched off two spots and sat up a little, and when he scratched off that final one reviling that he had one 10,000 dollars, he sat fully up right and did a double take looked at the back, but by that time i was in tears, because my sides hurt from laughing. We took it to relatives houses and had fun with it for the rest of the day, although we almost kled my grand mother she was so happy.

Awww now thats a mean gift

-Owl

scaught · Dec 25, 2002, 11:25 AM

Originally posted by MikeM33:
I sent my ex-wife a very convincing photoshopped home made post-card of myself wearing a Santa Claus hat on a yacht in the Bahamas with a "Merry Christmas" on it.

On the back I wrote. "Dear Maureen; I'm doing well as you can see. I never thought I'd say that money is not a problem, but it's not. Hoping you're having a happy holiday. Your friend; Mike"

She'll be knocking on my door on Thursday morning "Oh baby I miss you, I realize I screwed-up" etc., etc....watch

MikeM

are you serious?

MindFad · Dec 25, 2002, 12:40 PM

Ahahaha. That's funny G4ME. OK, present time.

wdlove · Dec 25, 2002, 12:52 PM

Can't say that I'm a gag kind of guy!

Justin W. Williams · Dec 25, 2002, 02:53 PM

Originally posted by wdlove:
Can't say that I'm a gag kind of guy!

Gag gifts to me are what make the whole christmas thing worthwhile. The real meaning got lost in the commercialism years ago.

This year especially after working at AE all holiday. Christmas shoppers are assmunches.

wdlove · Dec 25, 2002, 04:54 PM

Hold on to Molly, your a lucky guy!

DaKiwi2788 · Dec 27, 2002, 02:28 AM

Originally posted by wdlove:
Hold on to Molly, your a lucky guy!

Who is this Molly you speak of? My computer Molly? Did Justin say it was his again? What a liar!!

Ozmodiar · Dec 27, 2002, 02:35 AM

we've been giving my oldest brother gag gifts forever. after he had turned 16 we gave him fuzzy dice (but no car). one year we gave him a log from the wood pile in the back. the past few years my mom has just been wrapping up the same stuffed bobble-head dog and giving it to him.

aw, memories.

DaKiwi2788 · Dec 27, 2002, 02:59 AM

My parents just remodeled part of my brother's bathroom, and as a joke they got him a brass toliet flusher thing because the one in there now doesn't match. Well, somehow it got stuck in my stocking. I was really confused on why I need a toliet flusher.

My other brother's gag gift was to Santa. He thought he was tired of milk and cookies, so he left him Beer and Honey-Roasted Peanuts. We had a good laugh about that one. If only there was Santa Juan or Philzilla. They could appreciate that.