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SecretSanta · Nov 15, 2008, 07:09 PM

Code:
-Peter
-shifuimam
-osiris
-dcmacdaddy
-SpaceMonkey
-Laminar
-calverson
-rickey939
-Shaddim
-brassplayersrock²
-iM@k

Today's the last day to sign up for the Secret Santa! You can start PMing me your Amazon Wish Lists.

If you're not familiar with the Amazon Wish List concept, you can basically set up a list of stuff you want. People can open up your wish list and choose things from there to buy for you. They are shipped directly to you, and all of your personal info is hidden from the sender.

If you'd like to allow the sender a bit more room for creativity, you can PM me your name/address so the sender can send whatever he/she would like.

Either way, please get your info to be by the 20th.

Thanks!

shifuimam · Nov 15, 2008, 07:26 PM

PM sent a few days ago.

Also, for the record: if you don't want someone to have your full name, just create a new Amazon account and use your MacNN nick as your name. As long as your address is correct, there shouldn't be a problem getting a package mailed out correctly.

dcmacdaddy · Nov 15, 2008, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by SecretSanta

Code:
-Peter
-shifuimam
-osiris
-dcmacdaddy
-SpaceMonkey
-Laminar
-calverson
-rickey939
-Shaddim
-brassplayersrock²
-iM@k

Today's the last day to sign up for the Secret Santa! You can start PMing me your Amazon Wish Lists.

If you're not familiar with the Amazon Wish List concept, you can basically set up a list of stuff you want. People can open up your wish list and choose things from there to buy for you. They are shipped directly to you, and all of your personal info is hidden from the sender.

If you'd like to allow the sender a bit more room for creativity, you can PM me your name/address so the sender can send whatever he/she would like.

Either way, please get your info to be by the 20th.

Thanks!

Check your PM.

sdilley14 · Nov 16, 2008, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by imotor

actually, a 30pack of these would be more in order:

big boy!!!

osiris · Nov 16, 2008, 11:08 AM

I submitted my wish list. Ho Ho Ho!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peter · Nov 16, 2008, 03:46 PM

ermm, I have no idea who SecretSanta

I assume its Laminar...

brassplayersrock² · Nov 20, 2008, 03:20 AM

just sent my wish list in

SecretSanta · Nov 20, 2008, 12:28 PM

PMs sent to those I'm still waiting on lists from.

-Peter
~~-shifuimam~~
~~-osiris~~
~~-dcmacdaddy~~
-SpaceMonkey
~~-Laminar~~
-calverson
-rickey939
-Shaddim
~~-brassplayersrock²~~
~~-iM@k~~

besson3c · Nov 20, 2008, 12:58 PM

How do we know that SecretSanta isn't Abe?

osiris · Nov 20, 2008, 01:37 PM

This is probably a Nigerian scam.

SpaceMonkey · Nov 20, 2008, 02:44 PM

Sorry I've been truant. I'll send my list later today.

Fortunately Amazon has lump coal available for under $20.

Laminar · Nov 21, 2008, 01:00 PM

Sent my info.

Dakar V · Nov 21, 2008, 01:02 PM

Your attention to detail is laudable.

SpaceMonkey · Nov 21, 2008, 01:32 PM

I hope he checks his list twice.

calverson · Nov 21, 2008, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

Sent my info.

To yourself.

brassplayersrock² · Nov 21, 2008, 03:06 PM

laminar is not secret santa, abe is

osiris · Nov 21, 2008, 03:08 PM

That means we're all getting coal.

wait, coal is expensive. make that rocks.

SpaceMonkey · Nov 21, 2008, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by osiris

That means we're all getting coal.

wait, coal is expensive. make that rocks.

I linked to cheap coal in a previous post, if anyone is still struggling for wish list ideas.

rickey939 · Nov 23, 2008, 10:51 AM

Sorry, I'm having an affair with Mrs. Clause and cannot participate in this event.

SecretSanta · Nov 23, 2008, 11:00 AM

It's not an affair if I participate in it.

calverson · Nov 23, 2008, 11:00 AM

Pics or it didn't happen.

rickey939 · Nov 23, 2008, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by calverson

Pics or it didn't happen.

rickey939 · Nov 23, 2008, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by SecretSanta

It's not an affair if I participate in it.

Yeah, thanks for taking the pictures.

calverson · Nov 23, 2008, 11:18 AM

Is that Santa's daughter?

calverson · Nov 23, 2008, 11:20 AM

I wouldn't mind her emptying my sack.

rickey939 · Nov 23, 2008, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by calverson

Is that Santa's daughter?

Not sure of the Clause family tree, but I just call her "Ho Ho"....

SecretSanta · Nov 23, 2008, 01:17 PM

Currently waiting on info. Expect to find out who your pal is by the 25th of this month.

Laminar · Nov 23, 2008, 01:19 PM

Good to hear.

Peter · Nov 24, 2008, 05:57 AM

who is Secret Santa?
this could be some bizarre terrorist plot..

brassplayersrock² · Nov 24, 2008, 06:01 AM

shhhhh........ don't say the T word. feds read these forums, as evident by one occurrence a few years back..........*snicker*

calverson · Nov 24, 2008, 06:02 AM

Yeah, us Mac Geeks are taking over the world!

SpaceMonkey · Nov 24, 2008, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by Peter

who is Secret Santa?
this could be some bizarre terrorist plot..

I bet it's someone we least suspect...

dcmacdaddy · Nov 24, 2008, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by Peter

who is Secret Santa?
this could be some bizarre terrorist plot..

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

I bet it's someone we least suspect...

The posts from SecretSanta are short and terse and not very informative so we know it's not Glenn.

If it was Demonhood they would be funny, or at least punny.
I would say it is TI (ThinkInsane). He is a long-time mod, never any BS from him, and just grumpy enough to secretly take pleasure in being Santa to others.

I can't imagine it's Laminar or Peter as they are on the recipient list and there would be some conflict of interest if they were both a recipient and the gift match-maker.

Laminar · Nov 24, 2008, 12:17 PM

I would just give my name to everybody and get piles of gifts. That would be the best.

SpaceMonkey · Nov 24, 2008, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy

The posts from SecretSanta are short and terse and not very informative so we know it's not Glenn.

I was thinking SecretSanta is perhaps the Mr. Hyde to Glenn's Dr. Jekyll.

dcmacdaddy · Nov 24, 2008, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

I would just give my name to everybody and get piles of gifts. That would be the best.

I like the way you think.

calverson · Nov 24, 2008, 01:56 PM

Well, if I have to buy for Laminar, I am not doing it.

SecretSanta · Nov 24, 2008, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by calverson

Yeah, us Mac Geeks are taking over the world!

It's "we Mac Geeks."

dcmacdaddy · Nov 24, 2008, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by SecretSanta

It's "we Mac Geeks."

ooh, this is a BIG hint.

If SecretSanta is terse and a grammar Nazi then that means he's got to be Analogika/spheric harlot, Chuckit, or maybe Oisín.

calverson · Nov 24, 2008, 02:49 PM

Tell me Secret Santa, are there many nice thing's in store for me?

SecretSanta · Nov 24, 2008, 03:12 PM

I'm one of the few people that doesn't hate you. But you're pushing it.

calverson · Nov 24, 2008, 03:21 PM

Hmmm... apostrophe phreak.

Eug · Nov 24, 2008, 04:04 PM

Thanks for the invite, but I'll have to decline.

SecretSanta · Nov 24, 2008, 04:39 PM

Your loss.

brassplayersrock² · Nov 24, 2008, 05:19 PM

rob?

Chuckit · Nov 24, 2008, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy

ooh, this is a BIG hint.

If SecretSanta is terse and a grammar Nazi then that means he's got to be Analogika/spheric harlot, Chuckit, or maybe Oisín.

You think that sounds like me? Ouch.

brassplayersrock² · Nov 25, 2008, 01:48 AM

come on, it's 47 minutes into the 25th here on the east coast. hurry up secret santa and tell me who my person is.

SecretSanta · Nov 25, 2008, 11:14 AM

There's one person that signed up that hasn't yet submitted a wish list. He or she has until the end of today to get that to me.

calverson · Nov 25, 2008, 11:23 AM

Whooopsss.... Which time zone day are you talking about?

SecretSanta · Nov 25, 2008, 11:37 AM

Eastern US, of course. You have just over 13 hours.