Is Peace on Earth Possible During the Holiday Season?

[joeyar]

New Zealand beating Australia in the cricket.

 

[redargon]

I'd love to have the feeling I used to get on the 24th of December (I couldn't wait for the 25th and tried to go to sleep early so Christmas would come quicker) when I was around 6 years old. Christmas was the BEST! even better than a birthday. It was a feeling like, if Santa is real and Christmas is real, then nothing in the world can be bad...But, then you get older, Santa is a fake, half the world doesn't believe in Christmas, the other quarter call it xmas and it just becomes a fight through the shops at the last minute to buy a bunch of crap that people don't need.

I'm going to visit some new family eat myself into a half coma and lie on the couch and watch the Grinch.

 

[BobG]

Love.

In that case we'll have to get you a slide rule.

Slide rules are easy. Love?

That's going to take more than one box.

 

[physics girl phd]

I'll confess to wanting a pocket-size digital balance. It'd be perfect for outreach I do for HS physics/chemistry teachers... and our lab director keeps every single working balance in the department under PERSONAL lock and key. AUGH!

They are down to about $60. I'm thinking of splurging for my sanity and dignity. I hate groveling.

Plus... they look cute and and shiny!

 

[physics girl phd]

Oh, and I need a warm scarf/muffler for my neck, socks, and a large bulky sweater.

And a bottle of Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry (or Dry Sack), a good unblended scotch, and Baileys.

If the second list arrives, you shouldn't need any items from the first!

 

[Abdul20202]

Guests, for dinner. Everybody is invited.

and no X-mas shifts this year for me, X fingers

well what i want will take the whole computer system to overload.

 

[Evo]

Can I have love too? I want this guy.

 

[Andre]

Love.

In that case we'll have to get you a slide rule.

Slide rules are easy. Love?

That's going to take more than one box.

somebody may have missed a pickup line:

OK, here's my new trick. I bump into an engineer at a bar and say. "oopsie!" and let a slide rule fall out of my purse. I think it has potential.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Can I have love too? I want this guy. [PLAIN]http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/moods/dork.gif[/QUOTE][/URL]

I may have found him for you. Sending you a PM now...

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

All I want is travel money!

 

[sesinka]

New friends. Understanding.
Scholarship...

 

[BobG]

Love.

In that case we'll have to get you a slide rule.

Slide rules are easy. Love?

That's going to take more than one box.

somebody may have missed a pickup line:

OK, here's my new trick. I bump into an engineer at a bar and say. "oopsie!" and let a slide rule fall out of my purse. I think it has potential.

Doh! For some reason, my first thought was the Wizard of Oz (a diploma for the tinman, a robe for the lion, etc). Now it makes a lot more sense.

I just want a post with quotes nested to at least 7 levels.

 

[Evo]

I may have found him for you. Sending you a PM now...

WOOT! Can you send him? :!)

 

[Kurdt]

All the PF sisters are loved already.

 

[Evo]

All the PF sisters are loved already.

I :!) you kurdt.

 

[Andre]

Are you sending Kurdt, MIH?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Anyone else find reciprocal gift giving sort of ridiculous as you get older. I think when I have kids it will be different. But my family is older now and it seems silly them giving me a list of what they want. All this stuff they can get on a Saturday afternoon. Then I have to give them a few things I kinda want. I can buy anything I want off amazon in 3 seconds. So what is the point? I suppose if you find something they really want by yourself without a list is fun, but that get harder the less you see them.

 

[Kurdt]

Yes, Christmas is really for the kids. I think this thread shows how peoples priorities change over the years.

 

[turbo]

Anyone else find reciprocal gift giving sort of ridiculous as you get older. I think when I have kids it will be different. But my family is older now and it seems silly them giving me a list of what they want. All this stuff they can get on a Saturday afternoon. Then I have to give them a few things I kinda want. I can buy anything I want off amazon in 3 seconds. So what is the point? Anyone?

My father likes handing out cards and checks well before Christmas, and I can't dissuade him, so my wife and I make sure that he gets stuff that he really needs. It's not store-bought presents, usually, but stuff that an 83 year-old widower can use. My wife is taking care of her mother for the next 20+ hours (home-bound with dementia) and when she gets relieved tomorrow she's going to take my father a nice big pork loin end roast and gravy. That will keep him in meals and sandwiches for a while. He stopped in yesterday, and I gave him a couple of quarts of home-made chicken soup. I made brine today, and she's going to soak two of the roasts in it tonight - one for her mother and one for my father - and roast them tomorrow.

When you're an old fellow whose cooking sucks (to be polite) getting decent meals is a good thing.

 

[Danger]

A week with my boyfriend! I can't wait.

If you're willing to share, you can take care of MIH's request at the same time.
(Not mention giving bf a present that he'll never forget.)

 

[Math Is Hard]

If you're willing to share, you can take care of MIH's request at the same time.
(Not mention giving bf a present that he'll never forget.)

Hey, we're not into that Canadian polyandry stuff.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Are you sending Kurdt, MIH?

No, someone a touch older and nerdier.

 

[gravenewworld]

A visa to Brazil

 

[DaveC426913]

No, someone a touch older and nerdier.

Wha? Did someone call my name?