Technology and Christmas

[Dave (imported)]

Well I'm done shopping. All I have to do is wrap the damn boxes.

This is one year I haven't heard or seen "It's a Wonderful Life" that's a little odd but nice, in a way.

I really, really, really do want to know how to wrap a hockey stick so the wrapping doesn't scream "hockey stick" ...

[kristoff]

I really, really, really do want to know how to wrap a hockey stick so the wrapping doesn't scream "hockey stick" ...

Use a very large or odd shaped box....

[Riverwind (imported)]

I am with you, this year the tree is still in the box, the decorations are in a tub, I do not have a single item out that would suggest that Christmas is only a week away. I will not buy any gifts or do I want any, I think the whole thing it just so over done and expensive that it has totally lost its meaning. Next Saturday, (I had to look at a calendar) I will do what I do most Saturdays, or any other day for that matter, get up, take care of my pets, have breakfast, clean the kitchen/house. (this does not take long) then on the computer to play WOW. Watch some football have a nice dinner, just another normal day.

River

[Losethem (imported)]

Christmas for me = a list of 4 people who get something and no more than $25 each. My maximum outlay - $100. I get something they can use or choose on their own, and I'm not in debt for the rest of the year to pay for it.

Strange that the gay, not so Christian guy is the one that knows the reason for the season. While it is supposed to celebrate the birth of Jesus, I use it as an opportunity to be with those people I truly care about and give small tokens of affection to.

Just because I'm not out buying everyone I know a 50" flat screen TV doesn't mean I love people less. Who knows? When I have a few more bucks I might double my outlay to $50 per person.

--LT

[clysmaniac (imported)]

I really, really, really do want to know how to wrap a hockey stick so the wrapping doesn't scream "hockey stick" ...

Cut it into several pieces. My experience with a son who played hockey for years was that they all break eventually anyway and that the more expensive carbon fiber ones generally don't last any longer either. Even better would to get him (am I being sexist here?) some epoxy and carbon fiber so he can at least fix some of the blades. We never got a handle on fixing shafts as no repair let it flex like it did originally but we could at least keep blade in good shape until the shaft broke.

[BossTamsin (imported)]

I really, really, really do want to know how to wrap a hockey stick so the wrapping doesn't scream "hockey stick" ...

May I suggest a series of smaller boxes (irregularly sized), ones that look like they're individually wrapped in different paper, but are taped together with a hole cut through them just large enough to admit the stick? Even better, do it twice, once with the stick, and once with actual little (possibly dollar-store) presents inside?

I may hate Christmas, but I do like giving silly gifts. In the past, I have given a flat of bottled water (24 bottles, each one individually wrapped), a gift card (hidden in a false bottom of a medium-sized box filled with paper, inside four nested boxes of increasing size), and the best gift yet.... an artificial Christmas tree. Yes, I wrapped up an artificial Christmas tree and put it under the tree as a Christmas gift. This year, I'm giving the same person several boxes of ornaments.

Don't get me wrong, I give normal presents too, but one has to find joy in the season where they can. For me, that's messing about with at least one gift.

[mrt (imported)]

Humm.... Christmas can be made into the worst thing ever because the gift giving part has been turned into a holy nightmare from hell. People sleeping in cars to get into the stores at 2 AM etc. Its insane! And makes me want serious therapy....

The part that truly makes me insane is not the electronics or the gifts / greed but the MUSIC.... People whose music was old when dirt was new are drug out to be played over and over for 6 weeks until I want to pull my own head off and scream at my lifeless body...

Anyone playing Christmas music at a store before Thanksgiving should be burned to the ground. Anyone playing it after Christmas double ditto. Why not just a week before? Its not a month long!

A short and incomplete list of "artists" I never need to hear during Christmas.

Gene Atery (Mr Monotone)

Perry Como (I don't give a shit if you had a TV special 40 years ago...)

Sammy Davis Jr

Tony Bennet

Dean Martin ("Rudie" the red nosed reindeer... ACK!!!!)

Frank Sinatra

The Beach Boys *?!? why were these guys EVER popular?

The Jackson 5 (If Michale really did see mommy kissing Santa? Joe Jackson would cap his ass - We KNOW this!)

The Andrews sisters

The Carpenters (Maybe one of the worst sounds of sap ever...)

Neil Diamond (You sound like your in pain)

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!

p.s. Frosty the Snow man by Willy Nelson? Just shoot me!

It makes me ask what would Jesus do? Other the throw up????

[mrt (imported)]

May I suggest a series of smaller boxes (irregularly sized), ones that look like they're individually wrapped in different paper, but are taped together with a hole cut through them just large enough to admit the stick? Even better, do it twice, once with the stick, and once with actual little (possibly dollar-store) presents inside?

I may hate Christmas, but I do like giving silly gifts. In the past, I have given a flat of bottled water (24 bottles, each one individually wrapped), a gift card (hidden in a false bottom of a medium-sized box filled with paper, inside four nested boxes of increasing size), and the best gift yet.... an artificial Christmas tree. Yes, I wrapped up an artificial Christmas tree and put it under the tree as a Christmas gift. This year, I'm giving the same person several boxes of ornaments.

Don't get me wrong, I give normal presents too, but one has to find joy in the season where they can. For me, that's messing about with at least one gift.

I thought the "homophones" was a rock band......

[Dave (imported)]

Humm....

makes me want serious therapy....

The part that truly makes me insane is not the electronics or the gifts / greed but the MUSIC....

...

Perry Como (I don't give a shit if you had a TV special 40 years ago...)

...

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!

Uh, let's see -- Places you won't be visiting this year or maybe next:

Canonsburg is Perry Como's home town and it is only 10 miles from me and it has a Statue of and a street named for Perry Como that plays his recordings 24/7 all day every day. Plus his family hometown in Italy has a week long festival.

They also have Bobby Vinton Drive and Bobby Vinton Boulevard but no Bobby Vinton statue by his request.

And Canonsburg celebrates the FOUR COINS singing group.

The ALL CLAD (pots, pans, skillets, kitchen tools) factory is also in Canonsburg.

[mrt (imported)]

Uh, let's see -- Places you won't be visiting this year or maybe next:

Canonsburg is Perry Como's home town and it is only 10 miles from me and it has a Statue of and a street named for Perry Como that plays his recordings 24/7 all day every day. Plus his family hometown in Italy has a week long festival.

They also have Bobby Vinton Drive and Bobby Vinton Boulevard but no Bobby Vinton statue by his request.

And Canonsburg celebrates the FOUR COINS singing group.

The ALL CLAD (pots, pans, skillets, kitchen tools) factory is also in Canonsburg.

ACK ACK ACK also PHHHHT! I forgot about Bobby Vinton please add him to my list. I have no idea who the "FOUR COINS" are but I accept that they are just as bad.

Oh! Bing Crosby...

Also anyone doing "cool" versions of Christmas songs. Things like changing the T E M P O to a really really slow version or REALLYFASTFASTFAST!