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What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:00 am
by _Everybody Wang Chung
Mine was a snow cone maker when I was 8.

Man, I loved that machine. Snow Cones are still my favorite food today.

Re: What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:18 am
by _zeezrom
Boba Fett. I loved him.

The saddest Christmas was the year my parents decided I was too old for toys (11).

Re: What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:18 am
by _lulu
A husband. It was a total surprise. And since I like to read in bed . . .

Re: What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:44 am
by _ludwigm
lulu wrote:A husband. It was a total surprise. And since I like to read in bed . . .

Wait a minute... I'd like only read that 80 page before...

As my wife - with a little difference:

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"only that one of the south-american series, the 183rd part"
(repeated next day four times, in daytime)

Re: What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:42 pm
by _Blixa
My MDB Secret Santa drawing tablet last year...

Re: What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:19 am
by _lulu
ludwigm wrote:
lulu wrote:A husband. It was a total surprise. And since I like to read in bed . . .

Wait a minute... I'd like only read that 80 page before...

As my wife - with a little difference:

.

.

.

"only that one of the south-american series, the 183rd part"
(repeated next day four times, in daytime)


http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=pd_sl_4u9fy ... nd+cushion

Re: What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:24 am
by _Fence Sitter
A 1/24th scale slot car track.

Re: What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:38 am
by _Quasimodo
For me, this an easy question.

When I was ten I got a Crossman Air Rifle (pellet gun). Just like Ralphie in 'A Christmas Story" this was the best present a ten year old could receive. Especially since the pellet gun was a much more formidable weapon than Ralphie's BB gun. I still have it and it's in excellent condition.

I learned to shoot with this and no bird, rabbit or ground squirrel was safe when in my sights. I feel pangs of guilt for every one I shot, now. If there is an afterlife, I'm sure I will have to answer for each one.

Re: What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:40 am
by _LDSToronto
Quasimodo wrote:For me, this an easy question.

When I was ten I got a Crossman Air Rifle (pellet gun). Just like Ralphie in 'A Christmas Story" this was the best present a ten year old could receive. Especially since the pellet gun was a much more formidable weapon than Ralphie's BB gun. I still have it and it's in excellent condition.

I learned to shoot with this and no bird, rabbit or ground squirrel was safe when in my sights. I feel pangs of guilt for every one I shot, now. If there is an afterlife, I'm sure I will have to answer for each one.


Did you shoot your eye out?

H.

Re: What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:47 am
by _LDSToronto
My parents had very little money when I was a kid; we weren't that sort of romantic poor that many think they were, we were dirt poor. When I was about 12, things started to turn around and by the time I was 14 we were mid-to-upper-lower class. So when I was 14 I was shocked when my parents gave me a used Tandy CoCo 2 computer for Christmas.

I learned to program that thing like a m*ther-f**ker.