What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

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What's The Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

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Mine was a snow cone maker when I was 8.

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

The saddest Christmas was the year my parents decided I was too old for toys (11).
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A husband. It was a total surprise. And since I like to read in bed . . .
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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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My MDB Secret Santa drawing tablet last year...
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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:

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.

"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
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A 1/24th scale slot car track.
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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.
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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.


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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.
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