Baked goods are always good fallback presents. Except fruitcake.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
dcp - Oct 25, 2006 2:51:37 pm PDT #5635 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
sarameg - Oct 25, 2006 2:52:25 pm PDT #5636 of 10001
I LIKE FRUITCAKE.
Maybe I should go lie down.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2006 2:53:54 pm PDT #5637 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My momma makes a mean fruitcake. Mean, as in gets you tipsy but doesn't drive you home.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 25, 2006 2:56:52 pm PDT #5638 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
How does that differ from who women are used to receiving clothing from?
Judging from how all the women here except Cindy responded, I'd say in how the gift would be received. But I have run into more instances of women being given clothes by people outside those limits.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2006 3:01:30 pm PDT #5639 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My mother gives me clothes. Her and my sister are it for anyone that's given me clothes twice in my adult life. Your list of who gives men clothes is more like who gives me clothes than the obviously compromised list of people to whom I've given clothes--all platonic friends, and I think all male too, if memory serves.
Cass - Oct 25, 2006 3:05:09 pm PDT #5640 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Yeah, all three others. Which seems so few--even when I remind myself they're two hours long.It really does. I am thinking, "Not many shows!" and then I realize its eight hours sitting there... Still not enough but that is just me liking the show.
I think the jammie pants, plus yummy treats, for Tim sound perfect. After all, useful *and* thoughtful.
Consuela - Oct 25, 2006 3:19:19 pm PDT #5641 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sarameg, I like fruitcake too! Especially if it doesn't have the stupid candied fruit, and instead has raisins, dried fruit, and nuts. And lots of rum.
At Fisherman's Wharf, during the holiday season? Dicey. Depends on what the food is, I guess, and how long you need the place.
Gah. We booked ours last week: $5000 for 65 people, drinks and dinner at a restaurant in Fisherman's Wharf.
Good luck, Juliana --- you're gonna need it. Places are disappearing fast.
sarameg - Oct 25, 2006 3:21:53 pm PDT #5642 of 10001
I've given my brother boxers. Preferably the most obnoxious embarrassing ones I could find. It's all about the attempt to embarass a pretty unflappable brother (That he shares pictures with his family that would be considered blackmail for most says something. Gold lame boxers, easter bunny ears, nothing else and pretending to lay an egg in the back yard, hello?) This was more fun when he was in the Army, but there is still mileage to be had over his son going into hysterics over daddy's silly shorts.
Lee - Oct 25, 2006 3:28:02 pm PDT #5643 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Her and my sister are it for anyone that's given me clothes twice in my adult life.
Having already bought her a t-shirt, now I want to buy ita jammie pants so I can make her list.
ION, I keep forgetting to go to the vet's to pick up Ozzie's prozac. I hope I don't forget tonight, since he is now completely out, and out=scary.
Steph L. - Oct 25, 2006 3:32:48 pm PDT #5644 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I've given my brother boxers. Preferably the most obnoxious embarrassing ones I could find.
Every year for Xmas I give my brother the ugliest/tackiest/goofiest boxers I can find. The year Spider-Man was out (or maybe Spider-Man 2; I disremember), I found boxers at Target that had Spidey on one leg, and the Green Goblin on the other leg, and they were fighting.
Mind you, this was on the *front* of the boxers.
I included a note to my brother that said "Frankly, nothing says 'Merry Christmas' like Spidey and the Green Goblin engaged in homoerotic battle right across your Johnson."