'Shindig'
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.
I always hated the white elephant exchanges, because someone would get something they liked and immediately have it taken away from them.
Also, sometimes you end up with post-its. No, wait, it wasn't post-its, because they weren't even sticky. It was just a bunch of paper squares. Yeah, thanks ever so, swap contributor!
Allyson, how can you possibly be a big loser? And if you are, what kind of slime-off-the-bottom-of-the-pond scum are the rest of us?
And if you are, what kind of slime-off-the-bottom-of-the-pond scum are the rest of us?
WORD.
Our white elephant gifts one year were so hysterically bad that the most covetted item was a 6 pack of generic athletic socks. It was a small sarcastic group. The fun was in trying to offload whatever horrible thing you received. And rag on the person who brought that item.
I don't like white elephant exchanges for that same reason. I don't usually have the heart to take things away from people.
The Office also did a painfully good episode about Christmas gift exchanges. They get a lot of things right on that show.
The fun was in trying to offload whatever horrible thing you received.
See, now, I totally get that. I went to one of those, and got something totally random and ridiculous, and it's fine. It just sucks when there are some kind of cool or useful things, and you get... paper.
I once was at a white elephant gifty thing where one of the items was a Penthouse Forum. (This was a long time ago, before most of us had the internet for porn.)
And if you are, what kind of slime-off-the-bottom-of-the-pond scum are the rest of us?
Yeah, dude. I don't have a book OR a cat, let alone a frickin' man and some root.
giant ceramic ram's head - best White Elephant gift ever.
I like the idea of WE at parties, but it needs to be clear you are either ALL doing joke or ALL doing inexpensive but not crap gifts - ALSO if it is a joke one - trashing the gift right at the party should be clearly stated as ok.