The Secretest Santa of all....the ILX Secret Santa gift-spin and intense awesome jet-setting joy item-type exchange 2K8 for cool and neat people who like being fun and nice!

I am taking Tuomas's burdens upon my shoulder and running the ILX Secret Santa this year. Join bcz it will rule!

OKAY:

• If you want in (which you do), email me (Abbott-gail) at igotabeefpastry at gmail dot com. Give me yr name, username & the address to which you want things shipped. The last day to sign up is Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008.

• I will then use an overly elaborate but probably not especially effective randomizing system to give you (ILX person) the address, name & username of the person you will delight via the mails in mysterious holiday secrecy.

• Don't spend more than $25 US dollars MAX plz bcz that wld be embarrassing and end up like that one episode of Wings wherein Helen bought Casey a spatula-shaped pin and they tried to outgift each other to ABSURD and HILARIOUS results. I mean, did anyone really love the show Wings? Don't emulate it.

• Have your gifts mailed out by Dec. 10, 2008 or sooner, please? I know I'm bad at these kind of deadlines BUT they are helpful.

I'm STOKED FOR THE XMAS MADNESS!

I want to be your secret santa. sit on my lap. ho ho ho

suggest banta

suggest bantha
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/9792/banthabv2.jpg

I love Wings!

Secret Channukah Menorah Man?

Awww. Abbott, I saw a dog tonight that you would've loved. A little smaller version of the one on the cover of Working Class Dog. A sweetie.

Thanks for doing this this year, Abbott! I'm in, of course.

I loved Wings, too, roxy.

Aw and that dog sounds SUPER SWEET! I love bull terriers! Maybe you saw a miniature bull terrier?

http://breederinfocenter.com/images2/20040321213437_094052_2.jpg

Hi Monday!

Hi Tuesday!

where the hell is my present from like four years ago

Where the hell my Chinese food at?

Indiana: Give me the whip.
Satipo: Throw me the idol. No time to argue. Throw me idol, I'll throw you the whip.
Indiana: [throws the idol] Give me the whip.
Satipo: Adiós, señor.

If I remember correctly, Hari sent you a present, but for some reason it never arrived. Hopefully the mail won't lose any packages this year.

I'll go leave a prayer to St. Anthony of Padua at St. Gen's for the mails to work.

http://saints.sqpn.com/sta01011.jpg

In addition to being the patron saint of mail, he can also help us with these bonus items: asses, Brazil, domestic animals, elderly people, lost articles (double bonus for omar), oppressed people, sailors, sterility, and travel hostesses.

where the hell is my present from like four years ago

― omar little, Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:17 PM

Haha, yes, Ken C never mailed Hari his present and Hari protested by not sending you a present, Omar.

LOLOLOL

the truth comes out!

Hari still hasn't sent me an lp from like 3 years ago either.

need some vinnie jones type to pay him a visit imo

It wasnt a secret santa thing. He just got me an lp at a show and has never gotten round to mailing. I live in hope!

i think hari is not real, guys

ilx is some kind of way station for internet spectres who lure in ppl with promises of gifts or phone sex and then vanish

he promised you that?

...

i want some fuckin gifts

i've been on this shit for almost 5 years and i want a goddamned gift

dude i sent you gifts, your mailman left them in your driveway

oh right

thanks for those gifts, omar

http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A2965/29651/300_29651.jpg

Hey, y'all, one more day to sign up!

how many are signed up???

ilx is some kind of way station for internet spectres who lure in ppl with promises of gifts or phone sex and then vanish

qft, lock internet

14 so far

Not as many as I'd have guessed! How many usually signed up in the past, Tuomas?

NB: if you have any allergies, or shit you hate and that makes you cry, or categories of things you absolutely love, feel free to list them.

ie I do not like scented candles & lotions or calendars
+ I like most everything else?

14 so far

Not as many as I'd have guessed! How many usually signed up in the past, Tuomas?

14 might actually been a new record, I think. The last couple of years it was maybe 11 or 12 people in this thing.

Could anyone check their e-mails and see if you're actually getting these emails I just sent? BCZ gmail is throwing them all in my inbox as 'to me' even THOUGH when I look at the messages it is sent by me to the proper person.

Most mysterious!

I just don't want these not to have been gotten.

i got mine

I did as well though the link didn't work. I also think the person I got dislikes me. Perhaps I can win him/her over with a witty gift.

Yeah, I got mine.

I got mine (and thanks for the advice!)

got mine, thanks!

roxy, get on aim

done

i got mine

thx yall

Dear Jaq(?)

Oh my goodness, thank you!! In all honesty this will probably be one of the best gifts I'll get this year, and may very well be the most thought-out. I was disgustingly giddy when I opened the box; I stayed up for an hour looking through the entire damn thing. Oh, and as you may or may not know, I have a secret love of all things Bollywood and adore the calendar. And my one good Indian friend is supremely jealous.

Your Friend,
Steve!

someone alreasdy sent out gifts, christ

Aw, you're welcome Steve - I felt lucky you left me some straightforward clues for the book. The Bollywood was more of a guess, but I love it too and thought I recognized a kindred spirit :) I am sorry it came so early in the month, and that I couldn't anonymize it more, but I was afraid I was going to get trapped at a remote jobsite. Anyway, yay xmas! Hope the rest of the season is good to you.

sending mine out monday.

Me too!

I sent mine out today. It's okay about the earliness; I love early gifts. And I had no idea who it was, I had to ask people. And it's my very first vegan cookbook :-)

I am buying gifts Sunday, and they'll go out Wednesday or Thursday.

I'm sending mine today too, hope it reaches the destination country before Christmas.

thank you mystery Secret Santa from ... Leicestershire??

My secret Santa got me the bitchenest shit, including finger puppet/magnet of Schrodinger's Cat and some handmade Luchador finger puppoets that ended up as xmas tree decorations. mad thx

Hey - glad it made it tokyo rosemary! Hope you enjoy the retro stylings and quaint sterotyping!