I hope my Santee's package actually gets to its destination. I bet I lost at least 2 business days to Thanksgiving, so hopefully it'll be there by next week.
edit: also, no mysterious packages have arrived on my doorstop yet. No big deal, it's still pretty early in the game.
Ho ho holy Crap. So I arrive home from work, shitty day, and notice after setting my things down that I have a box! Sure enough it is from my Santa, I ask the wifey to grab a camera and I grab the kid for some extra muscle-
She basically devoured the box. I had to pull the bits and pieces out of her terrifying gums of fury. I did however save a note from destruction-
Now this letter is in perfect military fashion, letter head and everything I get the sneaking suspision that my Santa wears cammies when he stalks.
Letter Wrote:
From: Quartermaster, 1st Gifting Unit (Attn: G-T)
To: Stavesacre
Subj: MANDATORY HOLIDAY CHEER
Ref: New Recruit
1. Per the reference, it has come to our attention that a new recruit was recently welcomed into your family unit. On behalf of PASC, please find enclosed in this dispatch (1) standard issue early indoctrination kit(this was with a strikethru) family-friendly holiday gift package.
TABLE-I: CONTENTS
- one (1) standard-issue new recruit uniform
- one (1) H1N1 readiness kit
- one (1) Azeroth Aquatic Terrorist combat training dummy
- one (1) enemy combatant / international ally translation engine for Santees traveling abroad
- one (1) recovered Pagan hymnal
- one (1) field guide to logistics and combat physics
- one (1) first-hand account of psychological warfare operations
2. This package has been assembled with the optimal holiday cheer levels in mind. If you find your holiday cheer levels to be too high, too low, or erratic, please submit an official complaint through your chain of command or request mast.
TheScruple
Quartermaster
Awesome TheScruple really knows his stuff, lets see what we got here....
MURKY! GLEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I actually have a murky from our trip to Blizzcon so this is super awesome. Terra looks wary.
Oh no! H1N1 virus! Now she will go play with alllll the bad germs. Curses!
This.. this is fantastic and going in a frame in my office immediately. I hope that TheScruple can shine some light on this.
Oh boy. Math for Marines.
Uniform for Terra!
This actually is quite fantastic, the wife and I are planning on going to Europe next year so I am sure this will work out very nicely!
Yes! Zombie Carols!
Here is the full spread!
Thank you so much TheScruple! It brought a huge smile to my face and turned around my terrible day. I hope you chime in with a bit of background and your well deserved praise. My commander will be getting a notification of my Holiday Cheer being far too high.
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[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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AbsoluteZeroThe new film by Quentin KoopantinoRegistered Userregular
edited December 2009
I'm growing irritated with the snail-like pace of snail mail.
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Custom SpecialI know I am, I'm sure I am,I'm Sounders 'til I die!Registered Userregular
edited December 2009
Well played, TheScruple! I love that letter.
More gifts! All you people need to get workin on receiving packages so we can see what joy is contained therein. This thread rules.
Gift get! Sent to me via proxy and I was told to expect goodness in the mail as well, so I'll post pics when it gets here. Thanks Santa!
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TheScrupleThe Oldest of BridgesRegistered Userregular
edited December 2009
I am so happy to make your day, stavesacre! I found a few key posts by yourself (and Mrs. stavesacre!) and latched on to a few things I thought you'd enjoy.
I myself am not a member of the armed forces, however, when I found out you were, my roommate (a USMC Reservist) was very happy to provide the picture, his textbook, and his knowhow for the cause. Some quick Googling led me to various templates for official USMC correspondence, which I modified for the Santa Corps. If this becomes a "thing", I'll be very happy to provide the Santa Corps template to whoever wants it
As my roommate tells it, the infamous "You Stay Classy, Iraq" picture was taken on the road into the city of Fallujah back in May 2006. When he arrived in October of that year, the sign had already been taken down, but one of his buddies who had been there was using the picture as his desktop background. My roommate got himself a copy, and here we are.
Glad you liked everything, and send my best to Missus and Lil stavesacre.
Success Santee! I have gotten baby-sitters (the in-laws are awesome) for tomorrow night (even OVERnight!) so I can run around town, unshackled by children, to find the perfect gift for you!
Santa, you LIED! You said I'd get my gift tomorrow, but I picked it up today. I've found it in my heart to let that one go, though.
And it's a merry box of goodies from Vancouver! I must have mentioned somewhere that I'm going to the Olympics in February, because I was wished a good trip and gifted a lovely Official Keychain Thingie. I actually need a new keychain. Nice!
Cute Penguin Boxes and Obligatory Cat:
Opening the Cute Penguin Boxes, I found a copy of The Last Remnant and a nifty dragon statuette! I mentioned that I collect dragons, and this guy has now joined my collection. I've also been intrigued by The Last Remnant but hadn't bought it yet.
Ye Olden Haul:
Thanks so much, Santa, you rock! You did a great job stalking, too. I know I'm not easy to stalk. So I know your real name, what's your forum name?
::Swashbuckles, full of holiday cheer::
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Want to find me on a gaming service? I'm SwashbucklerXX everywhere.
Okay, so my Santee's got his present... Now to show it off! Come on! Bask in our envy! Well, everyone but Icemopper's envy.
Oh don't say that!!! I'm envious of many of the gifts, and I'm envious that I didn't have more to give this season as well. Santee, I'm still waiting on you to post in here beyond the "I'm in!" posts!!
Okay, so my Santee's got his present... Now to show it off! Come on! Bask in our envy! Well, everyone but Icemopper's envy.
Oh don't say that!!! I'm envious of many of the gifts, and I'm envious that I didn't have more to give this season as well. Santee, I'm still waiting on you to post in here beyond the "I'm in!" posts!!
Well, the doorbell rang today.
Outside, there was indeed a package!
I quickly took it inside to examine:
Aha! Think Geek. Always a good indication.
I opened the box:
oooooo packing material...
and under it?
More boxes!
Hardly able to contain my joy, I grabbed and opened the nearest box and spilled its contents across the table:
A plethora of caffeinated candies, gums, and mints!
How about this box?
I guess I should open it:
Why, a mug emblazoned with the likeness of everyone's favorite molecule, caffeine!
Am I sensing a correlation? On to the largest, and heaviest box of all:
Root Jack? Is opening this box going to give me malware?
I ignore my instincts and bravely open the box:
Aha! Delicious caffeinated orange-flavor root beer, infused with vitamin C to fight off scurvy!
Fantastic!
Now for refreshment:
Mmmmmm...
Thanks you Santa! so much. You didn't include your name, but if you step forward you may receive even more <3s... Also there's a small chance this is from a different Secret Santa I was doing, so I wanna make sure. ^_^'
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life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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freakish lightbutterdick jonesand his heavenly asshole machineRegistered Userregular
edited December 2009
It was me! I was the bearer of caffeinated goodness.
Santee of mine... I don't know what it is about this one part of your gift, but I almost had to buy it a third time. Instead, the Grinch who tried to snatch it away from good little boys and girls is about to experience the full power of this completely armed and operational police force - especially since he's (and his friends apparently) are 18. They got him, with what looks to be all the stuff they stole from me... including your gift! It's getting sent out ASAP now... I think this fucker's cursed. :shock:
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The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
Santee of mine... I don't know what it is about this one part of your gift, but I almost had to buy it a third time. Instead, the Grinch who tried to snatch it away from good little boys and girls is about to experience the full power of this completely armed and operational police force - especially since he's (and his friends apparently) are 18. They got him, with what looks to be all the stuff they stole from me... including your gift! It's getting sent out ASAP now... I think this fucker's cursed. :shock:
It was me! I was the bearer of caffeinated goodness.
Hope you enjoy~
Oh yeah, it's been a while since I've had the caffeine candy sampler, but the Jolt gum is fantastic
The gum is in my mouth, and I find it delicious! <3<3<3<3's as promised!
Thanks!
I really hope my santee's gift will show up, so I can resend it!
Aioua on
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I can't really begin to translate to you the bad day I have had.
I hate military doctors. I really do. You cant disagree with anything they say or watch out!
They prescribed my son a steroid inhaler a while back without him being diagnosed with asthma. Since my son hasn't been diagnosed with asthma I stopped giving it to him, mainly because I don't like the idea of a 5 year old being on a daily steroid that can stunt his growth or who knows what other side effects. And the little fact he doesn't have any problems breathing....
So this brings me to today, school calls and says he has a 101 degree fever with typical runny nose and slight chest congestion. So I pick him up and make the appointment, amazed I got in the same day. I get down there and everything is fine till I tell the doctor I stopped the steroid. Nice doctor leaves and bitch doctor enters.
I am trying my best to ignore her and just leave, but the power goes out so we cant go get the chest xray she wants for the chest congestion. So she sends us downtown to the local ER.
Remember what I said about disagreements with military doctors? Guess who was waiting for me at the ER? If you said Child Protection Services then you would be correct!
CPS? WTF?
Any who, long story short.... I explain the whole thing to the ER doctor and he agrees with me that my concerns about the steroid is valid and military was probably correct in the diagnosis but should have talked to me and/or given me the option for a second opinion which never happened. He then told the CPS there was nothing for them to do here and they asked two questions and left. Yay! He even called in the on-call pediatrician to talk to me about it. Yay!
I am bummed about the second opinion pretty much confirming what the military doctor said but I am extremely happy that I basically got my second opinion without being treated like a 3 year old and had everything fully explained to me unlike the military doctor did.
Btw the monster is fine and the ER doc and pediatrician didn't even order a chest xray because he didn't think it was needed.
TL : DR I hate military doctors and REALLY need to find a way for Tricare to let me take him to a local pediatrician. Child Protection? really? WTF is this shit?
So I am feeling pretty stressfull when I get home andwhat do I see sitting on the front porch?
Oh shit! GIFTS GET!
What's Inside?
and
Yeah fat loot!
Also from the old thread, I got this a few days back!
Thanks Santa, whoever you are. You really brightened my day when it really needed it.
REALLY needed it......
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SirUltimosDon't talk, Rusty. Just paint.Registered Userregular
edited December 2009
You guys are all amazing. It's things like this that make me understand why I spend so much time here.
Well now the OP can't be edited and all our presents aren't in one place
A mod or admin with a kind heart could copy the first post from the previous thread into a new thread and move all the posts in this thread to that new thread.
Nice haul there. Ransack is an awesome little figure, he's probably the best of that size class for both movies.
Aside from the evil toaster, of course.
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Alfred J. Kwakis it because you were insultedwhen I insulted your hair?Registered Userregular
edited December 2009
Now that this thread is sanctioned by the Santa King - let's post some loot!
A mysterious package was sitting in front of my doorstep this morning! I was just about to open it up, when suddenly
I was attacked by Demon Kittens! But of course!
(you can tell those are nefarious creatures from hell because look at those freaking glowing eyes man.)
While fending off the intruders, I was still able to snack something out of the box. And just in time, as I thought, because out I pulled
no one else then Simon 'the fucking man' Belmont!
A fierce battle commenced:
Whip 'em good, Simon!
With the vicious beasts slain, I suddendly remember the package I got from my Secret Santa. Peaking inside, there was indeed another present in there!
It's Dominion! The boardgame all the cool kids are playing!
And an awesome personal letter from my Santa!
After having saved my soul from certain doom, Simon silently vanished into the night - for as long as the Great Evil spread terror among the humans, no one was safe from the terrible cats of the abyss.
And here my story ends, but the journey of a legendary hero has just begun.
"Who is this amazing Secret Santa?" I hear you ask. Well, but it could only be Bursar, for his awesome stalking and gifting powers are unmatched. Thanks, mate!
I can't really begin to translate to you the bad day I have had.
I hate military doctors. I really do. You cant disagree with anything they say or watch out!
They prescribed my son a steroid inhaler a while back without him being diagnosed with asthma. Since my son hasn't been diagnosed with asthma I stopped giving it to him, mainly because I don't like the idea of a 5 year old being on a daily steroid that can stunt his growth or who knows what other side effects. And the little fact he doesn't have any problems breathing....
So this brings me to today, school calls and says he has a 101 degree fever with typical runny nose and slight chest congestion. So I pick him up and make the appointment, amazed I got in the same day. I get down there and everything is fine till I tell the doctor I stopped the steroid. Nice doctor leaves and bitch doctor enters.
I am trying my best to ignore her and just leave, but the power goes out so we cant go get the chest xray she wants for the chest congestion. So she sends us downtown to the local ER.
Remember what I said about disagreements with military doctors? Guess who was waiting for me at the ER? If you said Child Protection Services then you would be correct!
CPS? WTF?
Any who, long story short.... I explain the whole thing to the ER doctor and he agrees with me that my concerns about the steroid is valid and military was probably correct in the diagnosis but should have talked to me and/or given me the option for a second opinion which never happened. He then told the CPS there was nothing for them to do here and they asked two questions and left. Yay! He even called in the on-call pediatrician to talk to me about it. Yay!
I am bummed about the second opinion pretty much confirming what the military doctor said but I am extremely happy that I basically got my second opinion without being treated like a 3 year old and had everything fully explained to me unlike the military doctor did.
Btw the monster is fine and the ER doc and pediatrician didn't even order a chest xray because he didn't think it was needed.
TL : DR I hate military doctors and REALLY need to find a way for Tricare to let me take him to a local pediatrician. Child Protection? really? WTF is this shit?
So I am feeling pretty stressfull when I get home andwhat do I see sitting on the front porch?
Oh shit! GIFTS GET!
What's Inside?
and
Yeah fat loot!
Also from the old thread, I got this a few days back!
Thanks Santa, whoever you are. You really brightened my day when it really needed it.
REALLY needed it......
It's me. I'm glad you like it. Sorry to hear about your bad day, but I'm glad you received it today. That's the magic of Christmas right there. Those are some of my favorite Christmas goodies. The chocolate covered marshmallow and caramel santas are freaking delicious. Enjoy!
So I arrived home today to find a box from Amazon. I didnt take any pictures of the unpacking since I thought it was some stuff that I had ordered (I do most of my regular christmas shopping from there anyway)
but no!
Goddamn I love this movie! And now its mine! I suspect someone has found my Amazon wish list
Yep! I havent actually seen Shoot em Up yet but I've been meaning to.
Also on my wishlist
aha! this is not on my wishlist. My santee has done some searching.
Posts
edit: also, no mysterious packages have arrived on my doorstop yet. No big deal, it's still pretty early in the game.
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I'm fairly certain you aren't my Santa, but even I'm dying to know what you've been collecting and hording all this time
http://nsfw-comix.com/nsfw051.htm Bottom right.
She basically devoured the box. I had to pull the bits and pieces out of her terrifying gums of fury. I did however save a note from destruction-
Now this letter is in perfect military fashion, letter head and everything I get the sneaking suspision that my Santa wears cammies when he stalks.
MURKY! GLEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I actually have a murky from our trip to Blizzcon so this is super awesome. Terra looks wary.
Oh no! H1N1 virus! Now she will go play with alllll the bad germs. Curses!
This.. this is fantastic and going in a frame in my office immediately. I hope that TheScruple can shine some light on this.
Thank you so much TheScruple! It brought a huge smile to my face and turned around my terrible day. I hope you chime in with a bit of background and your well deserved praise. My commander will be getting a notification of my Holiday Cheer being far too high.
More gifts! All you people need to get workin on receiving packages so we can see what joy is contained therein. This thread rules.
Really should have looked twice before clicking that at work :P Thankfully its blocked haha
edit: That letter is amazing
I myself am not a member of the armed forces, however, when I found out you were, my roommate (a USMC Reservist) was very happy to provide the picture, his textbook, and his knowhow for the cause. Some quick Googling led me to various templates for official USMC correspondence, which I modified for the Santa Corps. If this becomes a "thing", I'll be very happy to provide the Santa Corps template to whoever wants it
As my roommate tells it, the infamous "You Stay Classy, Iraq" picture was taken on the road into the city of Fallujah back in May 2006. When he arrived in October of that year, the sign had already been taken down, but one of his buddies who had been there was using the picture as his desktop background. My roommate got himself a copy, and here we are.
Glad you liked everything, and send my best to Missus and Lil stavesacre.
And it's a merry box of goodies from Vancouver! I must have mentioned somewhere that I'm going to the Olympics in February, because I was wished a good trip and gifted a lovely Official Keychain Thingie. I actually need a new keychain. Nice!
Cute Penguin Boxes and Obligatory Cat:
Opening the Cute Penguin Boxes, I found a copy of The Last Remnant and a nifty dragon statuette! I mentioned that I collect dragons, and this guy has now joined my collection.
Ye Olden Haul:
Thanks so much, Santa, you rock! You did a great job stalking, too. I know I'm not easy to stalk. So I know your real name, what's your forum name?
::Swashbuckles, full of holiday cheer::
Oh don't say that!!! I'm envious of many of the gifts, and I'm envious that I didn't have more to give this season as well. Santee, I'm still waiting on you to post in here beyond the "I'm in!" posts!!
Man, mine didn't even have one of those!
Outside, there was indeed a package!
I quickly took it inside to examine:
Aha! Think Geek. Always a good indication.
I opened the box:
oooooo packing material...
and under it?
More boxes!
Hardly able to contain my joy, I grabbed and opened the nearest box and spilled its contents across the table:
A plethora of caffeinated candies, gums, and mints!
How about this box?
I guess I should open it:
Why, a mug emblazoned with the likeness of everyone's favorite molecule, caffeine!
Am I sensing a correlation? On to the largest, and heaviest box of all:
Root Jack? Is opening this box going to give me malware?
I ignore my instincts and bravely open the box:
Aha! Delicious caffeinated orange-flavor root beer, infused with vitamin C to fight off scurvy!
Fantastic!
Now for refreshment:
Mmmmmm...
Thanks you Santa!
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Hope you enjoy~
More details pallleaze!
Yup. Mild reference to FF6 on my part, but mostly because the wife and I love the planet, and hope she does too.
Oh yeah, it's been a while since I've had the caffeine candy sampler, but the Jolt gum is fantastic
The gum is in my mouth, and I find it delicious!
Thanks!
I really hope my santee's gift will show up, so I can resend it!
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
They prescribed my son a steroid inhaler a while back without him being diagnosed with asthma. Since my son hasn't been diagnosed with asthma I stopped giving it to him, mainly because I don't like the idea of a 5 year old being on a daily steroid that can stunt his growth or who knows what other side effects. And the little fact he doesn't have any problems breathing....
So this brings me to today, school calls and says he has a 101 degree fever with typical runny nose and slight chest congestion. So I pick him up and make the appointment, amazed I got in the same day. I get down there and everything is fine till I tell the doctor I stopped the steroid. Nice doctor leaves and bitch doctor enters.
I am trying my best to ignore her and just leave, but the power goes out so we cant go get the chest xray she wants for the chest congestion. So she sends us downtown to the local ER.
Remember what I said about disagreements with military doctors? Guess who was waiting for me at the ER? If you said Child Protection Services then you would be correct!
CPS? WTF?
Any who, long story short.... I explain the whole thing to the ER doctor and he agrees with me that my concerns about the steroid is valid and military was probably correct in the diagnosis but should have talked to me and/or given me the option for a second opinion which never happened. He then told the CPS there was nothing for them to do here and they asked two questions and left. Yay! He even called in the on-call pediatrician to talk to me about it. Yay!
I am bummed about the second opinion pretty much confirming what the military doctor said but I am extremely happy that I basically got my second opinion without being treated like a 3 year old and had everything fully explained to me unlike the military doctor did.
Btw the monster is fine and the ER doc and pediatrician didn't even order a chest xray because he didn't think it was needed.
TL : DR I hate military doctors and REALLY need to find a way for Tricare to let me take him to a local pediatrician. Child Protection? really? WTF is this shit?
So I am feeling pretty stressfull when I get home and what do I see sitting on the front porch?
What's Inside?
and
Yeah fat loot!
Also from the old thread, I got this a few days back!
Thanks Santa, whoever you are. You really brightened my day when it really needed it.
REALLY needed it......
Sucks about your doctor ordeal though. Never had to deal with military doctors but I can guess how they might be.
A mod or admin with a kind heart could copy the first post from the previous thread into a new thread and move all the posts in this thread to that new thread.
So kind it would be like Christmas came early.
Nice haul there. Ransack is an awesome little figure, he's probably the best of that size class for both movies.
Aside from the evil toaster, of course.
(you can tell those are nefarious creatures from hell because look at those freaking glowing eyes man.)
While fending off the intruders, I was still able to snack something out of the box. And just in time, as I thought, because out I pulled
A fierce battle commenced:
Whip 'em good, Simon!
With the vicious beasts slain, I suddendly remember the package I got from my Secret Santa. Peaking inside, there was indeed another present in there!
It's Dominion! The boardgame all the cool kids are playing!
And an awesome personal letter from my Santa!
After having saved my soul from certain doom, Simon silently vanished into the night - for as long as the Great Evil spread terror among the humans, no one was safe from the terrible cats of the abyss.
And here my story ends, but the journey of a legendary hero has just begun.
"Who is this amazing Secret Santa?" I hear you ask. Well, but it could only be Bursar, for his awesome stalking and gifting powers are unmatched. Thanks, mate!
Niiiice.
I wonder if there are any others...
Do go on about Dominion. I've wanted to play some sweet ass board games for some time now.
Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
but no!
Goddamn I love this movie! And now its mine! I suspect someone has found my Amazon wish list
Yep! I havent actually seen Shoot em Up yet but I've been meaning to.
Also on my wishlist
aha! this is not on my wishlist. My santee has done some searching.
Ok c'mon reveal yourself.