Help re-theme the PAX Forums Secret Santa!!!

SmallLady

Don't worry, we're not starting sign ups or anything.

But I would like some help for a new gift exchange theme that isn't already in use on the PA forums.

Start throwing out ideas!! bonus points for a theme built around Vikings and Odin!

Moe Fwacky

Winter Solstice theme. Include the krampus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus

Creamsteak

Mayan calendar world ending meme thing happens in December this year. I say we celibrate the apocalypse with presents. Gifts for the impending doom of all things. Ragnarok. Cthuhlu wakes up. Meteor strikes the earth.

Actually Ragnarok gifts works fairly well for me. Arm your comrades for the song of the world ending.

TOGSolid

Sub-Genius theme. We honor J.R. Bob Dobbs with the giving and receiving of Slack (presents), the most valuable of commodities, in order to help spread and restore the Slack that the pinkos have taken away from us. We shall call it Slackmas.

Well, last year we had a complaint that by calling it secret santa that it made our exchange a christian thing and they were offended when people opened their gifts before xmas day.

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That fucking rustles my jimmies. One person shouldn't ruin everyone else's fun. If they don't like it, they don't have to participate. I'm not religious in the slightest and I had no problems with it being called Secret Santa.

Liger

Merch's Minions.

Seasonal Celebration of Non-Religious Friendship.

Shut Up and Open The Damn Gift.

Step 1: Cut a Hole In The Box.

What Will Brown Deliver To You?

Secret Silly Geese

MelesMeles

Winter Bobcat Exchange

MelesMeles

NO, WAIT

Viking Bobcat Exchange




This thread now complete.

Menolly07

Honey Badger Naming Rights Exchange
Honey Badger Exchange

Happy Non Offensive Not Necessarily Holiday Oriented and Not Necessarily Higher Power Acknowledging Gift Giving Open It Whenever You Like Event Day

tortured3

I'm not sure what it will be called but I'd like to take part this year. Also I feel people get offended too easily.

tortured3

Also Santa isn't Christian . Jesus is the Christian part....

zerzhul

Let's not get too hung up on the negative please, just focus on coming up with a cool theme

zerzhul

MelesMeles wrote: »

Winter Bobcat Exchange

I love this idea with great intensity.

Secret Bobcat.

Atalla

Ooohh, I think I found something else I would like to participate in...How do I participate this year?

Honey Badger Exchange----personal favorite so far!

tvethiopia

i definitely like the idea of celebrating the apocalypse. we can give people things that they will need to survive in the new post-apocalyptic wasteland! however, that may not be something that could carry over year to year...

TOGSolid

Wait, if we do a Subgenius theme, we could call it X-Mas in recognition of X-Day! The day when the space aliens will come to wipe the Earth clean of all the pinkos and only those who have dedicated themselves to the gaining of Slack will be saved. The whole objective of X-Mas will be to help spread the great gift of Slack to those who truly need it so that they will be saved when X-Day arrives!

As a legally ordained Reverend in the Church of the Subgenius (no really) I give this idea my full backing!

zerzhul wrote: »

Let's not get too hung up on the negative please, just focus on coming up with a cool theme

It's hard not to with how incredibly infuriating this is. I fully plan on venting later on in places where I can't get infracted or banned because I have an avalanche of salty sailor grade expletives I need to get out. My whole outside round consisted of me muttering creative new additions to the world's dictionary of horrifying profanity. :iMad: Oh well. Not much I can really do about it besides go into the shop and beat something with a steel pipe until the mad goes away.

i definitely like the idea of celebrating the apocalypse. we can give people things that they will need to survive in the new post-apocalyptic wasteland! however, that may not be something that could carry over year to year...

This would be cool too and hey, no matter what year it is, it never hurts to be prepared considering how fucked we are if things keep going the way they are.

Two cans of Tactical Bacon plox.

Lady Lilybell

I like the apocalypse idea. The ideas for gifts could be useful items or foolish items.
I'm drawn to the bobcat idea too. Well I just want to make a bobcat plushie.

SmallLady

Atalla wrote: »

Ooohh, I think I found something else I would like to participate in...How do I participate this year?

Honey Badger Exchange----personal favorite so far!

Around late October I'll post a thread :-) just sign up there!! It's tonnes of fun!

nevermore13

MelesMeles wrote: »

NO, WAIT

Viking Bobcat Exchange




This thread now complete.

Seconded for the new name!

Hoping to get involved next year and I think that everyone should send a bobcat along with their other gift(s).

PayneTrayne

Either honey badger or bobcat.

In order to find out which name wins we take one of each and put them in a pit. Animal thunderdome.

SmallLady

So, as was correctly pointed out to me via PM.. My OP did seem rather passive aggressive. It was not my intent to make people up in arms over the issue and I apologize.

So going forward can we make sure to keep this on topic of a new theme and only the new theme? Thanks!

MelesMeles

SmallLady wrote: »

So, as was correctly pointed out to me via PM.. My OP did seem rather passive aggressive. It was not my intent to make people up in arms over the issue and I apologize.

So going forward can we make sure to keep this on topic of a new theme and only the new theme? Thanks!

Don't worry The bobcats still love you!

Also, have you seen our awesome new lanyard system for bobcats at Prime?

peetsnack

I have a theme. I call it 'Sekrit Alfred'.

Each forumer gets a note from the Riddler exposing the 'real' identity of Batman.

Upon this information, each person would obviously be so thankful for everything that Batman has done for the forums and the city of Gotham that they would send their Batman gifts in line with wishes of their public identities.

We then spend a month all pretending that we are Batman.

Also, Smalllady is Alfred.

Lady Lilybell

"Mystery PAX", It's a mystery what's inside the package. You could send your secret partner clues or riddles to throw them off the track of the contents. (If your nice, the clues could be geared towards what's in the box)

It could be a bobcat or a mail order bride or Batman's true identity. Why knows?

LTAcosta

peetsnack wrote: »

I have a theme. I call it 'Sekrit Alfred'.

Each forumer gets a note from the Riddler exposing the 'real' identity of Batman.

Upon this information, each person would obviously be so thankful for everything that Batman has done for the forums and the city of Gotham that they would send their Batman gifts in line with wishes of their public identities.

We then spend a month all pretending that we are Batman.

Also, Smalllady is Alfred.

Do we even need to discuss this any further? I think we have a winner...

Khadour

Lady Lilybell wrote: »

"Mystery PAX", It's a mystery what's inside the package. You could send your secret partner clues or riddles to throw them off the track of the contents. (If your nice, the clues could be geared towards what's in the box)

It could be a bobcat or a mail order bride or Batman's true identity. Why knows?

Nice PAXage!

Kiashien

Surprise! Bobcat!

(Exclamation points are a must)

Menolly07

Hidden Hannukah
Surprise Solstice
Enigmatic Eid

Exodus1

peetsnack wrote: »

I have a theme. I call it 'Sekrit Alfred'.

Each forumer gets a note from the Riddler exposing the 'real' identity of Batman.

Upon this information, each person would obviously be so thankful for everything that Batman has done for the forums and the city of Gotham that they would send their Batman gifts in line with wishes of their public identities.

We then spend a month all pretending that we are Batman.

Also, Smalllady is Alfred.

I enjoy this idea thoroughly, my only addition is that the Riddler's name be used somehow in the title. "Alfred's Enigma"

tvethiopia

peetsnack wrote: »

I have a theme. I call it 'Sekrit Alfred'.

Each forumer gets a note from the Riddler exposing the 'real' identity of Batman.

Upon this information, each person would obviously be so thankful for everything that Batman has done for the forums and the city of Gotham that they would send their Batman gifts in line with wishes of their public identities.

We then spend a month all pretending that we are Batman.

Also, Smalllady is Alfred.

i also think this is an amazing idea, particularly the part about pretending to be batman. like i need an excuse.

TOGSolid

Why not just switch it to pagan x-mas to keep everything neutral without changing anything?

Secret Pagan Santa

Moe Fwacky

TOGSolid wrote: »

Why not just switch it to pagan x-mas to keep everything neutral without changing anything?

Secret Pagan Santa

That was pretty much what I was going for with the Solstice Krampus themed thing

LexiconGrrl

I just watched Rare Exports last night, and then read this thread today.

Pagan Santa.

chaosisorder

PAX Forums Winter Clearinghouse Sweepstakes

PAX Forums Bobcat Charity Foundation

Kiashien

Bobcat: It's coming for you.

Rogue_hunter

"We've Got Ourselves a Badass Box Overhere" Neil deGrasse Tyson Memorial Gift Exchange

nevermore13

All of these ideas are good I vote either for being Batman or anything involving Bobcats. To be fair I will be happy with any idea that the community agrees upon. Sorry I don't have any suggestions of my own.

SmallLady

it's like Nevermore can see into my mind!

it's down to secret bobcats or secret batmans!!! so start building on those as a fully fleshed out theme and I will pick a winner!

Britality

Batcat and Bobman? Hmm.

peetsnack

BOBCATMAN



too much?

MelesMeles

BATMAN'S BOBCATS

Kiashien

Bobcats: The Ultimate Utility Item!

(Let the Plebians figure out it's a Batman reference)