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(My) Birthday gift ideas

RubberACRubberAC Sidney BC!Registered User regular
edited November 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
So my birthday is coming up.
I don't know what to ask for. My dad asked me if I'd be down for a canoe. Ok there's one.
I'm thinking stuff like books, cd's, movies.
I just bought Warhammer, Fallout 3, played fable 2, are there any other games coming out soon that are good?
I Read Steven Erickson, George R.R. Martin, Kurt Vonnegut and am starting to get into more classic authors. I'd like to work on more of a classical literature collection, but i'm not big on poetry and shakespeare.
Seriously, anything you guys think is cool.

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  • dispatch.odispatch.o Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Stuff is usually just stuff. Do something with your family you'll remember for the rest of your life.

    Also, I'm a fan of gift cards because a card for a music/book store will always get used.

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  • RubberACRubberAC Sidney BC!Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Eh I'd like to do something with my family, but it's nigh impossible to find a day where everyone is free.
    Also our relationship is a but tumultuous, we all suffer from short tempers and can't stand each other the majority of the time.

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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Ask them to make a donation to Child's Play for you. If you can't think of anything you need/absolutely want, why just ask for something for the sake of asking for something?

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Well if you are going to get a canoe you obviously know the important reasons to own a canoe.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxiQGOvlowc

    But Mully is right, why don't you just say a canoe is a fine gift and donate the rest of the money you were going to spend on charity or don't buy anything at all and just save money?

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  • rfaliasrfalias Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Left 4 Dead.

    /thread

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  • tsmvengytsmvengy Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Blaket wrote: »
    Well if you are going to get a canoe you obviously know the important reasons to own a canoe.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxiQGOvlowc

    But Mully is right, why don't you just say a canoe is a fine gift and donate the rest of the money you were going to spend on charity or don't buy anything at all and just save money?

    Those are fucking kayaks in that commercial.

    Woodcanoe.jpg

    That's a fucking canoe.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

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  • RubberACRubberAC Sidney BC!Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Haha I just finished reading Name of the Wind.
    Has he come out with any other books yet/recently?
    P.S. Canoes are for men Kayaks are for pansies (exception whitewater)

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  • SkyGheNeSkyGheNe Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    RubberAC wrote: »
    Haha I just finished reading Name of the Wind.
    Has he come out with any other books yet/recently?
    P.S. Canoes are for men Kayaks are for pansies (exception whitewater)

    Vonnegut Books that are must reads:

    Mother Night
    The Sirens of Titan
    Cats Cradle

    All three of those books...phenomenal.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    RubberAC wrote: »
    Haha I just finished reading Name of the Wind.
    Has he come out with any other books yet/recently?
    P.S. Canoes are for men Kayaks are for pansies (exception whitewater)

    No, he hasn't. I'll recommend more traditional stuff then (books by the same author are on the same line seperated by commas):

    Catch-22, Closing Time
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon
    Neuromancer, Spook Country
    For Whom the Bell Tolls/The Sun Also Rises/A Farewell to Arms
    The Invisible Man
    Brave New World
    1984
    Absurdistan
    Motherless Brooklyn
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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  • RubberACRubberAC Sidney BC!Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    You are awesome.

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  • theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Blaket wrote: »
    Well if you are going to get a canoe you obviously know the important reasons to own a canoe.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxiQGOvlowc

    But Mully is right, why don't you just say a canoe is a fine gift and donate the rest of the money you were going to spend on charity or don't buy anything at all and just save money?

    Ah fuck, I wanted to link that. :(

    If he's offering to buy a canoe, why not ask for a geeky gadget like an iPhone or Android phone?

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  • KealohaKealoha Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    SkyGheNe wrote: »
    Vonnegut Books that are must reads:

    Mother Night
    The Sirens of Titan
    Cats Cradle

    All three of those books...phenomenal.

    This is the strangest list of Vonnegut recs. I've ever seen. Of course, I'm of the opinion that everything he writes is a must read. Both of his collections of short stories are some of my favorite, as well as Breakfast of Champions.

    Aside from that, do you need anything practical? Shoes, jacket, etc?

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