Be Excellent To Each Other

I got:

An acoustic guitar, chocolates, mini reading light, gingerbread house, and a photo off my girlfriend. And a £25 Itunes voucher off her parents.

Capo and Terry Pratchett's book Nation off my younger brother.

Two and a Half Men season 1 DVD boxset off my elder brother.

Family Guy season 7, and several bits & bobs off my mum and her partner. £50 cheque off my dad - £100 down on last year.

Best moment was my younger brother purposefully flying his RC helicopter into my elder brother's crotch. Priceless.

The Twilight Zone on dvd.
Baraun electric shvers.
Socks, underpants, etc.

So far Kalmar is winning this thread.

I done got:

A smoker (for smoking food, not just a random old man with breathing difficulties)
A mushroom log
A jumper
A shirt (which was handy, because we were going out for Christmas lunch, so I didn't have to iron anything).

I think Mrs Cras was hedging her bets on your appearance, there.

That explains the hat and Richard Nixon mask too, then.

Did you have a heartwarming traditional Christmas robbing banks?

Ooo you spawny git !

Smoked salmon =

Can it make Jerky too? me loiks jerky.

Oh I got one of those last year. It didn't work! Fungus Fail.
Hope yours does better post pics pls.

It's a hot smoker, rather than a cold smoker, because cold smokers are massive and expensive. It wouldn't do jerky, because you'd need somewhere really dry to hang it for ages, which I don't have.

Ah it doesn't do the dehydration thing then.. I'd love another dehydrator. Used to mush up pears and strawberrys into a puree and put it in the DH on grease proof paper.. Mmm, sticky candy like fruit rolls.

My uncle used to have a smoker/dehydrator. It was awesome because you just chucked some strips of steak in and poured some jalapeno juice over the steak with some cracked peppercorns and then just hit the button. It smoked for a few hours then dehydrated. Best Jerky I have ever eaten.

/dribbles

Fuck you DavSpaz I just choked on a frigging Christmas mint!

Salmon is gorgeous!! I LOVE it! When me and G-Unit went round to my Aunts v.posh house she whopped out this 'small' buffet (salmon, quails eggs the lot like ) and she had wrapped them round some creamy mix so it melted in your mouth *MOUTHGASM!*

I got:
a kick ass meal (prepared by me)
a sleep in on boxing day,
a christmas cake,
vouchers,
a submarine and an inflatable globe.
some things I haven't been given yet.

Malc

I hope you handed it back - where do your relatives get off thinking they can give you their decade-old presents from past Christmasses? They should have at least splashed out for a new one.

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Ooh, I could do with one of those.

The Wire complete DVD box set.
An external 160GB hard drive.
Clone Wars and Hellboy II on Blu-Ray, Star Wars Robot Chicken on DVD.
Some books, including the official Deadwood book, Peter Ackroyd's Thames and that big "Writer's Tale" book about Doctor Who.
Some toys, including an awesome Elite TIE Interceptor, Optimal Primal and some cute little Indiana Jones and Hulk figures.
Socks, pants.
A towel.
Some money from my Grandpa - apparently one of the last things he did before he died was tell my grandma to get some money out of his account to give us for Christmas.

And a couple of days later I went out and bought myself Saints Row 2 and Stranglehold in Game. Then I bought a new copy of Watchmen. I didn't want to buy Watchmen, as the copy I've had for twenty years or so is in the house somewhere, but I've not managed to find it. Also, a She-Hulk figure, a Venom figure, a strange and awesome white Darth Vader figure and a Count Dooku Mighty Mugg.

I'm afraid I'm rather late, but merry late jolly red suited man day BETEOers, hope you all had a jingly sparkly one.

I got some nice (and sorely needed) cothes, a couple of cheap (in a nice, cheerful way) books and films, a few days playing with a log fire and hatchet, and utterly humiliated by someone who until last night I considered a friend. So I wrote her a letter and walked out, and now I'm back, suckers!


Oh! Also, the very day I left, I got a phone call from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. They offered me the job I wanted, which is more interesting, far better paid, and a far better career and personal opportunity than any I've ever had. I start next week. Hurrah! I hope you all had a lovely, lovely time, because what with old friends turning out to be cockchafers it seems more important than ever to be grateful for the frequent kindness and concern shown by technical strangers such as yourselves. Cheers!

I'm a non technical stranger. Bless your Beadlelike hands.

Ooh Chrimblegifts!

I got:

Chrono Trigger for the DS (love that game!)
Some aftershave type stuff (I forget what it was called)
Some nice new formal trousers
2 formal shirts with 3 ties that match
White t-shirts to go under the shirts (it's cold up here!)
Some black socks (again, to go with the fancy clothes)
A large hardback copy of the Chronicles of Narnia with lotsa illustrations etc
An electric shaver (mine was getting a tad battered)
A very bright torch
And last, but by no means least, the smiling faces of the three kids when they opened their gifts (all together now - awwwwwww)

That must've made a mess of the wrapping paper.