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    Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
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    Image of Seriously Seriously
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    Do I still qualify for the gift if I only listen to William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack, Volume I?


    Oh wait, Twlight? No.

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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    Speaking of legs, you know who has (very nice) legs?


    [gawker.com]

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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/07/08

    @Iceland_Spar: Yes, click that link, folks!


    [gawker.com]


    Let's get that page-view count up over 100,000!

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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    I can see that none of you is aware of one of the minor perks of the soon-to-collapse book publishing industry: free hardback books!


    I just wrap 'em up and give 'em out like candy canes.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/07/08

    @smithhimself: Ditto. Get it while the gettin' is good, SH.


    (Oh, PM me if you want to swap.)

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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    I give my family Doctors without Borders contributions - it cuts down on the talking & asking questions thing.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    12/07/08

    @NinaHagen: That is the act of one classy woman. No snark.
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    Image of dearheart dearheart
    12/07/08

    @NinaHagen: My mother gives always gives donations in my name, which go to buy cows and chickens for poor villages. Oh yeah, and I'm a vegetarian.


    Good one, Mom.


    (No, I don't expect near starving people to follow my diet. It was funny and fucked up, is all.)

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    12/07/08

    @dearheart: I give to Heifer every year. Most of the animals are not for slaughter, they are kept for milk (cows, goats, sheep) and eggs (chickens, obvs) and their wool/hair (goats and sheep again) and I bet have very long lives. So unless you are a strict vegan, it's all good in the (extremely needy) hood for everyone.
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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    Hey - I am actually going to see Liza! I can't wait for all the ex-husband jokes.
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    Image of Products Will Save Me Products Will Save Me
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    As a frugal, cunning youngster I took to heart those cultural messages about how gifts with time and thought invested were worth more than gifts with only money invested. So I gave my parents charcoal drawings of something or other one year and was met with threats of getting drawings of everything on my Christmas list the following year.
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    Image of howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches) howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches)
    12/07/08

    @Products Will Save Me: I knitted cashmere socks for members of my family a year before Gwyenny was Gooping them to the world, and what sort of response did I get from my inlaws? "Oh. Socks."


    I've been told they're repaying the gesture this year with Hanes' finest.

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    Image of Products Will Save Me Products Will Save Me
    12/07/08

    @howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches): Ha! I just learned never to try to leverage my questionable artistic creativity to save money and that was that.
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    Image of ShanghaiLil ShanghaiLil
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    I already answered your last question in another post today. For the girl who has everything, you get...insulin.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/07/08

    @ShanghaiLil: Ooh, douché!
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    Image of PRIsNotJournalism PRIsNotJournalism
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    Everyone is getting Beef Jerky.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/07/08

    @PRIsNotJournalism: I like how you capitalize Beef Jerky. Now it sounds like a person.
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    Image of Annie Nonymous Annie Nonymous
    12/07/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: Like Soylent Green?
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    12/07/08

    @Miss P:


    Beef Jerky is peeeeeople!

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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    So what do you get for the boy who falls into all three "for the boy who" categories listed above?


    Not that I'm asking about me, mind you. Just ... um, somebody I know.


    (Mmmmm .... Cheetos.)

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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    Hi Richard. Does Old Ebeneezer Denton have you working Sundays now?


    Humbug!

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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/07/08

    At length the hour of shutting up the blogginghouse arrived. With an ill-will Ebeneezer Denton dismounted from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant writer, who instantly shut his computer down, and put on his hat.


    "You'll want all day to-morrow, I suppose?" said Denton.


    "If quite convenient, sir."


    "It's not convenient," said Denton, "and it's not fair. If I was to stop half-a-crown for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, I'll be bound?"


    The writer smiled faintly.


    "And yet," said Scrooge, "you don't think me ill-used, when I pay a day's wages for no work."


    The writer observed that it was only once a year.


    "A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December!" said Denton, buttoning his great-coat to the chin. "But I suppose you must have the whole day. Be here all the earlier next morning."


    The writer promised that he would; and Denton walked out with a growl. The Gawker office was closed in a twinkling, and the writer, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a snow-slide on Elizabeth Street twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran off as hard as he could pelt, to drink at happy hour.

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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/07/08

    @MisterHippity: Oops ... I need to make a correction to my excerpt from "A Gawker Carol" above. "Scrooge" should be replaced with "Denton" in the following line:


    "And yet," said Denton, "you don't think me ill-used, when I pay a day's wages for no work."


    I wonder how the name "Scrooge" snuck into my original draft? Must have been a Freudian slip.

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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    12/07/08

    @MisterHippity: "Page view us, every one!"
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/07/08

    @MisterHippity: Ooh, you've a lot of pluck, you 'ave!
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    I decided that this year I would save money and knit everyone I know a scarf for Christmas. Yay! Crafts! Except I spent $200 on yarn and now have no time to actually knit anything. So now the miserable bastards that constitute my loved ones are getting a few balls of yarn and my best wishes for the holidays.
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    Image of jrhys jrhys
    12/07/08

    @Private Hangnail: Maybe you should add some kittens? Nothing like an unexpected kitten for holiday cheer.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    12/07/08

    @jrhys: @Tardy: But will the kittens cost extra? If so, does the pet store accept yarn in barter?
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    12/07/08

    @Private Hangnail:


    Maybe you could give your loved ones IOU's to go with the yarn for a kitten sometime in the future.

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    Image of mmstk101 mmstk101
    12/07/08

    In reply to Great Holiday Gifts Ideas for All the People You Hate
    That picture is freaking amazing!
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    Image of mmstk101 mmstk101
    12/07/08

    @mmstk101: In a terrible, I feel like a jerk for laughing kind of way.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    12/07/08

    @mmstk101: I believe that kid is LolCait.
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