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Old 04-17-2002, 05:53 PM
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Totally useless gifts

I thought I'd been given some crap over the years,but todays one had them all beat.Ford in their ultimate wisdom sent me a denim jeans pocket!!!No jeans just a back pocket,oh so useful!!
This is by no means the first useless present,the list seems almost endless but some of the more memorable ones include:
Belt from an aunt who hadn't seen me since I was seven,and it wouldn't go around my thigh let alone my waist!Friction powered toy fire engine for 22nd birthday from another long lost relative!Or how about a T-shirt with printed pockets(no real ones just printed)Motorcycle cover bought for me three weeks after I sold the bike.The list goes on,so my question is whats the stupidest,most pointless present you've ever received?well meaning or not!Bear

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Old 04-17-2002, 06:26 PM
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One year my wife bought me a $3 electric pencil sharpener from RadioShack for Christmas and that's all. She said she couldn't think of anything to get me.
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Old 04-17-2002, 06:31 PM
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A hot dog maker.....A freakin hot dog maker!!!! Geez......I opened it up and said "What the H%$ am I suppose to do with this?" It has become the family joke for every present giving occasion. It's re-wrapped, disguised, passed around, and re-cycled to all family members. We just love those "New" in-laws first Christmas! Of coarse we all have the countless cute saying mugs!!
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Dale,that's reminded me of another absolute peach.Friends of ours had gone all new age(re-vamped hippies)well their latest thing was pottery.Imagine my surprise and joy?when at christmas we were given a purple ceramic house brick,for building friendships man!Consequently every time they came round for the next year we had to get the damn thing out and polish it.
As friends sometimes do we drifted apart,so after another six months I thought it would be safe to give it away to the school fete.Of course the big mistake was going along to the sodding fete,and guess who we met?!!!To make matters worse they'd seen a brick just like ours and bought it for us!!!gosh that was lucky.We haven't seen these friends since but we daren't get rid of the brick just in case!!!! Bear
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Old 04-17-2002, 07:01 PM
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That is an excellent story.I just read it to the wife as it was her brother who gave the hot dog maker!! LMAO!
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Old 04-18-2002, 04:12 PM
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Dale,I've just had a worrying thought do you realize in 50 or 60 years time our grandchildren will still be stuck with them.My purple brick could become a family heirloom passed from generation to generation!!Each heir unwilling to throw it out 'cos it was grandpa's most treasured possession!!!Oh my God what have I started here,just by trying not to hurt someone's feelings?Just imagine one day your hotdog maker could be sitting pride of place on one of your heir's mantlepiece,surrounded by photo's of deceased relatives. Bear
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Old 04-18-2002, 04:53 PM
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That is so true....We often wonder who will the last one stuck with it? I mean the thing has never been used and still remains in the same box. My wife reminded it was brought to a future bridal shower, and really it was quite some fun. But the brick turning up again was EXCELLENT!!! I guess if any of your children or relatives bulid a house they could always use it as sort of a corner stone, it certainly would have a very interesting history!
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Old 04-18-2002, 05:05 PM
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Dale,from past experience and believe me I know what I'm talking about,you will be the chosen one!!the damn thing will follow you however you try to give it away.Your only hope may lay in an exorcism to break the curse!!
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Old 04-18-2002, 05:45 PM
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You're right! We figure it will find its final resting place under my head in the casket as a pillow rest!!!
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Of course thats going to totally freak some archaeologist in say 1000 years time or so!!!
Anybody else want to own up to those sad embarassing totally useless presents?
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Old 04-18-2002, 09:26 PM
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gag gifts

There is this oriental gal that I used to work with, untill she, and her husband moved back to California. She has a unique sense of humor. One of the things that she has given me is this pig keychain. When you squeeze it, it has this "poop" thing come out of its rear. Others include a coffeecup with my name on it. The cup is so small that you would fill it up with a drop from an eye dropper. I also have a plastic skull that was filled with candy - it was an Easter present. She knew that these were absolutely useless eye roller type gifts. That was their sole intent - to draw a smile. We had over the time that we worked together became pretty good friends. I now hang on to these things to remember the laughs shared. We still keep in touch via email, and I need to plan a trip out there someday for a visit. The last thing she gave me was a gift that by sheer coincidence, arrived a day before my birthday. A handmade couch decoration thingie with wolves all over it. We had a laugh over the timing of that one.
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My Dad thinks I'm a technophile, so he gets me gadget accessories...like a really nice PDA stylus...and I don't own a PDA.

My wife is kinda prudish, but my Mother-in-law is NOT! SO when I married her daughter, one of her gag gifts was one of those little wind-up gadgets with feet that walk around...except the gadget was a male sexual organ!
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Thong

My creative sister in law gave me white thong underwear with red hearts on them for Christmas a few years ago. Unfortunately, it was NOT a gag gift. My physique could suck in a pair of thong underwear and hide it for years.

What was she thinking.

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