Ok, sorry. When you create folders and add pictures to your yahoo briefcase, it makes the new folders 'private' by default.
mike.
I may not like what you have to say, but many men gave their lives for your right to say it.
Posts by Bendrr
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3A Very Bendrr Christmas! (Pics are up now)
by Bendrr inas christmas day of 2001 draws to a close, let me share my holiday with you all.. i spent the morning after a waffle house breakfast cleaning house.. late afternoon, my best friends-adopted "worldly" family arrived.
they had me open their gifts first.
autumn and summer picked out two shirts for me, those little girls have good taste let me tell you.
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A Very Bendrr Christmas! (Pics are up now)
by Bendrr inas christmas day of 2001 draws to a close, let me share my holiday with you all.. i spent the morning after a waffle house breakfast cleaning house.. late afternoon, my best friends-adopted "worldly" family arrived.
they had me open their gifts first.
autumn and summer picked out two shirts for me, those little girls have good taste let me tell you.
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Bendrr
As Christmas Day of 2001 draws to a close, let me share my holiday with you all.
I spent the morning after a Waffle House breakfast cleaning house.
Late afternoon, my best friends-adopted "worldly" family arrived. They had me open their gifts first. Autumn and Summer picked out two shirts for me, those little girls have good taste let me tell you. The parents gave me this electric massage gizmo. If I get a girlfriend, it may be useful-ok you guys I get the damn hint!. And they gave me a mini-bottle of cognac for my collection. It took a place of honor, since it actually came from my adopted sister's father.
Then I got to play Santa. That was what I was wanting. I loaded up the digital camera with pictures. Uploaded them tonight to my yahoo page. If you want to see, please visit and the pics are in my yahoo briefcase under "my christmas"
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/skydmyke
Night y'all,
MikeI may not like what you have to say, but many men gave their lives for your right to say it.
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A Christmas present for all of you
by GentlyFeral inhere's a story i made up and told at a yule ritual for our church's pagan group.. .
what does a christmas tree want?.
last year, right around this time, i came home from church to find christmas tree ornaments in my front yard.
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Bendrr
You know what? I like that story. If you don't mind, I'm going to pass it along.
mike.I may not like what you have to say, but many men gave their lives for your right to say it.
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denied babtism
by rakiasp ini have a question that puzzles me and would like to receive some ideas.
i used to be a witness for two years before fading away, leaving quietly.
i was not disfellowshipped and i did not write a letter of dissasociation.. the way i got babtised was such that noone from my congragation saw it since the babtisees were taken by buses from the convention to a private swimming pool.
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Bendrr
Unclebruce, I've never heard of "annulment of baptism". Is that for real?
mike.I may not like what you have to say, but many men gave their lives for your right to say it.
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Help! First X-mas Party
by TweetieBird inwe've been invited to a christmas party monday night and i'm not sure what the protocol is.
are we suppose to take a gift, bottle of wine, etc?.
the guy thinks we are still witnesses, he said he still wants us to come, even though we don't celebrate it.
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Bendrr
Yes, bring a gift definitely! Something all can share would be my suggestion so a bottle of wine sounds great. Remember to get the kind with a cork (ha ha).
I may not like what you have to say, but many men gave their lives for your right to say it.
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Bought Myself a Christmas Gift!
by Bendrr inif you have kids and want to get just one more gift for them, take note.. ok, last sunday while finishing up the shopping i happened to pass a display of a toy i have wanted to get for a long time.
for my nephew...ok for me too.
radio controlled motorcycle!
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Bendrr
I'll post some pics soon.
I may not like what you have to say, but many men gave their lives for your right to say it.
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Bought Myself a Christmas Gift!
by Bendrr inif you have kids and want to get just one more gift for them, take note.. ok, last sunday while finishing up the shopping i happened to pass a display of a toy i have wanted to get for a long time.
for my nephew...ok for me too.
radio controlled motorcycle!
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If you have kids and want to get just one more gift for them, take note.
Ok, last Sunday while finishing up the shopping I happened to pass a display of a toy I have wanted to get for a long time. For my nephew...ok for me too. Radio controlled motorcycle! So I bought one. Only $30, which made me figure this thing may turn out to be pretty lame. The next day, I took it to work with me. I excercised the old "adults get to play with the toys before Christmas rule"-come on, you've done it too! That baby is da bomb! It's an actual motorcycle. Rides on 2 wheels, does some tight turns, even takes off on its own tho that takes some practice.
Ok, not at first. I made sure I could get another. Fortunately some were still available at another store, so I got 2 more one for my nephew and one for his sister.
Meanwhile, my little bike has become the favorite passtime at our shop. We've got a big parking lot to the side of the building with no traffic. When it's slow the bike is out there. Right now, our driveability tech and I are having fun brainstorming modifications we can make. The first thing I did was take the rider off. That made it handle better and go just a little faster. Switched to rechargeable NiMH hi-capacity batteries, got a little more speed and range.
We're tossing around ideas on how to put a headlight and taillight on it. Some of you may have seen these penlights called "Streamlight"s that have a VERY bright LED. They come in white, blue, red, and yellow. Still trying to figure out how to install them without killing the bike's power. And I want to change the "skidplates" on the sides so as to lean lower on turns.
Another mechanic I work with is going to get one and our driveability tech is going to bring some of his radio-controlled cars up. (the bikes only come in 2 frequencies).
I wonder, can you get these things with gas-powered engines? I'd love to put together a radio-controlled Harley.I may not like what you have to say, but many men gave their lives for your right to say it.
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Funny Xmas Gift Stories Thread
by Bendrr ini posted this before, then last night i couldn't get on to this site and now can't find the original post.
server problems, simon?.
if this did make it to the board the first time, just bear with me and join in ok?
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I posted this before, then last night I couldn't get on to this site and now can't find the original post. Server problems, Simon?
If this did make it to the board the first time, just bear with me and join in ok? Now I've added more detail.
Anyways I'd like others to post stories of Christmas pranks, joke gifts, stuff like that.
I'll start it off with my Christmas tradition.
Every Christmas, I like to play some kind of prank on my adopted nephew Josh. It started pretty simple the first year I started to really celebrate Christmas. That year, I had just started to get close to my adopted family, The Baileys. I liked their kids a lot and decided to get them something. That year I didn't even gift wrap, just put it in a plain brown bag. When I walked in on Christmas morning, they all ran up and gave me a hug. Then it started. I said "kids, Santa called me on the cell phone on my way over here and was very mad at me because I hadn't gotten you a Christmas gift." At their ages then, they took it serious. Their eyes got HUGE! "Santa told me to go to the store and get you some socks and underwear". Their faces fell. I'm not making this up. I saw disappointment. They sadly took the bag I handed them. It was a VHS of Superman-The Motion Picture. That did it. "Uncle Mike" got a joke over on them. In a little while we were watching Superman together, with the kids cheering "YAY SUPERMAN!" and a few tears when Lois Lane died. As a side note, the middle child Summer who was six at the time fell in love. I am honored to be her first crush. I pity the first teen boy she goes on a date with, because her parents and I have agreed that I will be the one to answer the door when he comes a-calling.
Fast forward.
2 years ago Josh was 9 and dying for a Playstation. I had one and told his folks he was getting it. At the time I worked in a muffler shop so I grabbed a box for a Flowmaster Muffler and packed the Playstation in it and giftwrapped it. I wrapped up a big stack of games separately. That was the first Christmas I have ever "played Santa". We got the kids to sleep and got to work putting the presents under the tree. Josh busted us so we had to let him on the Santa thing. He pretty much already knew, but we made it an official rite of passage. He and I also started our own Christmas tradition. Every Christmas eve, Josh and I drink a scotch-and-water together. (only one for him of course)
Where was I?
Oh yeah...
The next morning, he tears the paper off the Flowmaster box and gives this look of utter "what the hell?" dismay and tosses the box off to the side. Next in line was the Playstation games and then he figured it out.
Big laugh.
So the next year, I took a Flowmaster Muffler box with the muffler still in it and gift-wrapped it as-is. Christmas morning he tears the paper off and starts to laugh. "You're not gonna get me with that one again, Mike!"
The look on his face when he sees the muffler inside was priceless. I got him after all! Of course, his real present was a radio-controlled airplane that we went and tried to fly together but that's another story.
So this year, I had to escalate it. The box joke is played out.
One gift is a radio-controlled motorcycle. I even bought one for myself, those things are so cool! I keep it at work and play with it in the parking lot when work is slow.
His other gift is a Harry Potter Playstation game. The game's cd case went into a cavity cut into the middle of a "Barney Goes to the Farm" book and the book was gift-wrapped in a Powerpuff Girls giftwrap. (I happen to think the Powerpuff Girls are pretty cool, but I'm not an 11-year old boy with a rep to uphold like Josh)
That went into a giftwrapped box, when went into another gift-wrapped box, ad infinitum. All said and done, and it took until tonight to finish the packaging, he's got a hell of a lot of boxes to open to get to Harry Potter.
Seven boxes. Each carefully gift-wrapped. Christmas morning, he's gonna get a box about 4 feet tall and 3 feet by 3 feet wide. Wrapped in 3 rolls of PINK BARBIE GIFT-WRAP. Inside that are 2 boxes. One is gift-wrapped and totally empty. The other contains the other 5 boxes he has to open to finally get to the Harry Potter game inside the Barney book.
I can barely get the box in my car!
I didn't do any jokes on the other members of the family, though last year I did wrap and entire roll of packing tape around the gift I got for Josh's dad. Took him 20 minutes to open it.
Josh and Summer (my baby!) each got a radio-controlled motorcycle. Tho, I bet the grown-ups will be playing with those as much as the kids.
The worst thing is that next year I have to come up with a joke to top this year's. And I have a sneaky suspicion that a joke gift is awaiting me Tuesday at their house.
Ok, that's my long story. I would really love to hear yours. Even though I've been out of the Empire since 92, Christmas is still very new to me. This year, I've had a hard time getting into the spirit. If it hadn't been for Josh's joke gift, I may very well have been a total Scrooge.
So share with me and the rest of the board now...
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Funny Christmas Gift Stories, please?
by Bendrr inok, who gives "joke gifts" for christmas?.
do you do the big box, little gift gag?
or wrap layer after layer of gift wrap on a present just for a laugh?.
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Ok, who gives "joke gifts" for christmas?
Do you do the big box, little gift gag? Or wrap layer after layer of gift wrap on a present just for a laugh?
I'm just curious to hear some funny gift stories.
I'll share a couple to start the thread...
Gave a good friend of mine the Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition DVD last year. I put it in a small box, wrapped it with an entire roll of packing tape (that really sticky impossible to open stuff) and then wrapped that in the usual decorative paper gift wrap. Took him 20 minutes to open it.
My nephew. Oh boy, every year I have to think of something new.
2 years ago I gave him a Playstation. Put it in a Flowmaster Muffler box (I worked in a muffler shop). He tears the paper off, looks at the box, gives this look of utter dismay and tosses the unopened box off to the side. When he opens the next box full of Playstation games, he finally figured it out.
So last year I took another Flowmaster Muffler box with the muffler still in it and gift wrapped it. (his real gift was elsewhere) He tears the paper and starts to laugh. "You're not getting me with that again!" He looks at the muffler inside. The look on his face was too much.
So this year, I got him a Harry Potter Playstation game. After much careful thought, I came up with the joke to end all jokes. (until next year)
I'm going to buy some book like whatever you'd get a little girl--suggestions would be helpful, he's a typical 11-year old boy--cut a cavity in the middle to place the game in and gift wrap it with a cute pink bow.
That gift is going in a larger box, also gift-wrapped. Then that one goes into an even larger box, also gift-wrapped......ad infinitum. Carefully packing everything to foil the "shake-test". Ultimately all the boxes-in-boxes-in-boxes end up in a box I have at work that a heater came in. About 4'x3'x3'.
Last year, his mom made it clear that anything anyone bought her "for the kitchen" would end up in the dumpster. (ok I can go along with that) Now their coffee maker had recently died and I had just bought a new one for myself so I saved the box. Her CD player was carefully packed in the Mr Coffee box and gift-wrapped. Oh boy was she pissed when she unwrapped a coffee maker box!
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OK, jump in. I need some ideas now!I may not like what you have to say, but many men gave their lives for your right to say it.
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GB grapevine news
by IslandWoman inthe gb grapevine news is that one of the older gb members conscientiously no longer feels he is one of the anointed (yeah i guess there's still one or two who still have a conscience) .
not a big news item but i found it very interesting, the "cracking" at the top continues!.
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Saint Satan:
You're way behind the times dude!
There was a little story in the paper a few years ago that evidence of water was found on the moon by a "military spacecraft". The story was buried way back where they put the obits and stories about the local 4-H club.
I got news for you buddy, there's probably a population of thousands on the moon. (humorous follows) The nazis made it there from their base in Antartica back in the 40's and the Soviets soon after. The first and subsequent moon missions involved space battles to neutralize those bases.
Ok, I'm kidding and I'm sure you were too.
Seriously tho, a story about a GB member reconsidering his "annointed" status really needs some more backup. So I'd like to hear more.
mike.I may not like what you have to say, but many men gave their lives for your right to say it.