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| posted by CQFD 262 days ago (edited 262 days ago) |
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Thanks, but no thanks.
Re-gift USA way sounds too much like re-loading a gun.
Add-on edit: and I do NOT care if they use environmental green rounds.
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| posted by Lola 262 days ago |
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We had a fab thing at my office years ago, called "The Crap Pressie Bag".
The idea was that every time any of us was sent some s**te promotional item or gift from some company or other that we didn't want, got shoved into the CPB. Then at office Crimbo party, whoever drew the short straw had to take the bag and all the s**te in it home, ahahhahahaha... entire minutes of amusement, I can tell you.
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| posted by EmilyBronte 262 days ago |
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Don;t think there were as many laughs as when someone in my office bought the gay boy some Pampers.
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| posted by Lola 262 days ago |
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The laughs would have been louder and tinged with both confusion and horror if it'd been Tampax instead. 
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| posted by CQFD 262 days ago (edited 262 days ago) |
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Originally posted by Lola
We had a fab thing at my office years ago, called "The Crap Pressie Bag".
The idea was that every time any of us was sent some s**te promotional item or gift from some company or other that we didn't want, got shoved into the CPB. Then at office Crimbo party, whoever drew the short straw had to take the bag and all the s**te in it home, ahahhahahaha... entire minutes of amusement, I can tell you.
Mr Darwin will like that if it was a new canoe, I mean.
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| posted by tiger lily 262 days ago |
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I would send them a wedding card and best wishes..... it's just being called civilized.
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| posted by spannermonkey 248 days ago |
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Welll there was an 8ft wedding cake and 550 guests apparently....
That equates to $275,000 in lychee.........or about the same price as a Golf GTi funnily enough...
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| posted by Paps of Jura 248 days ago |
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And let's hope this was not the wedding at the Shangri la where the guests were conned by two 'guests' into handing over a further red paket for a 'lucky draw' that never happened
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| posted by geraldo 248 days ago |
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550 guests in the shangri la ?
bye bye 275k, they probably never made it home
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| posted by Lola 248 days ago |
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550 guests?! Even if I invited everyone I've ever known (including office muppets whose names I still haven't worked out after years here), I don't think I could scrape together half that many people.
Do they put ads in the papers here for professional wedding party guests?
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| posted by Gimpmask 248 days ago |
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Conversely, my friend had four consecutive days of wedding banquet in order to accommodate the couple's friends, their respective parents' friends and relatives and grandma's friends.
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| posted by tiger lily 248 days ago (edited 248 days ago) |
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quote:
Originally posted by Lola
550 guests?! Even if I invited everyone I've ever known (including office muppets whose names I still haven't worked out after years here), I don't think I could scrape together half that many people.
Ah...but if the whole family were invited ......
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| posted by ServerGuy 248 days ago |
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When was the wedding at the Shangri La ?
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| posted by smog 248 days ago |
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quote:
Originally posted by tiger lily
quote:
Originally posted by Lola
550 guests?! Even if I invited everyone I've ever known (including office muppets whose names I still haven't worked out after years here), I don't think I could scrape together half that many people.
Ah...but if the whole family were invited ......
I'm with Lola. My family out to first cousins (aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, first cousins, parents, children, grandparents, siblings, and their partners) consists of 9 people, of whom I wouldn't recognise 2 or 3 if I met them. Friends & acquaintances - maybe 50 worldwide at most. Colleagues another 40. So I couldn't get to 100 even if everyone turned up.
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| posted by bunthorne 248 days ago |
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How about your wife's family?
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| posted by Paps of Jura 248 days ago |
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quote:
Originally posted by ServerGuy
When was the wedding at the Shangri La ?
Dunno but it was a news story in the Standard today.. the father of the bride worked for the Airport apparantly
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| posted by Lola 248 days ago (edited 248 days ago) |
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quote:
Originally posted by tiger lily
quote:
Originally posted by Lola
550 guests?! Even if I invited everyone I've ever known (including office muppets whose names I still haven't worked out after years here), I don't think I could scrape together half that many people.
Ah...but if the whole family were invited ......
Why would I want to invite a bunch of strangers? Assuming you mean uncles/aunts/cousins/distant relatives I have only ever met once or not at all. And as for people I vaguely know from work to nod at in the corridor etc... f*ck 'em. Wouldn't want them there either.
If there was ever a next time, it'd be closest family (and by that I mean those I gave birth to, or gave birth to me) and probably about 3 friends, tops.
Oooh oooh, and barefoot on a beach. At sunset. Preferably in Hawaii.
Bit like this, but without the daft veil.
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| posted by AKA 248 days ago |
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would those two women who don't know what an adjective is be invited?
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| posted by Lola 248 days ago |
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Not freaking likely.
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