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FutureWorm
25 Dec 2006, 05:15
Or Yule if you're Ben, I suppose.
I usually don't get much; this year I got a few gift cards and some money. I used my Amazon.com card and some Christmas money to order 4 books and 5 DVDs.
Books:
The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
Air America: The Playbook
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky (it was three bucks and looks intelligent on a bookshelf)
DVDs:
Office Space
TRON
Big Fish
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Office (US): Season 2
I think I'll use the Best Buy giftcard to get a game, possibly Sid Meier's Pirates. I also got a calculator, a James Bond edition Scene It? game, and an iPod cable.
What did you get?

FutureWorm
25 Dec 2006, 05:19
Oh heh there's a thread in Online Orgy
but they're lame noobs so

SupSuper
25 Dec 2006, 15:51
I got a new monitor, new harddisk and an mp3 player. Oh and money, from the grandfolk that never figure out what to give me so money always works.

Star Worms
25 Dec 2006, 16:35
New keyboard + Mouse and a couple of games
*Installs keyboard + Mouse*

FutureWorm
25 Dec 2006, 18:00
Oh, I almost forgot about the totally sweet periodic table shower curtain (http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/8a2f/) that I got from my grandma.
edit: and I also used the Best Buy gift card and some money I made from eBay to buy all five seasons of 24, yay!

Zero72
26 Dec 2006, 00:29
Endless Waltz on DVD, new little 5-gallon aquarium, DVD burner, 30 gig iPod, miscellaneous.

KamikazeBananze
26 Dec 2006, 03:26
A 250GB external HDD.
A leather belt case for my mp3 player.
Complete Robot by Asimov.
Amo Amas Amat... And All That by Harry Mount.
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege by Roger Crowley.
€60 voucher for the Gift Voucher Shop.
€50. Lifelines New and Collected by Various.
A music box that plays the chorus of Let It Be when you turn the handle.
Three jerseys, two of which are hoodies.
A hat with the words Duck And Cover on it in big writing.
Chocolates.
And a new phone and a pack that will aid me in switching to Vodafone.
In terms of what I like, the HDD, the case, Complete Robot, the hat (:D), the money and the voucher are what I'm happiest with. Oh, and the hoodie by Duck And Cover as well.
Now, I'm going to install Ubuntu soon!

SomePerson
26 Dec 2006, 06:03
Some CDs:
ДДТ - Периферия (Their 3rd CD)
Союз 48 (compilation CD - like the Russian version of the NOW series - 3 disks, 63 songs)
And a cheap electric guitar amp for my electric balalaika I made.
And money.

MtlAngelus
26 Dec 2006, 06:49
I got... a shirt, and some skating wheels that attach to shoes. A present from my aunts. The second one really puzzles me, it's the sort of thing I'll never use and anyone who has ever known me would probably know that. But oh well.
I also bought myself GTA:SA for PC.
And that's about it.

MonkeyforaHead
26 Dec 2006, 07:57
Diablo Battle Chest, Wii points card, USB Wi-Fi dongle, Metal Slug Anthology, Animaniacs volume 2, giant scarf, 1 metric buttload of chocolate.
Half of that was with my own various accumulated (work and Christmas gift) funds, though.

thomasp
26 Dec 2006, 13:50
Money
Chocolate
"The Shining" on DVD
Little Britain Live on DVD (which imo, is better than the TV series)
Need for Speed: Carbon (XBox)
A coupla fiction books
A book about the Airbus A380
And a bluetooth Mighty Mouse :D as my PowerBook is beginning to show signs of wear & tear :(

Paul.Power
26 Dec 2006, 14:47
Civ IV (hey, they missed a trick there, they could have called it CIVILIZATION *gets shot*)
Firefly DVD box set
Serenity DVD
Maid Marian Series 3 DVD
The Detectives Series 1 and 2 DVD
Lego Star Wars 2 - DS version
A pair of speakers for my MP3 player
Last Tango in Aberystwyth
Colemanballs 13
£10 Waterstones/HMV Voucher
£10 book token
And, technically, my new laptop, as it was an early Christmas present.

SupSuper
27 Dec 2006, 00:03
Civ IV (hey, they missed a trick there, they could have called it CIVILIZATION *gets shot*)Actually that's how Ben calls it. It annoys me since I can't tell CIV from Civ.

Lex
27 Dec 2006, 10:26
from my mother and aunt: a bicycle to replace my old, rusty and broken one (which has the handlebars disconnected from the front wheel, madly)
a new beautiful chess set with alabaster pieces from my grandmother
an IOU from my brother
an IOU from my dad and stepmother
a credit card in my name to use from my mother's account (or something like that), since I don't receive enough income for my bank to issue me a credit card
Turtles (the chocolate candies) from my stepmother
2 packs of Reese peanut butter cups (8 cups in total) from my aunt

Pigbuster
28 Dec 2006, 01:18
A Moomintroll bowl
An "Abbot and Costello - Who's on first" T-shirt
A USB hard-drive
Steamboy
Unuseless Japanese Inventions
A bag of Lindor truffles
A Wii
Suddenly! Snow snow making stuff
A fan that plugs into a USB port
For the rest, be sure to buy the Pigbuster's Presents uncut DVD with bonus features.

Lex
28 Dec 2006, 02:52
A WiiWow! I want one. They're always sold out of them everywhere here. Nintendo doesn't ship enough. :p

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