🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

[wyfbane]

That's right! Cosmic had to send to Britain and it was recieved already. Bottom Listers what are you waiting for?

To quote Letterkenny, "To Be fair..." my usps package was supposed to hit my match's door in the 9th. As of today it is still 3 states away with now NO estimated time of arrival. QQ

 

[Jacob74]

I was going to refrain...

That's two Kelly's Coin sightings @cosmicfolklore, it's been a while since the blend received the love!

 

[BenMN]

That's two Kelly's Coin sightings @cosmicfolklore, it's been a while since the blend received the love!

It's good stuff for sure

 

[Dr. Van Loafer]

Our Secret Santa swap is now halfway along,
With tin lids clacking their merry tin song.
There are flakes folded neatly and coins in a swirl,
Burleys that bite and VaPers that curl.

But presents are due! yes, the deadline is near,
Most boxes have landed with puff worthy cheer.
Yet some empty porches hold nothing in view…
And those without packages are feeling quite blue.

Still, pipe nerds keep puffing in fragrant delight,
Debating dry times and packing just right.
So load up your briar with something anew
This smoky Secret Santa will see us all through!

I have to ask this question in today’s tech obsessed culture …do you write these yourself or do you use an LLM to write in the style of Dr. Seuss?

 

[Skyfall]

I have to ask this question in today’s tech obsessed culture …do you write these yourself or do you use an LLM to write in the style of Dr. Seuss?

I am not sure what an LLM is.
I do all sorts of things in making one, it is really situational.
Find it easier to write in Dr Seuss because you can make up any damn word you want, even if it doesn’t make sense, for a rhyme. It worked for him in his books.
Get your base line scheme outlined and tweak it with words to rhyme with a rhyme website.

What rhymes with latakia

What rhymes with latakia? Learn here.

www.withrhymes.com

Also factor in I have too much time on my hands right now…

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I was going to refrain from opening my PMSS largesse from the anonymous @cosmicfolklore until Christmas, but since he's already opened his and Som Besths is a moveable and elastic feast anyway, my curiosity got the better of my inner child and WOW! "Stuff that may not be easy to get on your side of the pond", he says - never mind hard to get, two of them completely unheard-of, which is great. And one of them well-aged, at that. And as if that weren't handsome enough, a silver tamper and ashdigger set with garnets and citrines... I am absolutely blown away. Mille Grazie, Cosmic. Domo Arigato. Vielen Dank. Merci Beaucoup. Diolch Yn Fawr Iawn. Etc.
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I’m glad that it was some things that appealed, and customs didn’t tear the thing up.

A few years ago, my target was Dan in Amsterdam, and it got held up in customs, and he was the last person to get his gift, even though I had mailed it immediately. I usually don’t want to mail overseas and risk you not getting it till Valentines Day. But, it made it, with bells on.

Som’s Beths and Happy Harmonica to all who observe. Don’t be a bottom sister. Ha ha!

 

[sablebrush52]

I am not sure what an LLM is.

Large language model, the basis for the current crop of AI.

 

[mikethompson]

I have to ask this question in today’s tech obsessed culture …do you write these yourself or do you use an LLM to write in the style of Dr. Seuss?

I assumed it was AI, much like my own posts.

 

[TN Jed]

Who's this guy Al everybody is talking about. Sounds like an interesting sot with a potentially high IQ.

 

[Skyfall]

Oh yeah, there is some AI involved but it doesn’t spit out the finalized product you see.

 

[jerry]

My earlier “poem” was mostly composed by ChatGPT.

 

[SBC]

I didn't get a chance till now to report this here, but for the record, I mailed a package this morning.

 

[trouttimes]

 

[trouttimes]

 

[trouttimes]

 

[woodsroad]

That is not nearly as funny as you may think it is. In actuality, it is incredibly insulting and offensive.

Typical small-handed Canadian response.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Ahhhhh, the innocent and unbridled joy of a bottom lister who has received . . . as Richard Pryor said in an hilariously different context, "I got mine, get yours!"

 

[Dr. Van Loafer]

 

[Dr. Van Loafer]

 

[Infantry23]

I shipped my package this morning. Santa Mike, please remove me from my bottom-lister brethren.