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

[Dr. Van Loafer]

No, they sold ten bags for $750/ea (at least the post is marked “sold”).
Too late, a chinabot already bought them.

Oh I have no interest in it…

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

My sister is on her way to my house from the Memphis airport. My nephew and niece arrive on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. They don't know their mom is coming. So I need to have a conversation with my niece to see just who she thought was going to be the designated asshole to come get her from the airport in lieu of cooking turkey dinner. Her excuse is that she didn't want to ask (even just fucking ask) her lab partner to do the lab a day early so she could fly out Wednesday. I can then have the convo with her about treating my sister like shit the last 4 years when she is going to school for free because of my sister. Don't get me started on my BIL who isn't even invited to this dumpster fire.

My wife, once she understood the scale of shitstorm descending on our farm, decided that it would behoove her to go visit her parents (81 and 84 years old) in Havasu. I was the one who suggested it, since I got to spend 3 days with them this summer (They are awesome, btw) and they aren't getting any younger. My brother and his family, along with my dad are readying the popcorn maker to watch the drama unfold.

And I get to cook the whole dinner: one baked turkey because my darling niece is allergic to peanuts; one deep fried turkey because fuck her, I am having a deep fried turkey... in peanut oil; a 10lb boneless rib roast; two types of sweet potatos (sis can't eat dairy and I thrive on butter); Watergate salad; 2 kinds of mashed potatoes because, sister; green bean casserole; 2 types of stuffing; veggie tray with Uncle Dan's Southern Style Buttermilk Ranch (which is ironically from Idaho); pecan and cherry pies; and lots of dinner rolls.

Edit: So, yeah, a bit apprehensive is how I am feeling. With a healthy dose of vexation.

Ralphie?

 

[Oddball]

hey santa mike, where is my package I am getting for PPMS 2025? I've been checkin the mail all day, and nothing.

 

[sablebrush52]

Ha ha! Maybe next year (or maybe this year)! I do love Penzance though. I didn’t start smoking pipes until after eso was long gone, so I look at it like this: I used to pay $25-30 for a quality cigar, and triple that for a Montecristo #2. Even at $100 an ounce, that comes out to ~$10 a bowl, give or take, or -3 bowls for what I used to pay for 1 quality Dominican or Honduran stick. Not an every day smoke, of course, but it’s only “outrageous” when you compare it with all the excellent readily available options that exist at a fraction of the cost (which I concede is a sticking point in the logic). But pipes and pipe tobacco aren’t about logic, right? They are a passion and sometimes passions need to be indulged, within reason, even if the logic doesn’t hold up.

I agree with you about passions, though I wouldn’t apply the “anything goes” to tobacco.
Mind you, I’ve enjoyed a great many Cuban cigars in the past, but they weren’t exorbitantly expensive.

Besides, Esoterica doesn’t necessarily age well.

On the other hand, Arts and Crafts furniture and metalware…

 

[sablebrush52]

My crap on hand wasn’t crappy enough so I had to order crappier crap for my match.
Too bad the $1500/lb Esoterica sold so quickly…

Wanna pay me $1500 a pound for Esoterica? I can supply you, no problem. Really, I’d make that sacrifice for you to honor the PMSS 2025 spirit.

You can even throw in a tip.

BTW, postage not included.

 

[sablebrush52]

My sister is on her way to my house from the Memphis airport. My nephew and niece arrive on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. They don't know their mom is coming. So I need to have a conversation with my niece to see just who she thought was going to be the designated asshole to come get her from the airport in lieu of cooking turkey dinner. Her excuse is that she didn't want to ask (even just fucking ask) her lab partner to do the lab a day early so she could fly out Wednesday. I can then have the convo with her about treating my sister like shit the last 4 years when she is going to school for free because of my sister. Don't get me started on my BIL who isn't even invited to this dumpster fire.

My wife, once she understood the scale of shitstorm descending on our farm, decided that it would behoove her to go visit her parents (81 and 84 years old) in Havasu. I was the one who suggested it, since I got to spend 3 days with them this summer (They are awesome, btw) and they aren't getting any younger. My brother and his family, along with my dad are readying the popcorn maker to watch the drama unfold.

And I get to cook the whole dinner: one baked turkey because my darling niece is allergic to peanuts; one deep fried turkey because fuck her, I am having a deep fried turkey... in peanut oil; a 10lb boneless rib roast; two types of sweet potatos (sis can't eat dairy and I thrive on butter); Watergate salad; 2 kinds of mashed potatoes because, sister; green bean casserole; 2 types of stuffing; veggie tray with Uncle Dan's Southern Style Buttermilk Ranch (which is ironically from Idaho); pecan and cherry pies; and lots of dinner rolls.

Edit: So, yeah, a bit apprehensive is how I am feeling. With a healthy dose of vexation.

Happy Turkey Day!!

 

[Brad H]

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My A/C is literally running….

 

[mikethompson]

hey santa mike, where is my package I am getting for PPMS 2025? I've been checkin the mail all day, and nothing.

Keep checking, it's in there

 

[SBC]

I am very excited to have received a package from someone whom I don't recognize -- I suspect that it's from one of you lovely fellows, but I'm not opening it yet so I'm not certain.

I've yet to send to my recipient! Should happen this weekend. Getting past Thanksgiving first.

To whomever you are -- Thank you! And I'll thank you again after I open it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[ThermionicScott]

Keep checking, it's in there

Time to bust out this meme again:

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Wanna pay me $1500 a pound for Esoterica? I can supply you, no problem. Really, I’d make that sacrifice for you to honor the PMSS 2025 spirit.

You can even throw in a tip.

BTW, postage not included.

How benevolent of you lol

 

[sablebrush52]

How benevolent of you lol

I'm just the spirit of PMSS 2025.

 

[jerry]

I am pleased to report that... I have mailed my Secret Santa package today, Priority Mail!

 

[Chalaw87]

I am pleased to report that... I have mailed my Secret Santa package today, Priority Mail!

I assumed the USPS already knows that PMSS gift are always priority.

 

[jerry]

I assumed the USPS already knows that PMSS gift are always priority.

Oh yeah, they most definitely do!

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Well som bethes i think my secret santa gift arrived…I didn't realize you wanted to get me done and over with before Thanksgiving!

 

[Streeper541]

Target acquired.... Round over.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Wanna pay me $1500 a pound for Esoterica? I can supply you, no problem. Really, I’d make that sacrifice for you to honor the PMSS 2025 spirit.

You can even throw in a tip.

BTW, postage not included.

If be hard pressed to go 10% for myself personally….sorry SS match:

….but Stonehaven is very tasty

 

[woodsroad]

Nothing gets mailed until after Thanksgiving. Then I start getting ready for Halloween.

 

[ashdigger]

My Secret Santa package arrived. I’m a heathen, I’ll open it this weekend. I’m also sending out my box this weekend. If I time it correctly, I’ll just put a label on the newly arrived box and send it to my victim.