🎄🌟 The Unofficial Official PM Secret Santa 2024 Thread 🌟 🎄

[mikethompson]

Secret Santa? I'm in! Sign me up!

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[SBC]

Is @HawkeyeLinus seriously still holding us up? C'mon guy...

 

[woodsroad]

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"It was just those five with her at the end, all the others having gone off to their respective lair, in search of tranquility and a long year's nap, conserving their spirit and stamina for when the beast would again rear it's fearsome head"

 

[mikethompson]

90+ pages, 1800+ posts, 66 participants, 25 lost Bottle Openers, countless displays of generosity.

It is with a profound sense of gratitude for all you who participated that the door is closed on Pipesmagazine Secret Santa 2024.
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Every year the Secret Santa exchange really brings out what so many of us already know about this forum - it is populated by an incredibly generous bunch of guys who really go out of the way to spread Som Besths cheer to one another. I liked seeing so many of you return year after year and some new names this time as well - hope you guys stick around for next year!

All the best to every one of you for 2025, and see you all sometime in October. Mods, do the thing.

Som Besths!​

 

[Sobrbiker]

Thanks Mike!!

 

[PA Piper Mike]

There have been plenty of displays of great generosity throughout this thread by others; I don’t think I spoiled any of the Secret Santa recipients I’ve gotten so far. I’ve just been lucky enough that the members I’ve gotten have shared enough personal info in the forum to make it fun for me to find cool things to put in their boxes—last year, it was great fun for me to find the missing toys @PA Piper Mike wrote about—I knew he wouldn’t expect a blast from the past like that; and @cosmicfolklore has enough varied interests he’s written about that it kicked my hunter/gatherer gene into play to try to find stuff that would have meaning to him. It’s all in the Som Besths spirit that this forum exudes.

Yeah, Jeff, you def put effort into this...the little astronaut action figures were definitely a surprise, but so were the detailed cartoons on the 6 little post-it sized pieces of paper, which were a pretty cool artistic touch. Also got to experience my first bowls of Penzance, a sparkly looking flake of Stonehaven and Frog Morton OTT....which were all incredible! Oh...and the double bagged (for my protection) sample of Captain Black Grape...lol.

🎄The Official Unofficial PipesMagazine Secret Santa 2023 🎅 :: General Discussion

Sorry I couldn't jump in this year, but it was crazy busy and I knew I wasn't going to be able to put much, if any, effort into this so I passed this year. Looking forward to next year though.

 

[Andre_T]

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Can do. Please note I only accept Group 6 Dunhills, Ivarsson pipes and Esoterica and McCelland Tobaccos

 

[ThermionicScott]

Thanks, Mike! Don't be a stranger -- what are you going to put on the roof next?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

IBTL

 

[JoeW]

Thanks for putting this together: it was a lot of fun and highly entertaining!