The (Un)Official Secret Santa 2018 Thread!

[mikethompson]

Confirmed: Santa smokes a Meer

 

[wyfbane]

Might be a clay.
Super excited we hit 60 people.

 

[mikethompson]

what if Santa Claus is Meerschaum?
6 pages!

 

[woodsroad]

61 elves this year, not bad. Drwatson made it just under the wire.
OK, I have to confirm that all of you little munchkins are eligible to play, then make the matches. I have very busy work days today and tomorrow (when we are expecting 5-8" of snow), so it might take me a bit past the target date of November 15th to make the matches.
Anyway, thank you all for joining in the reindeer games, and thank you for not doing anything to get this thread closed.
Carry on.

 

[mikethompson]

We all appreciate your hard work Dan!

 

[scloyd]

This is my first Secret Santa...looking forward to it. Thank you Dan for taking this project on.

 

[bluegrasspipe]

I concur, thank you for your hard work with the north pole negotiations Dan!

 

[sablebrush52]

Dan,
Thanks for all of your hard work!
Now I can finally dump those last two tins of Dan Tobacco's Holly's Non Plus Ultra and blowtorch the shelf they occupied.

 

[woodsroad]

Indeed. this is a great opportunity to dump pawn off regift all those crappy toxic underappreciated blends that have been gathering dust illegal to landfill maturing to perfection in your basement garden shed cellar.

 

[jaytex1969]

Great photo, Dan. I now have my newest seasonal desktop pic! :clap:

 

[ashdigger]

We all appreciate your hard work Dan!

All???

 

[sablebrush52]

All???

Okay, well...some of us.
Dan, we kinda noticed that you were up to something and we hope it's deserving of thanks, to the extent that any of us care.
Better?

 

[woodsroad]

I'm working on the matches.

Except for Jesse's.

 

[condorlover1]

Dan why are your dressed as a Hasidic Jew smoking a pipe?

 

[woodsroad]

No Whitefish Salad Flake for Simon!

 

[woodsroad]

The Matches Have Been Made​

Emails go out tomorrow​

 

[d4k23]

Thanks Woodsroad for the hardwork! I'm excited to see what I can gift!!

 

[jmill208]

Whooo Hoooo!!!!

 

[woodsroad]

Matthew, I know that you didn't want to ship out of the country, but somehow you got paired with a Mr. Stalin in Moscow, USSR. Is that OK?
He says “I would kill for the Balkans”

 

[mikethompson]

Fun Fact:
Canada Post is on strike, which has led to a backlog of nearly 500 tractor-trailer loads of parcels and packages that need to be sorted -- 375 trailers in Toronto and 120 as of Thursday morning in Vancouver. Additionally, main sorting plants in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal combined normally process about a million parcels daily. All three have been shut down several times since the walkouts began Oct. 22.
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So, fellow Canadian participants, we might not get our packages for awhile
But think of how that extra aging will benefit the tins!