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December 24, 2007 |
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A Holiday List
FOUND by Jenn
in California
I found this Christmas list on the floor of local independent toy store. On the back was a list for Dad that consisted of knights, car wash supplies, music/CDs -- a very interesting wish list of items.
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interesting gabe and paulina must like animals, maybe they are the little people animals???
Wow. I wish I had that many ideas. I do have some questions though...
Why are the spoons and candles interchangable?
Spelling mistakes aside... What's an eagler and where can I get one?
And does she have two dads? Maybe one bad-ass dad who rides a harley and one who listens to his music in the squeaky-clean Civic?
I'd love to hear the story behind this. Fantastic find. You can't make this crap up. :)
Why does it seem like mom is getting the short end of the stick? dad gets all this cool stuff and mom gets nail polish and candles? SOMEONE is a daddy's girl.
Wow, the list gets more and more bizarre the farther down the list you go. I'd recommend just getting everyone candles, and avoid the panther altogether.
Monty Pithon? That's kind of cute, if she weren't obviously an illegal poacher.
I'm assuming it's skull helmet, otherwise, what's a skull helement? Can you find that on the Periodic Table of Helements?
Let's hope it's not made from a real skull, considering the rest of the list... Maybe it's a helement in the shape of the orgitan's or kuala's skull.
I want some kuala boars.
Also, for mom, I'd get her the nail polish.
I'm assuming the white spoons are plastic.
Seriously, little girl, for the rest of your life your family is going to talk about it at dinner. "Haha, remember that time you got your mom plastic spoons for Christmas?" "Yeah, okay, I was like 9." "You suck."
Oooh, I hope someone gets me a baby white tiger!
Could those animals be desired beany babies?
Boy, I don't know about y'all, but I'm about Found Listed out. I'm ready for a photo or a love note. 8-)
I think it's really interesting that the handwriting doesn't look THAT young. It looks like a lot of the 15-year-olds in the algebra class I was the TA for in high school.
I'm guessing the animals are Webkins...
On the other hand, asking for a knight for Christmas is pretty awesome.
I wanna give Gabe a baby for Xmas, too. Gabe's HOTT.
This Find is awesome.. Way better than any of the lost lists I've found in the course of the past four days.
I love the note pad paper it is written on. What is an orgitan ??? I hope it's an orangatan-they rule ! And what a wonderful gift.
Something about this list is so odd that it seems so at home here. Great find. This list may be for the people who the writer knows who work in a zoo. Never give anyone a baby for Christmas, though -LOL !
omg my head is REELING from trying to make sense of the crappy spelling! she wants to buy her dad a skull "helement". and a jackle... i can only extrapolate the meaning of that one through its context! i'm sorry to be such a bitch :P i know we can't be good at everything. makes me wonder about the age of the girl that wrote it, though...
Mom polishes her nails, Dad washes the car, buffs the chrome; all is as it should be on a bright and shiny Christmas morning.
I know what the animals are.. they want to adopt an animal, you know, through the World Wildlife Federation.
Happy Christmas eve, everyone.
tis most unfair that us moms get the polish and plastic spoons... and no animals at all. white candles. "it's ok, i'll just have plain"
I hear you, Night... and cyanmoon. Enough of these boring, poorly spelled lists. Mariah-teach these kids to spell!
Wow mom certainly got screwed over. Only like two or three items on her list, all of which are pretty bland, and on everyone else's we see things like eaglers and skull helemets.
Mariah- I am a senior in high school and I work with freshmen in a biology class. When I have to grade their labs it's like decoding a secret message. "Dat stuff turn tha watr blu n that mean tha PH go up." They're lucky I'm not in charge of the grading rubric, none of them would pass.
Not to mention that some of the seniors in my class are borderline illiterate. Some teachers actually give me extra credit for my perfect [or near-perfect] spelling/grammar/punctuation.. it's pretty sad.
This makes me want to go hug my dictionary.
merry christmas, mom. i got you....white spoons.
now where could i get myself an orgitan and khala?
Whoever this kid is, she has a way bigger Christmas shopping budget then I had when I was young enough to make lists like this. Perhaps there should be a new take on the old saying "If you have to ask, you can't afford it." In this case: "If you can't spell it, you can't afford it."
all i know is that i want a he stork for christmas.
merry merry.
The animals might be toy vinyl or rubber animal, like these:
http://tinyurl.com/2dprqw
Our independent toy store has a whole wall of all different animals, and my son LOVED them when he was younger, sorting and lining them up.
I've gotten to the point where incorrect spelling doesn't bother me as much as it used to - life's just too short! - but when it's so bad it's hard to decipher the meaning, it's frustrating.
By the way, I just noticed that the printed title on this note is "Holiday List," was this part of a notepad? If so, how thick was it? Enough for a lifetime supply of "holiday lists," that's for sure.
What a very specific thing to manufacture.
I'm interested in seeing the "kuala boars". This magical hybrid is fuzzy, soft, and climbs trees then gores you with his tusks as you cuddle up close in the eucalyptus tree.
Pretty pretty note! I want a baby white tiger too. The bald eagler sounds like a sex toy, which I would like also.
Most children would probably have asked for a puppy, but Gabe and Paulina appear to have much more exotic tastes.
Jackels and Orgitan Babys don't sound like your regular run of the mill stuffed animals
All I want for Christmas is a Bald Eagler, (since actual Eagles are extinct). But I'd still like one of the jerks who goes around hunting eagles...but make sure he's bald.
"i want a hippopotamus for christmas..."
OT, but had to share: my husband gave me the new Postsecret book for Christmas, and my secret was in it! I was shocked, amazed, humbled. It's amazing how strangers become friends through the 'net.
Monty Pithon? Is that a really big snake who cracks jokes and speaks in John Cleese's accent? I vote for getting Dad that! (or maybe a bald Eagler)
Happy Christmas everyone!
Isn't this Micheal Jackson's Xmas list? New additions to the Neverland Ranch maybe....?
Writer, you been tapping the eggnog! But really, eagles aren't extinct. Were you joking about that?
KC, I got myself the new post secret for Christmas! Now I wish I knew which was yours but that's part of the magic of secrets.
I really have nothing to add other than I find this list quite charming.
Only three shopping days till Kat's B-day!
Oopy....guess I jumped the gun with the bald eagle, so to speak...
"The bald eagle is recovering from near extinction. It was upgraded from endangered to threatened status in the mid-1990s. It is now poised to be removed from the Federal list of Endangered and Threatened Species.
Before its recent comeback, the bald eagle had nearly vanished from Illinois."
But I still want a bald eagler under the tree tomorrow morning.
G'night, y'all. Merry Christmas.
so Kat, what do you want everyone to buy you for your birthday?
My wife has that same notepad! It has a strip of magnet on the back to stick it to the fridge, but it's far too heavy and slides off. I suppose once we've made ten or twenty Holiday Lists that won;t be a problem.
I hope she got Dad Monty Python! That's always a good bet!! "What do ya mean uuuuhhh? I don't Like Spam!"
heh. when i first saw this, i thought it was mine.
but its not. however, i do have the same holiday paper.
If all those wishes come true,
They are going to be the coolest house on the block with the best zoo ever.
I have that notepad too! Sadly, it never included a bald eagler.