Christmas Letters: Are you sending one out?

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Don't be silly. Forward the letters from the gentleman to Ann and hers to him.

Either both will get the hint or they'll couple up.

Imagine the letter the following year.:eek:
Hmm...now there's a good idea.




:saevil:By the way, could I use your address and say it's mine?:saevilw:
 

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I would assume they know what that means. I just read it a few times and can't figure out what the hell you are talking about. :confused::confused:
Which is why it goes to like-minded folk.

You would get the more family-friendly letter!:biggrin1:

(Thanks, Gillette! You get one free pass to ride in the sling with the stud of your choice!)
 

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I usually do a photo shoot and make a really cool Christmas or New Years card every year. This is the first time in probably 6-7 years I'm not doing it.
 

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Martha Stewart's Christmas letter
to Erma Bombeck and Erma's response.
Hi Erma,

This perfectly delightful note is being sent on paper I made myself to tell you what I have been up to. Since it snowed last night, I got up early and made a sled with old barn wood and a glue gun. I hand painted it in gold leaf, got out my loom and made a blanket in peaches and mauves.


Then, to make the sled complete, I made a white horse to pull it from DNA that I had just sitting around in my craft room. By then, it was time to start making the place mats and napkins for my 20 breakfast guests. I'm serving the old standard Stewart twelve-course breakfast, but I'll let you in on a little secret: I didn't have time to make the tables and chairs this morning, so I used the ones I had on hand.


Before I moved the table into the dining room I decided to add just a touch of the holidays. So I repainted the room in pinks and stenciled gold stars on the ceiling.

While the homemade bread was rising, I took antique candle molds and made the dishes (exactly the same shade of pink) to use for breakfast. These were made from Hungarian clay, which you can get at almost any Hungarian craft store.

Well, I must run. I need to finish the hand-sewn buttonholes on the dress I'm wearing for breakfast. I'll get out the sled and drive this note to the post office as soon as the glue dries on the envelope I'll be making.

Hope my breakfast guests don't stay too long. I have 40,000 cranberries to string with bay leaves before my speaking engagement at noon. It's a goodthing.

Love, Martha

P.S. When I made the ribbon for this typewriter, I used 1/8-inch gold gauze. I soaked the gauze in a mixture of white grapes and blackberries which I grew, picked, and crushed last week just for fun.

Response from Erma Bombeck

Dear Martha:

I'm writing this on the back of an old shopping list. Pay no attention to the coffee and jelly stains. I'm 20 minutes late getting my daughter off for school, packing a lunch with one hand-on the phone with the dog pound, seems old Ruff needs bailing out again. Burnt my arm on the curling iron when I was trying to make those cute curly fries, how DO they do that? Still can't find the scissors to cut out some snowflakes, tried using an old disposable razor . . . trashed the tablecloth. Tried that cranberry thing; frozen cranberries mushed up after I defrosted them in the microwave. Oh, and don't use Fruity Pebbles as a substitute in that Rice Krispies snowball recipe unless you like food that resembles puke! Smoke alarm is going off, talk to ya later.

Love, Erma
 

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Which is why it goes to like-minded folk.

You would get the more family-friendly letter!:biggrin1:

Yes, I would. lol I looked up the acronym and I am very surprised. :eek: Based on your postings(well, the ones I've seen), I would never have suspected that your interests went in that direction. :biggrin1: You just never know.
It would be very funny if you accidentally sent letter A to letter B people, and vice versa. :yikes:
 

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Yes, I would. lol I looked up the acronym and I am very surprised. :eek: Based on your postings(well, the ones I've seen), I would never have suspected that your interests went in that direction. :biggrin1: You just never know.
It would be very funny if you accidentally sent letter A to letter B people, and vice versa. :yikes:
I hope you found the correct ones for those acronyms!

I've posted many many times about my membership in the Chicago Hellfire Club, and the fact that I attend several leather/BdSm events throughout the year; it's never been a secret.:biggrin1:

I'm smart enough, though (and also frugal enough) to count how many are on "list A", print those, and send them before printing "list B." Frugal, because I don't want to waste ink and paper printing too many extras!
 

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I hope you found the correct ones for those acronyms!

I only typed in one acronym and I am assuming it is the first choice that came up.

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I've posted many many times about my membership in the Chicago Hellfire Club, and the fact that I attend several leather/BdSm events throughout the year; it's never been a secret.:biggrin1:

I've never seen any posts of yours like that. They're usually political or kind of serious. You are definitely not what I thought, and never struck me as being into any type of scene.

I'm smart enough, though (and also frugal enough) to count how many are on "list A", print those, and send them before printing "list B." Frugal, because I don't want to waste ink and paper printing too many extras!

It's better to be safe that sorry. You don't want some old aunt or cousin to get the wrong letter. :eek:
 

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I only typed in one acronym and I am assuming it is the first choice that came up.

I've never seen any posts of yours like that. They're usually political or kind of serious. You are definitely not what I thought, and never struck me as being into any type of scene.

It's better to be safe that sorry. You don't want some old aunt or cousin to get the wrong letter. :eek:
Yes, International Mr. Leather. Not Iterative Methods Library or Integrated Memory Logic.

I'm sorry you had that impression of me. I really am a fun-loving, gregarious person, I'm just very passionate about some things. As far as "the scene," it's more my partner than me, but I do enjoy it and have met so many wonderful, exceptionally bright people. (I think I've met more people with Ph. D. and M. D. degrees in the 6 years I've been with my partner than in the previous 46 years.)

And back on the original topic, several people mentioned that "anyone who knows me well enough for me to send something already knows everything I would put in the holiday letter." Well... perhaps. Our holiday letter goes to those whom we see several times a week, and to those we see less often. That way, everyone is up-to-date on most of the important stuff.

We got a holiday letter from a friend of ours in Iowa. Two years ago, he took up bike riding as therapy when recovering from a stroke. In his letter, he tells us about the various organized rides he's been on in the past year. It's interesting, and I'm happy to see him passionate about something that's good for him.
 

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I get these "my year in review" form letters in many xmas cards also. They usually are a page long, folded and stuck into the card like a flyer for a bake sale. They leave me cold.

What is the point of sending someone a card if it isn't personal? Sending a xeroxed letter without any personal note or greeting is obnoxious in my book. Who am I chopped liver? What, you couldn't bother with me?

Seems like a half-assed impersonal way to acknowledge a friendship or acquaintance. A few personalized sentences or wishes goes much further than a xeroxed letter with all the warmth of something that has been sent out to 50 people. I just think it's tacky.
 

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I get these "my year in review" form letters in many xmas cards also. They usually are a page long, folded and stuck into the card like a flyer for a bake sale. They leave me cold.

What is the point of sending someone a card if it isn't personal? Sending a xeroxed letter without any personal note or greeting is obnoxious in my book. Who am I chopped liver? What, you couldn't bother with me?

Seems like a half-assed impersonal way to acknowledge a friendship or acquaintance. A few personalized sentences or wishes goes much further than a xeroxed letter with all the warmth of something that has been sent out to 50 people. I just think it's tacky.

They seem like bragging and way too serious for me, earl. The least they could do is to lighten up:

"Our daughter was proud to be picked to represent every high school sophomore in the Northern Hemisphere when she met with the President in the Oval Office and promptly threw up on his desk, destroying the original copy of The Constitution."
 

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They seem like bragging and way too serious for me, earl. The least they could do is to lighten up:

"Our daughter was proud to be picked to represent every high school sophomore in the Northern Hemisphere when she met with the President in the Oval Office and promptly threw up on his desk, destroying the original copy of The Constitution."

Hmmm. I got a different version of that letter from Monica Lewinsky's parents, but I know exactly what you mean.

But what can they really say Pecker? Janie, our dumbest daughter was set back a grade and now she is doing fine. We got new curtains in our kitchen last month and they are wonderful. Gracie, our dog, got her rabies shots this summer. Had my teeth cleaned yesterday. My life is so God damn boing that I almost killed myself today.

That letter would be just too painful to read in a season filled with joy.
 

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I send them. :redface:

This year's was rather depressing because of my job difficulties. Last year's was much happier because at this time last year I was gainfully employed making good money, and had no idea that I'd lose my job in January.

Most of the people did already know this stuff, but I like to do a "year in review" thing anyway.

Hopefully next year's will be a lot more like last year's than this year's!!! :smile:
 

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Yes, International Mr. Leather. Not Iterative Methods Library or Integrated Memory Logic.

lol :smile: I kind of figured that.

I'm sorry you had that impression of me. I really am a fun-loving, gregarious person, I'm just very passionate about some things. As far as "the scene," it's more my partner than me, but I do enjoy it and have met so many wonderful, exceptionally bright people. (I think I've met more people with Ph. D. and M. D. degrees in the 6 years I've been with my partner than in the previous 46 years.)

If someone asked me to pick 20 guys from this site who may be into that scene, your name wouldn't even cross my mind.