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Bizarre Christmas Presents

  • 01-12-2009 1:24am
    #1
    TheScribbler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭


    Well if the red clad man has already packed his sleigh and we've failed to put our order in, I guess that we only have ourselves to blame if we end up with crap presents. But here is a fun idea. Anyone care to share their memories of the most bizarre or quirky Christmas presents that you have received over the years.

    Well here is mine. Back in the 1950s I used to receive a lot of confectionery. Those were the days when Black Magic and Milk Tray chocolates came in wonderful evocative display boxes. Well I didn't get any of those. What I got every year was a confectionery 'smokers kit.' containing candy cigarettes, macaroon cigars, licorice pipes and little boxes of matches containing peppermint sticks. It was my parents fault. They were both smokers. How I avoided becoming one I will never know.


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  • #2
    leapin_lep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭leapin_lep


    I got a cable tidy one year off Santa! it was a nice way of saying.. clean your room!!


  • #3
    Danco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Danco


    Back in the 80's I once got a bag of East German "Lego" from Santa for Christmas. You had to force the bricks together and usually you would end up catching the skin on the edges of your fingers between the bricks which was horribly painful. The pieces wouldn't stay together either, they were really flimsy compared to real Lego and would just pop apart after a few seconds.

    I found out years later that a friend of my mother's had found the bootleg "Lego" at a jumble sale in Wicklow shortly before Christmas and given it to my mother because she thought I would appreciate it. It even came from Santa in a plastic shopping bag rather than a box. We were seriously white trash. How the stuff got from East Germany to Wicklow in the first place I have no idea.


  • #4
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    I got a bag of Oranges when I was a kid in the 70's

    21/25



  • #5
    Sheepy99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Sheepy99


    I actually got a bag of coal once, well more a handful.


  • #6
    Monkeybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Monkeybonkers


    Sheepy99 wrote: »
    I actually got a bag of coal once, well more a handful.


    Bloody luxury! :p

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo


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  • #7
    TheScribbler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭TheScribbler


    I was given a bottle of wine one Christmas but found that it was empty. Looks like the bottle was only for display. Mind you it took me to Easter to have unveiled the joke


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