So I have this friend. She's turning 21 in two or three weeks. History education major, just got a new house, getting married on October. I'd like to spend about $20, but we have a mutual friend that I might split the cost of something with. I'm running out of gift ideas for the girl, and she was never easy to shop for to begin with. But she's my oldest friend, and I'm gonna get her something. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
How about Mel Brooks' "The History of the World"?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Booze.
Posted by missmanners (Member # 1523) on :
I am great at picking out gifts for people I know. Sounds like she will be getting a lot of stuff over the next year. You say she's getting married? Hows about a gift certificate to Victorias Secret?
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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
quote:Okay, well, uh... candlesticks always make a nice gift, and uh, maybe you could find out where she's registered and maybe a place-setting or maybe a silverware pattern. Okay, let's get two! Go get 'em.
Or, since she's a History education major, you might think about looking into a not too expensive first edition book of something...or a nice old book.
Or, for not too expensive art that she might place in her house, check out Novica .
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
I'm pretty sure someone already gave her "History of the World" several years ago, and at last report she'd never actually watched it. Booze would be hiliarious, actually, if only as a gag gift. This girl collapses after a spoon of Nyquil before she can get to her bed. Some people are quiet drunks, some are angry drunks, some are depressed drunks. She'd be an unconscious drunk.
The Victoria's Secret gift certificate... might just work, actually. Funny, useful, and I don't have to pick it out! But I'd really really have to not be there, or not be in a group of people, when she got it. I don't think I could handle that.
I'll contemplate the book idea. She has some area of historical specialization, I can't think of it right now though. Definitely worth looking into. And she's overflowing with knick-knacks for the house already, so more might not be a great thing.
Posted by Daryus Aden (Member # 12) on :
I suppose a glow in the dark adult toy is out of the question then?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Haven't we had this thread before?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Yes. As soon as I saw the title in the Recent Threads list, I knew that once more we were going to be called upon to steer Omeychops through another sexual odyssey. . .
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Well, it's better than a sexual Illiad. If there's anything that might break Omeygagh, it's a sexual greek tragedy.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
*LOL*
Sexual odyssey? Perhaps I should specify that I'm not the one's she's marrying! Though you may be right, I think I've done something similar in the distant past. Totally forgot about that.
And to tell you the truth, Daryus, I wouldn't know where to find such a thing in Nashville. The subject has come up before, jokingly, and I didn't even know where to start.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Okay, this would be more of a wedding gift than a birthday gift, but when I got married, one of the most useful things we got was a couple of tray tables. Initally, we didn't have a kitchen table, so we had to eat off these for a while. There are the full size floor ones, or the ones that fit over your lap (for breakfast in bed!).
Even for a girl, a practical gift can be a good one.
B.J.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
A copy of Mario Kart. Everyone wins.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
She's getting married. Go traditional and get her a shiney chrome toaster. Get everyone else to buy her the exact same toaster as a gag (get her a real gift as well, of course: I reccomend a nice bedspread/sheet set or a gift certificate to a nice local resturant she likes- Newlyweds often dont get to go out all that much if money's tight).
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
(Getting married and buying a house at 21 is the scariest prospect ever.)
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the "Kama Sutra".
Or you could cut off one of your ears and... oh wait, that's been done....
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
The Kama Sutra is overrrated. It was written by an Asetic (sp?) that never had sex in his life!
Some of the positions are good while others...are senseless. Better to get out the ol' Twister mat and start screwing around from there as foreplay.
Posted by Daryus Aden (Member # 12) on :
Omega, come on mate. Don't tell me that you don't know where to start. (You're actually serious?).
Here's where to start if you don't know:
Yellowpages. Let your fingers do the walking!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Go for something funny and wild- belly-dancing lessons for example.
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Back at Christmas, my friend Wendy and her boyfriend David bought a house and I gave them a lovley champagne flute set for $30 from Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
I'd say you can't go wrong with the following for under $20 USD...
Yeah, but it depends whether or not they'll use any of that stuff. We kept our wedding list pretty small, or rather the store we used (John Lewis) gave us a book with just about every category of thing you could ever want, and the things you wanted you went round the store and wrote into the book the name and catalogue number; in addition, you could mark the items that you considered really essential. Mostly we outfitted our kitchen - because we'd were already living together, we'd all the furniture, bedlinen, towels etc. we needed already. There were some people who ignored the list and got us stuff we'd never ask for - shot glasses, in fact! And weird ornamental shit we suspect had been given to them, unwanted, and they passed it on. In fact, I think we ended giving some of it away ourselves. 8)
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Get her a biiiig fruitcake.
Posted by missmanners (Member # 1523) on :
quote:Originally posted by Omega:
The Victoria's Secret gift certificate... might just work, actually. Funny, useful, and I don't have to pick it out! But I'd really really have to not be there, or not be in a group of people, when she got it. I don't think I could handle that.
You could also go for the bizarre, like give her a fishing lure... or an old rusty nail and make up some story about how the nail has historical significance because [tell lie here] and that you intend to give her another historically significant nail on every special occasion and you expect to see them suitably mounted and framed and hanging in her new home over the mantle or other place of honor.
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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge: Back at Christmas, my friend Wendy and her boyfriend David bought a house and I gave them a lovley champagne flute set for $30 from Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
I was so expecting "...enormous novelty dildo" there. Colour me surprised.
Posted by missmanners (Member # 1523) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Get her a biiiig fruitcake.
I like fruitcake.... not that nasty stuff at Christmas, but real fruitcake, made with lots of nuts and dried (not candied ) fruit.
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Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
quote:Originally posted by Daryus Aden: Omega, come on mate. Don't tell me that you don't know where to start. (You're actually serious?).
Here's where to start if you don't know:
Yellowpages. Let your fingers do the walking!
Or, you know, that thing called the Internet. You don't even have to go in the store (unless you want to)! My personal favorite is www.mybodyvibes.com, which has a very tasteful women-centered site design and product reviews. I recommend pocket-sized vibrators like Pocket Rocket for first-time users. Big dildos can be too intimidating.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Wait...the internet's used for more than Trek and porn now?
When'd that happen?
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
...while you were trying out the Karma Sutra?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
"Karma Sutra"? That's the notion that when you make/dont someone come, it'll eventually come back to you.
Works for me....I have some serious payback around the corner...(hopefully). Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Yes, for all those women that had to fake it.
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Sorry the mis-spelling was an in joke type thing between myself and some friends at school - my fingers went on auto pilot. Stangely enough Jason you weren't far off the mark with your description...
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
An in-joke, eh? Eh? Inside. I'll stop now. Stopping.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
*waits*
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
INSIDE THE GENITALS
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
At least, I think.
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
OK we get it you make the big bucks and can afford to double-post whenever you want.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I didn't double post. I just thought it needed some clarification.
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
Whatever you say, Rockapella.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Well, I mean, technically I did, since there are two posts there, but they are from me deliberately making two posts, and not mechanical hoodoo.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Non-use of the "edit" button for comedy effect is not cool.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I went and got myself some McDonalds-bought food posioning and have not been around much: I've been too busy puking while curled up into a ball on my bathroom floor praying for death.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Now you know how everyone else feels. About you. 8)
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I puke in your general direction.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
That Scottish Quisine will do it everytime. Shouldn't "Tubular Bells" be playing while Jason does his homage to Linda Blair?
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