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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.
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How about Mel Brooks' "The History of the World"?
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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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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 .
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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.
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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. . .
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Well, it's better than a sexual Illiad. If there's anything that might break Omeygagh, it's a sexual greek tragedy.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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(Getting married and buying a house at 21 is the scariest prospect ever.)
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