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    So I'm dying to know....

    What everyone had for Christmas??????



    I had... a Fiat keyring! two lovely snuggly cardigans, slippers, a bottle of Tia Maria, bottle of Malibu chocolate, cash and stinky stuff!

    All in all, quite happy!

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    Re: So I'm dying to know....

    I got a home brew kit.... with 2 tins of beer making goo - apparently I've enough to make around 80 pints

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    Re: So I'm dying to know....

    Few bits of clothes, few gift vouchers... and a HDTV I have been dying to get for a while now! Well, I didn't get the TV but some money towards it heh

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    Re: So I'm dying to know....

    m&s slippers
    havana cub special reserve (now drunk, ffs)
    m&s dressing gown
    simpsons mug, worlds best dad mug (may be revoked after drinking rum)
    terrys choccy orange (its mine ya ****)
    bottle of JD, (not tonight ta)


    oh god im ratted

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    Re: So I'm dying to know....

    I got:

    Bootle of JURA scotch
    2 cut crystal tumblers
    Set of Marble whiskey cubes (think ice cube without watering down your scotch)
    Ipod Classic 160GB! (mine old one was stolen from my car recently! I have the best girlfriend ever!)
    Pestle and Mortar
    Laptop bag
    Car Charger for my Phone,
    16GB MicroSD Card for my Phone
    VW Bus money box
    Toast 'n Egg toaster (coolest gadget ever, makes toast and eggs at the same time. guess what I had for breakfast!)
    Mini wash-kit in leather(et) folder (been wanting something like this for ages for those impromptu road trips)
    Lovely Scarf (Mom knitted it for me, love the mother!)

    All in I'm very happy, if it wasn't for being ill and sleeping for most of the day away, it would have been the perfect Christmas surrounded by friends, family and loved ones!

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    Bottle of dalwhinnie whisky
    Cash
    Acer Revo R3610 mini PC thing (had it a few weeks to setup, joint prezzie for Mrs Flibb and myself)
    A watch

    Its a Seiko automatic chrono dating back to 1977.

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    Re: So I'm dying to know....

    I had the following:

    Digital photo frame
    A shirt, scarf, t-shirts and socks from debenhams.
    Homer simpsons mug and keyring
    some money from the granparents (god bless them)
    A Henry desktop hover (nice idea, doesn't work)
    More smelly stuff to add to the pile from last year.. sigh.

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    Re: So I'm dying to know....

    Two boxes of Maynards wine gums & a comedy "Control a Woman" remote control
    [
    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzen
    When I say go, both walk in the opposite direction for 10 paces, draw handbags, then bitch-slap each other!

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    Re: So I'm dying to know....

    I got

    Medecine & Martini M*A*S*H collection, every single episode remastered and the movie DVD Set
    Ross Kemp on Gangs Series 1 (Moscow etc) DVD Set
    Star Wars origional Trilogy Remastered DVD Set
    Jack Skellington Optical Mouse
    2 x Huge Toblerone
    Bash Street Kids Annual
    Beano & Dandy Golden Age Winter Games Annual
    Assasins Creed 2 PS3
    Big Tin Roses Sweets

    Loving my gifts this year, main one for me is the MASH set, been after it for so many years now

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    24 Day 7 Blu-ray
    BSG final series DVD
    Family Guy series 8 DVD
    Nation - Terry Pratchett
    Rice and Noodles cookbook
    A vicious looking pocket knife
    The world's worst sweater (Edit - thinking about it, it's hardly the worst but I'm still not going to be seen in public wearing it)
    A bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk with hazelnuts

    And I treated myself to a few deals from Steam.

    And, uhh, my Dad will be lending me a not inconsiderable sum of money in the very near future.
    ____
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    Re: So I'm dying to know....

    A dressing gown that I feel like a Wizard wearing, its great.
    Slippers (sigh)
    Randy Couture's book
    BJ Penn's book
    A grumpy driver book
    The Gormenghast trilogy
    Gormenghast DVD
    Assorted beers
    Chocolate coins
    some clothing
    A couple of Neil Gaiman books
    Some dosh towards a new PC
    Run, run in fear for I am the future of the NHS.

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    The whole Top Gear activity book collection.
    A Stig T-Shirt.
    Where's Stig? (The "Where's Wally?" style book)
    Top Gear calendar.
    Red Dwarf 1 DVD
    Some chocolate.

    That's about it. I don't think people have quite got the message that I've gone right off Top Gear.

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    Re: So I'm dying to know....

    Quote Originally Posted by KidChameleon View Post
    Where's Stig? (The "Where's Wally?" style book)
    My mate got that, the book is hilarious! BBC are really leeching off The Stig franchise but rightly so, lol

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    Re: So I'm dying to know....

    £20 M&S Vouchers (I rarely go there)
    Electric Blanket, which is handy as the boiler packed in yesterday here, so no heating or hot water!

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    A rather sexy new Zippo
    Alexander Roys book
    Assassins Creed 2
    Al Murrays "Think yourself British" self help book
    Cash for my new tattoo

    and of course.....Socks


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    Some chocolate and a ticket for Rammstein

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