meet and greet, everybody! (this means you!)

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

Ok, here we go...

1. This happened to me in March, at a friend's party. He decides to have everybody do a lip-sync thing, and I immediately decide not to take part. So some time passes, and people are practicing, but not actually doing their turn, and i finally give in. I get a few people to join me in lip syncing to "I Believe In a Thing Called Love" by none other than the Darkness (remember, this was back when that song was tolerable). I was the singer (Justin?), and the others just did power stances and pretended to be playing the harpsicord...i mean, guitar. So I put on a show, like all glam rockers do, and quite possibly redefined the term "making an idiot out of yourself". The song finishes, and right away, my host-friend yells out "Ok, new game!" Nobody else did their turn, so I was the only one who was exposed as an idiot.

Wow, that was kinda long...

2. I, too, am hoping for the ROTK Extended DVD. I'm also hoping for the new Bon Jovi boxset so I don't have to pay for it.

3. You'd think setting up the "Holiday Tree" would be enough to evoke the Christmas feeling, but something else kicks the feeling in even more. My mom has been collecting small, Christmas-esque houses and figurines for a few years, and every December she sets them up on a table, making a small town. Coming home from school to find the town on a table gets me in the Christmas mood more than anything else (but don't tell her that). This year, she bought a lighthouse with a spinning red light. Very cool.

4. Not really.

TheLuckyOne said:

The moment I've been most embarrassed for OTHER people was driving around looking at the lights in my new neighborhood. I'm sorry, but giant inflatable Eagles lawn ornaments do not put me in the Christmas mood. And my God, the neon... less is more, people!

Man, the decorations in my neighbourhood have gotten weirder and weirder every year. This year, one of my neighbours has a large, lit up Nativity scene on their lawn, with Santa and Frosty the Snowman ornaments right beside it. I tell ya, their lawn reeks of historical and religious accuracy.

[Head Mutant]

Aww, call us Sue and we'll throw a phone party!

[pfrsue]

[Landatauron]

1. Last Friday I was bowling with my aunt and uncle and I tripped over the ball return and landed flat on my ass. It was league night. So plenty of witnesses

2. World of Warcraft...and I already bought it for myself.

3. I can no longer find a parking spot at the mall. Once I do get inside I have to traverse my way around 2 million screaming brats crying to see whatever poor shmuck they conned into being Santa this year all so I can run into Software Etc. knowing exactly what it is I want but still can't get out in less than 5 hours cause some juvenile delinquent is trying to convince his braindead parents to buy him a copy of Murder/Death/Kill 5000 or I get behind the grandparents that want to buy their grandkid a game but don't know what system he owns, or what game it is, what store their in or even what decade it is. But their pretty sure the game had a car in it.

Oh yeah and TNT starts airing "A Christmas Story" nonstop until Valentine's Day

4. Bah Humbug

[Hucklebubba]

Head said:

Aww, call us Sue and we'll throw a phone party!

Okay. You guys are Sue.

[Lissa]

1. Most recent embarrassing moment. Hmmm. It's the willing to share part that makes it hard. (Duckie, please keep your mouth shut on any of my embarrassing moments ) Getting caught singing along to the radio in my lab was pretty bad. It doesn't sound bad, but please bear in mind I can't carry a tune in a handbasket. And I was kind of dancing.

2. Well, it's technically on Duckie's Christmas list, but we need to get the extended edition of ROTK in order to host Geekfest. And on mine... hmmm. I already DID. Shrek 2 and Prisoner of Azkaban.

3. The tree needs to be up. Real tree please, because it's the pine sent that does it.

4. Sure, why not? I'm painting kiddies' faces at work today, does that count? And let me hop on the calling Sue bandwagon!

Actually, there's something I'd implore everyone to do, regardless of their position in politics or whatever. Please consider sending a letter or holiday greeting to a serviceman or woman that's stationed overseas. It's a pretty lonely job over there, and it's a small time investment on your part. Info can be found at:

www.operationmilitarysupport.com

Or several other sites, I'm sure.

Sorry for the public service announcement, but it's a great way to spread some holiday cheer to some people who need it pretty badly!

[synchondrosis]

1. I don't care to remember my embarrassing moment...I'm still in denial it happened.

2. The ROTK EE box set - I had it pre-ordered from Amazon, even had it gift-wrapped with a note from me to me saying what a great gift I gave myself.

3. Where I am, the moment September 1 arrives, it's Christmas season. It's crazy. Out goes the decorations. Out blares cheesy Christmas music. Malls begin to fill up and pockets start to empty.

4. When the mood suits me, I guess. ;D

[BDC]

1. Well, call it getting a really bad gag gift: a rubber band and a dime. That's not a gag gift, that's downright LAZY.

2. I've turned into a Heroclix geek. I want the Kingdom Come set. CURSES!

3. Finals have to end.

4. Like I said, I'll spread cheer when finals are over.

[Ms. Jellybean]

1. Probably thwacking my ex-boyfriend "accidentally" with my drum major's mace during the Christmas parade yesterday... Yes, revenge is so sweet. Anyway, someone caught it on camera, I believe. Not embarassing, except maybe for him.

Okay, truly embarassing? Probably jumping up and down yelling when I actually got a question right yesterday while playing LOTR Trivial Pursuit. Hey, it was a hard question!

2. The Beatles box set with their first four albums. Very nice. I salivate at the thought.

3. I define my life in school band memories. Every time the teacher hands out the Christmas music and my fellow flutist Braxton and I start acting insane... and complaining about the freezing weather at the Christmas parades... Yes, then you know that the season is truly in full swing.

4. I did spread it. By hitting a stupid trumpet player with my mace. He got in the way, that idjit.

Seriously, though, I'm fully intending to sing "Santa Baby" for my band class on the last day.

Right now I'm spreading school spirit with our team colors. ;D Except the green. That's not one of them.

[DARTHMADLER]

1. Can't recall any so I guess it's time to go out and produce a few.

2. Return of the King Special Edition. In fact I've already bought it.

3. When I start to see Christmas lights strung up. In Vancouver this seems to happen in the beginning of November. What with the economy and all we can no longer afford to wait until December to do this.

4.I plan to spread the holiday cheer by taking a sledgehammer to each and every sound system that plays mind-numbing-spirit-crushing covers of traditional Christmas tunes. Or maybe I'll just pierce my eardrums. Ho ho ho.

[Charon]

1. As embarrassing moments go I have had a few in my life but recently I was atending a party where my uncle was DJing and had one to many and next thing I knew i was playing air guitar to Chuck Berry, drunk slam dancing to The Kinks and then the finale was a rendition of Like a Rolling Stone with a live mic. After the preformance I removed my shirt ( not the best visual) and signed it and gave it to a girl sitting at the closest table while doing the Private England wink. Also the dance floor was completely empty for the entire preformance.

2. Half Life 2 and Napolean Dynamite.

3. The cutting of the christmas tree with the family. Tradition for 25 years

4. The best way to spread Christmas cheer is to sing loud for all to hear.

[Big T]

I guess i will join StarOpal and Charon as the mini-mutants in this thread.

1- The most embarassing thing that happened to me recently is so embarassing and a teensie bit x-rated, so i will not speak of it.

2- The 2 things that i would have on that list i have already bought for myself, since i didn't ask for them anyways. They are LOTR: Return of the King Extended version and GTA: San Andreas

3- It seems to me that i can never get into the Christmas spirit untill i have been to some kind of Christmas concert, anything that has me humming Christmas Carols all through December. Unfortunately, this year i didn't get to one untill the 15th. So i haven't been into Christmas as much this year as i have previous years.

4- The only big ways i have ever spread Christmas-ness is by wearing a Santa Hat everywhere i go (i got a funny look from a little girl at the Super Market) and another is to play Christmas music at work, even though i don't have to. I've actually been asked if my manager was making me play it or not.
Jeez, some people can be real Grinches.

[siegeshot]

hi, my name is siegeshot, you may all know me because I bum around the threads posting what I feel (usually in bad grammar style), because its better then not saying it at all because your afraid. So I'd rather say what I feel, and be laughed at, then not saying what I feel to err on the safe side. With that being said, don't read this if u dont want to hear what I feel about stuff, that goes for all my posts.

1. what is your most recent embarrassing moment (that you're willing to share)?

OH gee wiz, that'd be today! I was backing out of my driveway and checked all my mirrors and did spot checks on both sides, and even walked completely around my car and nobody and nothing was there. I proceed to carefully and very very slowly while checking all areas around me, back out of my driveway. I am careful because there are many animals and pets in the neighborhood!

I get to street/sidewalk level AND THERE ARE 4 PEOPLE STANDING WITHIN 2 FEET OF MY CAR!!!!!!!!!! I'm like scared half to death that the dead walk, but alas today isn't the day. Good thing too because I left both baseball bats at my other house. So I look at them, quasi thankful they aren't under my car and proceed to back out. You'd think that'd be the end of it, no siree not in siege life.

As I'm carefully backing out into the road making sure nobody is barreling down it at 75 to send me to duel the reaper in 3 games of old, I also check to make sure I'm not going to back into the car across the street as well.

Well I'm about to straighten out to drive off, and our horn is really sensitive, and the people had JUST THEN finally started continuing to walk down the street. Which means they've been staring at me this whole time. Well our horn is really sensitive, so i accidently bump it while trying to straighten out, and all four of them look at me, that look you get from people when you've done something really dumb and they know it. Like they had been anticipating it. And the one woman looked at me, and she had that look like OH THANK GOD HE FINALLY DID SOMETHING STUPID, I HADNT BEEN STARING AT HIM FOR NOTHING.

So I nervously waved and drove off very very humiliated at my horns sensivitity

2. is there anything that is coming out to buy that you want so much for christmas you're prepared to buy it for yourself?

Hopefully I'm getting new pc speakers, I dont care how cheap they are as long as they have a volume dial and a place to plug in headphones. If I don't get them, yes I'm going to buy them myself. They aren't that expensive, I just happen to need them around xmas. Otherwise I just asked for drawing stuff. It's cheap and people can get me as many drawing things as I want and even if they all get me exactly the same thing it'd still be useful.

3. what traditional event or moment do you have to experience in order for you to realize "ah, it's christmas time!" (or "ah, it's december; the last month of the year!" if you don't celebrate christmas)

If it wasnt on the calender I wouldnt even know its xmas right now. It's cold, wet, rainy outside, but welcome to the pacific northwest. There isnt any traditional event or moment that smacks me and says hey dummy, its xmas time. Unless you count hearing how many people got trampled at walmart on black friday every year. That might be a little bit of a wake up event to me.

There is one thing I thought of though. My fiance and I have our own sort of set of xmas songs we listen too. Twisted xmas, blizzard has some xmas songs, southpark xmas songs, and just whatever other funny xmas songs we can get our hands on. We also have our own set of xmas movies we like. We add a new one every year or two. So far its, the grinch, elf and jingle all the way. Those're just our xmas movies that we really like.

4. do you intend to spread holiday cheer this season or what?

I like spreading holiday cheer, I like buying people things and surprising them. I like saying Merry Christmas to people that I know can't say it back to me because they'll get fired. But see the look in their eye as they nod, but grit their teeth and say happy holidays back to me.

I have a sort of niece in law that my fiance and I REALLY love to spoil for her birthday and xmas. So that is also another way I spread xmas cheer

I'd say more but u know, people'd get mad, and then u know, all heck would break loose. :/

[duckie]

Siegeshot, your most embarassing moment reminded me of an incident one of my good friends had, on the way to high school a few (well, quite a few) years back.

My friend slowly backed up out of his girlfriend's driveway, looking left and right, but not straight back. Well, as he was backing up, he didn't notice that the neighbor across the street was already heading out of her driveway. WHAM! So, they got out and exchanged info, and proceeded to go on their merry ways. She headed out of the development, and he followed her out. And, wouldn't you believe it, at the first stop sign, he didn't quite stop quick enough, and WHAM! he hit her again. ;D

And yea, it was my friend, NOT ME

[duckie]

Please allow me to introduce myself...

1. what is your most recent embarrassing moment (that you're willing to share)?

I've got plenty of 'em, most of them I'm too embarassed to share. Hopefully, Lissa won't chime in! I think the most embarrassing moment I can share was from when I was a teenager. I was asked to play the national anthem for our baseball league's Memorial Day tournament. I had an old trumpet, which was given to me by our Principal, and it was one that he had used in Vietnam. Well, the trumpet was in pretty bad condition; it even has some solder beaded up, to fill in a place where the neck had been cracked. I should have known this was going to be trouble, because it would occasionally cause problems when I used it. Did I ask a friend to borrow his trumpet? No. Did I bring along my french horn, as a backup? Nah. How about my mellophone or alto horn? Nope. So, when I got up in front of all the teams and spectators, I went to play, and nothing came out, except just a buzz through the cracked neck. Nothing quite so traumatic as several hundred people laughing at you, when you're unable to perform...

But I got better, it didn't scar me for life...


2. is there anything that is coming out to buy that you want so much for christmas you're prepared to buy it for yourself?

ROTK extended edition. Or, West Wing season III. I've been told that I can't buy anything between Halloween and XMas, so that people (ahem, Lissa) have a shot at getting me something I may actually want, for XMas.


3. what traditional event or moment do you have to experience in order for you to realize "ah, it's christmas time!" (or "ah, it's december; the last month of the year!" if you don't celebrate christmas)

For me, it's usually the first snowfall, or at least when the parking lots have the white coating, from the first time salt is applied. Then, I know winter has arrived, and XMas should be coming soon.


4. do you intend to spread holiday cheer this season or what?

Yea, although it can be really hard, when you're out shopping. Today, I went to Target, and in every aisle was a mother, her child, and a cart, taking up the entire aisle. Oh, the looks I got when I just said <excuse me>. Spreading holiday cheer in the malls is next to impossible!

But, I'll be sure to spread it with those around me. It's always fun to be there when the gifts are opened, especially since we have 3 nieces and a nephew. I've just got to convince my family that it isn't a race, to see who can open all of their gifts right away! Half of the fun of gift-giving is seeing their eyes shine when they open the gift... but you miss that when they're already tearing into the next gift...