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AndrewB

Gift exchanges are fun...

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Okay, this Christmas I received this as a gift from my Aunt and unrelated Uncle in Edmonton...



Now, it so happens that I received the exact same thing as a gift last Christmas. To my joy, the gift came with a London Drugs gift exchange tag, no receipt required. So last night, I went into London Drugs, browsed around for about half an hour, and finally chose this...



The last one is the only one I have ever watched. Oh, and each one of these were $20 CAD. They've each been tucked into the CD wallet inside my laptop carrying bag.

A pretty good tradeoff if I tell you that much.

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Good choices. Dr. Strangelove is a fun movie, something I think you'd enjoy from what I know about you.

I've never had the guts to exchange a gift. Some hang-up about hurting people's feelings. And I've gotten some real stinker gifts over the years, too. :P

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Groundhog day was actually pretty good when I saw it. I always used to think that it was gonna be a horrible movie, since normally I don't really like Bill Murray. But in this case I enjoyed the film. Original script idea, I love it.

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IMJack said:

I've never had the guts to exchange a gift. Some hang-up about hurting people's feelings.

You shouldn't feel that way. When I give people a present I'm always prepared for it to be a potential target for exchanging - what matters to me is that people are pleased with the end result. No good in giving people a pressie and then it turns out that they already have something similar to what I gave them, but they dare not to exchange it.

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Could you have kept the new mouse and exchanged the old mouse (passing it off as the new one)?

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Once I recieved a Tool CD (Ænima) from my parents for Christmas. To my surprise, my grandparents and my sister also gave me Ænima also...

All of this is crazy, because the day before I bought the fucking CD myself.

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Ichor said:

Could you have kept the new mouse and exchanged the old mouse (passing it off as the new one)?

I thought about that for about 2-3 seconds (trying to be as accurate as possible on that figure), but concluded that 1) I would have to break the package seal, 2) I didn't like the idea of some schmo opening up a mouse box to find a 1-year-old-looking mouse with scratches and discoloration on it, and 3) there's really no advantage to doing so as the one I have works perfectly.

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Heh, that's why I get gift vouchers, then I can choose my own gift ^_^

Like this brand new spanking copy of the AC/DC live album :D

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Good choices. Dr. Strangelove is my 2nd favorite war movie, next to Apocalypse Now.

Groundhogs day isn't too bad either.

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North by North West is also an excellent film, very colourful, full of 1950s nostalgia.

Dr. Strangelove is, IMO, Sellers best ever performance and the film itself is absolutely brilliant.

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