Give me a present and it better be a good one.

[Bad Penny II]

I was thinking a thread where everyone brings me presents would be appropriate for the season but the annoying voice said it should be another of the reciprocal/serial things.  Chop chop, gift me and I've already go plenty of myrrh, it doesn't keep mosquitoes away and it's rubbish for cooking chips in.

[Davin]

I got you a grumpy robot.

[Recusant]

Ignore the annoying voice.

Spoiler

A bit redundant to actually be used, but something for the collection.

A good excuse to post a Rory Gallagher track. 

[Pasta Chick]

I got you this:


It's a mate to that Thylacine I got you all those years ago. I remembered.

[No one]

[Magdalena]

[xSilverPhinx]

[Arturo]

A copperhead snake

[xSilverPhinx]

A copperhead snake

Want!

It's so beautiful.

[Tank]

[Bad Penny II]

Well I thought this would be a present for everybody thread but it's turned out much better.
My mother told me and I taught my children to say "thank you, it's just what I wanted" but I find grumpy oldness frees one from nicety.

I like my Grumpy robot, where's the replicate button though?  I might need assistance corrrraling all the fertile females and managing my consonants.

Thanks Rec for the song in praise of me, I assume it was in praise, the lyrics were a bit hard to catch but it was admirably noisy.

Thanks Pasta, thanks and thanks.  I love my other one but the leg humping has been a bit annoying, sometimes.

Thanks No One, I'm gifting you a capitalisation of your O, feel special, I didn't give NoOneElse nuffin.
I do plan to pick the pecans off and regift your present though.

Thanks Mags, I've invested affection in soft toys before and my wife's thrown them away.
She hasn't thrown Penelope the pig my mother knitted away, she says.
Barney my, I say my but he was his own self, the dearest banana in pyjamas you could wish to meet is... isn't anymore.  His face was faded, I could of drawn it on again, he was gentle machine washable... You could get him new flannelette pyjamas.
Consequently I have commitment issues, you weren't to know though.

Thanks Phinx, I've wanted a new Zealand for a while now.

Apathy, you're giving me a venomous snake, it's just what I wanted, it'll have plenty of company.

Thanks Tank but it hurts, Dylan gets a Nobel for ditties and that tome of greatness never did.

[Recusant]

Thanks Rec for the song in praise of me, I assume it was in praise, the lyrics were a bit hard to catch but it was admirably noisy.

Ah, it seems you didn't un-spoiler the actual gift. I only posted the Rory Gallagher song because I like his music. 

A bit redundant to actually be used, but something for the collection.

[xSilverPhinx]

I have another gift for you: reversing goggles, which will allow you to see things from the correct perspective (upside-down).



Unfortunately the brain, being the wonderful machine that is is, will reverse the image back after a while, even when you're wearing these goggles, giving this product limited effectiveness. Planned obsolescence is a -censored- thing, but it does make the world go round. 

[Tank]

I have another gift for you: reversing goggles, which will allow you to see things from the correct perspective (upside-down).



Unfortunately the brain, being the wonderful machine that is is, will reverse the image back after a while, even when you're wearing these goggles, giving this product limited effectiveness. Planned obsolescence is a -censored- thing, but it does make the world go round.

There was a TV science programme about vision a couple of decades ago. They used these glasses to show how vision was primarily centred, post processing, in the brain. The scientist had to use these goggles for a month before his brain sorted the image out. Of course when he took them off his brain didn't immediately switch back. It took two weeks to be seeing normally again. Well being a glutton for punishment he repeatedly put them back on and off again to the point where his brain adapted virtually instantaneously.

[xSilverPhinx]

I have another gift for you: reversing goggles, which will allow you to see things from the correct perspective (upside-down).



Unfortunately the brain, being the wonderful machine that is is, will reverse the image back after a while, even when you're wearing these goggles, giving this product limited effectiveness. Planned obsolescence is a -censored- thing, but it does make the world go round.

There was a TV science programme about vision a couple of decades ago. They used these glasses to show how vision was primarily centred, post processing, in the brain. The scientist had to use these goggles for a month before his brain sorted the image out. Of course when he took them off his brain didn't immediately switch back. It took two weeks to be seeing normally again. Well being a glutton for punishment he repeatedly put them back on and off again to the point where his brain adapted virtually instantaneously.

Fascinating stuff...