What was your favorite gift this Christmas

[late for dinner]

Hi, I didnt see a thread for this yet so I thought I would ask: WHat was your favorite gift you received over the Holidays? (If you dont celebrate, then what was your favorite gift ever?)

This Christmas I have a toss up between 3: The Dark Knight dvd, Suns/Cav's Tickets, and an 8 gig iPod that doesnt work on my pc cause I dont have windows xp or vista:smallannoyed:

[Coplantor]

I'm somewhere between my dark knight DVD and my 2gb pen drive.
Seriously, how many of us got a batman DVD this christmas?

[Ashen Lilies]

I'm somewhere between my dark knight DVD and my 2gb pen drive.
Seriously, how many of us got a batman DVD this christmas?

Well, I didn't get a Dark Knight DVD for Christmas, I got it the week before. :smalltongue: What I did get was a Gotham Knight DVD. :smalltongue:

My favorite gift though was probably the Ice Cream machine (the cool gigantic ones that require actual ice, not the mini ones with coolant) and accompanying Ice Cream recipe book. :smallsmile: Mmmmmm. Homemade Ice Cream, and you can't have any. :smallamused:

[Coplantor]

dude! I got Gotham Knight DVD a week ago!
This was a good year for the batman franchise. Well, among geeks at least.

EDIT: Waaaaaaaaaait, it was a month ago, I should really start to pay atention to dates.

EDIT2:@V: I'll answer you like this because I'm enjoyin the simetry of our posts. Yeah, it's an awesome movie!

[late for dinner]

I was just thinking, You know that the Dark Knight was a good movie when It actually competes for top present with things like ipods and every other gift you receive....

[Ashen Lilies]

As good as TDK is, it can never compare with an Ice Cream Machine! Never! Or, even better, eat your homemade Ice Cream, while watching TDK. :smalltongue:

[Mauve Shirt]

My sequencer and my Tropic Thunder DVD. :smalltongue: HA!

[late for dinner]

ok you got me, Homemade Ice cream is awesomesauce and the fact that you got one means that you have creative gift givers in your family and...well...yeah.

[bosssmiley]

Probably a book:

George Selgin's "Good Money: Birmingham Buttonmakers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821"

It's about how Gresham's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_Law) doesn't apply when people have the choice of which means of exchange to use and... No, it's really good. It has all these great anecdotes about just what sneaky, skullduggerous rogues the great figures of the Industrial Revolution actually were...

Shut up! Don't judge me! :smallfurious:

(I'm also happily humming at WallE on DVD :smallbiggrin: )

[Oregano]

a 1kg bar of Dairy Milk! It's massive and awesome!.

[Coplantor]

Noooooooooo, you all broke the wonderfull symetry of the posts!

[UserClone]

Holy cow Oregano:smalltongue:, that's enormous!:smallwink:

Probably my favorite gift was a copy of The King of Things and the Cranberry Clown by John Callahan, which is a much deeper book than it appears to be on the surface. My GF found a copy online which was as good as new (it's been out of print for ages)! That and my new 16gb iPod (which I can't use because I need to update iTunes to v8.0:smallyuk:)

[SurlySeraph]

Either Fallout 3 or my awesome flashlight.

[T-O-E]

Either the Necronomicon (collection of some Lovecraft stories) or Spore. Can't get the latter to work though, unfortunately.

[Atomsized]

I can't decide whether I like my $20 Target gift card, or the normal $20 bill I got.

Definitely the gift card.

[UserClone]

Bah, Lovecraft wins either way, Troll.:smalltongue:

If you're into him, this (http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=223) was a fantastic buy for me. I got it at Borders.

Oooo...Just looked up what Necronomicon you were talking about, and nevermind, that's probably got more in it than mine, though mine is probably a bit less cumbersome for travel purposes... :/

[runekiri]

My favorite gift this christmas was a new tv (it cost about 4000Sek (Sek means swedish coins(i think 1$ is about 10Sek)))

but i also likes the movies i got, i got 17 different horror movies.

(12 of the horror movies was bought in something called a bodybag so i think it didnt cost close to as much as it would if they bought them one at a time).

[Jalor]

Spore. It is so amazing. The reviews didn't really do the game justice; it just gets better as you go on.

[Em Blackleaf]

My new digital camera.

The old one sucked (it had a broken switch on top of the fact that it's older than I am), and this one's beautiful.

I also liked that I got Juno on DVD, $30 cash, and a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card.

And then my brother got Dark Knight on DVD. :smalltongue:

[late for dinner]

if only I had a computer to call my own...then I could listen to my new iPod and play spore...and Dawn of War

[Athaniar]

My favorite present is probably the new camera (which I got to choose myself today), but there's nothing wrong with the others, either, such as the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Night of the Dragon.

[Crispy Dave]

my favorite gift would have been a trip to Hawaii but I couldn't get to the airport so I guess its my 1600 Microsoft point card.

[Rutskarn]

Top Three:

Sam and Max, Season 2

Monty Python's Flying Circus Box Set

Blue Sun T-Shirt (Firefly)

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

Twelve-pack of Mini-Cons. I love those wacky Mini-Cons, with their crazy over- or under-sized feet, balance issues, and tiny tiny articulation.

All the Lego was nice, too. But it's not Mini-Cons.

[Crispy Dave]

o ya I forgot about my 12 pack of TAB its good stuff

[T-O-E]

Seems quite a lot of people got The Dark Knight.

[UserClone]

*scratches head bemusedly* What's a mini-con? I could've sworn I've been told this.

[Myatar_Panwar]

Well, the most expensive would be the 8G Zune. Although the Witcher has to be my favorite gift this Christmas. Just... so good.

[Morchaint]

I didnt get much so Ill mention it all

a. spore.

b. STING Songs from the Labyrinth. dont ask.

c.Thomas Howard ~ The Achievement of C.S. Lewis.

d. Klingon tshirt. also dont ask.

random christmas card


church group gift 2 boxes Queen Anne dark chocolate cherry cordials,
and Richard J. Foster ~ Celebration of Discipline.

all in all a good Christmas.. stuff to read, stuff to listen to, and something
to play.

however I didnt get the new job, or new apt I asked Santa for.

[KindaChang]

The approximately $600 cash from extended family combined.

[Oregano]

Holy cow Oregano:smalltongue:, that's enormous!:smallwink:

Yer, it's massive, and is probbaly going to last me about two or three weeks. I was totally shocked when I unwrapped it, I had no idea what it was.

[UserClone]

That would last me...longer than it would take to go bad, we'll just say.

[Thiel]

It's a tie between money for a new biclycle and a pair of Sennheiser PX 100 headphones.

[Saithis Bladewing]

I only got one gift, so I don't have much of a choice now do I?

[Rutskarn]

Do tell, Saith. Do tell.

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

*scratches head bemusedly* What's a mini-con? I could've sworn I've been told this.

It's a Transformer. A midget one (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con). In this case, specifically these li'l' dudes (http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/universe/default.cfm?page=News/Item&newsID=958387D0-D56F-E112-4A37D17798536AB0).

They're really tiny.

[Heliomance]

The machete my sister got me. So very much.

Yes, I now have a genuine machete. It's awesome.

[Tirian]

I got this (http://store.xkcd.com/#RegularExpressionsShirt). Score!

[Recaiden]

An mp3 player and headphones.

[Headless_Ninja]

The Sandman: Season of Mists OR World War Z. Both very, very awesome.

[Castaras]

Two days with the one I love. Best gift ever.

[Supagoof]

Two days with the one I love. Best gift ever.QFT - Only the one I love is much more different then the one Cassie loves. :smallwink:

That aside, I'd have to say for material things, it would be the wooden ornament my uncle made for me. Hand carved, and made out Jerusalem Olive - which is quite the thing since the Olive is from trees that aren't cut down for their wood. The way they obtain the wood is by picking up branches that fall off the tree. So the fact he went through a very eco-green friendly way to make the ornament = epic win in my book for a gift.

[Cristo Meyers]

Found this in my PM box once I got back from visiting my folks:

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_dlkAw43cLC0/SSgRIuhrBXI/AAAAAAAAA-o/azwDgWstIO4/s800/18-stupidity.jpg

I count it among the best gifts. :smallbiggrin:

[potatocubed]

I think the gift that's going to see the most post-Christmas use is going to be the toasted sandwich maker my cousin got me. I love toasted sandwiches, but not quite enough to buy my own device for making them. :smallsmile:

[Sneak]

My favorite gift would probably be my hat, proudly featured in the you thread on the head of yours truly. It's supposedly a fedora, but I think of it as more of some sort of mentally disabled lovechild between a fedora and a bowler hat. Ah, a doomed love if ever there was one...

I love my hat. :smallbiggrin:

Also, I got my old headphones fixed. Yay! It wasn't really a Christmas gift, but it was around Christmas, and someone else paid for it, so I count it as one. And they're great (still)!

[KKL]

I didn't get a Christmas present! Not even money!

However, I consider Persona 4 (which I bought 5 days earlier) to be an adequate gift.

[Hooded1]

I got Dark Knight as well.
But my best gift was from my Mom, she etched the names of the Characters from my D&D game at school onto a set of mugs. It was incredibly sweet.

[Da King]

Some nice GW gift cards that my brother mailed me all the way from Vancouver.

[grinner666]

My parents gave me three Cohiba cigars and a check for $250 with an order to not spend it on anything practical. I've already smoked two of the cigars and they're possibly the best I've ever tasted. And the money's going to take my Eldar 40k army from cool to aaaaaaaaaaawesome!!!

Oh, it's also gonna get me Fallout 3 ...

:smallbiggrin:

[Kigganaku]

The 8 gig iPod that I got, returned and then bought more Orks for my 40k army.

[Fredthefighter]

This laptop that I am posting from :biggrin:

[Seffbasilisk]

My aunt got me a necklace that reads "Not all who wander are lost", which also was awesome because it wasn't one of those 'I need to get a gift for X' presents, but just something she saw and felt compelled to get for me.


That and the digital camera my parents got me. Was perfect for recording my christmas-mohawk.

[Egiam]

Probably my "the proper term is smite evil, not bump uglies" miko shirt from cafepress. :smallbiggrin:

[Calamity]

A Wii and SSBB! :smallbiggrin:

Revision and homework went straight down the drain afterwards though. (Not literally, (un)fortunately) Oh well.

[hobbes543]

Either The Dark Knight DvD or the used copy of the Legend of Zelda Collectors edition Game Cube disc I found and bought with some of my cash gifts. I can finally play Majora's Mask now on my Wii!

[Lentava-Heppa]

I got a cute cow soft toy. It is not much special in itself but I got it from someone very dear to me. A female long time friend who lives far away and I didn't expect anything from her (nor did I remember to send her anything. :( ). When I got that and the card that game with it... It really made my Christmas.

Beat that.

[SMEE]

Hm... I belive that between make up kit and garnet necklace, I like the necklace better. Mom gave me both, though.

[Collin152]

The necklace and shirt pictured below.
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t100/collin152/RNANeklesscopy.jpg
But mostly the necklace.
I really love that necklace.

[Leper Master]

DeviantART upgrade!!

Yes!!

[CMOTDibbler]

My favorite gifts are somewhere between Spore and my new 30g Ipod.

[Penguinsushi]

I'm not sure if it's my *favorite*, but it's definitely the most noteworthy:

I was talking to Llama a while back about Zelda games (a shared passtime) - specifically that I'd played Link's Awakening (first Zelda on the original b/w GameBoy) back when i was in junior high and got stumped at the end of the second-to-last (i think) dungeon and was wondering if i'd be able to get through it now...

...So he took this somewhat off-hand comment and for christmas he got me an old, used b/w GameBoy along with the game so now I can try it again...

So far, i've conquered 3 dungeons. I'm on my way...

Just another reason why our resident Llama is a great guy. :smallsmile:

~PS

[phoenixineohp]

A plane flight.

[Vella_Malachite]

...I think the Firefly box set was the second most favourite present, but the best present was the surfboard!

I got a green foam Malibu (longer and rounded ends), which I promptly named Malcolm Reynolds, after the good captain.

I also got a crazy awesome skirt that you can make into a dress and wear 100 different ways...

[Dirk Kris]

I actually didn't get any presents this year.
*pouts*
Hope I get Playground loves instead.

...I wonder if it's because I was naughty...?

[Agamid]

I couldn't pick a favourite... but some noteworthy ones...

An "I fight like a girl" T-shirt from my dad

Vintage shoulder-length kid-skin gloves from my brother and his fiance

An all-girls (as in, female models) fireman calendar from my mum

An all expenses paid cremation for two of my favourite lizards, from my dad

Green hair dye and a dye-job from my friend Rio.

[SilentNight]

A Pearl Izumi biking jacket. Lightweight, water/wind resistant, warm and fuzzy, it just doesn't get any better.

[TwoBitWriter]

My wife got a wii. I bought her an I-Pod Nano.

I got Guitar Hero II for my Xbox and a couple of JC Penney gift cards, which was good, because I need some more dress pants for work.

[someonenonotyou]

i got a Wii and twiligh priness and i cant stop play it i love that game with the wish wish and the sword

[Vagnarok]

I got Fallout 3, a finely crafted role playing experience, as well as some wrist and ankle weights that I only take off to sleep and shower. They're tied for first.

[Raistlin1040]

I actually didn't get any presents this year.
*pouts*
Hope I get Playground loves instead.

...I wonder if it's because I was naughty...?

*pouts* You got a gift from me...

Mmm, either the framed LP album covers (Sgt Pepper, Synchronicity, Hotter Than Hell (Japanese Release), and Toys in the Attic) or my awesome Line 6 GuitarPort RiffTracker.

[sktarq]

While I got some cool swag this year I'd say the best was the look on my mom's face when she got her present. Made me feel all warm, happy, and tingly inside and still does when I think on it.
Actually I'd say most of my "best" presents have been similar reactions.
Okay so I'm idealistic loon.

[ForzaFiori]

hm... probably either Gears of War 2, Rock Band 2 (both extremely awesome games), or my new video camera and 4 gb memory stick.

[Allysian]

Season 1 of Bones!
An a bike!