Charming story. A picture of the aforesaid letter wouldn't have gone amiss, but no matter - it's Christmas.

extremely offensive homosexual reference.

60 years ago used to mean something. Now it's just 1950, and I want to punch them both in the balls

fisker: extremely offensive homosexual reference.

I love fark

makes me wonder how he'll have it framed...a photo repro of the front perhaps? floated above the open car with the messages?

dusty, onions, blah,blah blah,,, Merry Christmas to my fellow Farkers!!! Love you guys!

Bullshiat i want to see it.

These guys ever hear of email?

Sniffle, stupid holiday dust...

I second Tats regarding the level of dustiness in this comment thread.

a 61 year tradition and they have to stop now? THANKS OBAMA.

mekkab: a 61 year tradition and they have to stop now? THANKS OBAMA.

I lol'd.

/Merry Christmas Farkers!

Mrs YPAC and her siblings have been doing the same for years with a 50th birthday card. Recently, the youngest (of 7) got it. Now, wait a couple of years and then it has to transfer among the nieces/nephews/children.

Csb

Back in college my roommate and I would prank each other with a porn DVD we'd found in our fraternity house. It started with me leaving it where I thought his girlfriend would find it, it perpetuated with him playing it in my DVD player with my tv off on repeat, and it ended finally after his dad found it in his sock drawer when he was moving out. I guess that makes me the winner, but I miss the daily pranking. This story has greatly increased he chances I'll be regifting him his Xmas card next year.

/csb

Merry Christmas everyone!

61 years of wasting taxpayer money.
I'm glad it finally came to an end.

/merrytrollmas

I love these kinds of Xmas traditions, my wife & have an old glittery green & red stripped pull string bag that started out with one of our kids Disney movies, on VHS, and now has to be used every year for a movie game or anything that will fit. If it's not under the tree I think my daughters would refuse to open the rest of their presents. Dont know what to do when it finally falls apart.

kind of CSB, at least a SSB

//Silly Story bro.

My parents always had one special gift that they wrapped with the same paper each year.

That was until the divorce when I was in my 20s.

We (two friends and I) used to do this with an old tape of some pretty awful early rap music.

Nobody liked rap, so the idea was that the holder of the tape would sneak it into one of the other's houses when invited round, and leave it there. This went on for about a decade until one of our number lost the damn thing.

My aunt and I have been doing this with a birthday card for the last 20 years or so.
It's a Garfield card that says something to the effect of Happy Birthday to a good looking relative. She started it by signing in pencil so I would send it back.

There is the Christmas tradition of the two brother in laws regifting moleskin pants back and forth for 25 years that is very ingenious.

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/pants.asp

SilentStrider: My aunt and grandfather had a similar tradition with this ugly purse. They'd find clever ways to get it to the other. Then ome year my grandfather hid it in a pizza box that my Aunt was taking back to her place. She realized it, and told him she'd thrown the box out without knowing what was inside. Few years later, she gave it to him... Imagine the look of amused surprise.
Grandpa passed in 2005, but she still has that purse framed and hanging in her dining room so she can tell the story.

that's awesome, thanks for sharing!

So who won?

ArcadianRefugee: So who won?

We all did.

I got a "crate o'cotton" one year, which was 4 hankercheifs in a cheesy wood crate. Dad and I went back and forth for years until he died. Still have it, and the pic of the first time I regifted it to him. Good times.

Great find, subby, thanks! Not quite a tear, but a grinning sparkle, I confess.

/CSB..

A friend of mine and I got in the habit of sending each other odd stuff we came across, often useless but interesting objects. In time, we started sending them in the same box, over and over. The first time, I put a return address on it: KASINSKI; LINCOLN MT. (This was when you could still get away with such gags.) Drew sent it back with a new label over that, and some cartoons and odd clippings pasted on. (Such as: a section of a dating board from a Christian survivalist group.) I added more to the empty spaces, and sent it back, with the usual letter and small oddments. Drew filled what little empty space was left, then added some more to an inside flap, and sent it back. One of us taped more stuff over the old stuff. (Wish we hadn't, but it was old hat to us by then and we probably thought we'd never forget what it was.) Then one of us eventually wrapped it tightly in kraft paper and started over again with more. This went on for years, but the box eventually ended up as the box I used to store his letters, until it filled up.

We still carry on a more toned-down version of this. He sent me a large envelope with a bunch of random stuff, including lots of vintage matchbook covers -- all the same one, though.

I think I'm going to pick out a small box soon, and pull out my collection of clippings and some tape and glue.

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He took the loss of the 40 cakes really hard, didn't he?

Of course he did. It was as much as four tens, and that is bad. turrible.

FTFY.

A couple of years ago we sent out a Christmas card that went something like "In order to go green and save the environment, we've decided to send out only one Christmas card this year. Please look at the card, make a comment on how grown up the girls look and send it along to the next person on the list. Whatever you do, don't lose the list!"

Of course, there was no list.

The Stealth Hippopotamus: So, just cause I wonder. How much total was spent sending that card back and forth?

Assuming first-class postage each time, $11.25 total.