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Strangest Valentine's Day Gifts?
BladeMelbourne asks: "On Valentine's Day my partner gave me (among other things), two comet goldfish, to put in my tank with my existing comet. Where she got the idea to give fish for Valentines day is still a mystery. I'm curious to know if any Slashdot readers gave/received any unusual gifts - and whether the gift was appreciated or not?"
On Valentine's Day my partner gave me .. two comet goldfish, to put in my tank with my existing comet.
Gee, where did she come up with that CRAZY IDEA!
PS: what is a "partner", is that like a tax designation for a business or what?
This year I got the same great gift my significant other has given me for the past 7 years:
A night at home in front of glowing CRT =/
My Dad once got my Step Mother a Bonzi tree for soem gift to her holiday (V-day,B-day Mothers day etc.). She hated it because it was like another pet to take care of and it promptly died due to neglect (though it is the thoguh, right?)
Typing furiously to get that first post, eh?
You told me you liked the fish!
Bastard.
My bride asked for a new kitchen sink... The 20 some year old cheapo that came with the house was leaking, so when I was trying to subtly ask for ideas she came right out and stated the desire of her heart. Five hours, many trips to the hardware store, and not knowing if we are going to ever be able to turn the water mains back on... I succeeded.
Did not make that mistake again... asking, that is...
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In addition to a getting me a sweet new pair of airwalks, my gf framed me a picture of Ed Vedder (who I worship) and Anthony Kiedis (who she worships) locking lips. Nothing like a picture of two guys kissing sitting on your mantle.
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I'm curious to know if any Slashdot readers gave/received any unusual gifts - and whether the gift was appreciated or not?
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I've appreciated every unusual gift I've received on Valentine's day.
Heck, I've appreciated every gift, unusual or not, which I've received on Valentine's day.
Ok, I'll admit it: I've never received any gifts on Valentine's day.
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I got my wife a beginning PHP book and an account on my server. Worked a treat, I can tell you. Today I teased her about wanting to walk with her and have all the guys admire her: Look at the head on that broad! She allowed that she had told all her co-workers about it but not everyone appreciated what a great present it was.
illegitimii non ingravare
Gave me sex in unusual positions and time to myself.... does that count??
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Slashdot Subscription. The gift that says 'I see you love your computer more than me'.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
the fish was lonely so she got another one to keep it company (somewhat like you before you met her huh?)
As for the third fish, there are 2 explanations, she wants a threesome and was using the third fish to hint at it or she knows how fish always die so was buying it in anticipation.
I'd say that I got a Hot Cocoa Sampler pack.
And why does everyone avoid me on Feb 14?
(Adjusts tape on glasses, scratches self, and resumes coding)
Don't be a zoa (zealous overbearing ass), be happy!
I was bound and determined not to spend another Valentine's Day alone, so I bough THIS!!!
My GF got me a 256 MB DIMM for my computer, and has Player's Guide to Faerun on pre-order. And she took me out to dinner, to Famous Hot Weiner.
I got her a charoite pendant, serpentine chain -- plus a new hard drive for her computer.
Having a geek grrlfriend: priceless.
I got a gift for the dog and a gift for the wife... but the wife only got me a card. So I went out and bought myself a drill press. :)
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Luckily I readied her for the past few weeks by saying, "Now I got you a gift, but it's not all Valentine-ey or whatnot, but you'll like it."
Maybe it's a bad sign when she said, "You got me a GIFT! Really?"
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
34. Okay, 27, if you don't count pets.
I got an ex a nice lacy number two years ago. She liked it so much she informed me that since we celebrated Valentines for her, we'd celebrate "Beer and a Blow Job Day" on March 14th. Best holiday ever. Current gf doesn't think it's such a hot idea, but I told her I felt the same way about Valentines day so I've got a month to convince her.
Btw, you celebrate BABJ Day by her getting you a cold beer first thing in the morning, giving you a blow job while you drink it and then her letting you do whatever you want for the day. She's supposed to serve you steak for dinner and top the day off with another beer and a blow job. There are days when I miss my ex.
... Comet cursors instead?
It was about 5 or 6pm when I realized it was valentines day, and I didn't get anything either.. Oh well, back to coding..
Why does it seem like all the recent Ask Slashdots have been posted by ungrateful whiny bastards?
"Help, I've got too much bandwidth, why do I have so much?"
"I found a truck in my yard full of AMD64 machines"
"The stick I use for beating supermodels off of me is broken, what can I do? They won't stop touching me?"
I hate you all!
Wow. All I got was a liberated Europe for V-Day.
Needle Nardle Noo
My gf gave me a plastic cow that dispenses brown jelly beans. Of all the things I spend my time finding meaning in...
"Derp de derp."
But if he throws in his girlfriend it's likely to get her very wet and probably scare the fish to death.. unless they're like my goldfish, in which case they'll try to eat her (so I may have scored 92% on the Evil Genius test, that doesn't mean my goldfish should act like piranha, but would they listen? Wait until they see the anti-piranha trap...)
Either way, I doubt either the goldfish or the girlfriend would be too happy about the girlfeind in-throwing idea...
My wife gave me the Volume 1 Futurama dvds, along with the Clerks animated series on dvd. And then she left town to visit family.
I wonder if she's trying to tell me something?
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My wife is currently pregnant and has been craving macaroni & cheese, so this year I got her mac & cheese. I also gave her some other stuff, but she got a good laugh out of the mac & cheese.
Not quite a gift, but funny and Valentine's Day releated...
A friend sent an ecard to everybody in our group. The computer she sent it from didn't have a Flash player installed, so all she could see was a picture of some cats in the preview. She's a cat person, so she liked the card. Late on V-day I get the card. It says "Happy Valentine's Day to the one I'll love my whole life." It was odd because she'd already turned me down for a date. Later that evening we all got together and nobody else had gotten the card yet, so we were all a little concerned about her motives. When she heard what the card said she about died. We gave her a hard time all night, like whenever she'd make a joke about me I'd say, "But I thought you loved me" and we made sure she sat next to me at dinner, in the car, and on the couch. She'll never live it down and has to send an explanatory email to all her girlfriends she sent it to.
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Hee hee, reminds me of my first giving-flowers-to-the-wife debacle.
I arranged for the delivery, and the guy said they'd be delivered that day, probably early afternoon. I was home for the later afternoon, and they hadn't been delivered.
So I'm sitting on the couch, reading a newspaper, when a knock knock knock sounds at the door. There's the flower guy.
The wife looks at me. "You going to answer that?" The wife hates answering the door. "No," I said, "I think you should."
So she gives me a look which, if looks could kill, would splatter me across the wall, stomps over to the door, and flings it open. "Yes?" she growls out in that pissed-off female way.
"Flowers for Suzanne, with love, from your husband. Happy Valentines Day."
She turned around and immediatly broke into full-on bawling.
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I ordered a dozen-long stem (clown) noses from the circus world museum gift shop. She loved them and they still haven't wilted.
One time my fiancee (now wife) and I were shopping before Valentine's Day and she saw a pair of cubic zirconia earrings that were about $12. She said something, "Oh, these are pretty" and we went on.
For Valentine's Day, I bought her a watch (~$40). She looked at it and her face darkened a bit and she was moody for the rest of the day (she *said* she liked it, but I could tell she was miffed). Finally, I said, "What is wrong with the watch? Don't you like it?".
It turns out she was expecting the cheap CZ earrings. She went on and on about how much she had hinted that they would be the perfect gift, they were really nice, etc. To the best of my recollection, all I remember was her saying, "Oh, these are pretty."
-- stream of did I lock the front door consciousness
Eh, you shoulda told her you knocked over a flower shop on the way home. Girls always love the bad boy.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Yeah, it is V-E Day but the joke wouldn't have quite worked then I guess.
Needle Nardle Noo
I guess somebody has to mention the "other" little candy hearts.