I Don’t Mean to Be a K’vetsh*
It’s the end of January and I still find myself re-gifting stuff from Christmas. Yes, we still have packages showing up on our doorstep. What can I say? Either we’re really loved people or some of our friends totally forgot to send out our gifts until after the ho-ho-holidays had passed.
Now I hate to say what I’m about to because it makes me sound pretty ungrateful but either way some folks should really quit while they are ahead. Please take my advice on this: If you don’t know what to get us ask someone we know, they’ll help you.
Today’s candidate for the mighty re-gift is brought to you by “The Department of Useless Shit” in cooperation with the fine people at “You Obviously Don’t Know Me Very Well, Inc.”
What.
The.
Fuck.
When The Hotness and I opened this up today there was a moment of total silence where I swear the hamsters in our heads were spinning like mad to think of why someone would purchase this for us. Neither one of us speaks Yiddish, and we don’t recall writing any poetry or having a desire to start…especially Yiddish Poetry. (Which coincidently, we didn’t know Yiddish Poetry even existed till today.)
To tell you the truth the only Yiddish to ever come out of the mouths in this house is an extremely occasional “Oy Vey!” and it’s said about as un-Yiddishly and un-poetically as possibly. We finally decided it was because The Hotness is a Jew…
Yiddish Poetry *giggle*
Anyway, if you haven’t already blocked it out of your memory:
What kind of weird re-gift-worthy shit did y’all get for Christmas this year?
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*K’vetsh=Complainer (I actually had to use a Yiddish dictionary for that shit and no I don’t know how to pronounce it)
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The Hotness said:
on January 29, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Oy vey,
I really hurt myself laughing.
You’re such a meshuggeneh.
Amadeus said:
on January 30, 2007 at 7:17 am
A magnetic Jewish poetry kit? I’ve gotta be honest - that may well be the hands down winner. I mean, I got an Urdu poetry kit for Xmas, but you have to lick the pieces to make ‘em stick! Magnetic - well that just rocks! Harnessing the power of physics to create poetry is poetry in itself!
Dawn (webmiztris) said:
on January 30, 2007 at 11:06 am
that may be the strangest gift ANYONE’S ever received! wtf??? I promise I’ve never received anything even CLOSE to that weird for Christmas!
Starboard Tack said:
on January 30, 2007 at 2:31 pm
So, are you going to tell us who gave you the gift?
mom said:
on January 30, 2007 at 7:26 pm
I want one!:0
…and to think the only gift I received that I’m awaiting to regift is a packaged “Coffe Break with Folgers & Biscotti (I just can’t picture those two together!)
(and the only reason I’d re-gift that is I went on an e-bay binge and bought the cups I WANTED!)
P.S. feel free to give your friends my telly number
mom said:
on January 30, 2007 at 7:28 pm
P.P. S.
Maybe the reason you’re still receiving gifts is because the folks are re-gifting…
Rebel said:
on January 30, 2007 at 10:41 pm
You were right- “WTF”?? I received a battery operated fart machine once which I have had fun with. I just stick it in a locker at work and let it cut the cheese for up to two minutes.
It reverberates off the metal quite well.
Canopenner said:
on January 30, 2007 at 11:14 pm
I have a billion refridgerator magnets, so if you get another one next year keep me in mind.
I dont really get or give enough gifts to regift somestuff. Its prettymuch limited tomywifes immeadiate family.
I dont get along with my relative well enough to send or recieve gifts from them.(for the most part they are crazy or evil)
Amy said:
on January 31, 2007 at 12:36 am
Hmmmm… the crap I get occasionally is SO BAD you can’t even regift it.
Like the crappy “bar” device that holds 4 bottles of booze upside down and has these odd “sprinkler head” looking things at the bottom that I guess you whack your glass against and supposedly it dispenses a shot.
We are married with three kids, WTF would imply that we are throwing bad versions of frat parties every weekend???????