Norcalmonkey, I like the way you think! The twitching Elmo head would be the ultimate touch! I'm already looking forward to Halloween. Tickle me Elmo is going down! /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

What a great group costume idea, too. Imagine all the heads of the Sesame Street characters up on spikes. Big Bird would be really awesome, especially if the one with his head on a spike was also carrying a bucket of fried chicken, or at least one giant turkey leg. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Wow, I really am one sick puppy, aren't I? /ohmy.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

I now know what the friends and I are going to the Halloween parties as next year lol!

ME TOO!!!!!!! I love me some fried chicken! lol

You guys should set up like a safari motif/theme…hunting amidst the annoying landscape of children's marketing, or all get dressed up like Kim Jung Il the fearless hunter and his prey of course would be muppets and smurfs and barney and my pretty pony or whatever….Pith Helmets, khaki cargos and pilot shirts boots etc or go old school hunter gather like the Cookie Monster slayer

OK, it was Secret Santa week at my work, (and our rules were that you were supposed to get a small gift each day, and then receive the biggest and best gift on the very last day.) All week long I got NOTHING from my Secret Santa, while all around me my coworkers were getting all these fun little gifts and squealing with happiness and showing them off to each other. I thought, "Wow, my Santa must be saving up all their money to get me something REALLY GOOD on the last day. So Friday came, and the office eventually delivered my "big" present, an opened, partially-used bottle of lotion. /wacko.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':wacko:' /> When the time came to reveal yourself to the person whose name you drew, my Santa turned out to be this dumb teenage girl. When I asked her why she signed up but then didn't follow the rules and get a gift every day, and also asked what was up with the used bottle of lotion, she told me she "didn't have any money, but still wanted to get presents." Nice. /rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rolleyes:' />

OMFG!!! Never thought I'd live long enough to use one of those "these kids today" antedotes but holy cow, what a jack a$$. I won't participate in secret santa anymore because I've gotten burned so many times. The last time I participated in one was out here with Monkette's siblings. I didn't want to do it, but was just brow beaten by everyone not to be a stick in the mud. I told them that I've had a bad history with this kind of thing and really didn't want it to spill over here. Finally I gave in and sure enough, I got burned hard….again. The holidays are tough for me (long story) and this just really devastated me.

At my job one of the sales reps takes a collection amongst the sales team; and then creates gift baskets for the office staff…..composed entirely of frouffy gourmet food freebies she gets from her various customers. 98% of which I either can't use because I'm diabetic or are just things that are lost on my unsophisticated pallette. I usually wind up donating the food stuff to a soup kitchen or grocery store food drive.