Post by Phalon on Nov 20, 2004 23:29:45 GMT -6
Back by popular demand...ok, so not so popular, and Joxie did ask quite nicely; not in the least bit demanding at all...We bring you the 2nd Annual Whoosh Fruitcake Hand Off.
Fruitcakes are the stuff of urban legend. Nobody really likes them, and to actually eat one is virtually unheard of - a feat so horrific the retelling of the experience is best saved for gloomy nights around the campfire. Yet well meaning, but misguided individuals continue to give the gift of fruitcake every year, the offending baked good most likely left over from the previous year when some other gift giver bestowed it upon them. I've heard tales of this going on for years.
There is a woman in Arkansas who received a fruitcake last year, and actually possessed the courage to bite into it, (what she was thinking, I don't know). She promptly cracked her tooth with that one fateful bite. The cause of this injury was not a petrified piece of candied fruit as you might expect - but instead the woman bit down on her great, great aunt's, (from the Old Country), second cousin's brother's next door neighbor's son's fiancee's engagement ring. This proves how many decades, perhaps even centuries these things can last, traveling the world over. (I am making this up, btw. But it could have happened...there are few documented records regarding this traveling fruitcake phenomenon).
So with that highly informative bit of fiction out of the way, let me explain how this game works...kind of like a fruitcake "hot potato" - the object being to pass the fruitcake off to an unsuspecting member of this board as quickly as possible; that last person to have it on Christmas day being the loser of the game.
Your gift of fruitcake should be bestowed on the person of your choice in a thread they normally participate in - for example; I would not send the fruitcake to Chak in the Mything Persons thread because I'm not sure it's something she reads, (does anyone?), but I know she'd be sure to find it in Z's Seven Seas Tavern, and so I might leave it there for her.
Please leave a brief explanation of why you have committed this heinous act of fruitcaking against the innocent party, so he or she just doesn't politely nod their head and say thanks, while secretly thinking you've lost your mind. Let's try to keep it going.
We can keep a running tab of those who have received it, (after they've passed it on), in this thread.
And remember, it's better to give than to be stuck with it in the end.
Oh, and btw...if you happen to decide you might actually want to keep it all to yourself and hungrily devour it - let me know if you find my daughter's math homework buried deep within. She seems to have misplaced it - again.
Pardon me - I have to go now. Got some holiday gift giving to do.
Just type :fruitcake1: to pass it along
Edited to add code for quick sharing. ~~Joxcee
Fruitcakes are the stuff of urban legend. Nobody really likes them, and to actually eat one is virtually unheard of - a feat so horrific the retelling of the experience is best saved for gloomy nights around the campfire. Yet well meaning, but misguided individuals continue to give the gift of fruitcake every year, the offending baked good most likely left over from the previous year when some other gift giver bestowed it upon them. I've heard tales of this going on for years.
There is a woman in Arkansas who received a fruitcake last year, and actually possessed the courage to bite into it, (what she was thinking, I don't know). She promptly cracked her tooth with that one fateful bite. The cause of this injury was not a petrified piece of candied fruit as you might expect - but instead the woman bit down on her great, great aunt's, (from the Old Country), second cousin's brother's next door neighbor's son's fiancee's engagement ring. This proves how many decades, perhaps even centuries these things can last, traveling the world over. (I am making this up, btw. But it could have happened...there are few documented records regarding this traveling fruitcake phenomenon).
So with that highly informative bit of fiction out of the way, let me explain how this game works...kind of like a fruitcake "hot potato" - the object being to pass the fruitcake off to an unsuspecting member of this board as quickly as possible; that last person to have it on Christmas day being the loser of the game.
Your gift of fruitcake should be bestowed on the person of your choice in a thread they normally participate in - for example; I would not send the fruitcake to Chak in the Mything Persons thread because I'm not sure it's something she reads, (does anyone?), but I know she'd be sure to find it in Z's Seven Seas Tavern, and so I might leave it there for her.
Please leave a brief explanation of why you have committed this heinous act of fruitcaking against the innocent party, so he or she just doesn't politely nod their head and say thanks, while secretly thinking you've lost your mind. Let's try to keep it going.
We can keep a running tab of those who have received it, (after they've passed it on), in this thread.
And remember, it's better to give than to be stuck with it in the end.
Oh, and btw...if you happen to decide you might actually want to keep it all to yourself and hungrily devour it - let me know if you find my daughter's math homework buried deep within. She seems to have misplaced it - again.
Pardon me - I have to go now. Got some holiday gift giving to do.
Just type :fruitcake1: to pass it along
Edited to add code for quick sharing. ~~Joxcee