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This year I was absolutely thrilled by my wife's generosity.
I'm now the proud owner of a digital radio, so I can sit around listening to stuff like the old man I'm rapidly becoming.

She also sorted me out with the box set of Band of Brothers, which I'm really looking forward to seeing for the first time.

My parents embarrassed us with their generosity, sending a camcorder so we can make sure they get plenty of footage of the new baby when he/she arrives in the spring.

I'm very pleased with every present I got, but the real purpose of this thread is nosiness!

What did everyone else get?

- Trout

Latest Rogue Trooper, Two Marvel pocket books (going cheapish in the Works), Hong Kong Phooey & Zippy T-shirts, many, many socks and the best of Siouxsie & the Banshees.

Pretty low key Christmas well. :)

A few neat bits & bobs:

A USB memory stick/keyring device, so I can take large files from computer to computer

Sin City on DVD

A Freeview set-top box

The complete Edgar Allan Poe

...and a bloody fantastic Doctor Who Christmas special :-)

Hey Trout.

I scored;

a big Dr Who book
a mushroom farm
some old Dr Who paperbacks
tickets to an outdoor cinema
various kisses and hugs

Santa brought me an iPod Nano. Do it rock? Why, yes it do, thankyouforasking.

Tomorrow I will be mostly spending the day filling it with Fields of the Nephilim, Psychedelic Furs and Rammstein [1] whilst leaving about half the space free for t'missus so she will have something to listen to when we plug it into the Bose Sound Dock we're buying in the New Year ...

God bless Santa, the fat, beardy house-breaker.

Cheers!

Jim

[1] Whilst leaving some space free to see if the website I found the other day is lying when it says it can supply me with Zodiac Mindwarp's classic "Tattooed Beat Messiah" and the Godfathers' superb "More Songs About Love And Hate" ...

Humphry Bogart collection - Casablance, Maltese Falcon, Big Sleep, Key Largo
Ealing Collection - Whisky Galore, The Maggie, Champagne Charlie, It Always Rains on Sunday
The Great Escape
Casablanca 2 disc edition (d'oh!)
Escape from Alcatraz
Les Vacances de M. Hulot
Plus Fantastic Four and I, Robot 2 disc editions.
(I asked for classic movies on DVD this year, and my family did deliver)

Plus the Lastest Redwall book - High Rhulain :D

Santa rocks! I got a Dalek keyring and stuff.

Also a large wine rack, which I shall have to fill. Oh and a Scotch and Wry dvd which i can watch instead of this years nonsense on telly. Not that I'll be indoors or anything. Holidays you know? Thinking of Stonehaven for the mad fireball things.

Smallville Season(s) 1&2 DVD Boxed Sets
Hellboy DVD
Constitine DVD
Sin City DVD
Star Wars EP. II DVD
A Beautiful Mind DVD
PeeJay Bottoms
underwear
shirt
DVD/Rom for my 'puter

critter

My birthday is 26th December.

I remember getting an Evil Kenivel bike one year and, about 10am, being told to keep it down (the bike made a vrrrrrrrm noise) because my parents had a hangover.

I was ecstatic that year. I woke up to find the box at the end of my bed and started playing with it, then got shouted down.

I remember, in later years, getting no present. (ie getting the first three fighting fantasy books in a box set, only to have volume three removed and wrapped as a separate present to be given the next day  - guaranteeing double disappointement). Or else the 2000ad annual one day, them the Dredd 24 hours later. Imagine the joy of a 9 year wondering on Christmas if you had the Dredd annual.

Anyway, happy birthday to me. No one else wishes it. No one else will get ne a card. Except Mrs X, whose (genuine) birthday 27/12.

THIS NEW PC,which allows me to be here
the complete calvin and hobbies box set(lovely)
Star trek the original series all 3 seasons.
sandman volumes 7&8
some golf bits.


ALL HAIL THE TROUT.

Welcome back DD.

Bolt-01

> the complete calvin and hobbies box set(lovely)

Ooh. Ooh! Jealous!

Cheers

Jim

I've just bought that.

But I did get The Complete Far Side collection
Complete Brittas Empire
Complete Bugs
10 disc War Collection
Some books (Does Anything Eat Wasps, Signs of Life, Great Lies to tell Small Kids, Naughty Grafitti, Family Guy Epsiode Guide)
from parents
And a scarf, watch, calendar, aftershave, musical tie, Dalek keyring, funny cup mat, photo album, rude song book from friends :)

I would have got Judge Dredd Complete Case Files, Judge Death, My Name is and Robo Hunter - Play it again Sam, but they're not out yet!!!
Lost opportunity if ever I saw one. Mind you they've been ordered so I'll get them in the new year :)

I'm now trying to find new things to spend money on to occupy my time.

ahh mini-bous ipod shuffle doesnt rock, its very annoying, i shall have to post a techy help thread.


well i'd asked my un-imginative parents for some comic art clip frames, Hurrah ! ! so more art is shiney & safe on the walls, i was hammering nails in at 1am.

money for new day-shoes.

and a set of gouache paints , happy happy joy !!

unexpected pressies;

mini-bou who earns ?3 per hour, aged 12, bought me a big oil painting set ! ! a benedict allen book, smellies, far out.
long way round dvd off taki-bou

also ;

a travel book.
fancy wool & knitting needles
candles
chocs.

more importantly the kids are totally gadgeted , CD'd & cosy thingsed up !

I had to travel up on a train with a weekend bag so i said 'get yourself a present from me and i will do the same', my family always buy me stuff i dont want anyway.  Though i did get the kids some super duper remote control mini cars.  I and their father have been 'testing' them a lot :)

vrooooooooooooooooooom vrooooooooooom

I'm not going to post up a whole list, but with massive thanks to the lovely Malchi, the highlight of my presents was this little Mignola Hellboy figure that she got me (as well as the fantastic Batman clock). :)

cool rogue

Flash Gordon DVD
Doctor Who: City of Death DVD
Batman Begins DVD
Batman Begins Calendar
Star Wars Calendar
Advance Wars 2
New sports bag
A wee Manbag
Socks

All brilliant! (Especially my manbag which I haven't taken off!)

I'm guessing the suggestive  way you placed your Hellboy toy's tail was far from accidental wils ;)

in a gripey note; the ant farm (as tested by NASA) I got Roy has so far produced dead ants and scuttled my plans to bring Ant Wars to Fairfield

Joni Mitchell "Hits" CD - fecking lovely
Does Anything Eat Wasps? book
What Do You Believe But Cannot Prove? book
Tit chocolate
Multitudinous gift vouchers
A cmpass, dried food and sleeping mat (my wife indicating that she;s finally willing to let me take her camping, and therefore the best present I've ever had).



Oh, and a car.

Floyd,

Have you tried radiation?

Video iPod
Boris Akunin novels
New David McAlmont album
New Kate Bush album
Krispie biscuits
Doctor Who DVD boxed set

Sole comics-related gift: I got the wife The Complete Calvin & Hobbes - pure genius, but it weights a fucking ton.

davidbishop

Combining it with me 40th birthday (I can't recall what I got for what), I received...

RC Dalek
6 classic Doctor Who Dvd's
Doctor Who Annual
Spider-man Annual
X-men Annual
Beano Annual
Dalek keyring
Tardis keyring
Tardis phone flasher
Green Day Bible In a Bullet CD/DVD set
U2 new live dvd 2 disc set
Creative Labs speakers and subwoofer for me pc
Kaiser Chiefs dvd
Bottle o' red wine
lots of chocs (incl. customary Toblerone)
and some new carpet slippers (well, I am 40!)

Erm... I think that's it!  :)

Alan!

a car ?!?

i forgot to mention,
santa also broke my car, its probably a write off.
 & i got a tax bill.
and today the dog woke up paralysed, but one day trip to dingwall & best part of over a weeks wages, can now walk.

yeah thanks 2005, wreck more havoc whilst you still can, year from hell.

Well - what a bunch of lucky buggers you all are!
I got a jumper and some aftershave.

But my kids did well so I'm happy - RC Daleks, TV's,  
Furby and Xbox/DS games.

Only downside to this Christmas - watching my daughters face as she eagerly opens Mario Kart for the DS and finding the game is not in there!

> Sole comics-related gift: I got the wife The
>  Complete Calvin & Hobbes - pure genius,
> but it weights a fucking ton.

Bet it doesn't weigh as much as the granite mortar & pestle I bought t'missus ...!

Would anyone like to guess which gift Captain Fuckwit bought _first_ and then spent the rest of the lugging around town ....?

Cheers

Jim

I bet the clock I got The Wife weighed more than both of them put together... pulled the bloody arm of me carrying it.

I got:
Doctor Who box set
Doctor Who scripts book
Doctor Who board game
a load of book tokens!
30th annniversery box set of Born to Run, with a couple of dvds in it.
No aftershave!
No deoderant!
No socks!
and a new mobile.

The boys got 3 new games for the ps2, only problem being tht our machine died a couple of weeks before christmas, and the new one we ordered still hasn't arrive... and I want to play Tony Hawk's American Wasteland!

Okay, well I got -

Metropolis D.V.D.,
More Maltesers than is feasable,
A nice jumper,
A less nice jumper but it's warm so that's alright,
Beautiful South concert D.V.D.,
A D.V.D. player,
A waster paper basket,
A Zippo,
Chocolates.

Nicky has promised to take me clothes shopping and buy me decent clothes. Don't know how I feel about that.

Oh, and the highlight of Christmas was having the whole family around without any fighting for once. Gathering round to watch Doctor Who with parents, brothers, sister in laws, niece, and nephews was something of a treat.

Tardis keyring
Queen & Paul Rodgers DVD
Spiderman 2 DVD
Clone Wars Vol 2 DVD
Spaceballs DVD
Nick Cave book
Homer Simpson slippers
Tolkein - Roverandom book
Green Day - Bullet in a bible DVD/CD
Revenge of the Sith visual dictionary
4 bottles of Port :-)

the ant farm (as tested by NASA) I got Roy has so far produced dead ants

The NASA Space ants I got for my birthday are still going in the main (with one or two casualties) two months later, but they're bloody lazy. The only tunnels that are in the jelly are the ones I've made with my stick. As soon as all these mail order ants are dead I'm catching my own like a proper pikey.

As for Christmas present - I got some tooth original Dredd strip artwork from the other half, a huge surprise as we had capped the prezzie spending to ?50 because we spent the last five days in Paris.

> 4 bottles of Port :-)

Oh, sweet baby Cheeses ... port. A fine drink in moderation, but I once made the mistake of drinking pretty much nothing else one night.

Woke up the next morning late for work, with no recollection of going to bed and feeling like someone had hit me round the head with a housebrick.

Never again ...

Cheers

Jim

Doctor Who box set
Doctor Who scripts book
Doctor Who board game

Simpsons season 6 boxset (box not that horrible homer head)

nikolai dante trade 3 (yep got it)

a ----load of book tokens from relatives

mario kart ds (my fingers hurt)

final fantasy 4 us import

John Peel autobiography
John Peel tribute CD
A new coat
A new drawing board (more of this at a later date)
A book called You Are What You Shite
A Gotham City SWAT t-shirt
Aftershave - I've had a beard for two years, but mum doesn't seem to have taken the hint
Socks
First two collected editions of Y The Last Man
Beano and Dandy book from my sister
Batman Begins on DVD

And I bought myself an iPod mini, but iTunes keeps crashing my computer so I can't put anything on it :-(

Wall and Piece (Banksy's new coffee table book)
Tickets to see Obituary on the 8th Jan [backslash]m/
A 'Singing Bowl'
A proper shaving brush and soap set
TV License
Red Dwarf VII (DVD)
The Wildhearts- P.H.U.Q (CD)
Joy Division- Substance (CD)
Some Wonga
Plus the usual smelly things, slippers/socks and chocolates.

Plus I got tickets to see The Pogues in Brixton a couple of days before Xmas.

A fantastic Christmas : )

Like LMS I got the Peel book and CD.

For my new office job, Mrs Bolt got me a tie and a Batman Mug.

I also got some socks and chocs, and a book voucher that I've turned into this lovely piece of entertainment.

Bolt-01

I got a bunch of money which magically transformed into a DS & some games(Mario Kart, Advance Wars DS, Metroid & Gunstar Future Heroes) on Boxing Day, a load of chocolate, some stationary & pringles.

Plus, the smugness/irritation that comes from having spent more on presents than my sibs, despite me being relatively penniless.

Loads of stuff, some great, some, er, not so great:

The Monty Python Movies DVD box set (Twice - cue bickering over which one to take back)
Batman Begins DVD
Quake 4
Foo Fighters "In Your Honor" CD
AC/DC "Back In Black" CD
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (book)
Going Postal (book)
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit (book)
When Cats Assassinate (A deeply unfunny book of badly photoshopped animal pictures. Thanks ever so...)
Two old 70's reprints of 60's pulp comic stuff. Very entertaining in a dated & shit way.
A daft looking but warm hat (it'll do for coming home from work at midnight in January)
A bottle of Burberry aftershave (Scent of a chav. Just what I wanted. Thanks a bloody lot.)
Two T-shirts, one good, one scary.
Two shirts, too small
Bottle of Jim Beam (Yay!)
Bottle of Absolut (Yay!)
Socks (Obviously...)

Boneyard: v. 1 - v. 4, Commando: The Dirty Dozen, Essential X-Men: v. 6, Essential Spider-Man: v. 7, Charley's War: 1 August-17 October 1916, 25 Years of "Viz", John Peel autobiography, Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, Sky+ multiroom added so that I?ve got it in the bedroom as well plus the usual smellies and socks so not a bad Christmas all round.

I got that Charley's War book for myself as people didn't take the hints I was dropping.

It would be great if they sped up the release schedule on them though.

Alright wankers you may have got whate merelyselective of but at the end of the day the biggest probllem was well layed for the most interlectual of human being for the most accsessable of the reL Worrld.But you let us all down. You let us find our own way...

That was NOT me!
Someone a; Took over my computer at a party last night
b; Took over me at a party last night...
c; I had an objective supposition at a party last night...

Anyway ignore that. Totally twattish post. I cannot excuse that sort of behaviour.And I cannot apologise enough. Please move along. Nothing to see here.

 Hope this post posts.

Heh! I've missed you, Carlsborg!
Anyhoo, crimpsmash stuff. I got:

V for Vendetta off tank boy/ booga(lovin it!)
DVD player
Red Dwarf 4, 6 and 7 thus completing my collection
Bundy's rum (hell yeah!)
about 30 tonnes of chocolate
much plonk
the best shoes in the world
the new Tank Girl novel off Mr C
loads of girly stuff
a massive dressing gown with a hood on
and very, very drunk.

I am however insanely jealous of all of you who got RC daleks!

Happy holidays everyone
xTGx

Beat this then.

From my top wife I got a radio controlled dalek for me to play with and a pvc nurses uniform, for me to play with.

*Gapes at mental image of skurvy in pvc outfit*


Anyone get any presents they want to swap/give away?

Want some Burberry?

I got a huge "the earth from space" calendar, which has some frankly boring satelite photos of various supposedly exciting earthly landscapes.

I don't want that.

Oh, and a Far Side diary - with cartoons which I found amusing about 15 years ago but now find tediously repetative.

Both going on E-bay ASAP (but that's pure procrastination).

I got a book called 'The Year of the Jouncer' by Scott Gray.

I certainly don't want it...

Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1862078963/qid=1136366365/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-6238488-9086238

Santa brought me a SCOPE DOG Robot! Mmmmm!
:-) Rufus

santas not what he's cracked up to be.

sometimes presents much more thrilling appear at new year not christmas.

mmmm....thrilllllsss... heh heh heh  cackle... gibber. lucky lucky Bous.

great to hear about the pregnancy trouty.  Congrats.

I got a rather big pressie this year.  An LCD telly.   It was for the house but me who wanted it for 360 gaming.

Also got some music, jeans and a DVD.

"sometimes presents much more thrilling appear at new year not christmas. "

Eh? Is that some kind of euphemism?