What do you REALLY want for Christmas?

[sans qualia]

Be honest now. What one thing that can be bought do you want this year?

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. 2005 Mustang GT

red with black trim

[da_chimperor]

6. Uhh . . . a mustang?

Well, it is YOUR present after all . . . though I must respectfully disagree with your choice of cars.

[7th_Sephiroth]

9. just cause it doesent get 50 MPG

or doesent have a battery that cost $10,000 and needs replace every 100,000 miles doesent make it a bad car

[da_chimperor]

12. That's true, but I've had a strong dislike of ford since the late 80's

It's a long story, but suffice to say I really don't like them other than the classic ford cars. I'm not advocating picking an über expensive car or anything, or a hybrid. If we're talking practical cars, I'd go for a Subaru WRX STi myself. It corners much better and has the same horse power. :) It's also 35 grand . . . :(

[7th_Sephiroth]

26. the new ones, the 05's

you can get fully loaded for like 30 grand, but if you shell out another 10 grand you can get a shelby cobra, the new ones have 610 Horsepower, but no raido, or roof, not even a convertable one, but really any car is good enough for road handleing, its not like i'm ever gonna get it to 150mph

[Laelth]

2. Kerry to be sworn in as President in January.

That's all, really. I don't want to have to move to Canada.

-Laelth

[Goldeneye]

8. My thoughts exactly

Kerry to be sworn in.

[Bullwinkle925]

47. DITTO!!

[da_chimperor]

3. Someone to pay off my student loan

It's a gargantuan beast, to say the least. Hey . . . that rhymed . . . cool!

[Padraig18]

4. There's this Pendleton wool coat...

Got any influence with Santa?

;)

[cmd]

49. Hope you get it

My daughter still wears the Pendleton jacket I bought in 1968. Tell Santa it is a life time investment.

[dorktv]

5. The person I love to realize what a moron he is and realize he

loves me back. But then that will never happen soooo I would love 3.5 trillion dollars.

[demnan]

7. I'd like the Iraq war to be over

and I'd like more interesting stuff to do on my job. I have no real desire for anything else except the health and well being of my family.

[AwakeAtLast]

10. I want my husband's Guard Unit to stay here instead of going to Iraq. n/t

[progmom]

28. When is he scheduled to go?

I'm so sorry. :hug:

[AwakeAtLast]

32. We just found out yesterday,

and I just saw your post this a.m., sorry!

He will ship out January 18th. He will begin training with his unit here Dec. 28th until time to ship. Not the best present we could have hoped for.

Thanks for the hugs, and please keep us in your thoughts. My almost-three-year-old will not take this well.

[progmom]

33. I have an almost three-year-old too.

I can't imagine what you're going through. I am so sorry. You will remain in my thoughts.

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[Champ]

11. A huge job market that continues to grow

Someone already said, Kerry President and Iraq War.

[Prodemsouth]

21. I hope you don't get you wish. A huge job market will mean people will

bow before the monkey worse than ever - if anything bring on the second Great depression if that is what it will take to shake Bush and Co. from our government.

[SarahB]

13. If I told you...

the two things I'd want, this thread would be locked.

[LincolnMcGrath]

35. You can tell me!

:evilgrin:

[SarahB]

37. Do you really want to know?

I'll have to pm you. :D

[LincolnMcGrath]

38. So start with the PMing already

:D

[SarahB]

44. Ooops!

Did I scare you? :7

[LincolnMcGrath]

45. Heavens no

And remember, you have to go through IA to get to Vegas! :spank:

[queenjane]

14. I want Russell Crowe

The "Master and Commander" incarnation. I asked Santa for him last year, and Santa disappointed me grievously.

I am SUCH a shallow person! :-)

[Lavender Brown]

42. Santa welcomes you to DU

[sundog]

15. to sell my business so I can go on a long long long

trip overseas

[HEyHEY]

16. Really? I'd kinda like John Stewart's America the book

[enigmatic]

17. Peace on eath, goodwill to all men, and this...

[Prodemsouth]

18. Bush to be impeached- complete blow up of the Republican Party as it

is currently constituted.

[Left Is Write]

19. That can be bought? Seriously?

Dental work. I broke a back molar today, and I have two teeth that will be needing crowns soon. Dental work is expensive. If I could have any material thing I wanted, it would be the work I need done.

And a little cosmetic whitening thrown in too....

[DS1]

20. A Gulfstream at my disposal would be nice

With pilot, naturally, a crazy one that would do loops and other tricks on demand :7

[Borgnine]

22. President Howard Dean.

Actually, scratch that. I wish the last four years never happened. Make that President Gore/Vice President Dean. I guess Lieberman could have quit back in early 2000.

Is that really so much to ask for?

[n2mark]

23. Shrub to resign and also Cheney

and the entire puke party. Let the Dems buy them out.

[Sanity Claws]

24. For the Resident in Chief

to be brought down in a scandal of such magnitude that the Republicans are crippled for the next 20 years.

[Wapsie B]

25. Nothing that can be bought.

n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

27. a spa day

[LandOLincoln]

29. The gorgeous dark brown Italian leather sofa and loveseat I just

saw at Costco.

Style, quality, and Bluebuying all in one neat package. I am lusting majorly--and at age 61, it would be my first real sofa, ever.

I mean, I owned (with my then-husband) a secondhand sofa in the late sixties, and currently spend way too much time on a handsome and v. comfortable secondhand white canvas-upholstered loveseat, but damn, you know?

[mattclearing]

30. "Real Estate."

[redqueen]

39. That's my answer as well.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

31. You know what? I can't think of one thing I want that money can buy.

Is that bad or good?

[Hillaryin08]

34. a 21 year old soldier I met at a bar the other nite

He had an ass you could bounce a quarter off of. I would feel it was my civic duty to give him a taste of America before going to Iraq. So where ever you are tonite....know your thought of fondled ...ummm I mean fondly.

:pals:

[brainshrub]

36. "Sex is the most natural, most beautiful, most wonderful thing

that money can buy."

-Steve Martin.-

:evilgrin:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

40. a new job in sf

[Bertha Venation]

41. ONE thing? I think a coffee mug warmer for my desk.

I'm a simple girl. :shrug:

[Deja Q]

43. Happy immortality or a painless, swift death.

[frictionlessO]

46. bought? okay the new iMac g5 20inch with superdrive

not buyable? Peace and love baby, peace and love!!

[livinginphotographs]

48. Cash.

A lot of it.

[jmowreader]

50. My own forklift

My life would be so much easier if I had my own forklift when I needed it. We have five lift trucks--a 7000-lb Toyota, a 4000-lb Toyota, a 4500-lb Raymond crab-steer reach and two Raymond 3500-lb conventional reaches.

This is the forklift I want...


And I want it with the pivoting pallet head that would allow me to unload a whole lumber truck without moving the machine.

Man, with this thing I wouldn't have to put pallet jacks into trailers so the driver could move the freight to the back for grabbing--I could just reach into the trailer and get the merchandise. I wouldn't have to move the rack of 2x4s from in front of the backstock before getting a bundle down for someone, I could just reach up and grab it. And I wouldn't have to put skids of shingles into people's trucks then push them into place, I could extend them out to wherever I wanted to put them then set them down gently.

And let's not forget the opportunities for additional income this machine would offer. I could go out on my time off and lift skids of drywall into second-floor spaces for contractors. It would bring me lots of beer money.

Dear Santa: I hate to sound like a Grinch, but you probably spend $100 per middle-class kid anymore. Well, there are at least 1200 freepers who have one child each. If you were to screw every one of 'em on grounds that their dads are freepers who don't believe in handouts, you could bring me one of these.