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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:49:00 EST
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- From: gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Christmas wrapping
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- > >which pattern belonged to which person...) It was also useful in keeping
- > >small people from knowing which packages were theirs, because I didn't
- > >reveal the code until Christmas.
- >
- >
- > Nico was horrified at this custom. He couldn't understand why
- > I didn't label any of the gifts.
- >
- > --
- > Rita Rouvalis Electronic Frontier Foundation
-
- My father, who was the ultimate Santa Claus, would wrap all the gifts
- and label them. Then, after I spent three weeks shaking my presents,
- on Christmas eve he would pass them out and announce that they were
- all labeled wrong. I would be devastated, having figured out what
- each gift was, to find that it really was for my brother. My father
- thought this was terribly funny, but I think it has <scarred> me for
- life. That's probably why I bought that car.
- --ggs
-