Comments on: Ultimate Yankee Swap Fighting – Extreme Championship Home Edition

By: Aunt Sharon

Aunt Sharon — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:20:17 +0000

Okay….have a good trip…tell Hank and Hal they are doing a FINE job with dad’s team!

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:25:11 +0000

In due time… I’m going to NYC tomorrow morning. I’ll be writing the post on the train and will have it up (with pics and the questions) by Wednesday.

-Ed

By: Aunt Sharon

Aunt Sharon — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:05:42 +0000

You’ve had time…where are the questions???

And I am not getting any help from my future daughter-in-law….The WINNA’!!

By: Aunt Sharon

Aunt Sharon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:42:18 +0000

Ah, my Dear Ed-Man! As much as I would love to attend such an exciting event, unless your parents DO storm the gates and demand entrance, I am afraid I would put myself in the unenviable position of being the oldest human there, unless you count the Spirit of St Nick, who might have only a few years on me! That would definitely set me up as a future trivia question, and I just cannot deal with that! I think you should keep the bar at YOUNG mothers,the old one will be at her own version of the bar!

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:24:11 +0000

@Aunt Sharon – I will absolutely post the questions. In fact, I’ll post it as a contest and only those who did not attend the party can enter. The answers will be posted a few days later, after I get everyone’s submissions. I’ll even offer up a prize. Incidentally, I have 60 questions drafted (all came from my head – no Internet assistance). If I run out, I’m screwed – so let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

I do have a back-up plan. As I was digging around for a box to hold the questions in, I came across a former game I invented – containing about 100 additional trivia questions. This one was for Andi’s 30th Birthday party – and married 80′s trivia questions with some photoshopped pics of classic 80′s scenes. The name of the game – Andi Land. Every time a person got a question right, they got to remove a piece of the puzzle obscuring the full photo. Once a person removed a piece, they got a chance to guess at the picture behind it. Each pic had a twist (for example – through my mad Photoshop skills, Mork & Mindy became Mook & Mindy – and you had to guess Mook & Mindy to actually win the round).

Other than that, the only other game I invented was a sport called Boozeball. The description of that one deserves a post of its own.

As for The Uninvited, in order to keep the guest list somewhat manageable (I say somehwat because we currently have 58 people RSVP’d to show up) we kept the invitee list aimed at non-family members (the thought being we see the fam around the core holidays, but not so much, the friends.) That means my own parents would get the boot should they try and vault the velvet ropes. They’re not on the VIP list.

That being said – in addition to being family, I consider you and Uncle Ron (and Jess and Jason) friends. You most of all as you are one of my faithful readers AND contributors. So, if you guys don’t have anything going on, you should totally come. I’ll send you the Evite. I believe Jason and Karen are already coming so if you can bump it over to Jess for me, that would be great. (Keep it quiet though – I don’t want an in-familial incident on my hands.)

As for Sean’s gift, he now has quite a bit of pressure on him. I think I’ll post a photo gallery of all the hands it makes its way into that day. Sight unseen, put me down for 3 owners.

By: Aunt Sharon

Aunt Sharon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:40:22 +0000

In the event of a tie, will there be a Lightening Round? Shoot-out? Extra innings? Pie toss?

And since The Office is off due to the Writer’s Strike…Lost and 24 have been delayed due to the Writer’s Strike…The Patriots only play on Sunday or Monday night now…I guess you DO have way too much time on your hands!

Please post immediately what Sean’s Yankee Swap gift is, the Vegas oddsmakers are hard at work to come up with the Over/Under on it being picked First. And I would appreciate a posted quiz of the questions, for the benefit of The Uninvited!

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:39:51 +0000

Let’s put it this way – I put that pic on his wedding photo DVD so if it is ‘decent’ enough for that, then I guess it is fit for public consumption.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:15:42 +0000

I hear ya… now, I can’t remember if you have ever directly posted it within these pages, but I did leave a link to it within a comment. I teased the photo for Tim and followed up with the link. For anyone interested in that photo — has Kerry seen this yet? — it is linked within this comment and also appeared on a lovely pink t-shirt we had Mook wear for his bachelor party. So, if we had him display it in public, it can’t be all that bad, right?

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:02:07 +0000

@Sean – “Last: What’s with the cop out on the Papa Navidad pics? Why not just show everyone what you meant by Mook salivating over his sack… or rather, get all up and… well… you know…”

C’mon, man. This is a family site – as if my constant references to wasabi panties and santa sacks didn’t make it abundantly clear.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:59:09 +0000

@Sean – I have no problem with you directing the first person to your gift. Let’s have a little pool off to the side to see how many times it gets picked.

As for the rules, they remain the same. It’s the same old Yankee Swap you are used to. The difference is that everyone is in the running for a special second gift (assuming they can answer their trivia question). Once one person is left standing and is left to open the mystery gift – they are forced to trade it with someone and take a Yankee Swap gift from them. Basically, I am guaranteeing that at least one gift will be taken from someone.

And isn’t that what Christmas is all about.