Help! Secret Santa Advice Needed!
 

the very essence of the sitcom is relationship, not 1 night stand.

Example- there is only 1 correct answer for the question:

Fuck-marry-kill;
I pod guy; Dwight; receptionist's boyfriend.

ncs- Answer please:

Stupid Things to Avoid Doing & Ketchup
 

I met some friends for dinner and one of them had a painfully red eye.

She cleaned her contacts with this solution that you can only use with the special case they give you with each bottle that neutralizes it from hydrogen peroxide to plain saline.

For reasons unknown, she decided to use it with a regular contacts case and burned the heck out of her eye when she put the contact in. She was peeved that her eye doctor hadn't told her she couldn't use it with a regular case. Because she was in the process of getting giggly and weepy drunk, I refrained from pointing out that it was written on the bottle and, being a reading teacher, she might have picked that up on her own.

SunnyBunny: I don't think La Mer is worth the price. There are plenty of good moisturizers that don't require a second mortgage. And if you needed a reason not to get it, You-Know-Who likes it.

Fu(full of helpful tips)gee

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

So, last night I was at a client's holiday open house (technically, I was the client -- First National Bank of Podunkville). Pretty nice, actually -- open bar with decent quality booze (Maker's Mark), a sushi bar, and the usual roast beast carving station.

Anyway, stupidity abounds -- especially when combined with alcohol. Lessons I learned (by observation only, thank goodness):

1. Do not hit on the harpist. Yes, she is hot. However, she will think that you are a lecherous old man, and her boyfriend is certainly a lot cooler than you are. If she cared about money, she would have gone to Wharton, not Julliard. (Oh, and she's heard all the angel/heaven lines several hundred times. Don't use them.)

2. If you are recently divorced, do not invite your long-term paramour to a party where you are entertaining people with whom you have a business relationship. I am glad that you are happy, paramour, with the fact that my loan officer brings you coffee in bed every morning, but I probably didn't need to know about the foot massages that you have received every day for the last five years after a hard day at the art gallery. The loan officer's spouse was at the party last year, and the typical bank customer at the party was older and more conservative than me. I'm thinking that, after last night, Betty may tell Herb that he ought get the next line of credit for the insurance agency from PlannersBanc instead.

3. Don't grouse about the fact that "the PC crowd at the home office" is "making you call it a holiday party instead of a Christmas party" -- you don't know whether the person waiting in line behind you and your friend is a MOT.

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

Compare/Contrast telling the waitress you like her hair-do

To the extent the Jews in Podunk are bothered by being invited to a "Christmas Party," the extent they are bothered pales in comparision to how much the quality of the deli in Podunk bothers them. Wonk. You've been to Podunk- how's the Pastrami?

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

Well, yes, its true that it could be a Jew behind you. However, the fact is, it is a Christmas Party. Its also a Christmas tree, Christmas decorations , Christmas music and Merry Christmas.

aV

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

I agree that it is a Christmas tree, that nearly all of the usual music is Christmas music, and some of the usual decorations are Christmas decorations.

As applied to last night, however, most, if not all, of the decorations were of the generic winter type (not including the tree, obviously). The music was classical chamber music stuff -- not a single jingle bell, or silent night. And a few of the senior people at the bank, as well as bank customers at the party, are, in fact, Jewish.

I'm a Not Jew, but I assume that most Jews recognize that Christmas is the biggie of the winter holidays. It just seems kind of rude to me to shove that fact in someone's face in such a way as I saw last night.

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

Exactly. It's the quality of my pick-up lines that sets me apart from the pack.

Lessons learned by someone else, so you don't have to
 

Take down your blog, your myspace profile, your friendster profile, your tribe profile, ect. before you kill your parents and/or your girlfriend's parents. Or else everyone will analyze to death.

My personal blog will keep the media happy for months after I lose it and shoot everyone in this building. They'll probably blame a combination of Tom DeLay, sex toys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans, and the Houston art scene.

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

I agree, except that I don't.

Lots of us tend to call it a Christmas party here, but considering the fact that a good number of the people who work here do not celebrate Christmas, it actually isn't a Christmas party. And who really gives a shit if the firm throws a "holiday party" vs. a "Christmas Party" anyway? Either way, it's a chance to watch someone get wasted and ruin their career. Good times.

TM

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

Ohioans don't like the blacks or the jews.

Col (anti-dentite) trane

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

My family is throwing our annual Christmas party tomorrow (anyone's welcome to come, PM me for directions). We invite a lot of non-Christian friends, but it'd be weird if we changed the invitation to "Holiday Tree Cutting Party." No one seems to care.

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

That's nice. But...so?

The firm throws a party for its members. Its members are made up of people, many of whom do not celebrate Christmas. If we were a firm made up of Christians who invited Jewish clients to our Christmas party, I think you would have a point. But you're really just telling me your family celebrates Christmas.

TM

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

You're right. Except you're wrong. If Christmas wasn't in December, there would be no Hanukkah/Winter Solstice celebration at any office. Kids wouldn't have a Dreidle break from school at a less than halfway point for the school year and business wouldn't be relying on the fucking winter to make their sales goals for the year.

Its a freakin' Christmas party. Drink the booze, eat the free food, and watch the hot secretary in the goofy ass red and green stockings make a fool of herself when she dances rather inapprorpiately with the managing partner.

aV

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

Stop stealing my shit.

Once again, this is not the point. If I am jewish and I am a partner at the firm, I am not throwing a Christmas party because I do not celebrate Christmas. I also know that other people who own and work at the firm do not celebrate Christmas. Therefore, I throw a party that is inclusive of everyone because I'm not going to have a Passover party or a Kwanzaa celebration and I'm not going to force everyone to fast for Ramadan (or however it's spelled).

And the party is thrown in December because more people celebrate Christmas and so it makes sense to center the holiday party around the time of year that most people celebrate. But that doesn't mean we only have to recognize one type of celebration.

Kids in New York's public schools get all the jewish holidays off, jewish or not, so whatever. Your quote doesn't make any sense in the context of this argument anyway.

Right. Because if there were no Christmas, we probably wouldn't come up with another way to guilt everyone into spending a bunch of money on gifts at year-end.

Why the fuck do I have to call it a Christmas party to witness or enjoy any of that?

TM

Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Parties
 

To me, it was always a nice chance to relax a little bit before going back to the damn office because of all the damn EOY stuff that everyone comes up with that has to be done by 12/31. So to me, it's a celebrating the end of the year party. And New Years is a holiday too. That I would consider to be included in the "holidays" that are being celebrated.

And, your Winter Solstice comment is beyond stupid. The reason Christmas is scheduled where it is was to try to rope in all the people who were celebrating the solstice on 12/21.

Can we trade you for NFH?