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# Secret Santa 2.0 idea?
Time was, when the UK blogosphere was concentrated in the power of a few key individuals, thinkblank.com had a Secret Santa every year where you could give a random blogger a gift, and get a random gift back. The great thing with this approach was that you were almost encouraged to stalk said blogger for a while, to see what they’d like and want.

This year, the only example of a Web Secret Santa I’ve found so far has been Firebox’s Global Secret Santa, whereby you buy a gift (from a limited range) for someone via Firebox, and someone else buys you a gift (from the same limited range). Which almost seems a step backwards in the world of Secret Santas.

So …

Would there be any interest in a Web 2.0 Secret Santa for bloggers whereby people register, they’re given the details of someone else who’s registered, and told to buy an appropriate gift worth £10 or less for them? Optionally, if they buy it through an affiliate site like Amazon, the commission is then donated to a charity…

Are there any savvy database types who could knock up an appropriate database and website in 7 days?

Or is this a really really stupid idea?
(almostwitty, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:23, archived)
# I like the idea because I'd probably send (and receive)
something extremely silly.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:24, archived)
# That's the bestest kind of present
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:28, archived)
# I have so many ideal presents I could send that are made locally
The chicken that is made out of plastic supermarket carrier bags threaded onto wire is just one of many that springs to mind.
Edit: Tis a pity that this wasn't posted with a picture. Now people are more concerned with that rather than the good idea :(
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:31, archived)
# now look what you've done!
(I helped save b3ta! inexpressible started a joke on, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:25, archived)
# tl;dr
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:26, archived)
# Ask the interwebs!
(I helped save b3ta! Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:26, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:27, archived)
# i cant be arsed to read this
but im going to a forum meet at the weekend, and its 'poundland secret santa' - brought a set of 4 'super rangers' which are just really cheap, one-colour gundam knock-offs. The designs are the same and everything.

Not as good as my 'league of the transformable' optimus prime knockoff i got from a post office in minehead though.

Cant beat cheapo copyright-dubious post office and pound-store toys!
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:29, archived)
# Bring back Acton Jacks.
I remember buying them in the post office when I was a mere stream.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:32, archived)
# TOO MANY WORDS = REPOST TIME


CFB
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:31, archived)
# OK HAVE SOME LINUS/LINUX THEN
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:36, archived)
# I HAVE VERY LITTLE PEANUTS TO POST
BUT I DO HAVE THIS



I NEVER TRUSTED THAT LINUS
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:38, archived)
# He gets his powers from deep within the blanket.
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:44, archived)
# I'm not sure about that
It looks like he can summon them even when he's not carrying the blanket

(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:46, archived)
# OMG PACK MAN IS EATEN CHARLY BOWN
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:51, archived)
# I never trusted that Pac Man
I heard he raped Pac Woman.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:55, archived)
# She had it coming. The bow is just too provocative.
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:58, archived)
# I feel the same
And yet she expects the courts to back her case up! *And* after she's had his kid!
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 16:03, archived)
# I like this
(I helped save b3ta! pzyko Query failed., Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:48, archived)
# ok then
(I helped save b3ta! hekim 66 ɐʇƐ𐐒 ʞɔnℲ uooW, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:34, archived)
# HEADBANGWANKROCK

(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:44, archived)
# I only like Secret Santa if there's only two people participating

Plus, I am doing a similar thing next Saturday, for Sinterklaas
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:43, archived)
# reddit are doing one
redditgifts.com/about/
(I helped save b3ta! yanmania... last shagged your mum on, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 15:46, archived)
# ...Duh...I post words where they don't belong...duh......duh....
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 16:51, archived)