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Weirdest/Creepiest gift ever recieved?

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A gift for Christmas or birthday or a souvenir from family or friends....what is the weirdest or creepiest...

- When i was very young, i had a big ALF doll that, when a ring was pulled, talked. Creeped the crap out of me when it was sitting on a shelf in the dark.
 
When I am invited to and forced to go to a baby shower I always buy one of these as a gift. My way of saying don't invite me to this kind of thing.

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My niece had a 'Little Miss No-Name' doll. Maybe kids were supposed to have their sense of empathy developed with that little beggar-homeless doll? The doll came with a burlap dress, a big plastic tear under one eye and her hand could be extended as if she was begging for quarters. I never understood why my sister ever bought that doll, it was absolutely bizarre. What a cheerful toy for a little girl! (not)

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Court Jester said:
When I am invited to and forced to go to a baby shower I always buy one of these as a gift. My way of saying don't invite me to this kind of thing.

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How do they “force” you to go? Asking for a friend.....
 
For baby showers, and 1st through 3rd birthdays, I get non better powered noise makers. Whistles, symbols, xylophone.
 
Roadvirus said:
A gift for Christmas or birthday or a souvenir from family or friends....what is the weirdest or creepiest...

- When i was very young, i had a big ALF doll that, when a ring was pulled, talked. Creeped the crap out of me when it was sitting on a shelf in the dark.
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My older daughter bought a talking Alf doll to terrify her charges when she babysat. Somehow she hacked the voice so it would say things like "Shut up and go to sleep or I will eat your toes." Parents would compliment her, stating their children were unusually well behaved after her visits. Considering how she terrified her brothers, she didn't require help from an Alf doll.

When she showed her own daughter an episode of Alf on youtube, her daughter said, "I get it, he's an alien, we could be buddies." Scary.
 
KevinKohler said:
For baby showers, and 1st through 3rd birthdays, I get non better powered noise makers. Whistles, symbols, xylophone.
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Play-doh works well too. Women hate play-doh being brought to their house.
 
Rexedgar said:
How do they “force” you to go? Asking for a friend.....
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Family obligation and then guilt if you don't go. But take age inappropriate gifts and then the word gets out not to invite you to baby showers. So besides taking a wood burning set to a baby shower or first birthday party, toy plastic guns usually put you on a future "ban list" as well.:cool:
 
HumblePi said:
My niece had a 'Little Miss No-Name' doll. Maybe kids were supposed to have their sense of empathy developed with that little beggar-homeless doll? The doll came with a burlap dress, a big plastic tear under one eye and her hand could be extended as if she was begging for quarters. I never understood why my sister ever bought that doll, it was absolutely bizarre. What a cheerful toy for a little girl! (not)

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Looks like it was created by Tim Burton (it has a Nightmare Before Christmas vibe!)
 
I've actually never received creepy gifts but my son and I accidentally sent a creepy gift to a very dear friend, and she was very gracious about it!

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See the lady on the right?
That's Maryann Lindsey, one of the three female vocalists on Leon's 1972 tour and we've been friends ever since I re-released the show on DVD in 2005.

Anyway, one day she messaged me saying that in her most recent move she had lost the copy of the show I'd mailed to her and I promised to send her another one. Meanwhile the brother of my wife's ex-husband, who unlike her ex is a nice fellow and is still in our kids lives, stopped by for a brief visit with his wife and left his electric toothbrush when they went back home.

I gave my son a piece of scratch paper with Uncle Don's address on it and told my son to put the electric toothbrush in the mail to the address on the paper.
Somehow he took the wrong paper from my office and mailed the used electric toothbrush to Maryann Lindsey, who wrote to me that she "had just received my gift".
Still not realizing anything was amiss I asked if it arrived in good working condition (the DVD disc, right?) and she said she had no idea if it worked because it looked like it had been in someone's mouth already...

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That's a long and rather pregnant pause.
I was trying to figure out how a DVD fits in someone's mouth, not realizing Maryann was talking about a used electric toothbrush.
Maryann, of course, had no idea I was inquiring about the DVD.
Silly me had to ask how anyone fit a DVD in their mouth, of course Maryann replied, "Jayeff, I was talking about the toothbrush".

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Another pregnant pause as my mind struggled to understand what happened.
"You mean you didn't get the DVD?"
"No, I was thinking you'd sent it and I opened up the envelope and you sent me an electric toothbrush."

Which of course is about the time I brought my son over to the phone to explain, to gales of laughter, how he had accidentally sent a used electric toothbrush to one of Leon Russell's backup singers.

To this day we both tease him about it. :lamo
 
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A doll that winks at you at night.
 
Court Jester said:
When I am invited to and forced to go to a baby shower I always buy one of these as a gift. My way of saying don't invite me to this kind of thing.

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We used to have one of those wood burning kits as kids. Are you suggesting they are lame? What you talkin' bout Willis? Uh oh, did I just do a racism?? Was I 'appropriating' culture?
 
ModerationNow! said:
We used to have one of those wood burning kits as kids. Are you suggesting they are lame? What you talkin' bout Willis? Uh oh, did I just do a racism?? Was I 'appropriating' culture?
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You are funny!:)

I loved my wood burning set, burned fingers and knuckles and all.
 
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