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 Re: Thrilling Adventures with Faux Pas (plus book rants!) 
 Kiki, on host 64.20.68.187
  Sunday, December 31, 2000, at 10:31:59
  Re: Thrilling Adventures with Faux Pas (plus book rants!) posted by Grishny on Sunday, December 31, 2000, at 08:56:44:
> > Christmas morning was fun.  My wife's family has this thing where everyone takes turns opening gifts rather than everyone diving into a pile and ripping wrapping paper.  It's actually a neat tradition, but with ten people, we're done opening presents around New Year's. > > My family has practiced that tradition for as long as I can remember. There were only five of us, though, so we got finished in just three or four hours, usually. Another tradition we had was that everyone got a turn at being "Santa." In other words, everyone got a turn at grabbing gifts out of the pile and handing it to the recipient. For a few years, we even had a Santa hat to go along with the honor, and just a year ago, we even had a fake Santa beard and glasses to go along with it. (Hence the "Grishny Clause" picture that many of you have seen.) > > Gri"Santa's Little Helper"shny
  We do that too! Both of them! We had, um... 9 people this year, though. It took us till 4:00 to finish. But it was fun!
  Ki"wasn't Santa this year, at all, though"ki 
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