No, its not time yet, but its close enough to be thinking about it....

For those of you new here its a tradition carried over from the old Knox Cigar Board (sadly off the air now) that was deemed worthy of re-establishing here at BoB...
it has a long history of displaying generosity and showing member kinsmanship...

Here's the thread from last year... As usual it was a blast...

http://www.brothersofbriar.com/the-round-table-f12/bob-secret-santa-09-t2817.htm?highlight=secret+santa





Your wondering about the name huh? Well last year Santa musta been drinking eggnog a bit early... Seems he totally screwed up what year it was.. The fellows here being kind and loving to the ancient elf decided not to say anything... So here it is almost a year later and I hear Santa say "huh? WTF?, hey PB, you screwed this up last year"

Not one to be bullied I retorted "listen hear ya fat bastage, I just scribble down what you tell me to say, your being to drunk to know what year it is aint my problem, and besides you could get up off your lazy arse and post this crap yourself if your that concerned."

" I pay you well enough, you need to pay more attention" he says..

"Two half eaten cookies and some curdled milk is hardly what I'd call a hefty salary fatboy" I screamed at him (I don't normally scream at Santa, but he's starting his crap before I even have coffee)

"Yeah, but what about the Red Rider BB gun" he replys..

""That was a movie retard" I'm bout to smack him, I swear...

"Oh, yeah, that's right, well anyway, how we gonna fix this?" Santa asks...

(Now I'd like to pause the conversation here, you guys see that crap? When he thought I was in the wrong he goes off, now I show him he's in the wrong and suddenly its a 'WE' problem)

So I says "Easy, will just tack a 2 and a subtitle on it"

"No that will never work, how bout we just leave it alone, you know like the car makers" he counter offers..

"No Santa that just confuses the crap outta people"

After a few minutes whisker scratching he springs to his feet and yells "I've got it, we'll put a II on the end of it with a snazzy subtitle, they'll love it"

Shaking my head, it's all I can do to mumble "Brilliant sir, I'll get right on it.".. I swear one of these days I'm gonna accidentally forget a cotter pin or two on that sleigh harness.. Grumpy ole codg thinks he's irreplaceable to the operation, obviously he's to drunk to realize there's about 80,000 hopefuls each year just waiting to fill his spot...and they aint even in the Union, much less all the time whining about benefits,pay scale, and uniforms...

Somebody left the doors opened!! Ken

Can't wait, it's always so much fun. Quite humbling how generous people are.

By the time anyone noticed it was too late to fix it under edit.

Looking forward to the new edition!

I wouldn't mind gettin' in on this this year! Last year I got a beaut of pipe from my gal, but chances are this year will bring no pipe stuff as I haven't asked her for anything and we've been trying to save for our house.

I always wish I had someone to buy for locally (a smoking buddy per se) but I do not. So what better than my brothers here.

Looking forward to this starting up!

Sitting on my hands here....

Is Sept 21 to early to start?.... Man I might be worse than the retailers, wanting to start Christmas in Sept.....

I feel like I need to write:

"I will not start SS until late Oct" 500 times...

On my list of people to pressure this year...
Texas Outlaw.. He's grumpy and clearly needs some cheer

Winslow... He smiles a lot, he needs to share that.

The Canadians....finally, we have enough of 'em to run a 'North of the Border' sub-Secret Santa...

Just another month or so....

That was fun reading back through last year's thread!

What's this, Santa is warming up his sleigh??

A lb and a pipe!

That's all I'm saying

Sign-ups this year will occur between Oct 28-Nov 7.

That gives you guys better than a months notice that we are going to have Secret Santa this year...

You guys have been posting a lot in the 'What tobacco have you bought'... The PAD & TAD area...etc etc etc.....
I expect a good turn out this year, we have more members than ever and despite the economic down turn we seem to be spending as much as ever on the hobby... No excuses ya bunch a bozo's.. I want to see at least 44 people participate this year.. (Sounds like a large number but its only 5% of the members.)

Start saving some coin.. Its almost time..

Be sure to check the main thread in the Round Table Forum! It's Stickyed at the top.