Griswold/Rinkwraith Entry #1 contest

[Rinkwraith]

Okay, Clark, it's time to fire it up. Let 'er rip.......

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Contest #1. Winner gains one entry to the main page of winners. All entries will be randomed by random.org to determine the #1 spot (winner). Limit one entry per person.

So Clark has had his fair share of good presents and bad presents during the holidays. He especially recalls one really bad present he got one year...a year subscription to the jelly of the month club. So now he wonders;

1) Tell me about your worst ever Christmas present you received

That's right, just tell me all about it and you'll be entered into the contest for this entry. Need more motivation? Added to the prize list today was another great hockey product;

1 box of 10/11 Famous Fabrics Hockey Ink:eek::eek::eek:

Yet another great product and great autograph going under someone's tree this year.

Good luck everyone!!!:)!

Deadline for entries for this contest will be Friday 12/2 at 8:00pm

[BostonNut]

The worst Christmas present I ever received was from one of my co-workers. He gave me an entire hunting outfit. Camo pants, a bright orange vest and a bright orange hat. The kicker?

I DON'T HUNT!

Thanks for the contest!

[HawksBraves]

My worst present was actually a pretty good gift, but my ineptitude turned it into a disaster. When I was 11 years old my dad got be a bitchin' swiss army knife for christmas. Despite my parents' continued warnings not to use it until they had taught me a few ground rules, I wielded my blade to slice open the wrapper on a board game we had received. Instead of slicing away from my body, I brought the incredibly sharp knife towards myself. The smoothness with which the blade moved caught me off guard, and before I knew it, I had cut a giant hole in the webbing between my thumb and ring finger on the hand I was using to steady the box. It was bad enough to warrant a trip to the ER, so I covered my bloody hand with an old dish towel. When I was about to be treated at the hospital, I had to wash the blood away and for the first time I had a clean look at my laceration. Here's a visual for you (staying on the Christmas Vacation kick): The inside of my hand looked hauntingly like the inside of the dry turkey that the Griswold clan has for Christmas dinner. When I saw this I passed out, but luckily a hefty nurse was there to catch me and help avoid head trauma. 8 stitches later, I was back home finally.

Oh yeah then I drank rotten milk through a crazy straw by accident trying to unclog it. Great Christmas.

[fisk-factor75]

I was 16 years old and my aunt bought me the Smurf Spin Around card game......nuff said

[frozenntimesports]

My wife got me a sweater that was two sizes too small for me. When I mentioned it, she said I used to be that size and I should try to get back there.

Not realizing she was joking and that she had gotten the wrong size, I replied "you used to be hot too!"

Well that flew like a lead balloon and I slept on the couch for a few days.

[bbtt123]

The worse Christmas present I ever got had to be when I was 11 years old. My dear loving aunt wanted to be the cool person of the family to get me some "hip" clothes, well when I opened my eyes, it was like looking into the sun, bright orange stripes, outlined by every other color of the rainbow shirt/hoodie type configuration such as this:

http://martialartsteachers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/steve-urkel-geek.jpg

thinner stripes, many more colors, much more ugly. To my surprise, not only did she have to get me this shirt, we also had to get the pants to match it. Sadly, regular jeans were out of the question, why would you stop at gaudy when you can go completely atrocious right? If you haven't guessed it by now, Orange and black jeans "gangsta" style :D

So I'm an 11 year old white kid who is at this time 6'3", how the hell do I not stand out in this outfit, and how do I get away with not wearing this...sigh, if I can find it in time, I will post a picture of me in the outfit, my other aunt who is only 12 years old than me took many photos while laughing at how ridiculous I looked.

I was the Halloween version of where's Waldo, learned my lesson, every year since I am very specific that I just need socks for Christmas.

[cardinalfan13]

One year my sister bought me a chia pet.......I sh!t you not

[navydude21]

A homemade sweater from grandma

[MrSnyder]

One year my wife's grandparents got me a Mickey Mouse tie of him standing against a car from the 20's like a gangster...the next year - SAME TIE!
What in the hell am I gonna do with 2 identical ties?

[smkelly1]

Worst gift i ever recieved was a package of female underwear and a fluffy toilet seat. My parents mislabeled a few presents and I was about 10 at the time and opened up little girls underwear and a fluffy toilet seat as my first two presents. Thought that was enough to ruin my whole day until I got my gameboy color and my grandparents moved it after I had opened it up and told me I must have thrown it away. I dug through the trash for 10 minutes before they told me it was in their room.

[lrogge1979]

My worst christmas present ever was one i got when i was 11 years old. We were not a wealthy family by any means, infact we were barely above the poverty level. We got help from the salvation army for our gifts. So here i am 11 years old and its about December 20th or so and my mom runs to me and says "hurry Lee, you get to open a christmas present early". I was so excited for a minute, then my mom picks out the gift for me to open. So she tosses me this small round gift, and the next words out of here mouth were "hurry your dad has diarrhrea" so i hurry and open my gift to find out i got a roll of toilet paper, and yea my dad got to use it first.

[ilovethelakings]

Oh, this is easy. My father's ashes when I was 12. He died on the 21st, and I ended up with his cremated corpse in my hands on the 24th. Now that was a good Christmas.

[ckilgor5]

One time I received a popcorn rock. It's exactly what it sounds like...just a rock that you put water on and it grows "popcorn". Not edible popcorn, but more like a fungus. It was simply a rock in a plastic bag. To make matters worse, I received the same thing the year after, from the same person. She apparently either forgot that she gave it to me the year before, or had a stockpile hidden away and just dipped back into that supply.

[gonzo126]

The worst present I get is the same I get til this day every Xmas from mom.....a 3- pack of tighty whitey underwears and warm socks that go upto my knee. EVERY YEAR!

[jimssouvenirs]

I know some of the others are much better, but when I was 15 my aunt gave me the second or third Backstreet Boys CD. She seriously thought that I would like it because I enjoy singing / music.

The worst part? My mom f'ing loved the BSBs. We would seriously listen to that CD every day until it was "accidentally" dropped out of the car by my father.

Some GFs have given me bad presents as well.... but nothing life altering like having the Backstreet Boys stuck in your head 24/7

[GoJays]

Alright, I think my gift has a chance. I got a bright a$$ pink sweater and yellow pants from my aunt when I was 15. She thought I liked bright clothing so decided to get me that instead of giving me money for a car or something.

Here's the kicker though. My aunt was a teacher at my high school. My mother thought it would be "cute" if I wore it to school that day (what I mean is, she forced me to wear it :)). I'll let you figure out the rest of the story. Let's just say that bright-a$$ pink sweater got a little red stain at the end of the day.

[Piper7770]

I usually get clothes for Christmas...it isn't a bad gift, unless you consider the health hazards, but I got a carton of Marlboro Reds and a case of 12 Monster Energy Drinks... :o

[Monsters]

Worst gift I have ever gotten had to be a jar of Salmon Eggs.....Jar is still sittling in the pantry (can't bring myself to throw it away as it was a gift).

[thor_rider08]

age 13.. FURBY enough said.

[gumbidom]

worst present ive ever got was a 3 dvd box of porn which wouldnt be that bad but happens that i was in boot camp for the US NAVY

[los421]

When I was 13 my grandmother got me a pack of pencils with my name on it... 5 different colors too. Needless to say they never made it to school

[jetscollector10]

I'm Jewish, so don't celebrate Christmas. I'll just think of Birthday or Chanukah.

That worst present I ever got is my annual "ugly sweater" from my aunt. She usually gives me a range of stuff, but I can count on one hideous sweater every year that I will never wear. I appreciate the thoughts though, and am just glad she gets me anything.

[HawksBraves]

I'm Jewish, so don't celebrate Christmas. I'll just think of Birthday or Chanukah.

That worst present I ever got is my annual "ugly sweater" from my aunt. She usually gives me a range of stuff, but I can count on one hideous sweater every year that I will never wear. I appreciate the thoughts though, and am just glad she gets me anything.

I'd be willing to trade for some of your extra sweaters...always looking for new sweaters to wear to tacky christmas parties

[SethMurphy]

Worst present ever would be the time my grandparents got me some new bed sheets (i was somewhere between 7-11 years old) and they definitely had flowers on them, nice pastel colored as well.

Seriously, I'm a boy, I like dirt, and you got me some nice flowered sheets. Good thing I loved my grandparents but c'mon man.

I have also received gifts like a desk lamp, a mini shovel, different school supplies from another grandmother.... it's like she shops the discount aisle at the Dollar General for all of the presents.

[bertsplace820]

i got a book called "dating for dummies" lame.

[rgarris]

Here is the story about my worst Christmas present ever:

Last year I went halves with my girlfriend on presents for our whole families, parents, aunts uncles, etc...So the gift we got her aunt and uncle was 50 dollars, so 25 dollar cost to me....now I know its not about money its the thought right? well they love different foods so we picked out this nice spicy dip because they like spicy stuff and it came with pretzels.....my gift in return???? A dollar scratch off ticket that didnt even win anything!!!!!! Where the heck is the thought in that? Before we could even leave my girlfriend said sorry lol.

[Adamchuk]

Worst X-mas present ever....well my parents have a habit of giving small complimentary gifts that lead up to a much larger gift. I was in boarding school so I had asked for a printer so I didn't have to trudge to the libary or copy center everytime I wanted to print something out. So my parents hand me Part 1 of my present. I open it up and its...

A package of printer paper!!!!

I hadn't caught on to their games being so young and naive but at least a printer followed it up. Still a package of printer paper for X-mas. I was so upset after opening that one

[ilovethelakings]

i got a book called "dating for dummies" lame.

Did it help you out? ;)

[mmbtvs]

This is not an entry!!!

However I do want to share my 2 worst presents ever.

One was from my grandmother, it was slipper socks. I was sitting next to my wife and first chance I got I leaned over to her and said "slipper socks, medium" (reference to the movie The Ref)

The other was when cds first came out, I tried replacing my cassettes with cds, and for 3 years in a row, the same grandmother got me the exact same cassette that I was trying to replace. What the hell was I going to do with 4 copies of the exact same album?

[rotoworld0204]

Not a tangible item but got word during winter break that i didn't pass 2 classes in college. Tore me up

[mickdapug]

worst gift i ever got was an olivia newton john cd...nuff said!

[Giantsphan]

My mother in law bought me a 5 disc dvd set on parenting before i had kids lol

[nephinfan]

My family has done the white elephant gifts for a few years, usually choosing a new victim every year. One year, I opened up one of those books that have a hole cut out in every page where you can actually put the person's picture in there and then it looks as if they are in on the action in every page of the story. It was a cartoon book about the new "player" on a basketball team. When I opened it up, I thought I had become that year's white elephant, but NO, it was my actual gift. Now, this doesn't seem so bad yet, but they used the most current school picture of me at the time....and I was a Junior in high school!

[wordmang]

My grandma got me a tellatubby when I was 13. Needless to say, I was shocked but played it off as if I was the best. =(

[Hous3r]

Here is the story about my worst Christmas present ever:

Last year I went halves with my girlfriend on presents for our whole families, parents, aunts uncles, etc...So the gift we got her aunt and uncle was 50 dollars, so 25 dollar cost to me....now I know its not about money its the thought right? well they love different foods so we picked out this nice spicy dip because they like spicy stuff and it came with pretzels.....my gift in return???? A dollar scratch off ticket that didnt even win anything!!!!!! Where the heck is the thought in that? Before we could even leave my girlfriend said sorry lol.

hahaha couldnt even play you a 2 dollar? rofl!!!!

[pastmyshades]

I got a Hot Wheels set when I was about 7 or 8. One of the crazy ones where you could race the race around the track, fully equipped with loop-de-loops and everything. I tried to put it together without the help of my parents and I put one piece in upside down. I wedged it in there pretty good and as my mom tried to get it out, it came out too quickly and hit her square in the face. Four stitches and a few cups of eggnog later she wasn't too mad at me.

And yes I realize that one of my sentence is a massive thats what she said.

-James

[bziddy]

Pomade -- I was in my teens -- this didn't happen in the 50s.

Pomade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomade)

[IndySportsCards]

When I was Twelve, my mom got me a Unicycle. A FREAKING UNICYCLE! I didn't even know what it was. I never asked for one. Turns out, my mom always wanted to learn how to ride one when she was a kid, so she got me one. It sat in the garage for years. Worst present evar!

[dd316]

Mine is one that I cannot escape year after year - pajama pants. For some reason, everyone in my family thinks I need a different pair for every day of the year. As soon as I see a package shaped like a clothing box I know exactly what's inside. I'm tired of acting excited about them.

NO MORE PAJAMA PANTS!!!

[jusdukky]

I got a cribbage board from my aunt when I was 9. Had no clue how to play it and knew no one that played cribbage. It sat in the closet for years unused and eventually vanished.

[Tblades_17]

my cheap Aunt and Uncle got me five buffalo nickels one year.... wow a whopping $0.25, and this was in the 90's

[camarofan112]

when i was 12 my Aunt got me a pair of purple courderoy pants..... Worst present EVER

[Rinkwraith]

Deadline has been reached. I'll random off the entries later tonight and post. Good luck!!

[mistagriddy]

Well then. I'm sure everyone has had that cousin who gets hooked up by their grandparents. One year I remember him opening up some awesome toys for the age we were. My cuz was 2 years younger so I was about 11-12. After watching him open up his remote control truck and some g.I joes. His granny had a smile on her face and passes me this box. I was like, yeeeeaaa gi joes or something. So I'm ripping this box open to only find 10 pairs of woolys. If only I seen my face I'd prolly be laughing at myself right now. I went from looking excited to confusingly shocked while giving a straight smile. Hahaha oh man. Good times. As a kid you kinda expect toys then your surprised by some good ol socks. I'm sure I've received some bad ones but this one clicked right away.

[Rinkwraith]

Slight plumbing problems in the house last night guys. I will do the random later tonight with contest #2.

[ilovethelakings]

Slight plumbing problems in the house last night guys. I will do the random later tonight with contest #2.

Sir, did you plug up the john again?

[mmbtvs]

Sir, did you plug up the john again?

I think he was talking about his Weinberg.

[ilovethelakings]

I think he was talking about his Weinberg.

He plugged up his E Street Band drummer?

[Rinkwraith]

Nope, the house trap apparently got clogged so the lovely roto-rooter people cleaned it all up today....anyway....

There were 37 items in your list. Here they are in random order:
1.Adamchuk
2.thor rider08
3.SethMurphy
4.nephinfan
5.fisk-factor75
6.gunbidom
7.BostonNut
8.Monsters
9.mickdapug
10.bziddy
11.HawksBraves
12.bertsplace820
13.Indy
14.smkelly1
15.lrogge1979
16.wordmang
17.GoJays
18.gonzo126
19.Tblades17
20.cardinalfan13
21.kings
22.jusdukky
23.rotoworld
24.navydude21
25.pastmyshades
26.Piper7770
27.bbtt123
28.camarofan112
29.Giantsphan
30.MrSnyder
31.KMD
32.jimssouvenirs
33.ckilgor5
34.jetscollector10
35.rgarris
36.dd316
37.los421

Timestamp: 2011-12-03 23:41:17 UTC

Adamchuk has been added to the winners list....congrats and lots more contests to go folks!

[ilovethelakings]

Congrats Adamchuk!

[mmbtvs]

Way to go Adamchuk! You just got in on the hotest thing this site has going. And think you rinkwraith for making it happen. Kudos.

[Giantsphan]

Congrats Adamchuk!!

[Adamchuk]

Thanks guys and thanks for running the contest, would be great to turn that package of printer paper into something worthwhile!

Can't thank Rinkwraith enough