OK. As before, presents make prizes.
Courtesy of Jax’s sister Jilly. The Rubbish Christmas Awards 2007 Grand Prize is this gorgeous, stylish egg timer, with a ****ing cow on top.
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I am pleased to announce that I do not have a single present that even comes close to being a submission this year!
Sorry Sarah, I simply don’t believe you. While it is far more likely that you simply have no taste (there is evidence to support this), on balance I suspect that you simply don’t want the gorgeous cow egg timer.
Obviously winning the prize last year disqualifies me from entering this year but I would like to mention that I was given a singing cake knife/server – it plays jingle bells, happy birthday, wedding march and for he’s a jolly good fellow.
It sounds wonderfully awful. I am sorry, but winning last year certainly gives you no exemption.
I really think we need a photo. Or better still, a movie clip…
and who did you get it from???
Tim – I insist, someone else must have the honour this year.
Jax – my Mum, who usually knows better…
I’ll ask tech support about the possibility of a movie clip. 🙂
Nope, got all nice presents here too.
Merry Christmas all 🙂
I got a hairdryer. I don’t ever use a hairdryer – none of us here do. But if I ever were to use a hairdryer I already had two anyway, so now I have three. Not useful, not decorative, not wanted!
well, i thought Duke had the winner until Jan posted about the cake knife but anyway…
from duke’s mum the ultimate get out of bed alarm clock – it’s a small blue beacon and siren that flashes wails like a real emergency vehicle siren to wake you up but alas also has one of those every hour on the hour alarms which gives a 10 second blast. Well, it did until I got out of bed at 4 am this morning and extracted the batteries after it had woken me up AGAIN!
The cow oven timer is positively tasteful in comparison 😆
Sorry, but no video unless there’s a dramatic increase in entries.
Not tasteless in the way you intended but my Grandfather gave Marcus for Christmas (all wrapped up in jolly paper) my dead grandmother’s Parker pen set with dried up ink left on the fountain pen nib and an empty ink cartridge inside.
Sorry Michelle, but that is merely slightly odd, not genuine Rubbish (note the capitalisation) at all. You see, where your grandfather is going wrong here is that a Parker pen is a rather good present. I think he might have cleaned it and stuffed a new cartridge in, but it is nevertheless still a Parker. What he should have done is to have given Marcus your grandmother’s old Bic with an empty cartridge and then you might have been in the running. Never mind, though, your grandfather’s effort shows promise and there is always next year.
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