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MadDawg replied

4 July 2013, 14:52
Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post

He already has around 10 of the blighters.
Trouble is he's a hoarder

take him out for the day - Beaulieu Motor museum or something like that.
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KentPhilip replied

4 July 2013, 14:43
Originally posted by d000hg View Post

A nice barometer?

He already has around 10 of the blighters.
Trouble is he's a hoarder
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d000hg replied

4 July 2013, 13:41
A nice barometer?
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KentPhilip replied

4 July 2013, 13:35
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post

He IS the Messiah!

And a very naughty boy.
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Mich the Tester replied

4 July 2013, 12:51
Originally posted by sasguru View Post

Is your father a virgin too?

Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post

He is. And my mother's the virgin mary

He IS the Messiah!
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KentPhilip replied

4 July 2013, 12:49
Originally posted by sasguru View Post

Is your father a virgin too?

He is. And my mother's the virgin mary
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Power Mortgages Ltd replied

4 July 2013, 11:37
80 individual items beginning with the letter his name starts with?

You can include some nice/useful gifts but depending on what his name is, it may be quite difficult to find 80 separate items all starting with his initial, especially if he is called Zach or Xavier!

Did this for my grandfather when I was younger and it was quite fun coming up with all the ideas too. Of course there were a few really strange smaller gifts like teabags (his name began with T), toothpaste, toothpicks and toilet rolls which are hardly traditional birthday presents but still useful none the less and worked well to complement the theme with some of the bigger/nicer gifts we also got him.

The idea is to not tell them there is 80 gifts and that they all start with the same letter and see how long it takes for them to realise and work it out.
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sasguru replied

4 July 2013, 11:34
Is your father a virgin too?
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KentPhilip replied

4 July 2013, 11:33
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post

A radio controlled sailing boat.

Good idea. thanks.

For my brother's 30th I got a radio controlled tank that fired real projectiles. He took it into the office where he was working, and made a misery of the cleaners. Who had to hoover up said projectiles at the end of the day..
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stek replied

4 July 2013, 11:33
Selection Box of bits of wood that might come in useful and a Compendium of bits of good string?
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Mich the Tester replied

4 July 2013, 11:29
Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post

His interests mainly revolve around sailing instruction, although he's packed that in now.

A radio controlled sailing boat.
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northernladuk replied

4 July 2013, 11:07
Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post

That's not very cheerful!

No but very practical and thoughtful and can't argue it will be useful.
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KentPhilip replied

4 July 2013, 10:57
Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

Open a funeral bond for him with a tenner and put the statement in his card...

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That's not very cheerful!
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northernladuk replied

4 July 2013, 10:47
Open a funeral bond for him with a tenner and put the statement in his card...

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TheFaQQer replied

4 July 2013, 10:47
Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

For my mum's 80th, we made a 'memories' book, where we asked friends and family to write about something nice about her or that they remembered doing with her.
People really got into it, sending pages of stuff and photographs, which made a really nice album.

We did something similar for my granddad - we also got a load of old cine films converted to video for him.
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