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Author Topic: PARTY! A virtual wedding shower for Figee and Hegee  (Read 2980 times)
octoprof
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« on: September 07, 2008, 06:52:35 PM »

figee and hegee are engaged! woo hoo!

So, let's celebrate properly with a virtual wedding shower.

My gift is an all expense paid virtual honeymoon vacation to Freycinet National Park in Tasmania.  It's perfect timing for the wedding, I think. It'll be summer there! Good hiking, good swimming, big jacuzzi tubs, wallabies running around, etc.

Congratulations!
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« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2008, 07:50:05 PM »

Wonderful news! Congratulations!

My gift will be two nights at the Ice Hotel in Québec City.  Sparkling beauty, originality, and you'll have your love to keep you warm.
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« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2008, 09:08:34 PM »

Congratulations and best wishes to the happy couple. May I offer a virtual glass of champagne to toast this lovely occasion? <Hands the bottle to Octoprof and llanfair to pour, since I'm feeling like Typhoid Mountainguy at the moment>.
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« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2008, 09:19:51 PM »

Since I seem to be the cake-baker around here, I'll make you whatever wedding cake you would like.  I will also whip up an engagement cake for all of us to dig into right now.  Maybe a dense chocolate cake with Chambord-soaked raspberries between layers?  Some white chocolate shavings on top?
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« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2008, 09:22:29 PM »

Since I seem to be the cake-baker around here, I'll make you whatever wedding cake you would like.  I will also whip up an engagement cake for all of us to dig into right now.  Maybe a dense chocolate cake with Chambord-soaked raspberries between layers?  Some white chocolate shavings on top?

Sounds wonderfully decadent.  Can you work real whipped cream in there somewhere?
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« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2008, 09:24:44 PM »

<drifts around pouring champagne for everyone>
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« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2008, 09:28:23 PM »

Since I seem to be the cake-baker around here, I'll make you whatever wedding cake you would like.  I will also whip up an engagement cake for all of us to dig into right now.  Maybe a dense chocolate cake with Chambord-soaked raspberries between layers?  Some white chocolate shavings on top?

Sounds wonderfully decadent.  Can you work real whipped cream in there somewhere?

Of course.  Whipped cream available to top your slice of cake.
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« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2008, 10:28:59 PM »

(Arrives, dazed and confused, and walking with a definite leftward list)

I'm going to bring some tomato and boccochini tarts which are too good not to have.

But thank you all very much.
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« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2008, 10:49:27 PM »

Congrats!  Here: a book of gift certificates for couples' spa treatments (massages, mudbaths, you name it).
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« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2008, 10:58:50 PM »

Someone has to give a toaster.

So here's my (still in R&D) gift.   Congratulations!

http://www.inventables.com/Product/ConceptStudio.asp?i=11&t=4
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« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2008, 01:22:24 AM »

Plasma TV, a Karaoke machine, and a lifetime supply of zingers while I am playing "Sunrise, Sunset" on the fiddle.
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« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2008, 07:51:36 AM »

If I had the power, I'd give you both one golden week together with absolutely no responsibilities, no cares, no obligations, and no stress even approaching the darkest reaches of your unconscious minds.
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« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2008, 09:48:56 PM »

Someone has to give a toaster.

So here's my (still in R&D) gift.   Congratulations!

http://www.inventables.com/Product/ConceptStudio.asp?i=11&t=4


Thank you all very much.  But this has got to be my favourite pressie of all!
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« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2008, 01:00:43 AM »

*blushing*

It's nothing, really.  No, really!
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