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Six White Elephant Gifts to Make a Splash

Buying white elephant gifts can be more fun than buying ‘real’ gifts. After all, buying white elephant gifts gives you the opportunity to be funny and cheap – what could be for fun? Buying white elephant gifts is an increasingly popular choice to liven up office parties, but you might be wondering what to get. Here are six great white elephant gifts.

Inverse Thoughtfulness

This opinion for white elephant gifts shows how thoughtful you are, but not really. Things that someone hates make funny white elephant gifts. For instance, if your friend hates carrot cake, buy him one. If she hates the music of a particular band, buy her the band’s CD. These white elephants gifts show ‘inverse thoughtfulness’. They demonstrate that you are thoughtful enough to know someone’s likes and dislikes, and cruel enough to find them something they hate. White elephant gifts don’t fetch better than that.

Classic White Elephant

The classic among white elephant gifts is, simply, a white elephant. Give your friend or relative an inexpensive statue of a white elephant. Charity or junk shops are good places to view for this classic of white elephant gifts. This present is the traditional choice among white elephant gifts, but chances are no one else will have conception of it.

Fortuneteller Fish

One of my favorite white elephant gifts is the fortuneteller fish. This paper-like toy fish is placed in the palm of the hand. The fish moves around to tell the person’s fortune. This fun and inexpensive choice of white elephant gifts is sold by a variety of toy makers. Both kids and adults will enjoy this choice of white elephant gifts.

‘Trick’ Gifts

Imagine a person opening a can of what looks like potato chips. A springy spurious snake jumps out instead. This funny choice among white elephant gifts is great for a laugh at holiday parties. You can gather it and other fun white elephant gifts at a magician’s supply store or a toy shop.

Books

Buying white elephant gifts is a great reason to determine a book which you couldn’t normally justify spending money on. A comical or irreverent paperback is an entertaining choice among white elephant gifts.

Clothing

A hat, accessory or garment that your friend wouldn’t be caught wearing make great white elephant gifts. A ridiculous hat or fake spectacles bring out the silliness at a party. White elephant gifts that make you laugh are worth their weight in gold!

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Tiger Woods appears in a new Nike ad, his first ad of any sort since his extramarital affairs became worldwide news, just in time for the Masters. In it, Woods wears a Nike hat and looks forlornly into the camera while a voiceover of his late father Earl Woods is heard.

His father says, “Tiger, I am more prone to be inquisitive, to promote discussion. I want to find out what your thinking was. I want to find out what your feelings are. And, did you learn anything? “

Shortly after his late father’s last words, the camera cuts out and a Nike swoosh logo appears silently on the screen.

The ad premiered on the day before the start of Tiger’s return to golf at the Masters.

It will be interesting to behold the impact that this ad has. As with all companies paying for advertising time, Nike is looking to turn a profit while also enhancing its brand. For his allotment, Tiger Woods is looking to rebuild his image and reputation.

Some will undoubtedly see using Tiger’s behavior as a leverage point of sorts to sell more Nike gear as a cynical and distasteful ploy. Some will also undoubtedly recognize the employ of the deceased Earl Woods’ inform, speaking words obviously originally said in a far different context, as unbecoming.

And yet, as with most all that Nike does, the ad has a noteworthy feel to it. Woods at least looks genuinely sorry as he gazes into the camera. While his father’s words were not meant for this situation, at least initially, it does give the sense that Woods might very well be wondering what his father thinks.

If the ad is an attempt on the part of both Nike and Woods to somehow humanize him and garner some level of empathy, then it will likely succeed with some and fail miserably with others. If it is an attempt to sell more Nike gear, it likely will succeed.

If, however, it is an attempt to win over those that contemplate Tiger Woods is a dreadful guy, it’s difficult to imagine how it will do that. In fact, it is likely to do just the opposite with those who already dislike Woods for what he has done.

The one unequivocal aspect about the ad is that during the course of the Masters, the Tiger Woods’ Nike ad will generate a whole lot of buzz.

Source: Alice Gomstyn and Daniel Arnallm, “New Tiger Woods Nike Commercial Debuts Today”, abcnews.com

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Tiger Woods at US Open (round 3)

Tiger Woods threw a 5-under round at Pebble Beach on day 3 of the US Begin and seems poised to make another charge at the national championship. His round of 66 put him at 1-under for the tournament and has him 5-back of the leader Dustin Johnson, who also posted a 66 for the day.

Tiger’s inauspicious start included bogeying two of the first three holes and he appeared to be headed out of the tournament, before he gradually built up steam and finished birdying eight of the last fifteen holes. His body language included a series of mini-cub fist pumps that eventually grew to big-bear status as the round transpired.

On the eighteenth hole, Woods hit an incredible power fade shot around a tree that build his ball some fifteen feet from the cup for eagle. Barely missing the putt, he made birdy and then acknowledged the crowd by tipping his hat.

Woods appeared to be more relaxed as he played his round, and buried his mini-tantrums and pouting fits, which were often on display in the past. He appeared trimer and healthier than he has in the past year. If that what sex rehab does to you, I’m signing up.

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Tiger Woods Affair List Is Up To 6 With Two Waiting In The Wings

Tiger Woods has had 6 women come forward and enter their hat into the media ring, so far. There are reports that there are 3 more women, 1 being from the UK, who are in the process of securing their platforms for telling their Tiger Woods Affairs Memoir. Who would have ever guessed that the world’s number one golfer would be this slick?

Here is the list of Tiger Woods Women so far. They are listed in the order that they have appeared to the public. I am sure there are bets being taken in Vegas on how many will be on the “Tiger Woods Affairs” list before it is all said and done.

Tiger Woods Affair List – 6 Names – 2 More Possibilities And Growing Daily

# 1 is Rachel Uchitel (hostess in a night club) who started the parade.
2. Jaimee Grubbs (cocktail waitress)
3. Kalika Moquin (club manager)
4. Jaime Jungers (cocktail waitress)
5. Mindy Lawton (diner waitress)
6. Cori Rist (night club waitress)
7. Woman waiting for the best offer from media.

The 8th woman is from the UK and reports say that she is not looking to share her story. None of the above women were either, but things change snappily and everyone has a price. This is what we have learned so far in the “Tiger Woods Affair” saga.

Tiger Woods Negotiated With His Wife To Come To A Mutual Monetary Apology

Tiger Woods has negotiated his marriage terms with wife Elin, who will receive millions more than their original pre-nuptial agreement had stated. For each year Elin remains Tiger’s wife, it seems she gets more money.

This is a strange relationship at best. Most wives would be devastated, not to say that she is not, but she has pulled her self together long enough to get back in negotiations for her plot in life.

The reports that put both the mother and mother in law of Tiger Woods at his house the night of the fight and accident are also odd. I wonder if it was one of them that could be heard in the background of the 911 call from the neighbor. The neighbor called from the scene of the accident and in the background you could here a woman saying “what is going on here”?

• According to a picture in a celebrity blog, Tiger Woods Mistress # 5, Mindy Lawton is a waitress in a diner that Elin and his wife frequent. The report says that as Elin read the paper at breakfast, Tiger would stare at Mindy. The report states that Tiger owns two homes in the area where he and his family live. Tiger would meet Mindy at one of those homes. Elin was never there when Mindy went to the home, so it may be the other house that they went too.

• Looking at the “Tiger Woods Mistress” list, it is safe to say he has a thing for ladies in the service industry. This may fulfill some kind of fantasy he has. It is also safe to say that there are going to be at least 5 and probably more new millionaires who were once wait staff.

References; Fox News, Celebzgals

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Your party skills are really put to the test if you decide to throw a St. Patrick’s Day party. It’s the most drunken holiday; the holiday that shows up to family reunions and pukes on the couch before angrily cursing and storming out of the house during dinner. And why not? We Irish love drinking, and we love a good party. If you’re planning on throwing a St. Patrick’s day party, and if you’ve really got what it takes, here are a few things you’re going to need:

An angry drunken Irish dwarf
It’s as close to a leprechaun as reality will allow. Bonus points if he gets into a fight with somewhat at your party and assumes a Fightin’ Irish stance. There’s nothing like a great angry party dwarf who doesn’t take crap from anybody.

Green Beer
It is absolutely unacceptable in this age of food coloring to not have green beer at a St. Patrick’s day party. It doesn’t matter if the beer tastes worse as a result. If you were really Irish, you wouldn’t care, anyway.

A guy dressed up as the Blarney Stone

Not as much because it’s funny to survey at as that it’s humorous to think that the guy actually thinks he’ll get some action by dressing up like a rock. Plus, if you need someone to pee on later when you’re drunk past the point of recognizing shapes, the guy in the Blarney stone costume will be around there somewhere.

Green Food
But no vegetables. This should provide you with somewhat of a challenge. Trust me, you’ll be in the supermarket at 2:00 in the morning trying frantically to get something green that’s made of meat and not disgusting.

Here’s an even better challenge, if you really consider your St. Patrick’s Day powers to be perfect; try to make sure that all of the food is fried. People will either talk about it for years or die on the way to the hospital from their intestines exploding.

A bear on a tricycle. I’ve said it before, and I’m clear I’ll say it again: No party is complete without at least some produce of a absorb on a tricycle, be it polar, grizzly, or black bear. Maybe you can have him hold a shamrock, or paint him green. Just preserve the muzzle on. Those bears can get vicious when exploited for entertainment purposes, but God it’s worth it.

Finally, whatever you do, please uphold the one rule of Irish parties, and for the care for of God uphold it well; don’t play any U2. Those guys suck.

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