Just checking in…all is OK.
Well, except for whatever algorithm drives the personalized recommendations that I get from Amazon.
See, the twin 10 year old grand-spawnlettes are having a birthday later this month. So I asked Amazon to suggest some gift ideas.
It was a simple search request: “gift 11 years girl.”
Here is what Amazon thought was an appropriate birthday present.
So I bought two, of course. I mean…twins.
Max says “hi!” and he’ll be back soon with another story. That is, once the girls and I have emptied the decanters.
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HA!!! 😮 😛 Well, that IS a most unique, memorable gift for the twins who are turning 10! Happy Early Birthday to them!! 🙂 🙂
I’m sure they won’t be surprised at all to receive THAT gift from you. And, a YAY to Amazon for being so helpful and so spot on! 😉 😀
Hi, Max! AW! You are looking as handsome and sweet as you always do! ❤ PATS and RUBS to you from me! And a woof woof and a sniff sniff from Cooper! 🙂
(((HUGS))) 🙂
PS…Maybe the twins would prefer the cash cost of that gift instead. ??? Just a thought.
PPS…I was gonna' say how much this post cracked me up…butt, I'm not gonna' go there here.
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I would NEVER buy something like this for girls who are turning ten years old. Please note they are going to be 11 this year so the decanter is totally acceptable. Don’t ass-ume anything. Wait, we’re not going there, right?
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Oh, I know you wouldn’t! Oh, 11! Well then, that makes sense! 😉
Hmm…maybe you would be hoping they would re-gift them back to you on your birthday. ???
HA! 😀 I’m not going there, here. Butt still going there on my blog. 😉
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Your blog is in arrears. But, yeah, 11 is old enough to build iPhones in China so it’s old enough to swill Scotch in the USA!
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HA! 😀
Hey…Sorry I got behind. Butt, I’m back now.
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Oopy…meant turning 11 and my fingers typed 10. 😮
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I can see you probably have one of those decanters already, huh?
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Ah, you figured that out! 😉
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Are you looking for volunteers to test it out?
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Funny how fast the line formed for that. Quicker than the free sample tables at Costco. I guess an bird like you would want it full of Old Crow or Wild Turkey, huh?
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11 is a good age to start chemistry. Are you sure both twins need a decanter? Maybe one should get the bottle and the other should get a brewing “cough cough”, I mean chemistry set
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Those kids are very competitive so I figure I could get some good drinking games going if there were two decanters. But, yeah, chemistry is a possible avenue to explore. It’s STEM, right?
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Exactly!!!
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Well, heck, Amazon says you save 30% on this globe set. That’s teaching the young ‘uns some good economics. Bet no one else has a cool grandad (down here you would be called ‘pee-paw 🙄) like you. Can’t help butt notice that you and Carolyn cannot put an end to those puns…
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Who could resist such a deal? Yeah, Carolyn is a bad influence on me. She’s a pun enabler, the worst. But you’re no slouch in that department either. See, it’s not my fault after all. By the way, pee paw is what happens to Max on a windy day in the backyard.
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Lawd, Lawd… I walked right into that one….so to speak.
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I knew right away that something was afoot.
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Yes, it must be Lois’ and my fault. 😉 We maybe be bad influences, but you’re gonna’ have a fun fun FUN time when we show up! 😀 😛
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Don’t talk to me abut algorithms.
Twice in a row farcebook have banned me for ‘violence.’
‘Violence,’ me?
OK, I did suggest to two different people the way to solve the problem they had was simple.
‘Just hang them,’ for the first, and the other problem would be solved by the phrase, ‘Just shoot them.’
For some reason farcebook, based in the USA, considers this daily occurrence there, ‘violent?’
I’m still banned.
The decanter looks ideal for a New York penthouse.
But at $62 it appears a bit much to me.
Anyway, 11-year-olds do not wish for presents so much as cash, or gift cards so they can obtain what suits them, they fuss a lot at that age, and old people, over 35, do not ever comprehend their minds.
Just buy the whisky for yourself….
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Mea culpa…the hanging ban was down to something I put on FB. Suggest next time just make a reference to piano wire…algorithms don’t know anything about history.
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Hey! Here’s a cheerful tidbit, quarried from a charming website called “Capital Punishment UK:”
The garrotte (or garrote) was the standard civilian method of execution in Spain. It was introduced in 1812/13, at the beginning of the reign of Ferdinand VII, to replace the crude form of hanging previously used.At least 736 people, including 16 women, were executed in Spain in the 19th century.
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Good idea for Tynrcastle. I doubt FB has that one on their list. Garroting wad the preferred method of the Mohawks who terrorised Londpon in the 18th century
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I get choked up just thinking about that, Helen.
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To quote a revered literary gent…’snorf!’
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No worries, tynecastle, I won’t ban you from the silly dog blog. Our standards here are so low it is almost impossible to get banned. Serial cat posts might accomplish a banning but I can’t think of too many other offenses that would warrant the ban hammer. You’re 100% spot on that the kidlettes would rather have cash than just about anything I could come up with from Amazon so that is probably the route I will take. It worked for Christmas so it should work this time around, too.
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My husband calls it decorating trees high up. FB hasn’t figured that one out yet! 😆
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You people are heartless and ruthless. I like that in a fellow blogger.
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Apparently Amazon isn’t any more tuned in to what would be an appropriate gift for 11year old tweens than the rest of us. I imagine, though, they’ll be the envy of all their classmates. I do hope the girls wear masks, if for no other reason than to cover up their whiskey breath.
Max, you look super spiffy! Whatever you’re doing, keep it up. Just stay away from that decanter! Murphy sends you scritches and belly rubs.
Ginger
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Your mask comment had me laughing because I, too, have thought that masks might be a convenient way to hide the fact that one has had a dram or two of the good stuff. Not me, mind you. I’m just talking hypotheticals. Can you imagine them taking the liquor decanter to school for “show and tell” day? Ha!
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Look here, just do as Amazon suggests or the next thing you know you’ll be classed as a domestic terrorist.
Better, open the Amazon catalogue online and let Max choose. I’m sure the twins would be delighted to receive milk bones.
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You’re right, of course. Resistance is futile and by now I should know better than to doubt the wisdom of Mr. Jeff Bezos and his cronies on anything. I live in fear that Max will one day learn about Amazon’s “Buy With One Click!” option.
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I see a mountain of milk bones arriving..
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Probably the “big dog” size, too.
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Well in the U.K. there is a campaign to save ‘big dog’…..I expect Max would just like big dog’s milk bones.
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Bwahahaha! I want to be on that same wavelength algorithm. And since you have twins…double the pleasure, double the fun! 🥃 🥃
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How come the notion of “sharing” doesn’t apply when gifting twins? One liquor decanter should be enough for two little girls. Even given their heritage I doubt they can swallow too much booze at one setting. Oh, by the way (off topic) did you see that the Broncos are for sale? Yup…maybe we should launch a bid since nobody else in that organization seems to know what to do. /snark.
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Come, come. The gift every pre-teen wants is a custom portrait of their favorite pet (or a copy of Bitey Dog). 😈
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I sense just the smallest element of self-interest in this post and attribute it not to Mr. Toby, that kind and altruistic terrier, but to his scheming DogMom. Besides what every pre-teen really, really wants is a bespoke portrait of their handsome and debonair grandfather. Sadly these twins don’t have one of those kind but I’m available in a pinch.
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Max is just so cute! Nox told me to tell him “Hi Handsome!” I think whiskey decanters are not something that underage will appreciate. Maybe when they turn 21? Tom – I have a picture for you on my latest post. Max can see what Miss Nox is doing these days.
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I’ll be popping over shortly to catch up with your adventures now that you are “on the road” and living the RV life bigly. Lok, at the worst the kids could fill the decanter with some fruity drink that has a billion high fructose sugar calories and will doom them to a life of high BMI’s and possible diabeetus. Or, alternatively, just put in some Tennessee sippin’ liker and call it a day. Their choice.
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Max, just have Dad email us his picture, and we’ll get out our crayons and construction paper to do a first rate portrait of him. 😈
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It will be a cold, cold day in Pennsylvania when that happens. Uh, uh no way.
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Then perhaps we’ll put on our best Picasso hats and imagine what Daddy looks like… 🤔
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Post holidays, think Rubens instead.
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Split the difference: Dahli?
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I don’t know. When I think of you I imagine a Fernando Botero painting. So I guess it’s fair play if you think of me as Daliesque.
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Toby may be Botero, but I picture myself more as Modigliani. Perhaps Groening is more your style…
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You should do a post featuring the Tobester in the style of Botero. That would be hilarious! AS for me, think DaVinci. In fact, I could have subbed for Vitruvian Man if only I could have fit my butt in that circle.
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For real I picture you more like Van Gogh’s self portrait. I was thinking the same thing about the Tobester…
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I can’t hear you.
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Max, you’re a doll….about the decanters…I DO love them~But,…How will you top it when they turn 13, 16? I’m a twin, btw,…my grandparents never bought a gift like this for us. But 10 year olds today are waaayy ahead of where I was at 10. Is 10 the new 21?
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I figure I can just send annual refills. It’s like an Amazon subscription plan.
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Happy Birthday to the twinlettes. And I eagerly await Max’s story. Perhaps it will be about what happened after DogDad drained the whisky carafe?
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I heard there is already a YouTube on the ‘net with Max and I dancing with lamp shades on our heads.
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Yup there is. He’s a much better dancer than you, by the way
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He excels at the Limbo but then again his legs are only 5″ long. But he fails miserably at the “whiteboy overbite” which is my specialty.
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😂😂 classy!
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We strive to find tasteful gifts. The contents were indeed tasty.
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