Sorry, commenters, but the signal-to-noise ratio of anonymous comments was approaching zero. 🙁 It was getting to the point I almost rejected some real though short comments because they were looking like the spam comments I was getting – I apologize if I dinged a real person by accident. But when you don’t know who’s sending a gift, you never know what’s inside the wrapper.
-the Centaur
Pictured is my cousin Bryan Norman, receiving a joke gift of a mailbox at last Christmas’s White Elephant gift exchange – though I dispute the Wikipedia article, I lived 38 years in the Southeastern United States and never heard it called a “Yankee swap” – always “White Elephant” or the less-politically-correct “Chinese Christmas”.
