The 16th is the LAST DAY to sign up for the mehrican exchange #6
2Don’t forget to sign up for the mehrican exchange #6. There is only a bit over 24 hours left to do so. Like a fuko there is no VMP late sales, no 8am sales, and no second chances…
Go here:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/mehrican-exchange-ver--6-0
to see how to sign up. And if you have no clue what I am talking about, there is other info there too and/or do a search for exchange reveal threads. Better than a fuko!!
If somehow you miss the deadline and I haven’t send out the emails yet I can add you at the last minute, however you are taking a risk that I actually won’t procrastinate and get it done sooner rather than later. LOL
We are up to 20 people and even more boxes than that as some people are sending out more than one (and thus receiving more than one). Assignments will be random using the random number generator function in excel (and then checked to make sure people sending more than one box don’t send to themselves).
We need lots of on topic, off topic… chatter in this thread (and/or the other one) to keep it on the main page of meh so people don’t miss this once in a life time opportunity to participate in exchange #6.
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/giphy off topic chatter
Edit: This used to be a gif of a panty-clad maxim model. I edited it because it might have pushed the bounds of acceptable boobyness.
@DaveInSoCal Holy crap you might want to hit edit on that or mark it not safe for work LOL
@Kidsandliz I changed it. I liked the other one better though.
@DaveInSoCal I am sure you did. LOL Maybe you will get one in your mehrican exchange box. Of the blow up variety as the other kind would cost too much in postage. Or maybe just an issue of Playboy would do.
@Kidsandliz and @DaveInSoCal I’m thinking he would prefer Penthouse over Playboy- naughty stories, naughty comics, better naughty pictures and of course you can just get it to “read” the articles (Or so I’ve been told).
@WTFsunshine Hmm OK… I think you need to define “read” LOL @DaveInSoCal - now you are in trouble (grin)
@WTFsunshine No porn, but thanks! There’s more than I need available online.
@DaveInSoCal True - and we do need to keep this G rated since little kids get involved at times with the opening of the box.
@Kidsandliz Don’t worry I’ll keep it clean. @DaveInSoCal make sure you cover the camera on your computer, phone, tablet when watching-you never know who’s watching you - but porn away. I was going to say enjoy but that just seemed wrong.
Trying to decide if I’m going to do it this time. Last time I received a wonderful box from @sammydog01, but never heard a word back on the one I sent out. It might not have been perfect but it couldn’t have sucked so bad that there was nothing nice to say at all. Anyway, shook my confidence a bit and made the process lose a bit of the fun for me. Getting my box was a hoot as apparently my little granddaughter assumed it was for her. If I had known she was going to react that way I would have had my phone up and ready to record. It was too funny. But I was just as excited to see what my recipient thought and to explain a thing or two that I included. So I guess I better get to making up my mind.
@mehbee we come from all different circumstances, socio-economican stuf and levels off sensitivities and empathous for our felppw aMeh.rican and Meh.xican Meh.tizens
so whileeee you didn’t get the satisfaction of a responde si vu plea to your package…
some didn’t even get a pakcage until the very NICE aMeh.rican and Meh.xican Meh.tizens stepped in AND sent without receiveing
/youtube typo left intentionally
i think the exchange can find a better purpose next time, and it’s all on ewe nough
/youtube ewe now
@mehbee I have had people not even acknowledge my box either… that is disappointing - especially since I spend time and thought with a few things I specifically find to put in there… but then the next time drew a person who still says how much he likes some of the things I put in there…
@Yoda_Daenerys Of what “better purpose” do you speak?
@Yoda_Daenerys Yeah, yeah, yeah, if I read your comment correctly, there is always someone who has it worse. Not trying to play can you top this, simply stating my experience and why I’m hesitant to participate again. This has nothing to do with getting satisfaction, which I feel makes me sound shallow. I spent a huge amount of time(not to mention some of that socioeconomic stuff) trying to find things that were hopefully fun and useful. I even put something meaningful to me in the box as requested that I was excited to explain…heck I included my That Was Easy button…I loved that button!! I looked forward to the giving part of this exchange more than the receiving part(although the receiving part was wonderful…especially the book of words to use instead of cuss words) so for ME, I didn’t get out of the program(process?) what I went in looking to get out of it. I guess I’m cranky this morning but getting a reply from someone, one that’s hard to read and seems like baby talk, saying that my feelings aren’t valid and I should suck it up because others had it worse didn’t help the situation. However, @kidsandliz is right, if at first you don’t succeed…
I am not sure if anyone has requested it, but could we have either a document, or a topic where the participants can go on and put a list of interests, hobbys, etc.? I know we can do searches and did that last time, but did not find much. I think we had a post where everyone could list some areas of interest. Just an idea!
@Kidsandliz You’re right, I shouldn’t give up completely on something because of one bad experience. I’m normally a very optimistic person, not sure why this one got to me.
@mehbee I can understand why it got to you. If you put a lot of effort and thought into the box and they didn’t even acknowledge it that is disappointing. I know. Been there done that have the t-shirt. @narfcake is there a t-shirt for that?
Attention all of you on the list to participate: I NOW KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!! You better not blow off the person who sent you a box. Post about it!!! That is part of the obligation you agreed to when signing up for this. I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND GET YOU IF YOU DO NOT - well no not really - but you will be shamed on meh for being a slacker and a jerk.
@Kidsandliz Thanks for understanding
@mehbee email me at MehricanExchange6@yahoo.com
@Kidsandliz I did
@mehbee I am hoping for something like this too. I am not on here as much as many of the others and I only recognize the screen names, but don’t know much about the people etc. Is that bad? Should I not have joined?
@mehbee I think I owe your granddaughter some monkeys…
@mehbee Please start one…
@moonhat No it isn’t bad and yes you should have joined…
@mehbee I understand how you feel. I sent out a few sentimental items, some goofy items, some with notes on them. I sent a lot of variety because my recipient didn’t share a lot of info about themself. I was bummed that they didn’t even acknowledge receipt. I’m more annoyed that I didn’t take photos of the box I sent so I could of shared it myself for some feedback for the next box.
I’d participate again, but some stuff came up so I don’t have the time or finances, otherwise I’d try it again and hope for better results.
@moonhat don’t feel badly… I am on here a lot and I can’t keep names straight – almost worse than not knowing anyone
Join in – it should be fun!!!
@mehbee I have a 50% rate of sent boxes revealed. It is disheartening. However, no one should ever consider criticizing a box of randomness. I can’t participate this time, life is crazy and just getting back on our feet from the last year! I am glad you joined again though, I can only imagine if some of your crafts are in the box, people will be amazed (re previous note, if I have the right id!!
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@Kidsandliz This is the closest I can think of …
https://www.teeturtle.com/products/i-hear-what-youre-saying
@narfcake Well then you better design a t-shirt since you can’t find one. Obviously a need (grin).
@Kidsandliz Me … design? Notgonnahappen. My drawing skills are in AutoCAD, not Photoshop.
(A design probably exists anyway, but I’m most familiar with shirt.woot and TeeTurtle.)
@moonhat No, just the opposite, it’s a great way to get to know about the people in this forum. When everyone starts getting their boxes and posting either pics or posts about them, you not only get to enjoy it with them, but you learn things about the senders and receivers. It’s a really nice idea that they came up with to do this, don’t let my small moment of self pity make you think differently…lol. When I received my box, I had no expecations and all expectations, if that makes sense, because I had no idea what could be in there, and I was not disappointed. I’m not saying I could use everything in the box, and it was not just the fun that I had unboxing, but you could see the effort @sammydog01 put into putting everything together. She put in little notes, and even remembered a post from a thread that made me laugh which had her including a book to help me help @carl669 vary his commentary. I hope to be able to do half as well with my box this time. So please enjoy it in the manner in which this was intended, a fun way to get rid of stuff…haha!
@sammydog01 She still plays with some of the little stuffed animals that have clips on them…not sure what they are called. And there was a small stuffed multi-colored fish that she still loves.
@Kidsandliz I will!
@RiotDemon I’m going to…one of the “rules” was to put in something that might not mean anything to the receiver but did to you…so I put in a ticket to a baseball game. Of course it was a game that had already played so it was useless, but it was a ticket to the last game that was played at Turner Field in Atlanta and I got to go. It was a special thing to me and I wanted to explain. But I got to explain it to you so all is well. I can’t wait to go through and see what I can include, once I find out who I have. I’m going to start a thread this evening so others can posts their interests and likes, etc.
@narfcake Good one!
@mehbee are you saying my fucking commentary isn’t varied enough?
/giphy shaking fist
@carl669 Your /giphy search … it’s … relevant!
WHAT DID YOU DO TO /GIPHY?!?
/giphy relevant searches
@narfcake giphy knows better than to fuck with me
@carl669 Valid reason.
/giphy doesn’t fuck with @carl669!
@mehbee I started one here:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/unofficial-mehrican-exchange-6-post-clues-to-your-interests-----if-so-inclined
@carl669 LOL, yep I f’ing think that’s what I’m saying…I’d use something other than f’ing but I can’t get my hands on my book right now.
@Kidsandliz I saw that after I had already responded to you!
@mehbee
as far as your last paragraph/suggestion goes, that should be directed to the current queen of exchange @kidsandliz, or you could start a thread along those lines.TL;DRthe whole “let’s keep sender/receiver secret” is overrated in my view.
i’d bet you are one of the few that followed my silly rules, so thx for that.
as far as your comment on my drunk posting style, i get it - not everyone can crawl into my demented brain and find the humor intended. i did not mean to disregard your feelings but instead lessen your regret by providing an anecdote.
@kidsandliz - i have a google sheet that did the whole random thing and prepped the emails. i can share if you are interested, but it may take longer for you to figure out my method than to just do it over.
and one “higher purpose” would be to donate all of the shipping money spent re-shipping stuff to kiva or org. of choice, but of course both can be done, and that’s just a buzz-kill, so please accept my apologies.
@Yoda_Daenerys Thanks for the offer. It won’t take me but about 10 minutes to do the random assignment.
Reposting from other post as requested to keep thread up: I’m interested in this but slightly confused about this. Do I give out my address and name when I mail so that I might get a box back or am I getting a box from a different person? If so I’m assuming that they will need my actual address if I’m reading this correctly. Also, I understand that the box should be of nice items and if I get the recipients name ahead of time I can try to look around for what they have typed in the past to try to get to know them to be able to procure the proper items to send on the mail by date. Am I getting any of this right/wrong because I would like to participate. It sounds intriguing. I’ll fill out the form and come back to this and repost in the other thread if I’m in the wrong one to keep it open. Huh…Well at least I got to edit a mistake that’s good.
@WTFsunshine No what happens is you fill out the form (there is a link to find it) on the other thread on the other thread. On that form you put your information. I then will use excel’s random number generator to assign to whom you will send and whom will send to you. I send out emails (that form asks for your email, address, how many boxes you want to do - you can only do one if you haven’t don this before). I will then email each person to let them know who they are sending a box to. You will not know who is sending you a box until you get it.
Go here
https://meh.com/forum/topics/mehrican-exchange-ver--6-0
for more information
We got 8 procrastinators signing up late last night or early this morning. Yea!
Lets break the worlds record for signups today.
@Kidsandliz Now 9
@mehbee Go team mehrican!
OK so I got a private email about how I will assign people to each other.
I will make two columns (“A” and “B”) with your meh name and you will be in each column by the number of boxes you signed up for (eg only want one your name is in there once, want 2 your name is in there twice…)
Excel’s random number generator allows you to assign people randomly generated numbers.
Each entry in one meh name column A will get a random number as generated and assigned by excel.
I will then order column A in order of number from lowest to highest (not touching the column B order of meh names).
I will then put columns A and B side by side and those in column A will send to whomever is in the same row in column B.
I will then check that you aren’t sending to yourself if you are doing more than one box. If you are I will swap you out with the person in the row below you (or if this happens to the person in the last row, the person in the row above you).
This is the fairest way I can think of that involves the least amount of work for me. If you don’t like it, well volunteer to run the next exchange. This is not a democracy here - I am the current King of the world Mehrican Exchange LOL
And yes I am trying to keep this thread on top so no more people “almost miss it”. Help me out on that please.
@Kidsandliz it occurs to me that you have been milking this thing for all it’s worth future-goat. Your time shall come.
@jbartus In your dreams…besides
@Kidsandliz July.
@jbartus No because that will be still part of handling the exchange with the reveal thread and some of that time I will be at my mom’s where there is no internet at her house.
@jbartus Just remember that August has 31 days too.
@narfcake Don’t worry - I will think of a reason - valid or not. Besides I have been nominated over and over and no one votes for me - not even the person who nominates… (grin) because…
@Kidsandliz My mom used to sing that song when I was little, it always made me so sad. I used to ask her why would she sing that song to her little girls…she said cause it worked…lol… I guess you use what you have to get four girls to behave.
@Kidsandliz
Says the Future Goat.
@Kidsandliz sorry but I’m not biting anymore. I don’t see where there’s a massive amount of admin work involved in any of this, the most time intensive part will be sending out assignments and addresses to everyone which will be settled shortly. Posting a thread wherein people can post their reveals takes all of five minutes. The Mehrican Exchange well has gone done dried up. Goatdom awaits.
@jbartus Well if you give it to me when I have limited internet while I am out of town for several weeks you will be out of luck.
@Kidsandliz Not being around hasn’t stopped three other goats in the past …
Speaking of which, I’m blaming @cranky1950 because I have no reason to right now.
/giphy nobody cares
@medz do not move before your meh exchange box comes though… Oh wait. I just checked you and haven’t signed up yet! You going to?
@medz
/giphy harsh
@Kidsandliz No. Creepers will know where I live if I do. Just bumping your thread for you though.
/giphy lame idea
@medz Thanks for the bump… sign up. After this is over and done I will be deleting everything, just keeping a record of anyone who screwed their person so that I can pass that on to the next person who is doing this… no worries on that front.
Yeah, @medz, go ahead and sign up and give all of your info to @Kidsandliz and then she can Cyber Stalk you just like she did @DaveInSoCal. She does it for the greater good of sending a better exchange package. Go on, don’t be shy.
bump
I am not going to sort out the sending list until some time this weekend so if you think the ship has sailed - perhaps it has not. As long as I haven’t sent the emails you are welcome to sign up.
Keep those signups coming. We are up to 39 people!!
bump
Is this still open? Just got free to sign up.
@f00l Yes. I am not shutting it down until I actually make the assignments.
@Kidsandliz
Keep your templates. The next Ruler of the Mexchange could prob use a look at them.
If you volunteer to do all the Mexchanges from today forwards, I might never vote for you to be Goat.
44 signed up… if you procrastinated too long I am not cutting it off until I actually make the assignments. I was going to do it this morning but now won’t get to it until later due to other commitments. Soooo there is still time.