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Something something dumb as a Caucasian chalk circle.

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I was thinking along the lines of "no internet", but if Tawd is looking for a more permanent solution, who are we to object?

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These aren't things that I personally give (or get) because I don't ice fish or play hockey (or consume rawhide licorice for that matter), but both activities are very popular with both men and women in my area, so such items would be quite well-received if given as gifts around here. Basic ice augurs go for around $100. A perfectly respectable pair of men's hockey skates can be had for somewhere between $100 - $200. So you can get Gov. Half-Term's entire gift list (augur, skates and that $50 gas card), <i>plus</i> an entire case of flavored snowshoe lacing for the price of an 8.9 inch Amazon Kindle Fire HDX. Or half the price of an iPhone 6.

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Sarah looks better when she's wearing her TEEVEE hair.

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"red manual ice auger to drill my own holes in the lake for ice fishing."

Oh my...there is no upper limit to the number of jokes that could be made about Todd wanting you to drill your own holes or a red manual ice auger being the vibrator of choice for Alaskan women.

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So's $arah.

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You see, that's a present that I would LOVE to get from my husband! Kitchen toys ftw!

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Put the Yule back in Yuletide!

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Oddly enough, where I come from those would all be appropriate and (most likely) well-appreciated gifts. It's a regional and cultural thing I suppose.

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I beg to differ. The two terms are used interchangeably in some parts of the country, including here in the rural Northeast.

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Not much fauna around during snowmobile season. Most animals have either migrated south or are sleeping/hibernating. The few that are around and active don't seem to mind. It's the least of their worries. The only critters that really get annoyed by snowmobile noise are the kind that stride up and down the trails on two slim pieces of wood. Also people in and just outside of town whose yards they cut through. Snowmobiles are legal on many of the side streets in town. Most snowmobiling is done on designated trails which the riders themselves help to maintain. These largely consist of old abandoned railroad tracks, logging roads and rights of way. Here in the Northeastern US the forest growth is too dense to allow much off-trail riding. (The dense forest, aka the jungle or taiga, is where most of the fauna reside.) They also ride on the frozen surfaces of the larger open lakes, but are typically not permitted on smaller bodies of water.

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Put the ho' back in "Ho Ho Ho."

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F) Vice President GagNews actually paid for his crimes.

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I don't know if any of the Palin brood were ever involved in youth hockey, but the foul-mouthed, ill-tempered, chain smoking, working class hockey mom stereotype is the genteel suburban soccer mom stereotype's badass take-no-shit cousin. When she isn't shuttling her precious snowflakes back and forth to practices, the soccer mom bakes cookies and volunteers for the Junior League. When she isn't driving her rowdy kids back and forth to practices, the hockey mom works in a steel mill and buys scratch-off lottery tickets. Palin appears to be admitting that her own past adoption of the "hockey mom" label was essentially baseless.

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I wouldn't give Mother Courage three pennies if she was the last good person of Szechuan.

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