That’s something you’d love to receive as a gift, but not from a close relative?
[Like getting tickets to see Godspell at the local art-theatre, versus watching your talentless 12-year old nephew sing a song he wrote about the Resurrection for Sunday School.
As with the bad-cooking joke at "C", it rests on the old comic trope that otherwise enjoyable experiences are ruined when your own family does them. If someone has other ways to interpret the suggested theme, I'm certainly open to broadened horizons.]
As with the bad-cooking joke at "C", it rests on the old comic trope that otherwise enjoyable experiences are ruined when your own family does them.
Not a trope with which I’m familiar, but it doesn’t seem like a “gift.”
I thought your “A” example was directly on theme—who wants to get an aphrodisiac from their mother?
That said, I have nothing alternative to suggest. And the suggestion to “imagine this being read out at the start of an episode of Taskmaster” is no help, since I’ve never seen an episode of “Taskmaster.”
See Eddie Murphy's recollection of his mother promising to make him a hamburger just like at McDonalds. Admittedly, the juxtaposition is not always so directly stated as in that routine.
but it doesn’t seem like a “gift.”
I was sort of expanding it to include other stuff that gets offered on holidays.
I thought your “A” example was directly on theme—who wants to get an aphrodisiac from their mother?
Prob'ly, yeah. But I'm wondering if this then just ends up being a list of "naughty gifts". @Amanda B Reckondwyth did do what I assume was a clever foray into inheritance jokes.
Naughty is in the eye of the doer (and in many cases of the watcher).
Bankable billions -- I wouldn't want to get a large sum of money from a relative, as it would make me an easy target for "loans". I'd rather get it anonymously and keep it to myself.
Dreamy date -- It's really none of my family's business what erotic fantasies I indulge in.
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Suggestion for the next round (imagine this being read out at the start of an episode of Taskmaster):
Things you would love to receive as a gift, but not from a close family member
[Like getting tickets to see Godspell at the local art-theatre, versus watching your talentless 12-year old nephew sing a song he wrote about the Resurrection for Sunday School.
As with the bad-cooking joke at "C", it rests on the old comic trope that otherwise enjoyable experiences are ruined when your own family does them. If someone has other ways to interpret the suggested theme, I'm certainly open to broadened horizons.]
I thought your “A” example was directly on theme—who wants to get an aphrodisiac from their mother?
That said, I have nothing alternative to suggest. And the suggestion to “imagine this being read out at the start of an episode of Taskmaster” is no help, since I’ve never seen an episode of “Taskmaster.”
Carry on.
See Eddie Murphy's recollection of his mother promising to make him a hamburger just like at McDonalds. Admittedly, the juxtaposition is not always so directly stated as in that routine.
I was sort of expanding it to include other stuff that gets offered on holidays.
Prob'ly, yeah. But I'm wondering if this then just ends up being a list of "naughty gifts". @Amanda B Reckondwyth did do what I assume was a clever foray into inheritance jokes.
Anyway, now onto F...?
Bankable billions -- I wouldn't want to get a large sum of money from a relative, as it would make me an easy target for "loans". I'd rather get it anonymously and keep it to myself.
Dreamy date -- It's really none of my family's business what erotic fantasies I indulge in.
F:
Functional foot massager