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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Fri May 4, 2012, 07:02 AM May 2012

Anybody have a clever birthday gag gift idea? besides Geritol.

Going to someone's 60th birthday party. They said
no gifts, but we want to find something really funny.

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Anybody have a clever birthday gag gift idea? besides Geritol. (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink May 2012 OP

A really large cork marked "From the EPA" HopeHoops May 2012 #1

A SPONGE cake...! lastlib May 2012 #2

male or female? IcyPeas May 2012 #3

For my OLDER brother's 60th madamesilverspurs May 2012 #4

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

1. A really large cork marked "From the EPA"

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Fri May 4, 2012, 08:55 AM

May 2012

I gave that to my my father-in-law one year and he loved it. He showed it to everyone - "Look what that no-good son-of-a-bitch son-in-law got me for Christmas." It was his absolute favorite gift.

lastlib

(23,224 posts)

2. A SPONGE cake...!

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Fri May 4, 2012, 03:22 PM

May 2012

Get two big car-wash sponges; stack 'em and cover 'em with icing, decorate it with nice icing frills, write Happy Birthday in icing, etc. Then ask the guest of honor to carve.....

a BARREL of laughs!!

I did it to my uncle for his 70th--he's still mad at me!

IcyPeas

(21,865 posts)

3. male or female?

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Fri May 4, 2012, 04:23 PM

May 2012

madamesilverspurs

(15,801 posts)

4. For my OLDER brother's 60th

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Fri May 4, 2012, 09:39 PM

May 2012

I gave him a rearview mirror that has the words "objects in mirror are closer than they appear". He loved it.

Did the same for a friend's husband, and she reports (years afterward) that every now and then he takes it out of the drawer, looks at it from different angles, shakes his head and puts it back. Cracks her up.

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