Odd that you mentioned it. Well ... not really.

The afore mentioned gloves were greeted with tears of joy. The meal was a huge success and the extra food (tons of it) was sent on it's merry way.

So, I'm leaving work and another old and long time female coworker stops me. She calls me son, I call her Ma. She's a season ticket holder and she hands me her ticket to the game tomorrow, with a, "Merry Christmas, Son!" I was like, "Wow! Thanks Ma!"

Another older lady and fellow coworker says, "That was so sweet. I wish I could do that for my grandson. He's never even been to a Chiefs game."

I looked at her, looked back at Ma knowingly, she nodded and smiled, and I walked over to the woman, handed her the ticket and said, "Merry Christmas. Make it special for your grandson."

What an odd day. At this rate, I may show up to the gathering tonight and kiss EnDelt or something.

Eeeuuwww. I may have to stay home now.

QUEER! :cuss:

Seriously though, that was a very nice gesture on your part. :thumb:

PUCKER UP, BITCH! ROFL
I know. It's so out of character for me. I feel al Scrooge-like after the 3 ghosts have visited me and stuff. :p

:deevee: :deevee: :deevee:

How sweet! Are you sure you weren't watching someone else do this? :p

Okay, I was, like, deathly ill this week (at least, I thought so). Anyone want to do the right thing and come help me with my laundry, dishes, and taking out my trash? C'mon. You know you want to.

HEY! :cuss:
See the first quote from you up above? That's called a BED. You just MADE IT. Now, you get to LAY IN IT! :D :p

I want you to know I showed up last night at Fat Chance just to see this....and BTW, you missed a pretty good time...our server was aptly named "Dolly".... :p

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Dolly? She looked like a cloned sheep? :p

I had a better offer from a rather, shall we say, well endowed young lady. Actually, well endowed isn't really a good description. Lets just say with the pair of lungs she was sporting, she had no problems breathing whatsoever.

Maybe next time. :)

Actually, more like the Dolly of Parton fame.....

You gave up a night up great fun with a bunch of guys like us, to spend one evening in carnal debauchery with a well-endowed lady?














Good to see you have your priorities straight.... :clap: :thumb:

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I dunno. I would have taken a midnight flight to see 4th kiss End.

Ask End about his loud proclamation at the bar last night....depending on where you were in the bar, it either sounded like he was "outing" Russ, or proclaiming his love for Russ for ordering a Perrier....

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You must've fallen asleep watching TV or something.

Its almost a month until Christmas, with Thanksgiving around the corner. While my
situation has changed, the need for common good will has not. I was reminded of this thread and the time to recharge myself to do this by the forthcoming of the Kansas City Secret Santa.

I encourage each of you to think about what you can do to help someone else as we enter winter, and the holiday season. There are things you can do, that won't cost money.

1. Help someone plastic their windows.

2. I found the gift cards to the elementary guidance counselors very, very well recieved last year and plan on doing this again, and possibly recruiting some others to buy one or pitch in to do even More. If you have the means, please consider calling your local guidance counselor, offer them a gift card, to use to purchase coat-boots-shoes-snow pants for a struggling family. I guarantee every one of them will have an immediate idea of the best use. They can take them with a parent, make the purchase, and make sure it is used for its intended purpose.

3. I've joined a group in my area, and will be for the first time helping deliver some thanksgiving meals for 3-4 families.

I'm sure others have great ideas, that can be linked here.

I may very well try to build on the idea of the gentleman from KC and try the "$20 secret santa" someday.

The company where I work does what's called "Christmas in October." It's an organization that helps the elderly/impoverished/ill with home fix-ups. This year was the first year I got involved. It's amazing how much work 20 people can do on a house in a day. We painted, caulked, fixed a couple of broken windows, cleaned and repaired gutters, fixed a leaky faucet... well, you get the idea. She was so appreciative and we all felt great lending a helping hand.

If you live in NE Kansas I work for a Community Action Program providing help to impoverished families. If you would like to help in some way check out the website.

http://www.nekcap.org

Monitary gifts and volunteers always welcome.

What have you done? What can you do?

I challenge each of you to start small today.

Hold a door open for someone you don't know and normally wouldn't. Say Hello to someone passing in the street.

I'm always interested in great ideas.

Doing the Right thing....feels good.

My company adopted a family in need. There are 6 kids living with their grandparents due to their parents being incarcerated (sp?). They range from 6 months to 16 years old. I'm glad you bumped this thread. It reminds me that I need to stop by Wal-Mart before going to work to pick up a few more things to take in.

As for holding the door open for people and saying hi to people passing by, I do those things all year. Christmas isn't the only time of year you can be courteous. :)

My kids and I delivered Thanksgiving meals for our church. That was pretty cool.

I always make it a point to drop whatever change I have into the bell ringer's bucket.

I always feel that there is more I can do, but so far that's it for this year.

Bingo! I'm pretty sure that Jesus didnt mean for you to try and love one another for a just a few days a year. Holidays can make hypocrites out of many.

People should be nicer to others all the time, especially Mr. Bob Dole.

Christmas is just another reminder that we can and should reach out to our fellow man. Above the waist.

FAX

Wait a minute; are you trying to say Bob Dole isn’t nice?

Indeed. I try to do stuff throughout the year, but I must admit, I do more during the holidays. I guess it's laziness. My church is pretty good about reminding us all year long, so I am getting better, but it's amazing how fast time goes when you are over 30...seems like just yesterday we were all bitching about the Dallas Cowboys loss, and here it is a year later...

I make it a point not to flip people off in traffic for cutting me off, I always try to help people with holding doors, or carrying stuff for them...little things like that. But I know there is more I can do.

Good post.

Yeah, I was trying to figure out if that meant that we should be nicer to Bob Dole or that Bob Dole should be nicer to everyone else. :)

My apologies for the confusion. I meant that we should all be nicer to Mr. Bob Dole.

After all, he is named after a can of fruit.

FAX

I was raised that these things are year round, common courtesy also. As a citizen in the streets, who just spent a week in the city, I assure you it doesn't appear to be common happening.

There are many, who could use a reminder. someone could try this, and work his/her way up the Charity chain.

Actually, I lied. I'm too shy to say hi to strangers. I do try to smile though. And I always say hi if they say it first. I hope that counts.

I donate my surplus eggs to a food closet here.

Thanks for bumping this thread again. I am going to take my 7 yr old daughter out of school next Friday and work a soup kitchen that is run by a KC church.

What a great day, to turn your ambivalence and disdain of the Chiefs play, to turn that energy to the cause of good.

How, when, where, why....did you all of a sudden grow a heart?

A long time before you started googling Mom Jokes.

I thank you everyone. I just got a new pair of mittens and chiefs stalking cap from my mitten tree at work.

ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL


Um, do you really mean "stalking" or "stocking"

All I want for Christmas is a Hipo-potta-muth....

Some Good deeds from CP must be done, to undo the pathetic judgement of one former member today.

Simply tell them this year that next year you won't be giving gifts to anyone over X years old, and instead you will be giving that money to a charity. Tell them you would appreciate that they do the same with any gifts they would have purchased for you, or provide receipts so that you can return the gifts.

I've also heard of a family with no children that would "give" each other toys, but open the gifts a month or so early then take all the toys to a shelter and hand them out to the kids.

I've always lived by the credo "need has no season" which is something I learned while volunteering with the Salvation Army.

I've stolen suggestions for kindness that have been posted here and at other boards for many years now.....paid for groceries for someone I knew who was struggling.....cleaned sidewalks for those less capable during the recent snowstorm....taken time to sit and listen to someone who just needed a friend to talk to....

But sometimes one of the best things you can do is to back away from the computer....shut it off and spend more quality time with your family. Nothing made me more forlorn that a recent "family night" of watching Christmas movies and eating popcorn. My daughter had curled up next to me on the sofa and was intently engrossed in the movie....or so I thought. It was only after a few minutes and feeling her dead weight getting heavier that I realized she had drifted off to sleep. It had been a long time since that had happened, and I realized I missed that. As I carried her up the stairs it made me a little sad to realize the "little girl" I used to carry in my arms, was now a "little lady" and much heavier to carry.

So....I guess what I am saying is that you will probably see less of me here (if that's possible).

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And something else.....

As close as some of us are on the Planet, I have always wondered why we didn't "adopt a family". I know we all live in different places and already support many causes. But I wonder if we couldn't just pick one charity to support and ask for a volunteer to spearhead collecting donated funds and then delivering them to our designated charity.

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Great Thread.. getting in here a little late but hope anyone that can help some of the less fortunate will..it's always appreciated..having gifts given to myself as a youth was beyond words..having a little more now, my wife gives gifts to some of the needed children in our area..they'll always remember your kindness.......

I don't know if its been done for Christmas, but I'm pretty sure it has....a couple of years back, a regular member was struggling, and I know that members pitched in to help him give his kids a Christmas.

I know for sure the planet has pitched in and sent me great items that I sent to a unit in Iraq last year....several members gave and gave great stuff.

This time of year, I'm all about coats, hats, mittens and boots/shoes.....last week, at work I heard of 2 infants/toddler brought to a daycare with no coats....and it was below zero windchill.

If the planet found a local need for those items, I'd think a combined effort would do wonders.

If some trustworthy planeteer stepped forward, I'd be all for finding an elementary school in the KC area...pitching in as a group, having that person purchase gift cards to donate to the counselor/principal anonymously, or in the name of Chiefsplanet and in honor of Lamar Hunt......that counselor would select a family or two in their school and purchase coats et al for them. That would be a great thing......

I guess taking a hint from a link to the Dallas newspaper that Bob Dole posted in one of the threads, we could start a group that could be named The 37 Foundation in honor of Joe Delany and Lamar Hunt (37 was the number he wore). We could find 37 guys who would commit time and effort to spearhead charitable donations that would be administered in KC by a trustworthy planeteer.

Just a though to ponder.....

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Maybe its the season
that brings from me the good
Helping those who need it
Feels nice because it should.

I know its not a poop thread
This from the Keyboard of doom
your schedule might be busy
but you can make some room.

You've got some money in your pocket
without it you won't feel the sting
Get off your ass and use it
There's still time to do the right thing.

It's that time of year again!

Bob Dole was going to start his drive-thru tradition at breakfast today, but there was nobody there.

Our annual school delivery was made yesterday.

Good show Bobdole.

I'm traveling more, and will partake in the drive-through gesture each visit through Christmas.


With Shotgun deer season this weekend, we'll soon be dehydrating jerky, some of which will be sent overseas prior to Christmas.

If someone wanted to start a "fund" or what have you from the planet, all we would need is one person who wanted to collect the money, and then disburse it to whatever need it was going to be used for. I think some would be suprised at how many of the members would give. I would give to a "CP Christmas fund", to help some people out, but you always need someone to start it, and seeing as im not in your state and most people don't know me, it wouldn't go over to well if I started it.

This needs to be a sticky every year, IMO. Tis the season to be Jolly.

Bob Dole has had a couple of people indicate they're going to do the drive-thru thing this year, too. It would be very cool if it took off and branched out and people started doing other random things in the community.

Thanks for posting the original topic!

Tonight, an Ice Storm is pillaging the areas in which many of us live. This will put many people in danger or at least severely burden them.

This, my friends is an opportunity to do the right thing. Tonight, more likely tomorrow, our friends and neighbors are going to need some help.

Last spring, a similar storm started in the area in which we lived, 200 miles from family, and a young child with pneumonia, rsv and ear infection. We lost power for what turned into 3 nights and 4 cold, miserable days. I swalled my pride, for the good of my family and accepted some help from a gracious neighbor. I'll never forget their kindness.

Check on those old folks who won't be able to get out, use that 4x4 to get supplies if needed...offer a hand, or if appropriate your home.

This situation provides an opportunity to do the right thing.

I generally try to do the right thing. I'd like to acknowledge that it's coming back to me now. My business is blowing up beyond belief. People actually TIP me - a home contractor. I was tipped $40 on a $2000 job by a firefighter today and $50 on a $50 bill from some local folks who were experiencing some serious leakage through a window due to an ice dam on their roof and some shoddy patchwork which had been done in the past. When I told the lady $50 she scoffed and told me she was writing the check for whatever she wanted. Heh. $90 tip in one day - to a contractor. Heh heh. Awesome.

It comes back. It might not be tomorrow, next week, next year or even next decade but it will come back and it's coming back for me.

A fortune teller?

Once again, I found my home without heat and power as temperatures plunged. Once again, I found myself in need of a little help, and with more than ample opportunity to help others in worse shape.

I'm glad you're finally getting some of yours back phildo.

CBS Evening News just reported that Secret Santa lives on!

An unknown guy who was a friend of Larry's is carrying on the tradition, branching outside of KC, and intends to give away $75k each year as long as the money holds out.

A known guy who was a friend of Larry's is the former #20. I don't know if he's the one carrying on the tradition but I do know he's participated in the past.

The guy in the shadows during the interview didn't appear to be Deron.

It doesn't look like the video is there yet, but they've added the story since Bob Dole posted.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n3621324.shtml

It looks like we've found a family to adopt. The lady is living in a one bedroom apartment with her MIL, husband, 5 yo, 3 yo, and 6 mo. We're short on cash but long on toys and clothes. I think it's going to be an incredible learning experience for Reese. Hopefully we've found a worthy family. We're going out to meet with them tomorrow.

Very cool!

All Bob Dole's shit is always too worn out to pass along as anything but rags.

I'm just glad you found a farmer willing to pass along some old clothing to you.

Another year, another opportunity.

I've reflected upon today's game enough, and a trip outside with temps below zero and falling like the Biggest Losers' old pants, I read back through this thread.

Each Christmas season gives us another reminder, another chance to do right, to do better. While it hurts a little more to do some of the things I have in past years, we're still trying. In the same effort to do right in my community in life, I'm really trying, yet again to do better in my interactions with my only real online community.

Merry Christmas.

:bravo:

It's that time again....same end of season apathy about the failing Chiefs, same opportunity to do the right thing.

This year, I'm wondering if we can come up with a combined effort, done as individuals that will make a difference in each of our communities. I'm open to suggestions for new things this year.

With black friday approaching, maybe there are deals that can help stretch that money further to do more. Bring it with your giant brains and charitable hearts.

I'm gonna sign up to bell ring again...I do that every year.

Never saw this thread before. Thanks for making me cry a$$hole... and it's not even Thanksgiving!!! Yes I am a softy at this time of year. Thanks for reminding us ALL what it is really about, even if it was seven years ago. Extremely belated rep.