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Giveaway: Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side on DVD!
By Great White Snark | December 27, 2009
I’ll admit it. I wasn’t going to get you anything for the holidays. But then you looked at me in that terribly plaintive way that you have, and if there’s anything I hate more than ungrateful children or Dickensian Klingons, it’s guilt trips.
So I’m giving away a copy of Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side on DVD. Satisfied? You can put those looks away now, you forlorn bastards.
To enter to win the DVD:
Leave a comment on this post, indicating the geekiest gift you’ve ever received.
I’ll select my favorite and announce that winner in a new post this coming Sunday, January 3.
Rule things:
- Enter as many times as you like, but favor quality over quality; one really clever/hilarious/pithy entry has a lot better chance of winning than five compellingly-lame entries.
- Winners outside the forty-eight contiguous U.S. states pay shipping. Because this ain’t a money tree, it’s just a plain ol’ blog.
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Tags: Cartoons, Contests, Family Guy, giveaway, Star Wars, TV
December 27th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
This year, my partner’s father gave us a USB hub shaped like the TARDIS. We can’t walk by it without pushing the little button to make it flash and whoosh. Best. Present. Ever.
December 28th, 2009 at 3:37 am
during my freshman year of engineering school, i received a pocket protector for christmas. old school, man. old school.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Last summer, I took trip to the Nevada Desert for rest and relaxation and to visit Area 51. Okay, drove by Area 51 for my curiosity and then went to Vegas to lose money. Well, my buddies thought it would be great to give me Glow in the Dark Odd Pods Cacti Pals. YEp, a little play off of Area 51 and the desert. Geeky, but fun. Now lets see if I can get my green alien thumb to grow these cacti.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:56 am
This year I received not one but two geeky gifts.
For father’s day I got a Boba Fett coffee mug, its shaped like his helmet with the handle being at the back. And the second gift was on my birthday, I got a Boba Fett ink pen.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Based on the first entry, I’m feeling not the least bit nerdy at all. This Christmas was the gray-and-black gift nexus for me, though. Nissan stainless steel travel mug (black trim!), 32GB iPod Touch (voice control!), iRobot Roomba 560 (gold box deal!). I sit at my black hp (gray cooling pad) laptop drinking tea and watching my Roomba clean up the mess the kids made. They all coordinate well with my “original release” Star Wars DVDs. Han shot first!!!!!
Life is good. Even if I don’t win, I’m happy :)
December 28th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Last year my friend gave me a remote control Dalek and a sonic screwdriver pen.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Last year I got the full Star Wars Princess Leia Slave outfit- From my mom. With a note. “I need more grandchildren.” Geeky, yes. Weird, yes. But if we have another girl we agreed to name her Leia!
December 28th, 2009 at 10:10 am
This year my girlfriend gave me a solid yellow shirt with pikachu’s face on the front. In the back of the shirt is his tail. I can’t wait to wear this in public haha.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:44 am
the geekiest gift I ever received was an accordion. so I was 10 with matching sweatsuits and glasses on a string and an accordion. how fabulous.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:53 am
I was recently gifted 40 mangas. It’s more otaku than geek, but they’re close to the same category, no?
December 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I was given a FreeAgent 500GB external hard drive as a parting gift by a boss (she was leaving, not me).
December 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
a Dell Latitude
December 28th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I was juts given the complete Battlestar Galactica series, on blu ray to boot, for Christmas! I GEEKED out and almost fell over when I opened it. Can’t wait to have a frackin’ marathon!
December 28th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
The DVD collection of the X-men cartoon that was on in the 90′s. Oh, man is it bad. But I loves it anyways!
December 28th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
One geeky gift that was given to me for the holidays by my aunt, was a 10,000 booster pack box tin full of Pokemon cards. I am 21 and used to like pokemon, back when I was 12.
December 28th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I received the collection of Harry Potter and the Twilight Saga for Christmas Eve.
December 28th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
This christmas I received a garden zombie. Yup you heard me right, Garden Zombie. It’s the head, shoulders, and arms of a zombie coming up out of the ground and you put it in your garden to scare people. I’m going to keep it inside and find a way to display it appropriately.
December 28th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Of course…. a graphing calculator and some graph paper for school. Thanks grandma.
December 28th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
When I was a little girl I got the LEGO Space Shuttle with Launchpad from my Grandmother. I built it and had it set up in my bedroom until I went away to college. It was AWESOME. I remember that same year Granny gave my sister got a gallon of hairspray. Bwahahaha!!! I guess it shows that I was the nerd and she was the girly-girl.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Dunno if this is very geeky, but I got the special edition of Fallout 3 last year. It came with an ass-kicking magnet in the form of a Vault-Tec lunch box. Needless to say, I think it’s awesome. :P
December 28th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
The geekiest gift I’ve ever received has to be my voice activated R2-D2. I love him, but wow, that is geeky!
December 28th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I got into yo-yoing about two years ago. I know, who really YO-YO’s these days? My best friend decided that she’d gift me a yo-yo. She had no idea about performance and specs of yo-yos. But what she did know was my name.
For Christmas two years ago, I got a yo-yo made by the German company, “Henry’s Yo-Yo”. She said it was perfect, cause it had my name all over it XD.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
For Geeky-est gift it’s a tie and they were both from this year.
The first is geeky on it’s own and doubly so when you consider it’s what both my fiancée and I wanted. This year my parents surprised me by letting me choose the gift they were going to get me for Christmas, and then surprised me again with a pretty decent amount to spend. As it was an amount of money I don’t usually come across my Fiancée and I talked about what we’d like the most (after we get married It’ll be half hers. Better get something she likes too, right?). In the end because I’m an illustrator that sells artwork at conventions and she’s a photographer that’s getting ready to sell her photography to local stores, we both had the same thought: a printer. One of those bigger down on the end of the isle ones that is twice the size and three times the price than the rest. It’ll print borderless 13×19 paper w/ ease & has 8 ink cartridges including two kinds of black and orange. My Fiancée giggles (not joking) every time she prints a photo and doesn’t have to go somewhere to do it. I used to print out my artwork away from home, but no more. It’s an office supply, but oh so much fun. Yeah pretty geeky.
The one it’s tied with one that a technophile friend of mine (one who continually wants the newest tech & instantly doesn’t care about the second most advanced widget) was cleaning up while moving and realized he hadn’t thrown away his laser discs and the laser disc player along with it. He offered the player and his library of discs to me and I JUMPED at it. I’d always wanted a laser disc player, but never had the extra cash for something lower on the “want” list. Why? Some of the “special features” they put on those discs for various movies have never been seen again in any format. That and I just love older tech. It’ll go nicely with my VHS player that still works and accompanying VHS library (again some that hasn’t seen DVD like “Tiny Toon’s How I spent My Summer Vacation”) and my record player and record collection.
Best part: As I said I also got his Laser Disc collection, including the original Star Wars trilogy, you know that last set before they released the special editions. I know have the original Star Wars trilogy unmarred by the extras they put in Special Editions AND in quite a high quality format.
Inaugural disc to play in Laser Disc player now that it’s in my possession? Star Wars? Empire? Nope. Return of the Jedi, because one can’t get enough Slave Leia and there isn’t the Ewoks “yub yub” song in the Special Editions!
Best. Holiday Haul. Ever.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
The worst one that I got was a 9 Disc set on how to learn to speak Russian. My ex-wife never knew me. We had been married 11 years at this point and she still did not know that I only care about speaking English. Some people never learn.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
I have to say that my geekiest gift thus far in life has been the “Clap-On/Clap-Off” Light!
Maybe, at a later point in my life, it would be welcomed, but I suppose the it is the thought that counts. Many thanks, Cindi
December 28th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
For Christmas a few years ago, I received A USB turntable to transfer LPs to MP3s and CDs.
The first LP I transferred: Donny and Marie “New Season” from 1976
December 28th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
This year, for Christmas, I got Transformers pajamas…matching Transformer pajamas to my 3 year old son’s.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
One Christmas, my buddy got me a spatula and a star trek communicator badge pin.
Why a spatula? “They make great christmas presents!” (see VHF).
December 28th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
One Christmas, my buddy got me a spatula and a star trek communicator badge pin.
Why a spatula? See Weird Al’s UHF.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Christmas 1992, I received the Star Wars trilogy 15th anniversary VHS box-set from my Dad, as a complete surprise. For a self-conscious 11-year-old girl who had worn out the tape on her only copy of Return of the Jedi, rented A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back more times than she could count, scoffed at E.T. because “it’s just not Star Wars,” and who been teased for her love of Star Wars by any elementary school classmate who could manage to string two words together, this was a very geeky, but much-cherished gift.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Thinking she was giving me a complete set, my wife just gave me The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, and So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, books 2, 3, and 4 of the Hitchhiker’s Guide “trilogy”, not realizing she had left out The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy itself.
December 28th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. At my request. As a Junior in High School. Sure I’ve gotten a Lightsaber (for Father’s Day) and any number of other Star Wars items, but really a dictionary that is large enough to be used as a deadly weapon just so I wouldn’t have to be limited to only having access during school hours…yeah well. I was the cool kid in school don’t you know.
December 28th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
P. S.: She just mistakenly thought we had a copy of the first one somewhere in the house from long ago, and mis-remembered that we didn’t. She’s my favorite silly goof in all the world, but she’s not that goofy!
(We’ll complete the set next payday.)
December 29th, 2009 at 7:11 am
One year for christmas i got an autographed picture of Luke Perry (mind you, this was 2 years ago!) AND a Johnny Dangerously movie poster. Best. Christmas. Ever!
December 29th, 2009 at 7:44 am
The geekiest gift I ever got was a set of those flashlight eyeglasses that mechanics use to work on cars. Except, I am not a mechanic, nor do I work on cars. I was given them so I could read Star Wars books in bed at night without keeping anyone up with a regular light….
December 29th, 2009 at 9:34 am
The geekiest gift I’ve ever received was a 3D puzzle of a Star Destroyer from Star Wars. That year, I also received a 13-inch Luke Skywalker action figure from one of my brothers.
December 29th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I got AD&D players handbook in jr high
December 29th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I was just given a really beautiful shade of lipgloss, that *he* said no beautiful warlock should be without… NARS’ Hellfire. Yeah, that would qualify as way too much WoW. (Please delete previous entry.)
December 30th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Well, just this past Christmas, all in one package I got Yoda Santa, a handpainted portrait of a zombie, blood energy drink, super hero magnet set, an X-Files book, and a PCB board from an Atari Centipede game. All wrapped in Spiderman wrapping paper.
December 30th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Okay, well the geekiest sounding gift I have ever received would have to be my youngest son who my dh and I named Anakin. For the record, he is almost 12yo so he was named BEFORE we met the whiney little brat in Episode 1. Can you get any geekier than that?
December 30th, 2009 at 10:23 am
I have a couple: for my birthday this year my wife duplicated the battlestar galactica cake you featured a while back. (in Sept)
And for our anniversary last year she gave me the complete Stargate SG1 series on dvd.
December 30th, 2009 at 11:17 am
I was given a t-shirt with fringe jedi, Ayla Secura on the back. I love her two swinging blue tentacles.
December 30th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
My ex traded his beer fridge for a working Atari 2600, assorted games and Pong Paddles for me. Too bad his personality didn’t match the coolness of the gift.
December 30th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I was learning to knit and hadn’t made it too far past a simple scarf but desperately wanted to knit a Dalek. I tried, unsuccessfully, a couple times. But one of my friends from a knitting community – who had been trying to help with different suggestions and guides – ended up making one for me last Christmas when she realized I’d never finish it myself. So I got my very own knitted Dalek.
(At least I can knit Dr. Who’s famous and fabulous scarf – there are TWO websites dedicated to it!)
December 31st, 2009 at 10:14 am
My wife added me to the ‘Great White Snark’ e-mail list…
January 1st, 2010 at 3:27 pm
A Titanium Spork!