Please, divulge your secrets. We're having our annual Christmas Party for work, and this is what the invite says:
"Festivities will include beverages, HEAVY hors d'oeuvres and a White Elephant Auction.
Please bring your wife/husband or girlfriend/boyfriend (but not both) and 2 gifts (1 for a man and 1 for a lady) not to exceed $XXX each."
WTF. Okay, I've done the whole white elephant thing before so I know what it consists of... but what do YOU do at a white elephant exchange? And why is my boss calling it an auction?
2007-12-14 02:04:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
L- Ummm, yeah so I think I knew that already.
2007-12-14 02:09:32 · update #1
andyg77:
You're welcome for the nostalgic moment.
Does anyone have any creative ideas for the ultimate $10 gift? I don't mind being tacky.
2007-12-14 02:22:09 · update #2
I think white elephant means just about anything that nobody really wants. Something odd. Here is a old post card of the White Elephant Store in Milford, NH. I used to go there all the time in the 50's and 60's. It was chuck full of everything you could imagine. It has since burnt down but thanks for your question that got me to think about this:
http://www.milfordpictures.com/cgi-bin/pro/emAlbum.cgi?c=show_image;p=Business%20and%20Industry;i=15;in=elephantshop1.jpg
2007-12-14 02:13:41 · answer #1 · answered by andyg77 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do not understand the white elephant gift exchange.
on the eve of the Buddha's (and i know a thing or two about the Buddha) birth his mother dreamt of a white elephant. he came to give her a lotus (symbolizing purity and knowledge)
A white elephant was used by the war gods and often signified fertility. it was thought that the more white elephant s king possessed the more prosperous he was/would become.
now i know that does not relate to your party. but lookit this way, now you're smarter than you were. before you read this.
2007-12-14 02:34:32 · answer #2 · answered by jacks_insanity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus did. It's in the Bible. Here is the reference. Matthew 16:21 From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day. 22 Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, "God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You." 23 But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God's interests, but man's." Jesus said this to Peter because he was giving Jesus bad councel that would have thwarted what He came to do. Satan is the adversary and seeks to thwart God's will. When people act or advise something that would thwart God's will, they are wittingly or unwittlingly doing Satan's bidding. So get behind me Satan. Don't thwart me from God's purpose.
2016-04-09 02:42:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know, but here is the link in the Urban Dictionary:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=white+elephant
2007-12-14 02:08:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You exchange gifts
2007-12-14 02:07:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"White elephant" usually means something useless and expensive, so that's what I'd think.
2007-12-14 02:08:37 · answer #6 · answered by kitten lover3 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋