Friday, October 27, 2006

40th Birthday Gift Registry

ILLEGAL – please do not get

  • Cocaine
  • Snow leopard-lined winter coat
  • Hyacinthine macaw
  • Looted Greek antiquity
  • Non-antique ivory bibelots
  • Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

AMAZING

  • 3-sided cribbage board (pref. antique, marquetry, with ivory and ebony pins)
  • Motorbike, with helmet, jacket and boots
  • Beautiful card/games table (pref. antique, baize, drawers)
  • Real linen bed-linen
  • Case of Dom Perignon
  • Yacht or other sailing vessel
  • Return air-ticket to Turkey

GREAT

  • Tool-box
  • Bicycle
  • Backpack – day
  • Backpack – hiking
  • Watch – underwater
  • Sunglasses
  • CD player
  • DVD player
  • TV
  • Diving flippers
  • Scuba wetsuit
  • Pair of G-Star jeans
  • Electric kitchen scales
  • Beauty products (Clarins)
  • Subscriptions to plays, the opera

NICE

  • Books
  • CDs
  • DVDs
  • Subscription to magazines
  • Groovy clothes, including shoes

THOUGHTFUL

  • Underwear
  • Gym shorts
  • Pair of dark green speedoes
  • Swimming goggles
  • Pencil case