[KL7AA] AARC and SCRC Christmas Dinner tommorrow night

[Jim Larsen]

The AARC and SCRC Christmas Dinner will be held December 12 at 7:00PM, 2nd 
Friday of the month at The Royal Fork South On Old Seward, just south of 
Dimond Blvd. There will be a Chinese Gift Exchange but you do not have to 
participate in the exchange if you don't want to.  It is lots of fun so you 
are encouraged to try it.

We hope to see you there with your spouse/friend and your family.

73, Jim
345-3190
-- 
Jim Larsen, AL7FS
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.qsl.net/al7fs


Chinese Gift Exchange Rules

1.  Everyone attending must bring a gift if they want to participate in the 
gift exchange. If you are the only person in your party, bring (1) gift.  If 
there are two or more people in your party, then bring a gift for each person 
that wants to participate. Gifts need not be expensive, new, or gender 
oriented.  Please do not bring a "boat" anchor.

2.  The gift must be wrapped to conceal its identity.  All gifts will be 
placed together on a table. Do not attach a card.

3.  One ticket with a number printed on it will be given to each person 
bringing a gift.  You will exchange a gift for a numbered ticket.  No gift no 
ticket!  Only one ticket to a person.  You may bring an extra gift and donate 
it to the cause. (see rule 11).

4.  At the beginning of the event, a number is drawn and the person holding 
the ticket with that number exchanges his or her ticket for any one of the 
unopened gifts, which he/she must open and show to everyone.  This person now 
will have the option of exchanging this first gift (or any other gift that 
they may receive as part of an exchange) with any other gift at the conclusion 
of the event (see rules 10 and 12). Only the person holding the first ticket 
drawn shall have this privilege.

5.  Another number is then drawn and that person exchanges his or her ticket 
for an unopened  gift. This person now has the option of either opening the 
gift or exchanging it with the first person�s gift.  You may not hold an 
unopened gift.  Gifts must be either opened or traded.  If you are �stuck: 
with a gift because of the 3-round limit, you must open it.

6.  The process continues, with each subsequent person either opening a gift 
or exchanging an unopened package for a previously opened gift.  See also rule 
10.

7.  If an unopened  gift is exchanged for a previously opened gift, the person 
receiving the unopened gift has the option of either opening the gift or 
exchanging it with another person's opened gift.   See also rule 8.

8.  An unopened gift may be exchanged  only three times per round, then that 
gift must be opened, and another number must be drawn for the next person. 
This "round" limit may be shortened depending on the number of persons 
participating in the gift exchange and the nearness of the hour to relinquish 
the room.  Important rule clarification:  The limit on exchanges per round 
means only that a gift may be traded a maximum number of times during any one 
round.  This does not mean that the gift is �safe� after that round is ended. 
  The gift becomes vulnerable to trading immediately when the next round 
starts!  No gift is �safe� until the event is completely over.

9. Gifts may not be traded directly back and forth in immediate succession. A 
person �losing� an opened gift to someone in exchange for an unopened gift may 
not immediately reclaim the gift from the �taker� in exchange for the unopened 
gift. At least one additional exchange involving a third person must intervene 
before a person can reclaim a gift.

10. Only unopened gifts may be exchanged for opened gifts. Gifts that have 
been opened may not be exchanged for other gifts, opened or not. The sole 
exception being that the first person to draw a ticket may exchange his or her 
gift for any other gift one time only at the conclusion of the event.  The 
first person chosen will also have the option of exchanging his or her gift as 
the final exchange of the event. Any gifts purchased at auction must be 
exchanged (or not) before the final �first person� exchange takes place. (see 
also rule 13)

11. If there happens to be an extra gift or gifts left over, they will be 
auctioned off, with the money going to the club treasury. This money may also 
be used to defray any additional costs related to the event. Gifts purchased 
at auction may be traded for other opened gifts in the normal manner.

12.  When all gifts have been opened, and the first person to be chosen has 
either exchanged or not exchanged whatever gift they hold, the event is over.

13.  When the event is over, the rules (above) are no longer are in effect. 
If you and another person wish to exchange gifts after the main event is over, 
this is perfectly OK.