Would you get your almost 20 year old son this for Christmas?!?

[BEG]

Give him (2) crisp 100 dollar bills and let him spend it on what he wants. I would bet that he would not buy the Lego. Cash always worked for me as a kid or as an adult.

LOL I've done that before too.  When one of my kids wants something for their birthday that I think is stupid I give them enough money to buy it.  When they have the cold hard cash in their hand suddenly they become "thrifty".   

[BEG]

They have a Johnny 5 Lego set? WTF?

A 20 year old though, I would suspect an Ipod, a new phone, maybe some nice clothes they've been eying, but Legos? Wow. Too each his own. Hell, my youngest brother's about to turn 25 and he still watches anime and all that. I dunno what I'm getting him for Christmas yet, but I'm sure A. It'll be from Japan and B. It'll probably be creepy. lol

I don't know what Johnny 5 is.

He has an Ipod (not actually an Ipod, he had to have a different brand....to be different), he got a new phone just before he left for school this year and he isn't one to get into clothes.  His standard attire are a pair of Levis and some t-shirt that either he himself made the screen print on the front, some obscure design from threadless.com or he gets them at thrift stores.  He did ask for a DVD of "The Tick"....my kid is never going to grow up.

[BEG]

It's not playing with Legos. He's working on his robotics programing skills for uh school, that's it, school.

I'm sure that would be his line.  He went out with a couple of his roommates a couple of months ago and they all bought Nerf guns to take to their studio at school.  I remember my husband playing "street" hockey when he was in college up in their studio.  We were married and had a baby at the time so I guess you are never too old to "play".

[BEG]

Well BEG, if he's programming the Mindstorms, at least he's programming, which is a skill he can actually use to make a living someday.  I would encourage it and get him the Mindstorms.

We use them at work for simulations of "self federating autonomous systems".

You use them for m&sterb&tion?      

[BEG]

My love, mind in the gutter this early in the morning?

No, we use them for simulations of next generation Mars rovers and some classified things for the military.

Sorry I couldn't resist.  When I didn't know what you were talking about it was the first thing that popped into my head.   

[Odin's Hand]

You could get him this for damn near the same price.

[BEG]

You could get him this for damn near the same price.

You want me to buy that for you don't you?!?

[Odin's Hand]

You want me to buy that for you don't you?!?

That would be awfully nice of ya, ma'am. 

[BEG]

That would be awfully nice of ya, ma'am. 

I just don't buy guys things for nothin' you know.   

[terry]

My love, mind in the gutter this early in the morning?

No, we use them for simulations of next generation Mars rovers and some classified things for the military.

This cracked me and reminded of an interview I did once.  My hubby and I were interviewing a young woman, a recent college grad, for a programming job in our company.   She told us twice that she had taken classes in Stimulation.  

[Miss Mia]

That's a pretty cool thing he wants BEG.  When I was in elementary school (I think the 4th grade), I went to some special computer camp and there was this basic basic basic computer programming thing we were learning.  Logo.  Yeah, we did it in regular computer lab through out the year.  But at this special computer camp thingy, we got to set up these little programs with Legos.  I remember we build a dog or something and then programed it to walk around.  

My parents would say "you can have that $200 thingy, but that's all you get."  Actually that's exactly what they said this year.  

[Odin's Hand]

I just don't buy guys things for nothin' you know.   

You want me shake my money-maker again???

[BEG]

You want me shake my money-maker again???

He he, made me blush.   

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

I don't know what Johnny 5 is.

He has an Ipod (not actually an Ipod, he had to have a different brand....to be different), he got a new phone just before he left for school this year and he isn't one to get into clothes.  His standard attire are a pair of Levis and some t-shirt that either he himself made the screen print on the front, some obscure design from threadless.com or he gets them at thrift stores.  He did ask for a DVD of "The Tick"....my kid is never going to grow up.

Johnny 5 was the robot in the bad 80's movie Short Circuit

[BEG]

Johnny 5 was the robot in the bad 80's movie Short Circuit

LOL that is funny. 

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

LOL that is funny. 

Scary thing is they are actually considering making a new one.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983475.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

[BEG]

Another question, he also has: Sam & Max: Freelance Police DVD on his list.  Do any of you know anything about it?  It looks kinda stupid from the cover.

Edited to add: He also wants Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky.  I read the reviews of this movie.  What is wrong with my kid?!?

[Miss Mia]

Another question, he also has: Sam & Max: Freelance Police DVD on his list.  Do any of you know anything about it?  It looks kinda stupid from the cover.

Edited to add: He also wants Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky.  I read the reviews of this movie.  What is wrong with my kid?!?

He's a boy.  They never grow up, you just learn to live with it. 

[BEG]

He's a boy.  They never grow up, you just learn to live with it. 

Here is the editorial review from Amazon.

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
One of the most absurdly violent films ever made, this outrageous comic book of a movie is short on style but makes up for it in sheer audacity and excess. Brooding street kid Ricky Ho (Fan Siu Wang, playing the part of avenging angel with self-righteous earnestness) walks into the corrupt corporate prison system with superpowered martial arts skills and proceeds to punch his way through every bullying thug and sadistic guard who comes his way. Literally. His fist puts a gaping hole through the stomach of a giant sumo-wrestler-sized thug and the jaw of a pompadoured bully, and turns the skull of a pathetic guard into a bloody stump. As Ricky becomes a hero to the downtrodden prisoners, the assistant warden (who keeps breath mints in his removable glass eye) organizes the dreaded "gang of four," the cell block gang leaders, to take Ricky down. Fat chance!

There's nothing realistic about the bone-shattering, blood-splattering spectacle of crushed heads and snapped limbs, but the unrestrained display becomes so preposterously grotesque it hardly matters. You'll be convinced that the "Oh" in Riki-Oh stands for "Oh my God, did I really see that?" Yes, Ricky really does tie a sliced tendon with his teeth, a thug cuts open his gut and uses his own intestines to strangle Ricky, and the warden (for no apparent reason) puffs himself up into a giant rubber ogre. Ricky's curvy, feminine nemesis Rogan is played by Yukari Oshima, the butt-kicking, all-woman star of Angel and others. --Sean Axmaker

[Miss Mia]

Here is the editorial review from Amazon.

weird.   

[BEG]

weird.   

See I told you.

[Miss Mia]

See I told you.

Next time he comes home, let him hang out with my deviant friends and me.  We'll straighten him out.   

[Wineslob]

Get him this:



It'll fix him right up.

[debk]

Hmmm..this thread gave me some ideas for my son...who is 27.

He absolutely loved Legos as a kid....wonder if he'd like that? I know he would prefer the blonde, but that's really not an option from me.....

Have to admit, the gas card also sounds like a great idea!


Odin....great looking reel!

[terry]

Here is the editorial review from Amazon.

Didn't your son make a movie for school?   Maybe he's looking for ideas.