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Mixed Bag Etymology Test Answers |
1. What is a mixed bag gift basket?
mixed bag noun: the gift basket formerly known as a gift basket. 2: our eclectic, chic, exhaustively researched, overly shopped collection of impossible to find gifts.
2. If Mixed Bag has produced 30,761 logoed T-shirts and it took us ten years, how many years would it take for us to become millionaires?
We have no idea. Don't you think if we knew, we'd be sipping tropical drinks on the beach in Santorini?
3. How many gifters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
We don't know. Our gifters have night vision and work in the dark to conserve energy.
4. What is the past tense of gift?
Gifted. We gifted him and he loved it!
5. Was the Trojan Horse a good example of good gift karma?
No. Though it was brilliant, it was deceptive and cunning. Bad gift karma.
6. What is another way you could re-use elements of your Mixed Bag gift?
a. Use the shipping box as a house for your salamander
b. Put the bow in your daughter's hair for her school pictures
c. Put the stuffing in your Easter basket.
d. Leave the gift basket container
e. all of the above.
7. Can you order the ground beef in shepherd's pie a la carte?
No. Shepherds pie is a British dish consisting of layers of ground beef, topped with mashed potatoes. The ground beef would be nearly impossible to extract and serve 'a la carte' unless one was a perhaps a plastic surgeon...or an archeologist.
8. She walked down Madison Avenue in late December, dodging patches of ice, singing "The Little Drummer Boy" in an eerie falsetto voice. The poor woman was_______________(fill in the blank)
a. googled
b. schizophrenic
c. angelic
d. holidazed
9. Tacky is to basket as _____________is to Mixed Bag's reusable containers.
a. cool
b. hip
c. smart
d. inventive
e. all of the above
10. If you need the ultimate gift, for a scrutinizing giftee, who you gonna call?
a. Ghost Busters
b. Your Mom
c. "Call me, on the line, Call me, call me, call me anytime..."
d. A Purveyor of Taste
e. 1-877-MixedBag
f. d and e only |
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