I'm not liking the crappy green color (although it's barely a color?) block around our name.

@mechajutaro said:

Is Re-Gifting OK--Yea or Nay?

I lean towards the affirmative on this question meself: without more of us passing along HPV to our fellow human beings, the prospects of folk continuing to oppose the vaccination so long as the wolves aren't clawing through THEIR front doors remains strong

I took it for granted that my preface sentence ("Sheldon and Amy received a much re-gifted wedding present.") would direct posters to the particular subject matter being discussed.

But, I guess, to anyone just reading the title, its inexplicitness could leave to the intent of the Thread being open to interpretation.

After all, there is a lot of truth to the old adage: “If all you have is a hammer….”

Even so, now that you know what the discussion is really about—What say you?

Sheldon's Theory of Gift Giving:

"The entire institution of gift giving make no sense. Let's say that I go out, and I spend 50 dollars on you, it's a laborious activity, because I have to imagine what you need, where as you know what you need. Now I could simplify things, just give you the 50 dollars directly, and you could give me 50 dollars on my birthday, and so on, until one of us dies, leaving the other one old and 50 dollars richer. And I ask, is it worth it?"

Episode: The Bath Gift Item Hypothesis

This could have all changed over the seasons and he might have a different theory now. For example the few gifts he has given out over time. Some one else here will have to list those as I am exhausted just thinking about this.

@mechajutaro said:

Is Re-Gifting OK--Yea or Nay?

I lean towards the affirmative on this question meself: without more of us passing along HPV to our fellow human beings, the prospects of folk continuing to oppose the vaccination so long as the wolves aren't clawing through THEIR front doors remains strong

Are you in the 'wrong thread'?

@znexyish said:

Sheldon's Theory of Gift Giving:

"The entire institution of gift giving make no sense. Let's say that I go out, and I spend 50 dollars on you, it's a laborious activity, because I have to imagine what you need, where as you know what you need. Now I could simplify things, just give you the 50 dollars directly, and you could give me 50 dollars on my birthday, and so on, until one of us dies, leaving the other one old and 50 dollars richer. And I ask, is it worth it?"

Episode: The Bath Gift Item Hypothesis

This could have all changed over the seasons and he might have a different theory now. For example the few gifts he has given out over time. Some one else here will have to list those as I am exhausted just thinking about this.

It's always exhausting to think about Sheldon. As his friends know all too well. And it seems particularly odd for Sheldon to not ascribe any particular value to the time spent on selecting a gift, beyond the dollar cost of the item itself. (Which, I'll remind those who don't remember, was $0 for the autographed napkin that Penny gave to Sheldon in that episode. Yet he responded by giving her ALL of those baskets, PLUS a hug!)

@Knixon said:

It's always exhausting to think about Sheldon. As his friends know all too well. And it seems particularly odd for Sheldon to not ascribe any particular value to the time spent on selecting a gift, beyond the dollar cost of the item itself. (Which, I'll remind those who don't remember, was $0 for the autographed napkin that Penny gave to Sheldon in that episode.** Yet he responded by giving her ALL of those baskets, PLUS a hug!)**

I think that when Penny gave Sheldon the autographed napkin his Sheldon-ness was temporarily short circuited hence the sudden gift giving frenzy. Sheldon also gave Ms. Davis the "Roots" DVDs. and Amy a Star Trek DVD set but those two incidents had ulterior motives behind them, they weren't pure gift giving.

And the "Roots" DVD set was just what we saw him give. His next stop was giving a boxed set of Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee movies to Dr Wu, or something.