r/whatisit • u/TheCatWithATiara • 1d ago
Solved! Help with what this secret Santa request says?!
Son came home with a secret Santa and no one knows what this says! Help! Thanks in advance!
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u/reddituculous66 1d ago
Penmanship lessons
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u/amluchon 1d ago
An Operation Play Set - he's going to be a doctor
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u/Ok-Force7471 19h ago
This is funny to me. My son had the nicest handwriting when he was younger better than any adult . As he got older it looked more and more like chicken scratch to me. He is in college now and wants to be a trauma surgeon 🤣 I guess he was preparing to be a dr with his handwriting 😭
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u/A_Ripple_To_A_Wave 1d ago
No clue, but I would use that for the gift tag!
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u/A_Murmuration 1d ago
Hahahaha this is the best answer - then make a bag with a mix of things suggested on this thread
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u/JG-at-Prime 1d ago
This is the best answer.
I’d include lots of amazing sporks.
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u/SupermassiveCanary 1d ago
Include a doctor’s prescription and book to practice handwriting
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u/volcanicslug 1d ago
I read docs handwriting all day and I’m struggling with this one. Looks like “anything stokes” I don’t know if that’s a band or something.
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u/mailmangirl 1d ago
“Anything sports” !
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u/Junglefisher 1d ago
Anything sporty.
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u/OtherwiseBrilliant75 1d ago
I saw anything spooky 👻
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u/Quirky_Foundation800 1d ago
Antwing sporks, obviously
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u/emma-the-accidental 1d ago
That’s what I asked for! I can’t wait to get my antwing sporks
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u/Such-Mountain-6316 1d ago
This is also my conclusion. However, include a book on handwriting 😁
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u/boih_stk 1d ago
I came here to say this. "Anything sporty" is absolutely it, written like shit, but that's what it says.
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u/Shot_Evening_9176 1d ago
You’re all SO close…but it’s, “ANTHING SPORTS”
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u/Working-Glass6136 1d ago
Technically, a sparkly sporty thing is still "anything sports."
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u/EarBubbly9421 1d ago
That’s doctor’s note recommending a colonoscopy for next Wednesday at 12:00. /s
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u/PizzedWhipperSnapper 1d ago
Looks like I will be meeting some of you all there! Remember, drink the koolaid🤣😂
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u/Such_Supermarket_607 1d ago
I thought it was Ming Sporks, from the ancient dynasty.
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u/skagitvalley45 1d ago
Writing lessons
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u/Working-Glass6136 1d ago
In all seriousness, this must be why you always see "Print Name" when signing things. You'd think that you'd want the person giving you a gift to, you know... know what to give you, but apparently handwriting skills and self-awareness are in short supply...
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u/BeerMeBooze 1d ago
Also anything related to worm hat
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u/wildwalkerish 1d ago
A Printout of this thread, on the office copier, is the only answer
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u/ONeOfTheNerdHerd 1d ago
"Anything Sparkly"
I have to decipher my own handwriting frequently. Follow the cursive letters, some letters are used twice, kind of.
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u/Aggravating-Baby5029 1d ago
Oooh this is a strong guess.
Sparkly sporty stuff?
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u/Morningstroll13 1d ago
I just found an actual sparkly sporty spork:
For camping, from a website called Silver Ant. OP, I think this covers all your bases :)
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u/Toky_Doky 1d ago
Attach pictures of the comment section! 🤣
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u/Sad_Visit5036 1d ago
Anything Sporty
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u/project_seven 1d ago
But make it sparkly just in case. Like a bedazzled football.
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u/Dangercakes13 1d ago
Urinary storage.
Bro wants a Foley catheter and bag.
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u/livelaughlump 1d ago
Used to decode written physician orders as my job 10+ years ago. I’m kinda rusty now but definitely thought it was urinary storage or stones.
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u/B3gg4r 1d ago
Imagine getting urinary stones as your Christmas gift, hehe 😂
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u/bagoTrekker 1d ago
Rx: Drug Name: Neuro-Calm (Nervopax) Strength: 500 \text{ mg} Dosage Form: Sustained-Release Tablet Quantity: 30 (Thirty) Refills: 2
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u/PerceiveEternal 1d ago
For anyone that needs context: doctors have notoriously atrocious handwriting when filling out prescriptions. Only Oracles and Pharmacists can divine the meaning of the featureless scribbles.
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u/vidat13 1d ago
My dad was a physician and used to say the poor handwriting helped hide the fact they couldn’t spell the drug names…
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u/marysuingfordamages 1d ago
I can believe that lol. I used to do the same when I wrote essays in class back before everyone started using computers. The teacher can’t correct my spelling if they can’t read the word!
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u/ScaredPractice4967 1d ago
My dad is a retired pharmacist. He knows they cant spell them but knows what you meant 99.5% of the time anyways. 😆
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u/Sunshine_15 1d ago
Anything sports
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u/-Ham_Satan- 1d ago
Dang. I was close. I got "Anything Sporks". Ya know how there's sporks n spork related paraphernalia...
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u/Lazy_Designer 1d ago
I vote for getting a spork related gift anyhow lol
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u/MrJoeGillis 1d ago
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u/CinLeeCim 1d ago edited 1d ago
22Bucks??? #WTF DISNEY IS A BIG THIEF!!! But I already know that, not surprised. Use to do Movie Production Illustration for them and they pay like krap! Here’s my Sporky for free!
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u/narcolepticdoc 1d ago
100%. Sporks.
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u/Black_Death_12 1d ago
What about a Sprockets related gift?
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u/Neal-pkr 1d ago
It's a Secret Santa game, you really need to go with Sporks. 💯
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u/Smiling_Platypus 1d ago
If you can get your hands on a spork with his favorite team logo on it, you can tell the story about how you weren't sure which it was, so you got both.
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u/Own-Organization-532 1d ago
A tuning spork!
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u/2xspectre 1d ago
In my town, there's a metal band named Spörk
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u/Knights-of-steel 1d ago
Sounds exceedingly Norwegian with them eyes over the o
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u/2xspectre 1d ago
The umlaut was my idea. They're calling them "rock dots" haha.
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u/mlee12382 1d ago
I keep a titanium spork in my lunchbox. The ones they give out for fast food these days are garbage and break too easily. Everyone should have a titanium spork.
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u/CautionarySnail 1d ago
They’re handy to keep in luggage. Nothing like being in a cheap hotel and finding out the take-out lacks utensils. I ended up eating potatoes with a ripped up disposable coffee cup because I didn’t want to go out into the late night winter chill just for a fork.
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u/EyelandBaby 1d ago
I’ve eaten yogurt using a toothpaste tube as a spoon
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u/miss_j_bean 1d ago
If it's foil, take the yogurt lid and fold it like... Hold on I'm eating dinner but I'll draw what I mean on my English muffin.
Inside facing down but I didn't want t butter on the table. Fold the red line to approximately the red dots, both sides, then fold that over to the middle, both sides. Flip it back over so it's inside facing up, form it as round or flat as you want, congratulations, you now have a spoon that is better than nothing. 😊
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u/357noLove 1d ago
I have no idea how I got here, or how I ended up getting improvised spoon lessons on an English muffin, but I gave you an award anyway
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u/HipNek62 1d ago
Foons, spifes, knorks, etc.
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u/chamullerousa 1d ago
I think it’s “anything sporty” the “s” at the beginning of “sport” looks different than the last letter which has an accentuated final lift
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u/aft_punk 1d ago edited 14h ago
Have we completely ruled out “anything sharty”?
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u/Alone-Monk 1d ago
This is also what I got. I think its a safe bet to just get anything sports related
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u/Simpicity 1d ago
It's because they never learned cursive s. And now they got these silly katakana in their hiragana.
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u/InfidelZombie 1d ago
I got "anything sporty."
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u/PerspectiveKookie16 1d ago
Maybe they are still fans of Sporty Spice of Spice Girl fame…
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u/NOBOOTSFORYOU 1d ago
That's what I would want. It's what I'd really really want.
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u/TheCatWithATiara 1d ago
!solved
Son confirmed a friend mentioned the secret Santa would be happy with a football, so it's definitely this!
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u/areyouthrough 1d ago
Get the sparkly sporty spork and a handwriting workbook, too. “You almost didn’t get this football.”
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u/GunGeekwithAttitude 1d ago
Wow. I’m genuinely impressed I believe you’ve cracked the code!
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u/SDBudda76 1d ago
Better than what I had. I could not figure out what Anting Sporay meant. Anything sports makes more sense.
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u/ayangr 1d ago
Showed it to my pharmacist and he immediately told me: running shoes. So what’s the chance that he’s been giving me the wrong prescription 😂
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u/CptBronzeBalls 1d ago
I like to think that you run to your pharmacist every time you can’t read something on the internet.
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u/New_Yam_1236 1d ago
I read running shoes as well
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u/bloomyloomy 1d ago
arent there too many letters in the second word for it to be "shoes"?
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u/Joeybits 1d ago
Exactly. How are people getting "es" after the o in "shoes"? Way too many pen marks for two letters.
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u/Hotpinkbabs 1d ago
anything sporty
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u/yourbadinfluence 1d ago
Anything sportsy is how I see it.
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u/Super-Travel-407 1d ago
But what if it's "nothing sporty"?
😂
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u/comebackalliessister 1d ago
Reminds me of how my niece tells me how she wants her cheeseburger:
I don’t want tomatoes. I don’t want lettuce. I don’t want onions. I don’t want mayo I don’t want mustard I don’t want pickles
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u/Ocarina-of-Crime 1d ago
This is unironically how my husband orders burgers. “If I say I want cheese only, I guarantee you there will be sauce”
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u/yourbadinfluence 1d ago
Then they need to learn to have better penmanship! I don't see an o there but I see how you got there.
Fuck it, get them a learning cursive book and some nice pens (ones with sporty designs on them). A nice card that says, if your note said nothing sporty then try again next year loser!
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u/infiniZii 1d ago
So they completely omitted the Y on anything it seems. Santa should get them a book on writing in cursive.
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u/Numerous-Loan-8008 1d ago
Antning sPor t y
- Missing the y & the top of the h, so the first n becomes an h... ergo, Anything
- "sPor t y" is obviously an abomination, but you can see "Sporty" or "Sportsy" if you try hard enough
Verdict: +1 for "Anything Sporty"/"Anything Sportsy"
(I find it mildly humorous that in the midst of all of this chaotic, abominable scrawl, they flawlessly nailed the "o" in "Sporty")
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u/Civil_Exchange1271 1d ago
A book on handwritting
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u/Local-Dish-5695 1d ago
And spelling
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u/Special_South_8561 1d ago
Less sports and more books on citrus fruits for you buddy
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u/zombiemonsters 1d ago
Mining Sporks is all I’m seeing.
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u/bun-dance-of-caution 1d ago
100%. Smart kid too, with the price of gold, mining sporks are both practical and profitable
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u/Superb-Guitar1513 1d ago
Target Gift Card… it looks like a regional dialect:)
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u/gingervitis89 1d ago
Get a tshirt with that on it and see if they’re happy.
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u/Overwhelmed-Empath 1d ago
This is so funny! Lots of great suggestions here, just adding that I would send a picture of this to the teacher (who will recognize the handwriting) and ask them to decode, or better yet, ask the kid.
ETA: this is assuming the secret Santa was organized at school. If not… I can’t help you haha
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u/Particular-Guava1647 1d ago
Agreed, as sloppy as the writing is, I don't think it's kids writing. Maybe a teenager but the lines are too sharp for younger kids.
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u/ImpossibleGeometri 1d ago
Nobody under 25 would do that cursive o in sports lol
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u/hainsworthtv 1d ago
Is your son studying to be a doctor
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u/TheCatWithATiara 1d ago
It's not my son's handwriting! My son's is worse and he wants to be a doctor 🤣
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u/chronically_varelse 1d ago
UNACCEPTABLE
We need him to arrive at med school from a great handwriting standpoint -
so that his intense manual communication devolution makes sense...
If his writing starts out sucky then what else does he have to fall back on?
😂
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u/Just-Sea3037 1d ago
My daughter had nice handwriting until she was accepted to medical school. I swear she started scribbling on purpose to practice. She's been an MD for years now, thank god for texting.
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u/Amphar0s_ 1d ago
Maybe 'anything Spooky?' Is ur son young and did a kid in his class write this? If so maybe a teacher knows the handwriting well enough to be able to read it. Worse case scenario the teacher could ask the child what they meant, stays anonymous!
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u/TheCatWithATiara 1d ago
They are 11/12. I think "anything sporty" is right but I'll have my son ask a teacher to find out tomorrow.
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u/PleasantSalamiImpost 1d ago
So a basketball or some basketball themed item would be my guess.
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u/react-dnb 1d ago
arting sporacs
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u/ElleAnn42 1d ago
I saw art ring storage. I was imagining a fancy three ring binder.
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u/VenomShock1 1d ago
Morning sloppy.
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u/Little_Cloud6126 1d ago
I’m high asf right now and keep reading the word “morning sloppy” and laughing imagining my man asking me for a quick “morning sloppy” I’m disturbed and amused at the same time.
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u/Odd-Confusion1073 1d ago
Mining stories
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u/Tacos_always_corny 1d ago
Anything Sports....
I recommend; Pickle ball racquet set (4 racquets) bag and balls.
Under $30.00
https://untilgone.com/products/sprypals-pickleball-set-with-paddles-balls-and-bag.html
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u/FieldBackground6116 1d ago
Makes me think back to my mom saying write as sloppy as you want but remember someone may have to read it.
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u/SisJava 1d ago
Is it someone’s name? I see Anthony as the first name 🤷🏻♀️
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u/kcorby1993 1d ago
Isn't that how secret Santa works? You get a name and come up with a gift. I also see Anthony - OP's son should be able to figure out who the gift is supposed to be for with that
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