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Pick a Peck of Presents

Where has this website been all my life. All those birthdays and holidays I spent wracking my brain trying to come up with the perfect gift, when all I had to do was plug a few criteria into the Perfect Present Picker! Like those Gap ads say, how easy is this? You choose an area of interest for your gift recipient from a drop-down list that includes such diverse avocations as "beer or wine," "gadgets," and "reptiles." Then cross-reference that with the occasion (baby shower, bar mitvah, etc.). Finally, click on a personality type from a list that includes "controlling," "geek," and "nudist." You'll then be taken to a screen where you can narrow your search even further, by age/sex, occupation, and lifestyle. Click "results" and you'll be given a list of perfect presents, complete with links to the online retailers who sell them. My search for a birthday gift for a food-loving nudist resulted in a terrific lead: Belgian chocolate shaped like a naked muscle man! Yes! But will it fit in a stocking?

Fri, 17 Dec 1999 06:36:43 -0800