craftgrrl | nothing to do with Christmas (Reply)

My husband has a coworker named Bernie who is a great friend of ours. In July he turns 60 and ever since he turned 50, he's been asking his wife and daughter where his surprise party is. Well, they're throwing him a surprise party in less than 2 weeks under the guise of holding a Christmas family reunion at his favorite restaurant. They even made him book the room. He has no clue, it's great!

Anyway, I've been trying to come up with good gag gifts for him but I've been coming up blank. Any suggestions? I think my creative juices have dried out from Christmas!

I do know I'm going to package it like

blood_girl's brother in law did to her last year for Christmas. I might spell out "old coot" or "ancient one" instead of "loser" though. :-)

Edit: I don't want to do the usual with the balloons/mugs/whatever from Spencer's and the like. There are going to be a LOT of people there (75+) so I'm sure he'll get plenty of that. He's very into gadgets (retired from IBM), anything Irish and awful (often bawdy) jokes. I think for part of it I'll make him a CD with funny songs. Any suggestions for that?