crackers are odd -the silly paper hat, the silly joke,
the silly motto, the silly toy. . .
but we pull them,
we love the BANG!
and we enjoy them all the same
crackers were invented by a guy called Tom Smith (find the history here) and I'm glad for that - they are so silly and trite, but it is quite wonderful to have crackers at Christmas. . .
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. . .and I like them with cheese too
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motto?
the little square of paper than has the joke printed on it also has an interesting fact or a motto
next time Mini-Teen pulls one (a cracker), I'll share it (the motto) with you
(and there was me thinking you'd be asking who the fine gentleman eating the cracker was)
I have forgotten to buy crackers!
I made them once but they didn't bang to the required bangyness (according to the young ones) and they didn't like my jokes!
HA!
latest cracker joke this end:
where does Tarzan buy his loin cloths?
at the jungle sale. . .
BOOM BOOM
with jokes like those anything could be an improvement!
(this year I've bought DIY ready-made cracker bodies - snap included - which you fill with your own gifts. . . now I have to find something to put in them)(any ideas?)
I'm guessing a 'jungle sale' is something British (as, I think, are 'crackers')
and the gentleman eating the cracker is not unknown in these parts
jumble sale
(you know, in the village hall - you donate all your old stuff and then go and buy someone else's. . .)(do you have those on your side of the pond?)(kind of a one day thrift shop, usually for charity, here it's mainly scouts and guides or small village societies. . . I used to love them: men's city shirts for 10p, great quality fabric for patchworking and lots of little pearl buttons; other people's bric-a-brac, always more fascinating than one's own; collections of old paper backs and vinyl; and sometimes a really great piece of vintage clothing!)
more cheese, Gromit?
(-;
YOU DON'T HAVE CRACKERS?????? I'd a sent you some if I'd known that! as it is I posted your small token of an xmas gift too late for you to get it for the day. . .
but at least it's mailed!
X
I like cheese!
Wensleydale?
oh, and from tonight's cracker-pulling banjerie. . .
"How did Darth Vader know what Luke Skywalker was getting for Christmas? He felt his presence"
(and no motto, but a tongue twister: five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes)
and what nine lettered word can you make from the grid and how many words of four letters and over can you make using the centre letter in all words and each letter only once:
ARE
MLS
TOM
Ah, crackers!
I learned about crackers from himself a few holidays back. And son of a gun if I haven't started to see them on the shelves over here this year. But alas--we didn't purchase any.
Why?
Geeze....now there's a good question!
And yes, uh huh we do too have Wallace and Grommit!
Curse of the Wererabbit and all that......though, I will admit that I (go FIGURE) didn't bother to pay attention to Wallace and Grommit until himself sat me down for a watch.
Gosh.......see all the GOOD things I'da missed out on!!!
I think The Wrong Trousers is the best one, mainly because of the Evil Penguin, Feathers McGraw. . .
. . .altho the beauty and simplicity of A Grand Day Out is hard to beat
I am definitely going to watch the new TV one.
And would you believe, I got fill-your-own crackers too! But I'm beginning to wonder if this was an error - can I steal your mottoes and jokes please? Oh and I've just remembered the hats!
And I have to go and find gifts for them tomorrow.
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