Q: What do you call a girl with a fir tree on her head?
Christmas Carol!
Loot: a tiny mirror, a magnifying glass, a 3-D assemble-the-ball puzzle, and a strange blue thing with a multifaceted lens one end that you can look through and see multiple images of everything.
Christmas crackers aren’t done very much here in the US. Until I moved to the east coast, I’d never even heard of them. Now I’ve heard of them, and seen them, but never gotten one. I should get a box for next year though. Looks like a fun tradition.
The only time I ever had crackers was when I was living in York. They were fun, but the jokes were L-A-M-E. I see that hasn’t changed since I moved back.
The jokes remind me of Halloween jokes told in St. Louis. Hijack, does any other city in the US require the kids to either tell a joke (trick) or do a song and dance routine (treat) before giving out the snickers bar? End Hijack
ps we don’t have a cracker tradition here either but they are now appearing in stores such as William Sonoma. They seem to be way overpriced at about $30 for a dozen. Does this seem overpriced to you UK’ers?
The jokes in the OP sound a lot like the kind of jokes you find on Laffy Taffy labels. Do you like those, too? Or are there no Laffy Taffies in the UK?
I stayed home for Christmas, so I didn’t get to distribute crackers to my sister and family or my mom and her husband. They like them. (Even my mom’s husband, a taciturn Finn, wears the paper hat!) I did spend Christmas eating Chinese food and watching videos here with Nymysys and her husband, but I forgot to give them crackers. (I even got them out and put them on the couch.)
Oh, well. There’s always next year. Maybe I’ll have it together then.
This is where I get to post a picture from several years back of me and the missus looking like total dorks…wearing cracker hats while having Christmas dinner in Dublin.
