What joke/trivia fact/gift was in your Christmas cracker ?
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 10:44 am
In the UK we have a Christmas tradition of pulling Christmas crackers.
Extract from Wilki:-
Christmas crackers or bon-bons are an integral part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. They are also popular in Ireland. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled by two people, and, much in the manner of a wishbone, the cracker splits unevenly. The split is accompanied by a small bang or snapping sound produced by the effect of friction on a chemically impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun). The chemical is Silver fulminate[1], high explosive.
Crackers are typically pulled at the Christmas dinner table or at parties. In one version of the cracker tradition, the person with the larger portion of cracker empties the contents from the tube and keeps them. In another each person will have their own cracker and will keep its contents regardless of whose end they were in. Typically these contents are a coloured paper hat or crown; a small toy, small plastic model or other trinket and a motto, a joke or piece of trivia on a small strip of paper.[2]
We normally end up wearing the paper hats while we eat Christmas dinner and play family games afterwards like Pictionary or Cranium
The jokes/trivia in crackers are not of the highest quality so what jokes did you find in your cracker ?
My cracker gift was a giant plastic paperclip
Heres a couple of jokes:-
Q . Who invented fireworks ?
A. Some bright spark !
Q Why didn`t the skeleton go to the New Years Eve party ?
A. He had no body to go with !
Extract from Wilki:-
Christmas crackers or bon-bons are an integral part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. They are also popular in Ireland. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled by two people, and, much in the manner of a wishbone, the cracker splits unevenly. The split is accompanied by a small bang or snapping sound produced by the effect of friction on a chemically impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun). The chemical is Silver fulminate[1], high explosive.
Crackers are typically pulled at the Christmas dinner table or at parties. In one version of the cracker tradition, the person with the larger portion of cracker empties the contents from the tube and keeps them. In another each person will have their own cracker and will keep its contents regardless of whose end they were in. Typically these contents are a coloured paper hat or crown; a small toy, small plastic model or other trinket and a motto, a joke or piece of trivia on a small strip of paper.[2]
We normally end up wearing the paper hats while we eat Christmas dinner and play family games afterwards like Pictionary or Cranium
The jokes/trivia in crackers are not of the highest quality so what jokes did you find in your cracker ?
My cracker gift was a giant plastic paperclip
Heres a couple of jokes:-
Q . Who invented fireworks ?
A. Some bright spark !
Q Why didn`t the skeleton go to the New Years Eve party ?
A. He had no body to go with !
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That is pretty funny.