Actually it was a *long* time ago. But its funny your title is *exactly* the same.
I thought of Akinator.
Woozy has it.
If I were that parrot, my first priority wouldn’t be a cracker. It would be that someone move my water dish out of the firing range of my backside.
Bill’s earlier comment makes me wonder whether Rip Van Bickel is still sleeping.
Recently — but I can’t quite place it — I saw a scene with people noticing what they called “A box of Christmas crackers”. But it clearly wasn’t baked goods. I don’t think I’ve ever seen these first hand, but maybe someone more up on English customs can explain it better. But I think it must be those things that you pull a string, it makes a pop, and some part of it reveals a piece of paper with a joke or the answer to a riddle.
@ Mitch4 – Those “crackers” are sold in Germany, too, but for New Year’s Eve rather than Christmas. Here they usually contain just confetti, but think I remember hearing about British versions with fortunes or small prizes in them.
P.S. I meant “fortunes” as in the paper slips in “fortune cookies”, and the “prizes” were really small, comparable to those in “Cracker Jack”.
A friend of mine brought some high-end Christmas crackers to a dinner. I have no idea where he got them. Mine had a nice ball-point pen inside.
Mitch4. Seems to me you are perfectly up on British Christmas customs.
The are called crackers and an important part of Christmas. You and another pull them. They “crack”. And out pops a toy, a joke, and a paper hat. You put the hat on and jollity ensues.
Christmas crackers are mentioned in Harry Potter.
I grew up in Canada with British parents, and we had Christmas crackers each year. I was going to suggest that maybe it was because my parents were British, but they must have bought them somewhere in Canada. I’m certain they didn’t import them. I’m guessing it’s a tradition just a little further north of you guys, too.
“. . . and jollity ensues.”
. . . or frustration when they don’t POP.
It seems to me that I saw Christmas crackers last year here in the NY area or possibly the Lancaster, PA area (not sure if we went there last year). It rolls around at the back of my head that it was a Walmart, a party store or a farmer’s market in PA. But I knew about them since I was a girl – dad told me about them, possibly someone back in a pre 1970s British movie or TV show that we saw had them.
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Polly wants a cracker.
Same as polly wanted last time.
https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/2018/02/23/i-cant-guess/
Actually it was a *long* time ago. But its funny your title is *exactly* the same.
I thought of Akinator.
Woozy has it.
If I were that parrot, my first priority wouldn’t be a cracker. It would be that someone move my water dish out of the firing range of my backside.
Bill’s earlier comment makes me wonder whether Rip Van Bickel is still sleeping.
Recently — but I can’t quite place it — I saw a scene with people noticing what they called “A box of Christmas crackers”. But it clearly wasn’t baked goods. I don’t think I’ve ever seen these first hand, but maybe someone more up on English customs can explain it better. But I think it must be those things that you pull a string, it makes a pop, and some part of it reveals a piece of paper with a joke or the answer to a riddle.
Might have been in this video I sent on another thread . . . and many times, they don’t work and how’re you gonna take ’em back?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyTYmmkbsjw&t=124s
@ Mitch4 – Those “crackers” are sold in Germany, too, but for New Year’s Eve rather than Christmas. Here they usually contain just confetti, but think I remember hearing about British versions with fortunes or small prizes in them.
P.S. I meant “fortunes” as in the paper slips in “fortune cookies”, and the “prizes” were really small, comparable to those in “Cracker Jack”.
A friend of mine brought some high-end Christmas crackers to a dinner. I have no idea where he got them. Mine had a nice ball-point pen inside.
Mitch4. Seems to me you are perfectly up on British Christmas customs.
The are called crackers and an important part of Christmas. You and another pull them. They “crack”. And out pops a toy, a joke, and a paper hat. You put the hat on and jollity ensues.
Christmas crackers are mentioned in Harry Potter.
I grew up in Canada with British parents, and we had Christmas crackers each year. I was going to suggest that maybe it was because my parents were British, but they must have bought them somewhere in Canada. I’m certain they didn’t import them. I’m guessing it’s a tradition just a little further north of you guys, too.
“. . . and jollity ensues.”
. . . or frustration when they don’t POP.
It seems to me that I saw Christmas crackers last year here in the NY area or possibly the Lancaster, PA area (not sure if we went there last year). It rolls around at the back of my head that it was a Walmart, a party store or a farmer’s market in PA. But I knew about them since I was a girl – dad told me about them, possibly someone back in a pre 1970s British movie or TV show that we saw had them.