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Re: What animals need oiling?

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Date 2016-01-02 10:50 -0800
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Subject Re: What animals need oiling?
From David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com>

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On Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 10:17:37 AM UTC-8, PeterWD wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 09:49:43 -0800 (PST), David Kleinecke
> <dkleinecke@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 6:30:07 AM UTC-8, Adam Funk wrote:
> >> On 2015-12-26, Tony Cooper wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 20:15:28 -0800 (PST), David Kleinecke
> >> ><dkleinecke@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 7:04:55 PM UTC-8, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >> 
> >> >>> The US doesn't  have "crackers," so _a fortiori_ it doesn't have corny jokes 
> >> >>> inside them. (Nor in fortune cookies, the other locus for little printed 
> >> >>> slips of paper.)
> >> >>
> >> >>Help - I'm trapped in Chinese cookie factory.
> >> >
> >> > What brand was it?  Bazooka?  Some bubble gum wrappers used to have a
> >> > corny joke on each piece.
> >> >
> >> > Crackers never, to my knowledge, crossed the pond.  I don't think I've
> >> > ever seen them for sale here.
> >> 
> >> I dunno if this is still the case, but a few years ago you couldn't
> >> mail them to the USA --- the small explosive charges (!) were
> >> prohibited.
> > 
> >Costco was selling a big fancy box of what the box called "poppers". 
> >The boxer, I observed, was a fireworks company. I concluded I was
> >looking at what Brits call "crackers". Then from my memory I dredged
> >up a memory of such things. The ones I remember from the old days were
> >about six inches long and you pulled on both ends. Nothing in the 
> >Costco box looked like that but I gather British crackers come in a 
> >variety of shapes. I did not buy one.
> 
> British Christmas Crackers are typically longer than six inches. A
> "normal" sized one is 12 to 14 inches.
> 
> You might have been looking at a box of "party poppers":
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_popper
 
The crackers I remember might have been a foot long. I assumed that 
because I was young things were smaller than I saw them as being back
then. 

The box at Costco did contain some of those little things in the Wiki
picture but it also had other things of other larger sizes. There was
no indication that you had to be an adult to buy one but then Costco
probably gets no child customers.

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What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 05:48 -0800
  Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-26 11:52 +1100
    Re: What animals need oiling? Jack Campin <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> - 2015-12-26 01:03 +0000
    Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-25 19:04 -0800
      Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 20:15 -0800
        Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 23:26 -0500
          Re: What animals need oiling? Ross <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2015-12-25 23:14 -0800
            Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-26 11:13 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 11:55 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 05:38 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 14:13 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 06:48 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:28 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 15:45 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:55 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Paul Wolff <bounceme@two.wolff.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 10:35 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:41 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-29 12:28 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-02 14:29 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-03 10:15 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 11:04 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 08:08 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 16:41 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 00:36 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-28 12:03 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? snidely.too@gmail.com - 2015-12-28 12:00 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:49 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-26 19:00 -0700
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:38 +1100
            Re: What animals need oiling? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-26 12:19 +0100
          Re: What animals need oiling? Cheryl <cperkins@mun.ca> - 2015-12-26 07:07 -0330
            Re: What animals need oiling? msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) - 2015-12-26 16:52 -0600
              Re: What animals need oiling? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-27 12:55 +0100
          Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-02 14:27 +0000
            Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 09:49 -0800
              Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-02 18:17 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 10:50 -0800
              Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 14:17 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2016-01-02 15:41 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 11:03 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2016-01-04 04:58 -0700
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 13:18 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-04 08:46 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-04 17:40 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 23:30 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-05 10:44 +0000
            Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-03 10:17 +1100
              Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 11:04 +0000
        Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 06:47 -0800
          Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 16:16 +0000
            Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:58 +1100
              Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-28 20:18 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 20:16 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-29 06:57 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 08:43 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2015-12-29 15:33 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-29 19:24 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? bill van <billvan@delete.shaw.ca> - 2015-12-29 20:57 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-30 10:29 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-31 12:08 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-30 18:18 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 08:32 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 09:21 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 20:44 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? ErrolC <Errolgc@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-06 00:52 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 16:30 -0500
      Re: What animals need oiling? bill van <billvan@delete.shaw.ca> - 2015-12-26 00:09 -0800
    Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 09:54 +0000
    Re: What animals need oiling? "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2015-12-26 16:35 +0000
  Re: What animals need oiling? Dingbat <ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-26 00:10 -0800
    Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 01:11 -0800
      Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 12:16 +0000
        Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 06:51 -0800
          Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 15:27 +0000
            Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:31 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 12:03 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 14:14 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2015-12-26 23:31 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 09:23 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2016-01-05 17:26 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 13:41 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 18:46 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-05 19:40 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-05 22:35 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2016-01-05 21:47 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 23:44 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 23:47 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-06 13:48 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2016-01-06 16:19 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-07 09:12 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 22:20 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2015-12-27 10:51 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 10:53 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 09:24 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Robin Bignall <docrobin@ntlworld.com> - 2016-01-04 22:51 +0000
            Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 10:43 -0500
              Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 19:21 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 15:38 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 13:19 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-27 09:10 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 12:17 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-27 18:12 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2015-12-27 18:15 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-27 14:01 -0700
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 13:14 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 17:42 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-28 02:24 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-28 10:54 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-28 11:53 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-12-27 00:28 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 12:04 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jack Campin <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> - 2015-12-29 01:43 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-28 20:44 -0700
                Re: What animals need oiling? Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> - 2015-12-29 09:28 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 13:17 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? snidely.too@gmail.com - 2015-12-28 18:03 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-12-29 21:47 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2015-12-31 09:53 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-30 16:43 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-30 13:13 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-29 14:16 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-29 07:00 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Cheryl <cperkins@mun.ca> - 2015-12-29 11:37 -0330
                Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-29 21:41 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-29 19:21 -0800
          Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:28 +0000
          Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 10:31 -0500
            Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 11:33 -0800
              Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 12:05 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 12:20 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 12:44 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Dingbat <ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-27 23:54 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-28 14:22 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-28 06:20 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-28 18:49 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 10:29 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-29 10:42 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-29 11:03 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-30 19:22 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-31 07:19 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-29 20:00 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-31 07:16 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) - 2016-01-01 23:22 -0600
                Re: What animals need oiling? musika <mUs1Ka@NOSPAMexcite.com> - 2015-12-29 21:14 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 12:08 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-29 14:16 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 10:56 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-26 19:03 -0700
  Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 00:21 -0800
    Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 12:30 -0800
      Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-28 15:52 -0800
        Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-28 20:13 -0800
          Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-30 11:31 -0800
        Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-29 12:11 +0000
          Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-29 08:11 -0800
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