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| From | charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.usage.english |
| Subject | Re: What animals need oiling? |
| Date | 2015-12-26 15:55 +0000 |
| Organization | None |
| Message-ID | <5538197f8acharles@candehope.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | (7 earlier) <e5106ae2-f4a9-4969-bd06-7265d0142255@googlegroups.com> <5538102905charles@candehope.me.uk> <6433bba9-91ff-4af5-bd46-9c8ee8f442c2@googlegroups.com> <553816f2d8charles@candehope.me.uk> <n5mclu$gui$1@news.albasani.net> |
In article <n5mclu$gui$1@news.albasani.net>, Katy Jennison
<katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> wrote:
> On 26/12/2015 15:28, charles wrote:
> > In article <6433bba9-91ff-4af5-bd46-9c8ee8f442c2@googlegroups.com>,
> > Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@verizon.net> wrote:
> >> On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 9:13:07 AM UTC-5, charles wrote:
> >>> In article <e5106ae2-f4a9-4969-bd06-7265d0142255@googlegroups.com>,
> >>> Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@verizon.net> wrote:
> >>>> On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 6:14:02 AM UTC-5, Janet wrote:
> >>>>> In article <38fb9351-f9dd-49d8-834f-0bf04ff64140@googlegroups.com>,
> >>>>> benlizro@ihug.co.nz says...
> >>>>>> On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 5:26:22 PM UTC+13, Tony Cooper
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 7:04:55 PM UTC-8, Peter T.
> >>>>>>>> Daniels wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 7:52:57 PM UTC-5, Peter Moylan
> >>>>>>>>> wrote:
> >
> >>>>>>>>>> Do all English-speaking countries have the tradition of corny
> >>>>>>>>>> jokes inside the cracker? The ones we had yesterday were
> >>>>>>>>>> scraping the bottom of the barrel. Nobody even bothered
> >>>>>>>>>> groaning. I suppose the merely bad jokes had been used up in
> >>>>>>>>>> previous years.
> >>>>>>>>> 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.)
> >>>>>>> Crackers never, to my knowledge, crossed the pond. I don't think
> >>>>>>> I've ever seen them for sale here.
> >>>>>> Um, they managed to cross the pond to Canada, on the experience of
> >>>>>> my youth. I don't see wny they shouldn't have been popular south
> >>>>>> of the border, where hand-held explosive devices are positively
> >>>>>> cherished.
> >>>>> :-) For those who have never experienced the joy of crackers,
> >>>>> :usual
> >>>>> practise is to lay one at each place at the Christmas dinner table.
> >>>>> They are seized by two people and pulled in half, detonating a
> >>>>> small explosive device with a loud bang; out falls a rolled up
> >>>>> paper hat, a terrible joke or riddle, and a couple of small toys
> >>>>> or gadgets. The hat is worn throughout the meal. The jokes and
> >>>>> riddles are told round the table.
> >>>> Ah, that would explain why everyone on the Christmas episode of
> >>>> *Vicious*, rebroadcast last night, was wearning a stupid cap while
> >>>> they ate their tiny dinner sandwiches ("rounds" were not mentioned).
> >>>> From the literature, however, I never got the impression that
> >>>> "Christmas crackers" were edible -- they seemed to be something that
> >>>> was pulled at from both ends, made a loud snap, and a bit of paper
> >>>> fell out and a toy. If there's an actual explosive -- like the caps
> >>>> of a cap pistol -- and it's a comestible, isn't there a rather large
> >>>> possibility of a child ingesting some gunpowder? Hm, anything to do
> >>>> with the myth that boarding schools put saltpeter in the food to
> >>>> tame the boys' randy urges?
> >>>
> >>> You are confusing the two different meanings of the word "cracker".
> >>> The Christmas one is NOT a comestible.
> >
> >> Then why would Cheryl's mother have sought them at a bakery?
> >
> >> Oh, she "was surprised to be directed to the bakery when she asked
> >> for" them.
> >
> > Precicely
> >
> >>>>> In my childhood, crackers held far more exciting toys; sea
> >>>>> shells which which when dropped in your water glass, opened, grew,
> >>>>> and blossomed into a beautiful flower. Or indoor fireworks to be
> >>>>> ignited at the dining table with satisfyingly incendiary or loud
> >>>>> results.
> >>>
> >>>> So were Christmas fires an expected phenomenon?
> >
> >> This question is still outstanding ...
> >
> > No, because indoor fireworks were puny things. And also because people
> > appeared to have a lot more common sense in the past. Like : if you
> > have a naked flame - take precautions. Not - nobody told me the
> > wrapping paper would catch fire if I put a match near it.
> >
> We had lighted candles on the Christmas tree back in the day, too.
as we did. My father always had a jug of water nearby and a piece of
sponge on a stick was kept in it. This was for putting out the candles
without blowing on them.
--
Please note new email address:
charles@CandEhope.me.uk
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