Party time! Christmas crackers. Or are they for New Year's? The paper certainly looks like Christmas wrappers, but I have a feeling people in Great Britain like crackers at birthday parties and other parties, too. Don't know about the rest of the English speaking world. Can't remember any American TV programmes where they have those at parties. What do they have? Hmm...
What does one do with a Christmas cracker, I hear you ask. I think some of them contain a funny hat that you can put on your head. Perhaps you can find a joke on a piece of paper to be read out loud to the other guests. Here's one for all of you people on the Internet.
- How does an Irish fisherman make a net?
- He gets a few holes and puts some string around them.
Irish people aren't stupid in real life, only in jokes told by Englishmen. Just like Norwegian people are stupid when Finns or Swedes joke about them. And people in Scotland aren't really stingy, they're just economical. And Italian people don't talk with their hands ... Hey, wait a minute!
Could it all be true after all? (Add canned laughter or a wink.)
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Happy New Year, Rita :)
VastaaPoistaNo jopas, kun ihan juuri tulin sinun blogistasi, Marko! Happy New Year to you, too:)
VastaaPoistaRita ja Ritan lukijat, auttakaa tietämätöntä! :)
VastaaPoistaKuuluuko tinan valaminen uudenvuodenaaton viettoon joka puolella Suomea?
Hyvää uutta vuotta kaikille!
Haydee
VastaaPoistaHyvää uutta vuotta. Kävin blogissasi kertomassa että ainakin Tampereella on tapana valaa tinaa. Itse en välitä moisista perinteistä. Gott nytt år!