I'll play it safe and try to please both
camps of thought . . .
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Post One
Oh-Em-Gee!! Can you believe these?!! Some
pocket-lining, money-grubbing city-type, with more money than sense already,
has done a number crunching exercise and decided to run a coach and horses
through the lovely old tradition of Christmas crackers, by associating them
with the horrors of pre-Christian barbarism, old-wives tales and the South American day of
the Dead!!
For a few points on the top-end, the bottom
line is now there's something else for hard-pressed, austerity poor parents to
be badgered for by their kids, innocent of the strain on the family budget as
their little eye light-up at the thought of a gift, snap and motto. There
should be consumer laws protecting society from this kind of blasphemous
corporate hegemony and I can't understand why the Daily Wail hasn't taken a stand!
I mean it's right there before your eyes in
black & orange, you can't miss it, how could you fail to be outraged?!
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Post Two
How cool are these, Christmas crackers . .
. at Halloween! Too cool for party-school I dare say and full of old
favourites! The card (on the left) and my sample (on the right) differ only in
the body of the insect and the species of semi-flat animal!
Both the spider and the octopus have been
seen in a set of mouldings which have been around since the 1970's, while we
saw chrome-coated versions of the beetles last time we had an insect round-up
and I recently saw several of them on a kids magazine so another ubiquitous
novelty doing the rounds.
It seems each set of six has two
tricks/dressing-up accessories, two games and two toy figurines. Top idea, I
hope the Daily Pail gets right behind this modern thinking, to bring colourful, affordable novelties to the suddenly brightened-homes of
austerity Britain!
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I'm not sure; I think it's a bit naff, but
I got two [proto-] posts out of it . . . and some stuff for the collection, but
at four-quid; not something I'll repeat!
Although note that the person dotting the
eyes of the beetle (with a permanent marker) was drunk when they did mine! And
as with some of the claims made for the creepy-crawly sets from all sources
last year - nothing hair-raising or creepy about them!
Time will tell if it takes-off and I know -
hyperbole apart - that you have always been able to get crackers for other
occasions from specialist suppliers or party-planners, such as for weddings or
birthdays, so why not Halloween, but it begs the question, how long before some
corporate back-handed junket-taking columnist tells us in his or her erudite
fashion that funeral crackers are "Just
de rigueur at wakes these days"!
Remember; this is Waitrose, not Poundland!
Apart from the two variables noted above, I
think it's a standard content-mix as the jokes are numbered 1 - 6 . . .
1 -
What is a mummy's favourite type of music? Wrap
2 -
Why do demons and ghouls hang out together? Because demons are a ghoul's best
friend
3 -
What do you call a witch who lives at the beach? A Sand-witch
4 -
Why didn't the skeleton dance at the party? He had no body to dance with
5 -
What happens when the ghost gets lost in the fog? He is mist
6 -
What are ghosts' favourite kind of streets? Dead ends
. . .
while the paper crowns are - of course - pumpkin orange!
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