For the benefit of the doubt and to aid in the identifying of the aforementioned Christmas Cracker below you will see the lesser spotted Christmas Tree Cracker in fine fettle



Now in order to fully enjoy you need a family member or friend usually surrounded by precariously placed food and drink at the Christmas Dinner table ready to be knocked over in the exertions that are about to follow. Each of you takes your respective ends of the cracker and you pull with all your might. Ripping the cracker into 2 pieces and causing a small indoor firework to produce a "crack" from within. The joy of the cracker lies in the fact that one person "wins" the contents of the cracker as it invariably splits at the narrow points as below



The person left with the body of the cracker can then read the joke which in this case is racist against Belgian people and as I don't want to upset Pconfig and a whole Country on the WCG I'll read another that I prepared earlier instead of the "How do you make a Belgian Waffle" gag .

Q) What do you call an Elephant that flies?
A) A jumbo jet!

Here's the contents of the cracker



At the bottom is the uncracked pyrotechnic which is always fun as they are 10 times as loud outside of the cracker. Bottom left is, as these are no expense spared crackers, a tiny plastic poodle pendant although it might be a spaniel of some weird pinky orange type you just can't tell but nobody is going to be in a rush to wear this around their neck on a gold chain . Above the poodle we have the "Joke" and top right we have slightly unfurled "The Party Hat"

At this point I was going to publish a picture of me wearing this hat but no amount of photo editing software could make me look anything other than the pasty faced ugly looking chap that I am, not even with Graham's graphical wizardry - hey your team captain never promised to be handsome so unless I'm deluged with requests for such a photo I'm going to skip it for the time being.

I hope I've captured the essence of the Christmas Cracker and it's place in British Christmas ritual

All the best

Dave

Go - on! You still have to cover the various methods of wear to complete the traditional tale! These things are a fashion item after all...

You know - tilted forwards (Bronson style), back (popular) or sideways (snazzy WWII style). Ripped or semi-ripped (obligatory for Aunties). Around the neck sozzled (Uncles) .

Can't think of any other methods off the top of my head...

Ok go on then

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Date....................Runtime...................Daily Points.......Daily Results.........Place
12/28/2005..... 1:037:22:59:46.......... 253,424............. 1,243................. #5
12/27/2005..... 1:038:11:37:36.......... 256,816............. 1,322................. #5
12/26/2005..... 1:011:21:47:02.......... 238,926............. 1,260................. #5
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(Stats-Image Generator by WCG Member Börni)

The right side of a quarter million points again

Nice one team