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I want the answers too!No. No, you don't. Trust me on this!  The typical English cracker joke makes the humour/work ratio in TEd's longest shaggy dog story seem atrractive   BTW, lovely dragons!
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Oh no you don't!
Maverick is quite right. Crackers do not have good jokes.
Q: What mint can't you eat? A: The Royal Mint
Yes you are right, the Royal Mint is where money is made.
Q: Where do policemen live? A: Letsbe Avenue
Policeman are supposed to say, "Let's be having you"
Q: Which panto is set in a chemist's shop? A: Puss in Boots
A chemists is a pharmacist. The biggest chain is called Boots. "Puss in Boots" is the name of a pantomime. We discussed pantomimes in another thread. As we said, you didn't miss much!
The interesting thing is that until it was discussed here, I would have had no idea that these were not easily understood jokes, let alone the crackers in which they reside.
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>Policeman are supposed to say, "Let's be having you"
Huh? I still don't get it. I mean, I get the wordplay, but I don't understand what a policeman would mean by that. The remedial explanation please... and use small words, if you don't mind. [slobbering lackwit emoticon]
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Thanks, jmh, for the Cliff Notes. Cultural referents are everything to humor; that's why TV dramas are more readily imported across the pond than are comedies. We'll remake British comedy hits here, keeping the premise but recreating the characters and dialogue, but Masterpiece Theater can lift BBC dramas whole. And the whole planet seems to understand the T & A of "Baywatch." (blech)
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>Policeman are supposed to say, "Let's be having you"
You know when in a TV Cop show the cops says "You have the right to .... etc, etc etc". In an old UK Police programme like "Dixon of Dock Green" they would have said "Let's be 'avin you", none of that legalese stuff!
It's a jocular way of arresting someone from the days when you could spot a villain from their shifty expession. It means "Come with me to the police station". No great word play, just an expression. The reply would be "It's a fair cop guv, I wus only taking some coal to put on the fire for my starving missus and children". You knew where you stood in those days!
See ... we said it really, really wasn't worth it.
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the T & A of "Baywatch"Guess they don't use 5pt script...
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BTW, lovely dragons!
Thank you!
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Per Webster's: A "cracker jack" is a person who does something especially well. It is descended from "crackajack," a rhymed compound from "crack" when used as an adjective for excellent. Per Symbols of America, by Hal Morgan: Cracker Jack, the popcorn and peanut candy, was named from the slang term crackerjack, for excellent, which had entered the language in 1896. The candy was first made by FW Rueckheim, a German immigrant in Chicago, who opened a popcorn stand in 1872. The business first sold Crackerjack at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. It was marketed in the Sears catalogue in 1902, and became part of song lyrics in Take Me Out to the Ballgame in 1908. The little boy in the sailor suit on the package was modeled on Rueckheim's grandson, Robert, and the dog after the boy's dog, Bingo. Robert died of pneumonia soon after the new box with him on it appeared in 1919.  Per Charles Funk, in Horse Feathers & Other Curious Words: When used to describe certain residents of the southern US, "Crackers" was derived from a use going back to before 1509, when it described a person given to boasting, tall stories or lying. The term was being applied to ignorant and shiftless people in the southern US by 1766, and evolved into a term which southerners apply to themselves now without necessarily pejorative implications. "Crackpot" comes from the use of "pot" to refer to the head.
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>became part of song lyrics in Take Me Out to the Ballgame in 1908.What are you saying? The song doesn't say "buy me some peanuts and crackers Jack"  [hide in shame and finding out I have been mondegreening this song FOR EVER emoticon]
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>The song doesn't say "buy me some peanuts and crackers Jack"
not only that, but furthermoreover (and in the second place), it doesn't say "buy me some peanuts and cracker jackS"!! at least *you had the rhyme correct. hmmmph...
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