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THE DAILY CRACKER JOKE | 6

And so we come to the last of our Christmas cracker jokes for this year. (I'm thinking maybe I should do something bigger with these next year, a whole multi-site experience from YouTube to flickr. Then again, I might have come to my sense by then.) So, on to the joke. I'd love to say I've saved the best 'til last, but I can't. Let's be honest they're all as dire as each other. So I bring you a reworded version of a joke that should have retired ages ago.

Now, maybe that's what the number is in the corner, the age of the joke?

THE DAILY CRACKER JOKE | 5

Not so much a joke today as a cunning brain teaser of majestic proportions.  This obviously awoke my brain, as I was just thinking how surprising it would you be to open a cracker and find a joke that was actually funny?  Would that be a good thing, or would it just ruin the whole cracker thing? And that has just lead me to think why hasn't some proper comedian funny bloke done their own range of crackers? Surely the surrealism of Bill Bailey or Eddie Izzard should  work well, if only for the little plastic gifts. 

It would also give the no.6 in the bottom corner a new significance.

THE DAILY CRACKER JOKE | 4

Once again, another from the no nonsense school of design. What they lack in design they make up with double the content; a joke and a tongue twister. It really does make me wonder, who writes these jokes? Is it someones job? Or does the Marketing Manager just pop down to his local charity shop to buy an old copy of My Very First Joke Book and just pinch them.

The world of cracker manufacture is indeed a mystery to me.

THE DAILY CRACKER JOKE | 3

Another no expense-spared joke. This one really working the cracker theme to full effect as well as making full use of the classic seasonal colours of red, green and white.

Yet again they tease us with a number, this time in the top left hand corner. 'Hhmmm', you think. 'There are at least another 31 quality jokes to be found, I must pull more crackers'.

THE DAILY CRACKER JOKE | 2

This one is a much improved look on yesterday, it's in colour for a start and it's got not one, not two, not three but four pieces of clip art (from their powerpoint software is my guess) in addition to the snow flakes and then there's the joke itself, a quality 'quack up' joke,

I would also like to draw your attention to the little no.11 in the bottom corner. Can anybody think of any good reason why that's there?

THE DAILY CRACKER JOKE

It's Christmas, like you need telling. Of course not. But what to do for people reading this blog, After all I'm not that much of a bah bumbug as to not want to mark the holiday season.  First thought was a sprig of holly in the corners of the site or snow a top the lettering, but then, perhaps not . 

So, every day between now and the 24th. I will post a genuine christmas cracker joke for your enjoyment.  Today's is a classic Doctor Doctor joke. Personally I would have thought that a little more care could have been put into the design, particularly the typeface, but then maybe they ran out of time having decided to include a tongue twister as well.