SV: [HPforGrownups] Re: Christmas traditions elsewhere (OT)

[Sara Ludwig]

No: HPFGUIDX 7125

We had reddish paper here and no, they are gone. They were dangerous to kids ears.
catrina
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  Från: Rita Winston 
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  Skickat: den 17 december 2000 03:56
  Ämne: [HPforGrownups] Re: Christmas traditions elsewhere (OT)


  --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, wren lanier <wren at t...> wrote:

  > not to continue the american-bashing here (since i am one, after
  > all), but can any of you other Americans imagine having party-
  > favors with GUNPOWDER in them?!?!?

  Aren't there still cap-pistols, with a long strip of green paper with 
  dots that go bang? In my childhood, the dots that go bang were made 
  of gunpowder.

  And I have seen Christmas crackers on offer in American mail order 
  catalogs, I think including WIRELESS and SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM. A quick 
  search found no Web sites trying to sell me Xmas crackers, but did 
  found the following source of information: 
  http://www.absolutelycrackers.com/


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