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((for Nexus advent, day 10))
Dec. 12th, 2008 02:04 amKnowing that Ran would likely supply the holly and the mistletoe, Mio looks for something else that would be easy and cheap to supply. (While it would be easy to buy a fruitcake, cake was much too expensive to buy for someone she hardly knew, even if it was (supposedly) to stop robots from blowing up the Nexus.) Jingle bells looked like a good bet. The local drugstore probably had some.
On the same aisle as the jingle bells were also boxes of strange tubes called "Christmas crackers". Hadn't that man with the scarf said something about those? At any rate, a box of 12 was only a couple of dollars so Mio figured she might as well not. Mio took the box as well as the bag of jingle bells and made her way back home.
Having never heard of Christmas crackers before this, Mio has no idea what the proper way to open them is, so she ends up disassembling them rather than pulling them open in the proper fashion. The collection of bad jokes she receives are as follows:
What do you call a penguin in the Sahara desert?
Lost.
Who hides in the bakery at Christmas?
A mince spy.
What's white and goes up?
A confused snowflake.
Why was Santa's little helper feeling depressed?
He had low elf-esteem.
On which side do chickens have the most feathers?
The outside.
Did you hear about the man who bought a paper shop?
It blew away.
What do you call Santa's little helpers?
Subordinate clauses!
What do you get if you eat Christmas decorations?
Tinsilitis!
What carol is heard in the desert?
O camel ye faithful!
What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
Frostbite!
Why do ghosts live in the fridge?
Because it's cool!
Why did the turkey cross the road?
Because he wasn't chicken!
Looking through the jokes, Mio couldn't decide which of them is the worst (were any of these even supposed to be funny?) so she decides to take all of them as well as the jingle bells back to the Doctor.
On the same aisle as the jingle bells were also boxes of strange tubes called "Christmas crackers". Hadn't that man with the scarf said something about those? At any rate, a box of 12 was only a couple of dollars so Mio figured she might as well not. Mio took the box as well as the bag of jingle bells and made her way back home.
Having never heard of Christmas crackers before this, Mio has no idea what the proper way to open them is, so she ends up disassembling them rather than pulling them open in the proper fashion. The collection of bad jokes she receives are as follows:
What do you call a penguin in the Sahara desert?
Lost.
Who hides in the bakery at Christmas?
A mince spy.
What's white and goes up?
A confused snowflake.
Why was Santa's little helper feeling depressed?
He had low elf-esteem.
On which side do chickens have the most feathers?
The outside.
Did you hear about the man who bought a paper shop?
It blew away.
What do you call Santa's little helpers?
Subordinate clauses!
What do you get if you eat Christmas decorations?
Tinsilitis!
What carol is heard in the desert?
O camel ye faithful!
What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
Frostbite!
Why do ghosts live in the fridge?
Because it's cool!
Why did the turkey cross the road?
Because he wasn't chicken!
Looking through the jokes, Mio couldn't decide which of them is the worst (were any of these even supposed to be funny?) so she decides to take all of them as well as the jingle bells back to the Doctor.
