What does a paperclip mean?
Here's one answer, though I can't determine the relative positions of tongue and cheek:
I guess 2% inspiration and 98% perspiration moves an invention into "purely by chance" territory? Tue Dec 19 2006 08:21 Weird Search Requests:
what do the different parts of the christmas cracker mean?
The Christmas cracker was invented, purely by chance, by an English baker called Tom Smith. He took the simple principal of the wrapped sweet or 'bon bon' and added first a love motto then, after much experimenting, a strip of paper impregnated with a compound which would 'crack' when opened. Over the course of time he dropped the sweet, lengthened the wrapper and introduced small novelty gifts.