last night was our december book club meeting. most months we meet at a restaurant and discuss the month's book. the december meeting had a different format -- it was a holiday party at a member's apartment. her apartment is really fancy, and it was a lovely time. the host is from the UK, and she supplied 'crackers', which i had never done before. you pull it open with someone else, and there is a great popping noise, and then you get whatever is inside it. these crackers had a little paper with a joke and some trivia, and a prize.
my joke:
why is that man standing in the sink?
he is a tap dancer.
(the jokes were all of this terrible quality.)
my trivia:
which animal doesn't have vocal cords, the kangaroo or the giraffe?
the giraffe.
a lot of the trivia was (naturally) UK-based, and there were questions about UK tv series, and things the Queen can do. our group is about half british, half american, and we americans just followed along as best we could.
also, we each brought a book from our home collection for someone else to read. then we traded around, and for the january meeting we will each read our different books. i took 'black swan green' by david mitchell and i got 'the curious incident of the dog in the night-time' by mark haddon.
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