Fans arriving at Yankee Stadium last night to see their team play the Baltimore Orioles found a two-month imbalance in their baseball universe restored: the Yankees organization placated the angry baseball gods by welcoming Cracker Jack back to the stadium.
Maybe he had been taken to Mexico or North Dakota and been through things that would make life before he was six seem like a dream until, one day, a string of numbers would come back to him, like a safe-cracker's code to the past, and he would dial it.
Flying back to Sydney, he went vaguely crackers and made the first sign the same day on a whim, hawking his message up the high streets to no one, until, he says, one lady whose dog had just died on the anniversary of her daughter's death poured out her troubles into his open arms.
We pulled it back to 10-5 before I was cream-crackered.
"I took it back to Riga, and I basically ate cheese and crackers in the hotel room for the next two days," she said.
If you found it in your cracker, you would send the lot back to Taiwan.
This should be the last Challenge Cup final before it moves back to the new Wembley and it promises to be a cracker.
She loves to laugh, and she loves to make other people laugh, with her little tricks and jokes — the way she offers you a cracker, then snatches it away, then smiles and gives it back to you, and cackles.
I bought a box of animal crackers, borrowed a pen and some tape and marched back to the building.
I built a reputation in Saratoga County for being a pleasant drug-dealin' cracker hookin' up many heads, so that pretty bitch Karma came back to me in droves.
The crackers consumed during Communion are part of a ritual that goes all the way back to the Last Supper.
