Does He or Doesn’t He?

I ran across this old ad at eBaum’s World and thought it funny.

eBaum's World

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Ingenious Aussie Youth

Having previously received one of these, I think this is funny… wrong, but funny (from Dave’s Daily):

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Happy New Year – 2011

As we enter 2011, please keep in mind one thing – “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out another” – anonymous.

I found the greetings below at guy-sports.com:

Note: In some languages the accents are important, for example in Spanish you really do need the tilde over the ‘n’ in Año.  Ano without a tilde, has the most unfortunate meaning happy new anus.

Language	Happy New Year
Afrikaans	Gelukkige nuwe jaar
Arabic	Sana Sa-eeda
Bengali	Shuvo Nabo Barsho
Cambodian	Soursdey Chhnam Tmei
Catalan	Feliç Any Nou
Chinese (Mandarin)	Xin Nian Kuai Le  謹 賀 新 年
Croatian	Sretna Nova godina
Danish	Godt Nytår
Dutch	Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
Eskimo	Kiortame pivdluaritlo
Esperanto	Felican Novan Jaron
Finnish	Onnellista Uutta Vuotta
French	Bonne Année
Gaelic	Bliadhna mhath ur
German	Prosit Neujahr
Greek	Kenourios Chronos
Hawaiian	Hauoli Makahiki Hou
Hebrew	L’Shannah Tovah
Hindi	Naye Varsha Ki Shubhkamanyen
Hong Kong	Sun Leen Fai Lok
Hungarian	Boldog Ooy Ayvet
Indonesian	Selamat Tahun Baru
Iranian	Saleh now mobarak
Iraqi	Sanah Jadidah
Irish	Bliain nua fe mhaise dhuit
Italian	Felice anno nuovo
Icelandic	Farsælt komandi ár
Japanese	Akimashite Omedetto Gozaimasu
Korean	Saehae Bock Mani ba deu sei yo
Kurdish	Newroz Pirozbe
Latvian	Laimīgo Jauno Gadu!
Lithuanian	Laimingu Naujuju Metu
Maltese	Is Senat Tajba
Nepal	Nawa Barsha ko Shuvakamana
Norwegian	Godt Nyttår
Papua New Guinea	Nupela yia i go long yu
Persian	Saleh now ra tabrik migouyam
Philippines	Manigong Bagong Taon
Polish	Szczesliwego Nowego Roku
Portuguese	Feliz Ano Novo
Punjabi	Nave sal di mubarak
Romanian	An Nou Fericit
Russian	С Новым Годом (S Novim Godom)
Samoa	Manuia le Tausaga Fou
Serbo-Croatian	Sretna nova godina
Slovak	A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovenian	Sreèno novo leto
Somali	Iyo Sanad Cusub Oo Fiican
Spanish	Féliz Año Nuevo
Swahili	Heri Za Mwaka Mpyaº
Swedish	Gott nytt år!
Sudanese	Warsa Enggal
Tamil	Eniya Puthandu Nalvazhthukkal
Thai	Sawadee Pee Mai
Turkish	Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian	С Новым Годом Z novym rokom
Urdu	Naya Saal Mubbarak Ho
Vietnamese	Chuc Mung Tan Nien
Welsh	Blwyddyn Newydd Dda

 

Enjoy!

The Greatest Books – 21 for 2011

I love books and like lists.  As we roll into a new year, I thought I’d mention a list I came across recently and the top 21 books that are placed there.

The list may be located on a website entitled The Greatest Books.  Shane Sherman took 43 “best of” lists (such as Boston Public Library, New York Public Library, Great Books Foundation, Harvard Bookstore, National Book Foundation… you get the idea) and generated a website to track the lists and keep track of those read.  Shane was kind enough to share the list with the rest of us.  You can see the entire list and links to the “best of” lists at The Greatest Books.

I’ll list the top 21 to read as we enter 2011, but please go the The Greatest Books site to check it out for yourself.  I won’t include brief descriptions or links, since the site is such a wonderful resource.  Please check it out for yourself here: The Greatest Books.

It really is a remarkable work and runs 21 pages with 1005 books listed.  I’m sure many people would argue with the placement of many novels on the list, but that is exactly what makes “best of” book lists fun (at least for me).  There is also a  search function on the site, but I was disappointed to discover that it simply displays the novel, not its placement on the list – just about my only disappointment with the site – it didn’t even bother me (too much… for too long) that my favorite novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany is only #616 on this list (not even in the top half… really?).

Here are the top 21:

#21 – Moby Dick by Herman Melville

#20 – The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

#19 – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

#18 – On the Road by Jack Kerouac

#17 – To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolfe

#16 – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

#15 – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

#14 – The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

#13 – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12 – Middlemarch by George Eliot

#11 – The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10 – Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

#9 – Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

#8 – In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

#7 – War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

#6 – 1984 by George Orwell

#5 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

#4 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

#3 – Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

#2 – Ulysses by James Joyce

#1 – Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Enjoy!

Santa… We’ll Miss You

I’ve had this photo laying around for awhile.  I don’t remember where I found it.  I do think it’s kind of funny – especially a couple of days after Christmas:

Enjoy your New Year!

Exhausted After Christmas?

It’s the day after Christmas:

Exhausted!

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A Portable Christmas

Here’s someone who knows how to completely celebrate Christmas:

Merry Christmas from Our House to Yours

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Merry Christmas/Feliz Navidad!

My wife loves Coca-Cola from Mexico (still made with real cane sugar and in glass bottles), so I bought her a case for Christmas.  She actually seemed pretty happy about it.

Merry Christmas/Feliz Navidad!  Here’s a Santa with a Mexican Coke to celebrate with us:

Enjoy!

I’ve got your nose…

As a child, I had an annoying uncle who would make a grab at my face, make a fist with his thumb sticking out a little bit between his fingers, and then say “I’ve got your nose.”  If you’ve ever experienced that unamusing game, here’s a bit of a twist:

I've got your nose

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We Wish You a Merry Ditto

I spent the day after Thanksgiving hanging lights all around and over our house.  It took a lot of time.  It’s too bad I didn’t think like the guy on the right:

"Ditto" on Christmas Spirit

Enjoy!