for Ramakwanzachanamas, let me just give you a hint: 12-inch, orange. The poor little guy needs to be reunited with his family!
(Via Awesome!)
On a more intellectual note (I like to keep the tone high around here, as you know), my friend Sarah G-P just redirected me to Eve Corbel’s Lesser-Known Editing and Proofreading Marks, which I’d seen before but forgotten.

Hi India! Just wanted to wish you a merry christmas! Tonight is the night we celebrate here in Norway. (Presents and all, so it’s busy but fun.) Have fun!
Best, Elisabeth
God jul to you, too!
I saw someone had made that into an animated icon on LiveJournal, I didn’t know where it came from.
Merry Christmas! (Wait, I don’t recall if you ever specified you’re Christian. . .) Um, blessings from the deity of your choice during the winter months! :-P
Apparently, we’ve got tor-nad-ers down here in Daytona. . .and James Brown died. And it’s the 1-year anniversary of our hometown serial killer. Death and destruction all over 1A!! :-D
Thanks, Denise. Merry Christmas to you, too!
(For the record, I’m a bona fide Pinko–New Yorko–agnostic with no religious education besides attending some Quaker youth programs and once having been lucky enough to possess a Plagues of Egypt Viewmaster reel. Oh, how I wish I still had that!)
Ah, commie pinko New Yorkers. I used to be one, until I came South and someone fed me a sweet potato with brown sugar on it. . .haven’t been the same since. :-)
Sweet potatoes—feh. I’m more of a fried-fish-and-grits person, myself.
Happy New Year India! I’m some hours ahead of you, so this is a greeting written in 2007. How cool is that?
;-)
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