As a final post of my abbreviated/substitute Kingship, I’d like to wish everybody here and back in the old country a very Happy and Prosperous New Year!
As is the tradition, we play the national anthem right on the stroke of midnight. So here’s a nice version that someone posted on YouTube last year, complete with some beautiful shots of Hungary. And yes, it is a gloomy “song,” but that’s how we roll in the Country of Pessimism.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NccqoCQpLYk 600 400]So now, it’s time to put the champagne on ice and get this party started. Begone, 2009!
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I think they should ditch that gloom and re-up to something more jazzy….
Like the “Hungary Hungary Hippos” theme song.
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Ohh…if I had a penny for every time I’ve heard an hungry/Hungary joke…
I could buy a Snickers bar, or two.
And that wouldn’t do justice to a country ranked #117 (out of 120) in the Gallup Worldwide “optimism” poll. Only in Zimbabwe, Burundi, and Haiti were people more pessimistic about the future (5-year outlook) of their life & country.
Burundi? Isn’t that where the richest man in the world lives? The Sultan or something?? What have they got to complain about?
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Nope. Brunei is where the Sultan lives.
Burundi is a small country in Africa right next to Rwanda and, along with Zimbabwe, is the poorest country in the world. Not to mention all the civil wars and famine and all those other daily concerns…
Oy, my erreur. I’m thinking harem-land ovah heah.
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Classic. Love the “iris wipe” from one shot to the next. Like taking acid. But not the LSD kind.
Huzzahs and Zsa-Zsas to you and Hungary, Sir.
Both bright lights too soon across the sky, I say.
First time i read that: “Like taking acid. But not the LSD kind. “
LMFAO
instant classic
Lol, good call on the “iris wipe.” I’m sure it’s one of a few default transition choices in PowerPoint or whatnot.
Another somber point for Hungarians is that Zsa-Zsa, her tits, legs, and 9 husbands are often the first thing associated with us. The fathers of modern computing (“Neumann” architecture; not to mention Grove & Vadász as 2 of the first 4 Intel employees), non-Euclidian geometry (Janos Bolyai), Vitamin C (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi), and the hydrogen bomb (Ede Teller) are rolling in their graves, I’m sure.
Or, if we must have show-biz, at least go with Houdini or Pulitzer or even Soros. Bah.