You can celebrate the traditional Canadian holiday of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, which started in Vancouver, and has spread across Canada and even to Seattle.
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i’m in! florida represents with just under 3%.
where is Lord Stanley’s Cup currently?
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Seriously?! Our family has both Canadian and Chinese roots, so that is marvelous. Do you have a favorite link to tell me more?
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Vancouver;
https://www.gunghaggis.com/
I don’t see one for Seattle since 2020; maybe it was a casualty of covid
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The letterer spelled it wrong in the last panel. It reads MJLONIR there.
ᛗᛃᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱ
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Interesting! Now I’m wondering, did the letterer spell it incorrectly, or did Thor? Either way, pretty funny.
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I used to work with someone who could read hieroglyphics (he was an Egyptologist, among other things; was working on his 3rd PhD when I worked with him), and I handed him a graphic novel that had some hieroglyphics in one of the illustrations and he said that yeah, it actually made sense in the context of the illustration.
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A lot of tchotchkes for tourists and Egyptophiles have either random glyphs or just copy something out of context, like white people who want a cool Asian tattoo and wind up getting labeled Pork Fried Rice or something.
But sometimes SF/fantasy/games, knowing that their audience are nerds and some of them will inevitably check, make the effort to get it right 
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Way back on IO9 before Thiel happened to Gawker, there was a photo selection of sets from the first Thor movie, from the treasury. Display room? Trophy room? Wunderkammer? Whatever.
People were looking at this photoset, and oohing and ahhing over it, and speculating what each thing was, based primarily on what it kinda looked like. “It’s the Eye of Agamotto!” It’s the Thingy of Whatsit! It’s the Wigwam of the Goose’s Bridle!.
And I looked at it and thought to myself “… can nobody read?” Because everything was very clearly labelled in English in Elder Futhark.
The one that got everyone’s attention was a slab of rock with an inscription that I had trouble with. They’d used U for V and W, IIRC they used Þ for TH, but “NG” (as in, two runes) for “ŋ”. Also as it was meant to be part of rubble, the edges were damaged, and the resolution was limited.
Anyway, when I figured it out, it read “Those who sit above in shadow”.
I had no idea at the time who they were.
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Just wow.
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First one was Egyptology (he spoke and wrote Arabic, so he could travel in Egypt, as well as hieroglyphics), second was Library and Information Science (a thesis on organisational systems of museum artifacts), and when I was working with him, he was “brushing up” on his ancient Greek and Latin and would have ended up with his third PhD in Classics.
Like a lot of brilliant people, he seemed a bit scattered and dithery, but if you asked him something in one of his areas of expertise, he’d focus in with laser intensity, and there was no doubt of his intellect. He was also just a lovely person.
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Cool!
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Ah, good to know that “Fuck Off” works for unsubscribing!
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As someone who has had a couple of border collies…yeah, this is pretty accurate.
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