Happiness is a … what?!?

Okay, I have a weakness for the odd translations that autmoatic translators can cough up. So I was looking around Joyo (the Chinese branch of Amazon), thinking about finally ordering that Chinese 25 volume Peanuts set (alas, apparently out of print), and when Google gave me this translation for the name of a jigsaw puzzle, I just had to share (with no idea of how accurate this translation is – it could just be an item with a really odd title):

Snoopy — happiness is a series of puzzles to snuff golden roast sausage.

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Peanuts for penguins

In late October 1957, newspaper reporter Rolla Crick meant to be visiting the US Navy’s south pole station (Amundsen-Scott) only briefly, but the engine on the US Navy Neptune that had brought him and others there had  broken down and they were all stuck to stay there for weeks. That’s …

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Charlie Brown, (at) All American?

There’s been a little editing back-and-forth over at Wikipedia about what is put in the “nationality” field for the various Peanuts kids. Thing is, in what is considered absolute canon — the strip itself — this question is never actually answered. Most of the time that you see the word …

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Something hatted, something hated

I’d been wondering about this for a while, so I decided to finally check the dates to see which was the inspiration and which the copy. Meanwhile, to bring us into the present moment…. artificial “intelligence”, how I hate you. Share the news!