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Saturday, December 31, 2011

My New Year's Resolution Is To Be Less Serious



Yes, it seems that 2012 is nigh upon us (yes, nigh is a word!). Where did the time go? This year, of course, is the one in which paranoid nutcases seem to think the Mayans predicted the end of the world (though the Mayans couldn't have predicted the coming of the Spanish for some reason, so it's not like they're the best future forecasters, right?)


End times were, of course, on the minds of many this past year, what with that quack Harold Camping predicting the apocalypse not once, but twice. Rumor has it Harry's now sedated up to his eyeballs. It's just as well. There'll be enough paranoid nuts disappointed come December 23rd, 2012, when they realize the world didn't come to an end two days before. It doesn't need more whacked out Camping predictions.


This time of year always brings out the best in the editorial cartoonists, who tend to convey the typical images of the old and new year as the old man and new child. And then mix in whatever political issue of the day. The following are some that I've gotten a laugh out of:


And so as 2011 heads towards its final hours here, we can look back at what's past us, and what's ahead. In America, 2012 will, of course, bring yet another election, though realistically, the campaign already started in 2009. It never ends, does it?

And 2012 continues to see the dark reign of the Lord of the Sith, Darth Harper, here in Canada (hi, Stevie!). We Canadians would like to apologize for the way this lunatic continues to disparage the fine reputation this country once had, and yes, we know, it'll take years to repair the damage he's gleefully doing to said reputation.


To all of my blog readers, I offer you my best wishes for the coming year. Don't drink too much of that bubbly champagne tonight, or you'll wake up with a hangover in the morning. Just remember... I warned you!


Happy New Year!


19 comments:

  1. So you're going to be less serious in 2012? Okaaaaay!

    I dread December 22nd. When the world doesn't end on the 21st, the Christmas shopping rush will be worse than any other in history. People will be killing each other to get into the malls.

    Maybe the Mayans had it right, after all...we'll be self-fulfilling prophecy!

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  2. Didn't the Mayans already have their apocalypse?
    Anyway, I am looking forward to a less serious William Kendall. ;-)

    Happy New Year 2012 -

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  3. Gosh, I feel like that cat, only it's bigger pants I need to buy! Time to blog about healthy recipes.
    Happy New Year!

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  4. There is one thing all apocalyptic predictions thus far have in common: they've all been wrong. Some of them have made some people look really f**king stupid.

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  5. Happy New Year, William! Hope 2012 brings you lots of success and happiness!

    EJ

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  6. Here's to less serious! I'm with you on that hopeful and less diet-restricting resolution. Cheers!

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  7. awwwwwwww, a kinder gentler William ? say it isn't so...
    as a good friend said on her blog ...
    (The Kitchen Bitch Ponders)
    I hope the coming year brings you many little joys and at lest one strength increasing challenge, so that at the end of it you can look back and think "I did good"

    Happy New Year...
    cheers, parsnip and The Square Ones

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  8. I like the human resources Doom cartoon. Hope 2012 is full of wonderful surprises and adventures!

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  9. Me too. I want to laugh at myself more. :)

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  10. Happy New Year William! Seriously, thanks for all the laughs in 2011.

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  11. Happy New Year, Sir Wills! Looking forward to more of your posts.

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  12. I'm with Christina...it's bigger pants or a diet....I think diet! Again...!!! I didn't make any new years resolutions for 2012...but, I am going to lose weight...sometime...maybe I'll start tomorrow....or the next day....maybe it'll be the day after that...but I definitely will...!

    Happy New Year, William...! May 2012 be great year for you!

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  13. I'm a newer reader, so I guess this whole "less serious" William isn't such a big deal to me.


    :)

    Happy New Year!

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  14. lol that cat at the bottom was great :)

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  15. A cat eats and sleeps simultaneously!

    Anyway! The biggest Canadian news on the BBC lately is how some person wants to change your national symbol of the wonderful and thoroughly cute and ever so studious and patient beaver to that of the mighty and ever so cute when as babies only and jolly fierce polar bear! Is this the work of your Stevie?

    HAPPY NEW YEAR! Take care
    x

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  16. Oh, that was a Senator who suggested that one... apparently she doesn't like what beavers do to her dock up at her cottage, so that's where her hatred for the critter comes from.

    Of course, the same idiot happens to be from the same generation of a family who by sheer incompetence drove the retail empire founded by their ancestor a century earlier into the ground, so anything she says is meaningless to begin with...

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  17. The world needs humor now more than ever especially if the Mayans are right. We might as well go out laughing! Happy New Year!

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