From jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu Wed Nov 24 02:32:11 1993
From: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,alt.ascii-art
Subject: Holiday Ascii-Card, so far...
Date: 23 Nov 1993 16:39:22 GMT
Summary: A Happy Holiday Greeting for You :D
Keywords: Jittlov, Wizard, ascii, xmas, manic, obsessed


Well, since nobody seems to have as much unemployed time as I have,
waiting for Ed McMahon to call with my Reader's Digest $10,000,000
prize money (which is a long shot anyway since my phone and modem
connection are on the same line), I have taken it upon myself to
unscramble last week's little Ascii-Puzzle:

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic,soc.culture.celtic,soc.culture.french,
soc.culture.german,soc.culture.spain,soc.culture.portuguese,soc.cultu
re.austria,soc.culture.netherlands,soc.culture.italian,soc.culture.gr
eek,soc.culture.israel,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.native,soc.cult
ure.china,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.korean,soc.culture.thai,soc.c
ulture.vietnamese,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.sri-lanka,soc.cultur
e.nepal,soc.culture.indonesia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.baltic
s,soc.culture.polish,soc.culture.czecho-slovak,soc.culture.yugoslavia
,soc.culture.bulgaria,soc.culture.romanian,soc.culture.ukrainian,soc.
culture.soviet,soc.culture.magyar,soc.culture.turkish,soc.culture.afr
ican.soc.culture.esperanto,alt.timewasters
Subject: Translation request - "Happy Holidays"
Summary: Translation request
Keywords: Holiday, Christmas, New Year's Eve


Hi!  I'm making a list (and checking it twice) of holiday and year-end
phrases in different languages/cultures.  All fill-ins, contributions,
countries, and corrections are heartily welcomed and most appreciated!
Post here and be the first in your NetGroup to collect the whole set! 

`Merican    Happy Holiday       Happy New Year       Merry Christmas
            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
African
Armenian                                             PARI DZOUNOUNT
Austrian
Bulgarian
Catalan     BONES FESTES
Chinese                         GUNG HAY FAT CHOY
Czech                           STASTNY NOVY ROK     VESELI VANOCE
Dutch
English     CHEERS              CHEERS               CHEERS
Esperanto                       FELICAN JARFINON
Finnish
French
Gaelic                          ATHBHLIAIN FAOI MHAISE
German      FROHE FEIERTAGE     FROHES NEUES JAHR    FROHE WEIHNACHTEN 
Greek
Hawaiian                                             MELE KALIKIMAKA
Hebrew      CHAG SAMEACH
Hungarian   KELEMES UNNEPEKET
Icelandic
Indian
Indonesian
Iranian
Italian
Japanese                                       YOI TOSHI O O-MUKAE KUDASAI!
Korean                                               MERI KURISUMASU
Malaysian
Native Am.
Nepalese
Norwegian
Polish      WESOLYCH SWIAT
Portuguese  BOAS FESTAS          BOM ANO NOVO        BOM NATAL
Romanian    SARBATORI FERICITE   LA MULTI ANI
Russian
Spanish
Sri-Lankan
Swedish
Thai                             . .
Turkish                          IYI YILLAR
Ukrainian   VESELYKH SVYAT
Vietnamese
Yiddish     GUT YONTIF
Yugoslavic

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The Xmas/Holiday/StarTree Thing so far...

*%\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\^/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%*
*  X   !   X   !   X   !   X   !   .   !   X   !   X   !   X   !   X   *
*      O       O       O       O  .|.  O       O       O       O       *
*                                 -*-                                  *
*   Athbhliain Faoi Mhaise!       '|`           _    Happy New Year!   *
*   Frohliche Weihnachten!        *:*          ("D     Chag Sameach!   *
*   Sarbatori Fericite!          * . *        ~(=r      Boas Festas!   *
*   Joyous Solstice!            **   **    .../__\       Gut Yontif!   *
*   Mele Kurisumasu!          *** o   ***     [MJ]       Iyi YIllar!   *
*   Mele Kalikimaka!           *\    O *             Wesolych Swiat!   *
*   Merry Christmas!          ** \\    **            Velelykh Svyat!   *
*   Happy Hanukkah!         ***    \\   ***        Stastny Novy Rok!   *
*   Pari Dzounount!          * o     \\  *        Kelemes Unnepeket!   *
*   Happy Holidays!         **    O    \\**      Season's Greetings!   *
*   Veseli Vanoce!        ***\\       o  \***     Gung Hay Fat Choy!   *
*   Feliz Navidad!         *   \\  o       *       Felican Jarfinon!   *
*   Joyeux Noel!          **  o  \\    O   **       Joy to the World   *
*   Bom Natal!         ****        \\     o ****      - And to All a   *
*   God Jul!             ** o     o  \\ o   **           Good Night!   *
*   Cheers!            ***     O       \\    ***                       *
*   *:D       o_     *****************************      e@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
*     _      <' )~      ___      #####  _v_            @@@"""""""""""""*
*    /<~    ["""] V  o [___] _@_ #####__|~|_ A        @" ___ ___________
*   %'=    @|HHH|[~] U |\ /|/^^^\##[{}{}{}{](") !    II__[w] | [i] [z] |
*  %' )   /%|HHH||$|/V\|XXX|~~~~~##[}{}{}{}](:)<*>  {======|_|~~~~~~~~~|
* %(__6 |==D|HHH||$|\^/|/ \|=====##[{}{}{}{](:) V  /oO--000'"`-OO---OO-'
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  (Over-elaborated from last year's Ascii-Xmas scene by Mike Jittlov)

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