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New Years Quotes & New Years Resolutions

A few famous New Year Resolution Quotes and Sayings….

“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” – Mark Twain

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” – P.J. O’Rourke

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” – Oscar Wilde

“I’m a little bit older, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.” – Robert Paul

“New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” – Jay Leno

“People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.” – Author Unknown

“The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.” – W.H. Auden

“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.” – Andre Gide

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China bans English words in media

China has banned newspapers, publishers and website-owners from using foreign words – particularly English ones. China’s state press and publishing body said such words were sullying the purity of the Chinese language.

It said standardised Chinese should be the norm: the press should avoid foreign abbreviations and acronyms, as well as “Chinglish” – which is a mix of English and Chinese.

Beers filled from the bottom of the cup. Holy Crap.

I actually had a chance to talk to the guy who invented this. I run kegs at Fenway Park, and they did a trial run of these things for a short period of time on just a few taps last year. The guy who invented it hung around the stand the whole game. He’s under 25, a mechanic, and made the prototype out of spare car parts. He actually gives out the machines and makes his money selling the cups. I asked him what made him come up with the idea, and if he ever worked as a bartender. he said “No, I just love beer.”

Hugh Hefner Engaged to Playmate Crystal Harris

Hugh Hefner may be 84 years old but he is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Hefner got engaged to his girlfriend, Crystal Harris, 24, for Christmas.

Hefner tweeted about it saying,

“After the movie tonight, Crystal & I exchanged gifts. I gave Crystal a ring. A truly memorable Christmas Eve.” He later tweeted, “When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears. This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory.”