Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu!



1.) It means: Happy Birthday, person I don't know particularly well! It was intended for Hideki Okajima, whose 32 birthday is today. But I suppose you could also apply it to Jesus, if that's the way you swing.

2.) This was my brother's Christmas Eve present:


It's a set of Boston Red Sox Uno cards. In and of itself, it's kind of neat. For the most part, it's just normal Uno but the cards have pictures of Sox players on them (not being rule readers, we didn't know what to do with the Daisuke card but that's beside the point.) This is the point:



You can't see it clearly (because I have a crappy camera) but that is a picture of Alex Cora. Someone over at MLB merchandising, however, seems to believe that his name is Alex Cara. Along the ellipse, under his left hand, they've spelt his name CARA. I even thought that maybe the licensing had been agreed to via implied, oral consent and was, therefore, unofficial. But nope, there was a nifty little hologram on the back of the package and a claim that it was official. Seriously people, how do you get that wrong?

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