Sunday, December 4, 2016

Maz Jobrani's census commerical

See Maz Jobrani's interview on the humorous commercial he made with Iranican.
http://www.celebmagnet.com/2010/06/maz-jobrani-video-interview-census-2010.html
why he says Iranians always put “zero” on forms: Maz Jobrani Explains Iranican's Census 2010 PSA .

Iranican Census 2010 PSA with Maz Jobrani - Zero







نوروز‎‎ New Year!

No Ruz? Yes. We have Ruz.

This is a contest to see how many ways you can find New Year spellings in on-line articles.
The first is in Persian:  نوروز‎‎ The rest will be in other alphabetic characters. Transliteration differences for the holiday come from differences in pronunciation, which vary by region, per wikipedia.

Let's start with American English:
NOROOZ San Francisco
Nowruz wikipedia, White House
Norouz in a comment to a New York Times article

Maz Jobrani comedy at the White House Nowruz 2016 with First Lady Michelle Obama Hosts an Event to Mark Nowruz (official transcript)
White House greetings over the years


Sunday, November 20, 2016

Purim 2013 - a song in English for Mr Ahmadinejad from Ari Lesser

This song goes out to Ahmadinejad
The Jews don't fear you, we fear God


The youtube has the text so that it gives some decent practice at following the English words as Ari Lesser chants the saga of Esther and Mordecai in Shushan, along with some advice for Iran's leaders.