Josh writes: It’s been another hilarious year and the Cartoons by Josh Calendar is just the way to remember throughout 2017.
There are two versions: a UK version (see left) which is printed and sold via the Cartoons by Josh website; and a US version which is printed in the US and available on WUWT.
You can order the UK version of the Calendar here
The US version – see below – will be available via Anthony, see details below.
Anthony adds: This year, the calendar also features some of the Cartoons that were posted in the hilarious book about Michael Mann, from Mark Steyn titled ‘A Disgrace to the Profession’, reviewed here, and available from Amazon here.
Here is a page from that calendar that shows the Cartoons done for Steyn’s book, in the lower left:
These make great Christmas gifts for yourself, your friends, or some of those special people like Mike Mann that need some cheer and enlightenment. Recall that Dr. Mann turned our simple gift into another conspiracy theory rant. No hard feelings, I’m happy to send him a new calendar once again this year.
This marks the fourth year that the calendar has been offered. we still have to chuckle over what Dr. Mann said the first year we offered it:
Here is the US version cover for this year, seen below:
Each calendar is $19.99 plus $5 shipping (plus $1.35 packaging and handling -total $6.35) plus tax for your state (sorry, can’t escape that one) and will be shipped direct to you.
Josh and I split the profit.
- Printed on durable, matte cardstock
- Hanger hole punched at the top
- Measures 8½” x 11″ closed, 17″ x 11″ open
- Delivery by US Mail (delivered in about 5-15 business days, may be slightly longer for Canada)
- And, in addition to regular holidays, it has some special days marked on the calendar too.
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ORDERING: USA/Canadian readers can place calendar orders here.
NOTE: UK/European readers should order via Josh’s website here.
We will be closing orders the day after Christmas, so buy early, buy often.
Can we get a US calendar with metric dates on it?
And I want Sunday on the same line with Saturday. That way a weekend becomes week-end as it was intended to be. The preference is by-partisan; usable by both, alarmists and skeptics.
Lorcanbonda
Is that ten days a week, and an Hundred weeks a year? ? . . . . . .
Make Solar astronomy [or navigation] more complicated.
Still, if it floats your boat – and I can keep what works . . . . . . .
I’ll be OK.
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And to get folks in the Christmas (buying, heh) spirit:
“Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” — Burl Ives (“Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”)
(youtube)
#(:))
GREAT CALENDAR, Josh!
Thanks for making it available, Anthony!
what about the antipodean version?
And! Since Mark Steyn is partially to credit for some of the wit in this year’s calendar…
his favorite Christmas song:
— Dedicated to all you who have sweethearts to take a walk with
(remember: Quality time = Love). 🙂
It’s a Marshmallow World — Dean Martin
(youtube)
#(:))
Hey Janice,”It’s a Toasted Marshmallow World” now don’t ya know! I’m sure NOAA, GISS et al have already adjusted the lyrics. Their “Slogging Thru The Slush” and “Rudy the Sunburnt Raindeer” were big hits last year.
Next you guys will be wanting the Roman Republican calendar 😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_calendars
Careful, the Republican calendar is a micro-aggression That’s going to melt all the snowflakes and cause them to seek safe zones where they can practice their art by molding statues out of Play-do and trying to keep the crayons within the lines.
And SNOW reminded me of THIS one!!! 🙂
Can’t let the British children forget what snow looks like…
“White Christmas” (by Irving Berling, sung by Bing Crosby)
(youtube)
#(:))
Clear proof that, even in the 1940s, global warming was serious business.
Well, I waited for someone else to affirm you, but, here I am (again — cringe) to say — Yes, indeed, Bob. GREAT research and point, Bob. Thanks for sharing!
The high surface temperature records of the 1930’s still stand. Very likely the writer of the 1942 script (or of the story upon which it was based, if that is the case) still recalled those sweltering temperatures….
And a little more history.
(Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/06/the_heat_waves_of_the_1930s.html )
Somehow ‘they’ are able to adjust the extraordinary temperatures of the 1930s/40s so they don’t count in the big picture.
The reason I am a skeptic is that Michael Mann tried to adjust the MWP and LIA out of existence. When the purported temperature record conflicts with written history, I’ll go with history every day of the week. 🙂
Janice, you didn’t get the memo? It’s “Diversity Christmas” now.
FROM: Janice Moore
TO: Gary Pearse
RE: “White Christmas”
DATE: December 5, 2016
Nope. I don’t know anything about it, except this: it is at this moment five clicks away from write-over oblivion: (1) click on In Box header; 2) “Delete;” 3) “Empty Deleted Items Folder;” 4) “Empty Recycle Bin;” 5) “Okay.” Gone!
These (for such a memo writer) are snow people, not “white” people.
Thanks for the FYI.
🙂
Or the children in DC.
And to honor all our lovely “This is a SCIENCE site” grinches — Merry Christmas to you with a scientist doing:
“Ode to Joy” (Muppets)
(youtube)
#(:))
And, #5 (last one for today)
The REST of the Muppets — that’s ALL of US jolly WUWTers!
(the non-jolly ones are the two old guys in the balconey, heh)
“Jingle Bell Rock” (Muppets)
(youtube)
#(:))
Janice, got your Christmas card today, thank you. A calendar is on its way to you as my way of saying thanks for the 10 year review you did.
Anthony! You are very welcome. And THANK YOU!!! That is so wonderful!!! Oh, GOODY! 🙂
(real mail, too!)
Good Muppetry Janice!.
However, (pedantry-hour) I’m a UK buyer and a European buyer. Why distinguish the two?
Europe is not the EU, After all.
Thanks, M.Courtney. Please wish your dad a very Happy Christmas. If it would give him indigestion to know it was I who sent that greeting to him, just tell him, “one of the WUWTers wished you well.” Praying. Janice
T’will happen on the morn.
Good!
Janice, just to carry on from a previous discussion:
Surprising that you didn’t know what knickers are.
I’m not sure when “knickers” became the standard term for bloomers, but it was well before 70 years ago. It was the only term I knew for ages, both in Britain and Australia. I was astonished to learn that Americans called them by the weak-minded, infantile, term “panties”. (But author Sue Grafton’s PD, Kinsey Millhone, robustly calls them “underpants”. I normally think of those as male garments.)
This brings me to one the things I do dislike about American English – the inability to understand how the language works, or what the words actually mean. I have started seeing the phrase “a pair of underwear”! “Pair” requires plurality, but “underwear” is uncountable. And this tone-deafness is found in such phrases as “based off of” and “based out of”. I cannot decide whether this comes from people not knowing the meaning of “base”, that things stand on bases (base = foundation) or are in bases (base = centre of operations), or whether it comes from people thinking that “off” means “on”, and “out” means “in”.
But I’ll stop there.
Mr. Ro –ha! 🙂
Ahem. In America, ladies undergarments are not a subject for polite conversation.
Re: “knickers” — no one I know or have read has EVER used that term other than for the knee-length trousers in the photo I posted. Just not used that way in the U.S. — at all.
Re: a “pair” Do you not say a “pair of trousers?” There are 2 leg holes. That is what creates the “pair” of: jeans, pajamas, or unmentionables.
Re: “based off of” — No one I know speaks or writes that way. Are you sure it was an American (a reasonably literate one) you heard/read? “Based on,” as in, “His dislike for American English appears to be based on a biased sample,” is what I’ve heard.
“Based out of” would refer to the geographical location a person called “the home office” or “headquarters” or a like location. “Roha is based out of Australia,” for instance.
And Roha, you are focusing at times on slang. Slang just is what it is. It comes and goes. Just try to ignore it. It isn’t proper “American.” Don’t the British have any sloppy ways of putting things which might also bother you?
Let us, we British and Americans, just love each other and overlook our differences (except to discuss them in a friendly tone), okay?
Your WUWT ally,
Janice
And in Australia both men and women love wearing thongs in summer!
Ah the beauty of English in all its weird forms.
Exactly Dean !
I used to wear thongs when I was little……. now………. nope. ha ha ha!
Janice, Have a beautiful Merry Christmas dear Miss inspiration. : )
Dear EJ!
Merry Christmas to YOU! 🙂 Thank you, oh, *blush*, wow. That was so kind of you. Looking forward to more wonderful poetry/creative writing from you, dear lady of many talents WITH GREAT POTENTIAL. 🙂
Janice
P.S. Until about 15 years ago, when they became generally known as “flip-flops” (for a very good reason — heh), we scuffed around in the summers in our thongs here in the U.S., too. I accidentally used that term last summer, “Those are cute thongs, I mean flip-flops,” with a 20-something year old young woman. She knew what I meant, and smiled.
Those thongs always required Band-Aids between the toes on a sandy shore along Lake Superior for me.
Needless to say, they still aren’t in my wardrobe choices, ouch ! Give me a regular sandal.
( uhm… my grandfather always said I was wearing knickers when I put on paddle-pushers, now I understand his humorous terminology)
Yeah. I didn’t wear thongs after about age 12. I liked the Bass open healed sandal — that was my beach footwear for years. Lol, “pedal-pushers” (as they were called in NW Washington State). I remember that term. And I also remember that by the time I had my bicycle paper route in 4th grade, bell bottoms were what we were wearing — “Shoot! Stuck in the chain again.” 🙂
My order is in! 😀
On a similar topic, pity that the Ivanka Trump – Al Gore meeting happened too late for a cartoon for the calendar. I hope we’ll see one soon though ….. eh Josh ?
…. and here’s a quote from him that’s cartoonable:
” ….. but it does seem to be out of control when you have fake news getting more attention on the Internet during the closing weeks of the campaign that news from the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.”
Would be amusing if it wasn’t a prelude to the elitist scum losers attempting to control the internet. Good luck with that elitist scum losers.
Very much looking forward to the arrival of my calendar guys. Thanks for doing it Josh.
PMK
And! To cheer up the Australians who apparently cannot easily obtain Josh’s fine calendar, a little song:
Aussie Jingle Bells
(youtube)
#(:))
I have my 2 one to hang in the hallway (lobby) of our house and the other for our elder son as a Christmas present.
I have to admit to spending a happy hour looking through the whole thing and having a good laugh, worth every penny.
James Bull
Ordered mine! Thanks for making it easily available in Canada.
PS:
Who is Willard Watts?
That’s Anthony! 🙂
His first name is “Willard.” He answered that question here: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/11/03/willis-and-i-are-presenting-at-agus-fall-meeting-assistance-requested-from-wuwt-readers/#comment-2332966 .
Thanks Janice, I missed that post.
Also thanks for everything you do.
Thanks for saying so! 🙂
To keep this thread alive — – !!!*!!!*!!! BUY JOSH’S CALENDAR !!!*!!!*!!! – —
a video for all those who, seven years ago read this thread (or one like it), https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/19/breaking-news-story-hadley-cru-has-apparently-been-hacked-hundreds-of-files-released/ , and began your journey out of the darkness of AGW into the light of science truth:
Put One Foot in Front of the Other (“Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town)
(youtube)
And you, too, (whatever your goal is, wherever you are… ) take that first step…… and the next……. and …… you can do it!!!
#(:))
Yes. Step out from the darkness of ignorance into the light of scienter. Which reminds me of…. the 8 days of the “Festival of Lights.”
Chanukah starts on Christmas Eve, this year, so, to keep it from getting lost in the Christmastime bustle,
Heeeeeeeeerw’s — Neil Diamond and The Chanukah Song
So, whether you use candles in your menorah or little flickering lightbulbs like I do,
HAPPY CHANUKAH!
#(:))
And
*** On This Day in History – 1965 ***
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” made its debut
(youtube)
“That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.”
Linus
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On this day in history, December 10th…
The 1 millionth Ford car rolled off the assembly line …
http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/images/g/WWIAAOSwezVW1QKi/s-l225.jpg
“Little Saint Nick” (Beach Boys)
(youtube)
GO, INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE!!!
#(:))
December 10th, 1915
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On December 11 (Old Style, pre-Gregorian, calendar), 1620 – 103 Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock,
Massachusetts
They showed their contempt for the “pagan” celebration by working heartily on their first building project that December 25th.
Whew! So grateful for all that those strait laced Puritans suffered to get American launched, but,
VERY glad their view of Christmas has largely died out!
Now… we can put up the lights outside, decorate the tree, and sing our lungs out to a rock and roll version of “Joy to the World!”
By … a Peruvian man
with the tattoos of one of the Mayflower’s deck hands,
the hair of a Puritan lady, and
the ‘tude of Patrick Henry
Yay for Christmas and freedom!!!
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On December 12, 1901 – Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio transmission in St. John’s Newfoundland.
Today, via the internet,
Luciano Pavarotti singing “Gesu Bambino”
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December 13, 1642 – New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman.
***Dedicated to all of you who have dreams and goals but wonder if you are getting too old… NONSENSE! You — can — do — it.***
“World’s Fastest Indian” (about New Zealand racer Burt Munro)
(youtube)
On August 26,1967 at Bonneville, Munro broke the world speed record for under-1,000 cc. He was 68 years old.
P.S. That record still stands.
***December 14 ***
1546 — Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was born.
1900 — German Max Planck presents a paper at the Physics Society in Berlin in which he presents the basics of quantum theory (it won him a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918).
1911 — Norwegian Roald Amundsen’s expedition is first to reach the South Pole.
“Silent Night” – German song sung in Danish by Norwegians 🙂
(youtube)
Thanks to the Norwegian (above) (!!!) 🙁
you’ll have to go to youtube directly to listen, here (remove — in youtube before copying/pasting link): https://www.you—tube.com/watch?v=X88xNudza88
December 15
In 1593, Holland granted a patent on a windmill with a crankshaft.
“I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing in” (Nat King Cole)
Featuring photos of wind power technology rationally applied.
(youtube)
Note also the period of the furniture and fashion shown, wind fanatics. It was over 100 years ago.
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First Calendar I’ve bought in 20 years.
I think it will be well worth it to give to a ‘thinking’ millennium I know, who will share his opinion with other young adults on drinking Kool-Aid.
For Janice , : )
Thank you! How COOL to see someone else around this lonely thread!!!
Great gift idea. The “links to stories” that Josh refers to in tiny letters at the bottom right of each month’s cartoons will deepen the learning for your millenial, too. (1. Go to cartoonsbyjosh.com, then 2. click on red ink “Cartoons by Josh calendar,” then 3. in right margin, click on “2016 Calendar story links” which brings up this page: http://cartoonsbyjosh.co.uk/calendar-2016 )
For you, EJ. 🙂
I love that song.
I think you possibly meant bold>LOVE<bold.(wink) bold and all capital letters.
It is one of my all time favorites by Mathis.
Now those guys do a pretty good job in the yummy? department, pass the crackers!
If I could just get Josh Groban to sing it……..sigh..
1773 — Boston Tea Party — Sons of Liberty throw tea shipments into Boston harbor to protest the Tea Act
243 years later, the old place is doing pretty good.
Boston, Mass at Christmastime
(youtube – photography by J. Vitali)
And, that reminded me of this one…
For all you native greater-Bostonians … and Rochesterians and Pittsburghians and Minneapolisians and all of you who are living far away from a white Christmas, now…
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas” – Perry Como
Home is where your heart is.
(and that’s where I’ll be, “if only in my dreams.”)
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About 10:35AM, December 17, 1903, Orville Wright made the first powered, controlled, sustained, flight of a heavier-than-air machine. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet (37 meters). Orville and his brother Wilbur made three more flights that day, the longest of which covered 852 feet (260 meters) in 59 seconds.
With this telegram, sent from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in the late afternoon of the same day, Orville informed their father of the achievement:
Success four flights this morning
all against twenty one mile wind
started from Level with engine power alone
average speed through air thirty one miles
longest 57 seconds
inform Press
home Christmas
And look at how far engineers have taken us!
“Hold on Tight to Your Dreams” (ELO – history of aviation)
Yet, what remained uppermost in Orville’s mind? Home.
Home for Christmas.
No place like home…
(youtube – Perry Como, “There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays”)
December 18, 1892
Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite” premiers in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Here is “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy” with photos of the snow which, according to the fairy tale of AGW, was supposed to be a “thing of the past” by now.
(youtube)
… Ukrainians get tired of people calling them “Russians.” So! To recognize their distinct heritage:
“Ukrainian Bell Carol”
(youtube by M. Riley)
Z Rizdvom Khrystovym!
#(:))
And we will NOT forget the Canadians! (er, this time) #(:))
***The oldest Canadian Christmas carol by Jean de Brebeuf c. 1641 ***
“’Twas in the Moon of Wintertime”
(youtube – sung by Canadians, The Tenors)
In it, the shepherds become “wandering hunters,” the 3 wise men (in a verse not included in the above recording) are “chiefs from far.” It is the same story, told so that the Huron could understand: Jesus was born for them, too.