Things that have made me smile recently

This will get updated as I see more things that make me smile.

• The happy little African refugee employed by the toy shop a few streets away to stand on the pavement and blow bubbles all day.
• That a rainbow was actually the main item on Israel's evening news the other day. (Yes, yes, the Egyptians are revolting, but look! A rainbow! That never happens!)
• The sign on Hertzl Street that mistakenly directs cars to Japan instead of Jaffa (ליפן instead of ליפו).
• The cashier at Tiv Tam taking one look at my face and my bacon and telling me the price in Russian.
• The man on BBC saying, 'China has overrun Japan... I mean, China's economy has overtaken Japan's'.
• Tel Aviv's awesome way of dealing with rain, which seems to consist of turning the city into Venice for a few days. This may have something to do with תעלה 'canal' also meaning 'drainage', but reports are unconfirmed.
• The man announcing Mubarak's departure's little 'May God help us all' at the end of the speech. I appreciated the little apocalyptic touch.
• Learning that the Hebrew word for 'newsagents' literally means 'nuts and seeds'. And 'corner shop' is 'the little place that has everything'.
• Helena Bonham Carter thanking the Royal Family for her career success.
• That there are two streets in Tel Aviv named 'Anonymous Alley' (Simta Almonit and Simta Plonit, Hebrew inexplicably having three different words for 'anonymous' but none for 'accountability'), because an ex-mayor decided in a fit of pique that people shouldn't be able to name streets after themselves. Except for the one named after him, of course.
• Just like the French will take an innocuous English word like 'tag' and make the verb 'taguer', Hebrew has managed to create not only the verb 'letayeg' but also a three-letter root in the process.
• Remembering just now that French has no word for 'shallow'. Except for the word that Loïc invented: 'plire'.
• Finding old books on the library shelves whose pages have yet to be cut open, showing just how much use TAU's library books get.