Happy New Year!
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Prosit Neujahr
Feliz Año Nuevo
Bonne Année
Felice Anno Nuovo
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
Gott Nytt År
Sehe Bokmanee Bateuseyo
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
Onnellista Uutta Vuotta
Thanks to the western Aleutian Islands of Alaska, the United States is the last country on the planet to make it completely into a new year.
May you be safe from the idiots who think gravity is just a theory and fire off guns, failing to understand that what goes up will come down.
Given the prevalence of accurate timekeeping devices, it is amazing that the explosions that are supposed to signal the new year extend for a four hour period beginning before and extending well after the actual event. Anyone who thinks alcohol and gunpowder is a recipe for a long life should be avoided by insurance agents.
The new year brings new opportunities, so here’s hoping that the good wins out and the world is made a little better.
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I’m hearing all kinds of noise outside at this very moment. Probably just fireworks but I’ll stay away from the windows just in case.
Happy New Year. 🙂
Some of the fools down here shoot off weapons instead of fireworks, so I want a solid roof over my head.
Happy New Year, Lady Min.
Happy New Year Lady Min, Bryan, and everyone else! 😀
I’m no longer allowed to imbibe, so if someone can have a toast on my behalf, I’d appreciate it! 😀 (Toasting in the new year with OJ just isn’t at all the same!) lol
Cheers!
Happy New Year, Bryan, and also to your Mother, your cats, and everyone who hangs out on these threads! 2009 is bound to be an impr0vement over 2008… I think!
i had a glass of merlot, k42, does that count?
happy new year, y’all!
LOL It has alcohol in it. I think it qualifies. 😀
Happy New Year hipparchia! I really hope all goes well for you. 🙂
Cheers! 😉 😀
Happy New Year to you too!
Made through another New Years. I’ll check for bullet holes on the walk around to feed the ferals. Not as much noise this year, so even the fireworks sales were off.
Under three weeks and they are history, starting at the bottom. Well, supporters of Hoover, Harding, Buchanan, Fillmore and Polk will feel better – they moved up in the ratings.
Leave it to those Alaskans to hold us up.
Aleuts, contractors, the Coast Guard, and the military are the only people stuck out there, and the Aleuts only have temporary camps. Native Alaskans definitely don’t live there.
There is good birding and a wealth of sea mammals though.
Happy New Year to you, Bryan and all your fur family.
We need to change the lyrics to Blame Canada and blame the Aleutians for making us not first or best or something. Down with the time zones! Obviously unAmerican!
Actually, if they hadn’t put a major bend in the International Date Line to leave the tip of the Aleutians in the same day as the rest of the US, we could have been first and last.
When I flew off of Shemya we were in “tomorrow” by the time we brought up the landing gear, and returned to “yesterday” when we landed. That’s why the military uses UTC for every time keeping function.
Thanks, Ellroon. Here’s hoping for a less dry 2009 on the Left Coast.
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