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richard
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How will you celebrate New Year's Eve?
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Dec 30 20:26 UTC 2005 |
Tomorrow night is New Year's Eve. How will you celebrate? Do you
celebrate the same way every year? Do you go out and hit the town, or
do you stay home and watch old movies? Or do you just go to bed early
and avoid midnight altogether?
I might go to Times Square this year, since it won't be freezing. But
then again, my co-tenants and I often watch the fireworks from the roof
of our building, where we have a view of the manhattan skyline. That
is a good new year's, fireworks, black eyed peas, and some decent
champagne.
Bring on 2006!
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edina
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response 1 of 96:
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Dec 30 20:28 UTC 2005 |
We are going out for dinner, to the hockey game (Coyotes v. Avs), and then
stopping at a party on the way home. I aim to be home before midnight.
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tod
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response 2 of 96:
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Dec 30 21:19 UTC 2005 |
We'll do what we do every year:
Toast champagne
Walk over money barefoot in the entrance of our house
Each scratch a scratch off lottery ticket
I'll give each of my boys a nice shiny dollar coin
Then, we'll eat lots of traditional Romanian and Detroiter food
Most importantly, we'll call our relatives and friends to wish them the best
for 2006. That said, I wish all of you the best of health, and lots of
happiness (but not too much of it to make life boring.)
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richard
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response 3 of 96:
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Dec 30 22:03 UTC 2005 |
Most importantly, drink REAL champagne. If it says sparkling wine, its
not the same thing. Ask any frenchman. :)
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bhelliom
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response 4 of 96:
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Dec 30 22:17 UTC 2005 |
Ask them what a riot is, while you're at it. :-p
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tod
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response 5 of 96:
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Dec 30 22:22 UTC 2005 |
Champagne from Romania is much better. I don't care if it hasn't been
manhandled by some mustached french vineyard woman that lives there. I'm not
too particular about my Hamburger nor French Fries so why should champagne
be any different.
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scooterlibby
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response 6 of 96:
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Dec 30 22:34 UTC 2005 |
My cellmate has scored some viagra!
http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/30/news/fortune500/viagra_ad.reut/index.htm?cn
n=y
es
I bet you can guess what we'll be doing on NYE!
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richard
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response 7 of 96:
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Dec 30 22:35 UTC 2005 |
re #5 talk like that would get you banned from france! the french turn
their noses up at both cheap food and cheap grapes! :)
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tod
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response 8 of 96:
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Dec 30 22:52 UTC 2005 |
re #7
France is at the bottom of my list of places to visit. Brut is around $32,
isn't it?
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keesan
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response 9 of 96:
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Dec 30 23:00 UTC 2005 |
I emailed a composite photo of our recent trip (6 photos in one) to about 40
people, Bcc: (It came back the first time, you need something on the To: line
as well), wishing them a happy new year. So far four replies and only two
bounces (I am amazed, considering some of the email addresses are a few years
old). It is a good time to retie ties. Also need to answer four letters
'this year', two of them requiring dictionaries to write. I had hoped to go
through 2300 old emails but that will be next year.
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richard
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response 10 of 96:
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Dec 30 23:25 UTC 2005 |
tod said:
"re #7
France is at the bottom of my list of places to visit."
hey, the french gave us the Statue of Liberty, not to mention they
fought on our side during the Revolutionary War. We could still be a
British colony were it not for our buddies the French! And there is
also French Toast, French Fries, and French Onion Dip. Not to mention
French Kissing. Lots of things French are good. :)
Viva La France!
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khamsun
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response 11 of 96:
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Dec 31 00:27 UTC 2005 |
Re #10:
they maybe didn't care a penny of you.They mainly wanted to piss off a
little more brits.
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bhoward
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response 12 of 96:
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Dec 31 00:36 UTC 2005 |
New Years in Japan is a four day marathon of drinking and eating.
We actually got a head start on the festivities last night but the
real deal starts on New Years eve, this evening, with the annual
gathering around the table to watch this nationally televised variety
show Kohaku Utagassen.
Then on New Years day, we will trek over to the local shrine and
then later, a larger regional shrine to drink amazake (a thick,
sweet white sake), burn last years omomuri and pick up a new batch
for the coming year.
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katie
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response 13 of 96:
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Dec 31 01:23 UTC 2005 |
I'll be singing with Matt Watroba at the Ypsilanti New Years Jubilee,
from 8 to 11 pm at the Methodist Church downtown.
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mcnally
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response 14 of 96:
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Dec 31 01:36 UTC 2005 |
My mother's birthday is on New Year's Eve, so typically we stay home
and celebrate with her in a low key fashion. Usually I bake a birthday
cake of some sort. After dinner we often settle, according to preference,
in either the living room (where a no-holds-barred cutthroat six-handed
game of pinochle is the usual form of entertainment) or in the "library"
(which is also the television room) where the faint-of-heart and the
non-card-players in the family watch old movies.
Around about ten before midnight someone usually hollers out that it's
getting close to midnight and we all gather in one or another of the rooms
and wait for the new year to arrive.
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richard
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Dec 31 01:48 UTC 2005 |
I always come home late from wherever I am, and drink a little
champagne while watching the annual Honeymooners marathon on WPIX.
Every year for many many years, channel 11 here in NYC has re-run all
39 original Honeymooners episodes back to back starting at midnight on
New Year's Eve/Day. Jackie Gleason is an NYC treasure and each year a
lot of people in the big city like to start the year by watching the
Great One do battle with Art Carney and Audrey Meadows.
"Do you wanna go to the moon Alice, do ya? huh? One of these
days...one of theeese days, POW! right in the kisser!"
:)
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klg
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response 16 of 96:
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Dec 31 02:34 UTC 2005 |
You don't FOOL ME for a minute, RICHARD. YOU are going to SPEND new
years eve tracking DOWN more REASONS to hate President BUSH.
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richard
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Dec 31 02:36 UTC 2005 |
I don't hate President Bush. He actually seems like a likeable guy.
If he still drank, I'd sit down and drink a beer with him. I dislike
his policies. He'd dislike mine. But we could still talk football :)
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bhelliom
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response 18 of 96:
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Dec 31 03:01 UTC 2005 |
Atta boy, Richard. Spoken like a truly civilized person.
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klg
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response 19 of 96:
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Dec 31 03:21 UTC 2005 |
Richard is LYING AGAIN - and you fell for it.
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cyklone
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response 20 of 96:
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Dec 31 04:03 UTC 2005 |
Go lie down by your bowl, trollboy.
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gull
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response 21 of 96:
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Dec 31 04:08 UTC 2005 |
I think I would have rather had a beer with Reagan (when he still was
alive and in posession of his mind) than with Bush. Reagan seems like
the more affable guy, to me. His humor was a way to defuse tension,
often at his own expense, while Bush's humor tends to be a way of
putting other people down.
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jep
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response 22 of 96:
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Dec 31 05:08 UTC 2005 |
I'm spending New Year's Eve at home with my son, my fiance, my fiance's
daughter, and any of her friends who want to come over. We're ordering
pizza and playing board games and watching movies. (My son expects to
watch 2 or 3 of the Jurassic Park movies.) I will probably have a beer
and maybe two during the evening. That's about as wild as I get.
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bhelliom
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response 23 of 96:
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Dec 31 05:17 UTC 2005 |
I'm spending part of NYE workong on my mother's master bathroom,
removing wallpaper put up by the pervious owners and painting. I
suspect I won't be partying much this time 'round, as no one's really
making any plans.
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fitz
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response 24 of 96:
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Dec 31 15:01 UTC 2005 |
I will pour some coffee for myself and take a break at work. whee.
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