Happy new year

[Milfmog]

Just thought I'd wish everyone on the board a happy 2010.

All the best,


Ian.

[JRMILLER]

Ian,
Happy New Year to you too! Try to stay sober!

[Since1982]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

[Milfmog]

Ian,
Happy New Year to you too! Try to stay sober!

What??? You're putting restrictions on me??

We have a few friends coming around and there is a risk that we may make a "small" dent in my beer collection. I shall not be driving anywhere tomorrow so sober is not an absolute necessity... Perhaps I'll allow myself to get slightly wobbly.

Have fun,


Ian.

[crfriend]

Our pals Jack Williams and Sarongman have already celebrated their New Year's celebrations and are hopefully by now soundly asleep in a safe place. The "New Year" will rotate westward as the planet revolves (and evolves) at about 15 degrees per hour, with the "New Year" arriving in my neck of the woods in about 10 hours and 5 minutes. I'll be asleep.

I suppose it's the navigator in me that has trained me over the years to celebrate the onset of the new calendar year as midnight passes the Prime Meridian [0], so I'll raise my glass this evening at 19:00 local time (contemporaneously with our pals in the UK) and bid adieu to a positively filthy 2009 and hope best wishes for all in 2010. One more year, and we're rid of "the naughties" forever (if only the same could be said, fashion-wise, of the 1980s and 1990s)!

It looks like Sapphire and I are in for the night. There are currently three strikes against going out, even though we'd like to see our musician friends perform:

1) It's "Amateur night" when it comes to drunks on the road.
2) The police are going to be out in force tonight, and, from personal experience, a drunk-driving charge is as indefencible as the question of, "When did you stop beating your wife?".
3) It's snowing, the roads are slippery, and combined with numbers one and two above, unless things clear up right fast, we're in for the night.

Given that, I reserve the right to get a bit tipsy.

[0] OK, technically that's when noon passes the 180-degree meridian, but at this point we're splitting hairs.

[DALederle]

Yes it is Amatuer night tonight!
So stay home, keep warm and ring in the New Year!
By the way; it is the last year of this decade! Not the start of a new decade! The talking heads have been getting this wrong since the year 2000. That was the last year of the 20th century not the start of the 21st century.
2011 will be the start of the 2nd decade of the 21st century!
But then, everyone here new that, didn't you??????
LOL
DALederle

[Sarongman]

Well, here it is on the first day of the new year (but the decade does not begin till NEXT year. I'm not arguing, just stating a mathematical fact!) It's just after 8 am Aust. Eastern standard time here (As an aside, to make things rather untidy, the southern states have daylight saving time so people on the border here can celebrate new year twice by going north ro Queensland and getting even more drunk and stupid!) so the festivities are truly in full swing in Times Square N.Y: Happy New year to all.

[Brandy]

Even a little bit of alcohol gives me a splitting headache these days.

I use to be a professional bar-hopper and hated amateur night then and I still do.

2009/2010 hold real mixed emotions for me. In 2009 I left people/job/company I have worked with for 34-1/2 years, some of them I have worked with for 20 years. On Jan 4 2010 I start a job full time I have been doing for six months part time, It is a direct transfer, just a different division. When I started out this divison was a direct competitor. Through various sell outs/buy outs/mergers I am now working for the competition. Employment looks good until I get too tired to work.

I may have to break out some of my 12-year old malt whiskey just to say goodbye/hello. Does sitting on my shelf for 10 years make it 22-year old?

-- Brandy

[Brandy]

Yes it is Amatuer night tonight!
So stay home, keep warm and ring in the New Year!
By the way; it is the last year of this decade! Not the start of a new decade! The talking heads have been getting this wrong since the year 2000. That was the last year of the 20th century not the start of the 21st century.
2011 will be the start of the 2nd decade of the 21st century!
But then, everyone here new that, didn't you??????
LOL
DALederle

At the turn of 19th to 20th Century who was the Captain who put his ship across the International Dateline and the Equator at the same time? There by putting his ship in the Southern and Northern Hemsphere and in the 19th and 20th Century all at the same time?

-- Brandy

[JRMILLER]

Ian,
OK, since it's the last day of the year -- have at it! Judging by the time, I'd say it's already happened for you! It's 6PM here, the timeline is moving our way!

[crfriend]

At the turn of 19th to 20th Century who was the Captain who put his ship across the International Dateline and the Equator at the same time? There by putting his ship in the Southern and Northern Hemsphere and in the 19th and 20th Century all at the same time?

I'm likely to betray ignorance here, but my wild-arsed guess would be Edward Smith.

In any event, midnight, as I write this, is over the Atlantic Ocean and is making its way toward the New World at about 1,000 miles an hour. It'll be where I live in about 4 hours and 10 minutes' time (note: the clock on the SkirtCafe board is off by a few minutes). To those to the east of me, welcome to the new year, and to those to the west of me, here it comes, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. What I hope for everybody is that the new year is better in all regards than the one just passed.

Here's hoping that in 2010, the sight of a bloke in a skirt on the street will become if not commonplace, at least unremarkable, and that the "less intelligent" will begin to understand. Too, I hope that lemmings will cease to dive from cliffs to their demise, at least for the sake of fashion. I've given up hope on peace on Earth and goodwill towards man; those seem to be a bit abstract for the current inhabitants of this little rock.

[Brandy]

At the turn of 19th to 20th Century who was the Captain who put his ship across the International Dateline and the Equator at the same time? There by putting his ship in the Southern and Northern Hemsphere and in the 19th and 20th Century all at the same time?

I'm likely to betray ignorance here, but my wild-arsed guess would be Edward Smith.

In any event, midnight, as I write this, is over the Atlantic Ocean and is making its way toward the New World at about 1,000 miles an hour. It'll be where I live in about 4 hours and 10 minutes' time (note: the clock on the SkirtCafe board is off by a few minutes). To those to the east of me, welcome to the new year, and to those to the west of me, here it comes, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. What I hope for everybody is that the new year is better in all regards than the one just passed.

Here's hoping that in 2010, the sight of a bloke in a skirt on the street will become if not commonplace, at least unremarkable, and that the "less intelligent" will begin to understand. Too, I hope that lemmings will cease to dive from cliffs to their demise, at least for the sake of fashion. I've given up hope on peace on Earth and goodwill towards man; those seem to be a bit abstract for the current inhabitants of this little rock.

This almost what I was looking for. I thought at one time there was a copy of the ships log published also.

http://eric.thelin.org/mail/jokes/msg00906.html

...
The consequences of this bizarre position were many. The bow of the ship
was in the southern hemisphere, and in the middle of summer. The stern was
in the northern hemisphere and in the middle of winter. The date in the
aft part of the ship was December 30, 1899. Forward, it was the First of
January 1900. The ship was, therefore, not only in two different days, two
different months, two different seasons and two different years, but in two
different centuries!... and all at the same time.
...

[JohnA]

Happy New Year to one and all. Keep safe in the days ahead.

[TomH]

Wow ! You really started something Ian. thread drift is alive and well.

Happy New Year to you from here also. It'll be here soon along with our Blue Moon.

Tom


ps. me, too........

[Since1982]

HAPPY NEW YEARRRRR!!!