New Years Open Thread
From Austin Food Magazine, New Years Eve Champagne
Well, here we are on the eve of a new year! Another year has come and gone. This past 365 days has been a mixed bag of enjoyment, sorrow, and emotions in between. Here’s wishing you guys a happy new year ahead.
For those planning to get liquored up in conjunction with welcoming the new year, here’s the water tip. This should be a refresher for some.
For every volume of wine, champagne, and beer that you drink, drink an equal volume of water. For every volume of liquor, drink twice the volume of water. Partying the rest of the year away with wine, beer, liquor, etc., adds to the enjoyment and excitement ringing in the new year.
But, no need to spend the first day of the New Year in misery.
This does work. Every time I’ve used this, not only did I get the same enjoyment that I did not using this technique, but I had good quality sleep, real sleep. I woke up as if I didn’t even drink any alcoholic beverages the night before.
Additional recommendation? Include Gatorade somewhere in the sequence. These have worked for me, variations of this have worked for others.
Stay safe tonight, we look forward to you guys coming back in the new year.
Category: Open thread
First!
Congratulations. You will be entered on my veteran organization calendar, for 2019, as “the first” for the New Years Open Thread.
For everybody else hoping to be the first on the next New Years Open Thread, good luck.
I am honored by this!
First!
Not first!
BUSY!!!!
HAH!!! My new favorite response!
Happy New Year all
Good advice, T. I add a B complex vitamin and a couple aspirin for preventative measures, but hydrating is key.
6th. Going to spend the evening with my daughter and granddaughter, and the sleep over.
Yesterday, as I waited for my train; I saw a guy with a Marine patch on his luggage. The guy told me he is a Marine, he was in the 1st Infantry. His train arrived before I had to explain my face-palm.
I was in 1 ID, was Army the whole time though.
Thought you were Navy? Not sure where I got the idea. Must be your obvious intellect, comm skills, and wry wit that fooled me.
I’m prior Navy.
Army afterwards, retired from the Army. I don’t sweat who wins the Army Navy football game. 
I was pointing out above that the “Marine” got it wrong about where the 1 ID was.
Ah, so I was right, you were Navy. Class will tell, but then you went to the dark side. Got’cha.
*grin*
See, this is what I get when I’m nice! I saw your earlier comment, AW1Ed, about obvious intellect and said, “I’ll be nice and let it slide.” So, what happens? You double down, that’s what! So, no more Mr Nice Guy. Hey, thebesig made a mistake but, being the man that he is, he corrected that mistake by getting out of those sissy whites and into some ODs. I understand that he feels compelled to mention that he was in the salty service. We all make mistakes. We all have some background we’re not happy to recall. If it were me, I think I would just omit that part about the Navy.
^this^ (+_+) The past struggle is real. charles w is on the way back to the basement…with his stapler.
I do have to give AW1Ed credit for having large enough gonads to piss off a Master Chief on a 1st FIRST WOT ruling. There is that.
A day I will always happily remember!
You have no idea. Hope my latest faux pas is in the wake, and it is a New Year.
No one here is buying “Cav” and “nice” in the same comment, pal. You Nautically Challenged types are a vindictive bunch, doubtless brought on by an inferiority complex being essentially homeless and sleeping in holes in the dirt. I’ll take three (four, with mid-rats) hots and a cot any time. I feel for you guys, really. Hey, my Navy stands by to serve, and drop you doggies off on whatever beach you like.
The one that’s been surveyed by Navy SEALS first, of course.
Two asprin before bed. Bloody Mary when you wake up. If you got lucky.
Saw the King Tut exhibition at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) on Saturday – it was FREAKING AWESOME!!!! It’s there until January 27th (last stop on the North American tour).
Here’s a link to a brochure that is given to the museums that put it on – it includes a history of Howard Carter finding the tomb and some awesome photos of the pieces on display.
http://www.sc-exhibitions.com/exhibitions/[http://www.sc-exhibitions.com/?sc-downloads=1412]
I took 19 photos of some of the items I saw – I’d like to forward them to one of the admins for use in a future Open Thread.
As a fledgling comm center rat I served in Egypt in the early 80s and was able to travel the country extensively during my down time. Visiting King Tut’s tomb remains a highlight. Thanks for the link. Hope to see some of your photos on a future Open Thread.
We saw the exhibit in Seattle in 78′ on the day they announced confirming that Tut was a Black man. Seems these tombs had several chambers, with the outer being for his guards, the inner for the king and then they found the provisions chamber stocked with things to go to the heavens with he corpse. When they opened it up they found watermelon seeds, chicken bones, hot sauce and malt liquor. Apologies to those offended but it was too good to let get by.
Steve Martin said that Tut “was his favorite honkey” and that “he lived in a condo made of stona”
Feel free to send them to me. You have my email. I could use a photo for the MOT.
Hey fuckers,
Out of pocket because of the shutdown and trying to manage kids out of school and new custody requirements but am STILL THE MAIN DAD!!!!
That’s my Christmas present going forward (until I get the bill from the “lawer”.) I’m good, kids are good cat is a whiny bitch. He’s 17 he’s earned it.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TAH DICKWEEDS AND LADIES.
Cheers
Chip, you are indeed livin “la vida loca”. Rock on boy! 😉
ChipNASA you’re going to infinity and beyond!
Good bye and Good Riddance to 2018, I consider it to have been a pretty sucky year. We are all aware of the the suckiest event of the year, and those that have paid attention to the posts are aware of othery sucky things that have happened. Here is a toast and a hope that 2019 is better for us all. Too the best assembly of dickweeds/dickweedesses that have ever piled up on a poser, repelled sock puppets, and swapped recipes. May the Irish prayer of travellers be with us.
Firebase 5/77 Magnolia will be secure and quiet. An additional toast of some Crown and the smoking of a fair cigar for those that we/I lost. A curling up with the fur babies and the homemade Christmas Cookies. Got about a 12 pounder baking ham I’ll put on to slow roast all night, have some of it with fresh, hot cat head biscuits for breakfast. Following that for dinner ham, black eyed peas, taters, turnip greens, and cornbread. Did I mention the baked apple pie with vanilla bean ice cream for later on? I cheated, it’s a frozen Mrs. Smiths; ice cream is Turkey Hill.
Us 14 seniors are getting together for the new year tonite and we should be in bed and asleep by 9pm. Happy New Years to all. I can’t believe I didn’t add a pun to this comment.
I consider you guys as a bunch of bad asses for being able to stay up that late. I’ll be in bed before 8 PM. The sooner after 7 PM, the better. Gotta do my pre-dawn, still dark outside 6+ mile run.
Late but sober!
Prayers for all we lost. Debating on buying a share in a 450 acre ranch/hunting lease, includes house and a dock on the 30 acre lake. Isolated but only 10 miles from youngest grandkids. Very tempting.
Finished my niece’s F-4E. Gave it the tail code of the 31st TFW and red stars for three MiG kills, plus her name on the pilot’s cockpit and the all-important shark face.
By a startling lack of popular demand, I’m going to conclude 2018 with you fine people with a rerun of last year’s final column of the year. (I’ll post this year’s final column in the regular WOT on Friday.) DID YOU KNOW…? Did a teacher in California retire after 17 years, unable to read, write, or spell? By Commissioner Wretched This will be the last “Did You Know…?” column for 2017. (Stop cheering. I’m still going to write the column. It’s just the last one of the year.) Of course, the start of a new year is, really, an arbitrary thing. Hundreds of years ago, in fact, the new year began on the first day of spring. That’s right, March 21st (or 22nd) was the start of the new year up until the 16th century, when the Gregorian calendar took the place of the Julian calendar. That’s when January 1st became the start of the year, and it explains why February has the fewest days – it used to be the last month of the year, not the second. So I would be just as correct in wishing you a Happy New Year in this column as I would be in the column of the third week in March. But, since it’s all arbitrary anyway, I could get away with saying, “Happy New Year,” any time I wanted. Check it out, folks … I can “Did You Know…?” even in the introduction to the column! Send me a note if the mood hits you … the address is didyouknocolumn@gmail.com and I always reply. For the last time in 2017, it’s On To The Trivia! (See you next week, of course.) And … Happy New Year! Did you know … … on Christmas Eve, 1994, two cars collided near Flitcham, England? Before you say, “So what?” you might want to know that the drivers were twin sisters delivering presents to each other, and their names were Lorraine and Levinia Christmas. (Tell me they had a sister named Mary and you win the pun award of the month!) … the emperor penguin can dive farther than any… Read more »
Just returned home after having Chinese lunch at the local casino. Our area is raining cats and dogs, so that should cut down on the new year craziness tonight. Happy New Year and catch y’all next year…
Combat Historian;
One thing worse than raining cats and dogs are hailing taxi cabs./grin
Raining cats and dogs?? Is that where the Chinese lunch came from??
So, there I was, walking into a home of who I thought was going to be Mrs. Chevalier number 40. She disappeared into a room. I waited. Then this guy came out of that room and said, “I’m Chris Hansen, please have a seat!”
Another year and the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) will be working taxpayer balls with great enthusiasm as he avoids calls seeking clarification of his Native American, SEAL and LEO claims.
Anyone remember how “peak oil” was going to make driving prohibitively expensive, and we needed to switch to “alternate energy” pronto?
Gas is a smidge over two bucks a gallon, here, if you shop around a bit. News is showing a station in the boonies at $1.56.
Drill, baby, drill!
Happy New Year To All.
A wonderful Patriotic version of Auld Lang Syne for 2019:
Another Floor-Duh winner:
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida woman is behind bars after she allegedly held up a postal worker with a toy gun, WBBH reports.
Collier County deputies arrested Leida Crisostomo on charges including aggravated assault and armed robbery.
On Saturday, deputies responded to reports of a woman threatening people with a weapon and found Crisostomo riding a tricycle and holding what appeared to be a black and silver gun, which turned out to be a toy, officials said.
Witnesses said Cristomo used the weapon to force a mail carrier out of his truck, then she made him hand her a package out of the back.
She was detained without incident.
Cristomo later told deputies she was God and the voices in her head were controlling her actions.
No one was injured and the postal worker got his package back, deputies said.
A former guided missile destroyer command master chief ain’t gonna have such a great new year.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/12/28/guided-missile-destroyers-command-master-chief-fired.html
Off tending to Other Duties As Assigned, but nonetheless a very Happy, Prosperous, Safe, and Memorable New Year to each of you TAHellions.
May all the challenges of your coming year be overmatched by blessings and joy.
Found this in a Navy Times article. Seems the Japanese had several THOUSAND planes hidden that would be used in their kamikaze attacks against Allied ships. Think of the loss of Allied lives if the Japanese had not surrendered and an invasion was necessary. Hundreds of Allied ships would have been lost along with probably tens of thousands of lives. To those who say the use of nukes was unnecessary, they need only to learn about this. My only regret is that we did not have this weapon earlier. This is a few lines from the Navy Times article:
“Invading the home islands would cost dearly. Japanese warlords had concealed several thousand planes for use in kamikaze attacks, hoping to destroy 30 to 50 percent of the invasion fleet before the Allies could land.”
Everything I’ve ever read about the plan to invade the Japanese home islands said it would be a bloodbath. They had the entire population ready to rise up and fight and die for their god-emperor, kids and women included.
We were going to hit them with 50+ divisions, three naval fleets, and five numbered air forces! Six million men. Would have made D-Day look like a Boy Scout summer encampment, with ‘only’ 150,000.
Thank God we didn’t have to do that. Truman had no other choice. Anyone who second guesses it doesn’t understand the decision.
Purported to be an estimated One million plus American Casualties if we invaded.
We are JUST using up the last Purple Hearts manufactured for issue to wounded from the expected invasion of Japan
The proglodytes have rewritten the history on this for over 50 years.
Merry New Year to all !
Healthy and happy new year to you all and for those trying to destroy our country, DEATH !
F*ck Obama.
Now -this- is funny!
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/cops-grieve-krispy-kreme-doughnuts-lost-in-nye-truck-fire-no-words
Oh, the humanity!
Smoked donuts could become a thing…
Last night I checked Urban Dictionary to make sure things were tucked in and comfortable. Perusing the pages I found:
bernath
“To continually fight a battle that you have absolutely no chance of winning.
That lawyer went full Bernath defending his client in court.”
Boys and Girls, never go full Bernath. Those pine trees will not cushion your fall. They will kill you and prevent you from seeking the “6 Feet Under” attitude that you are attempting to achieve, leaving you embarrassingly exposed, dead as a junky on Fentanyl, on the surface in a badly scratched Light Sport Airplane.
Recalling a bad joke’s punchline, “rectum hell, that crash killed ‘im.”
Whoever wrote that definition sure had the description correct. Probably found out through this blog about Bernath’s antics. They even might have had personal experience with him.