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in reply to a message by Daividh
I see Daividh has started his New Year's Eve celebrations a wee bit early this evening. Your bearded Aunt Agnes-Neshka must be looking mighty fine to you by now, Daividh. :)
-- Nanaea
-- Nanaea
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She always did have that rugged but alluring "je ne sais qua". And as they say around here, there are no ugly women at closing time.
Okay, son and mother. On further thought, forget it.
(My kid is off celebrating New Year's in Copenhagen and all I got was this lousy six-pack.) I hate New Year's. Always have. It just seems so artificial somehow. Besides, I've gotta drive back to KY and the World of Work tomorrow. Year-end reports. January sucks.
Okay, son and mother. On further thought, forget it.
(My kid is off celebrating New Year's in Copenhagen and all I got was this lousy six-pack.) I hate New Year's. Always have. It just seems so artificial somehow. Besides, I've gotta drive back to KY and the World of Work tomorrow. Year-end reports. January sucks.
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{{{{Daividh}}}} <===== That's a New Year's Eve hug for ya! :)
We don't do anything special on New Year's Eve, either. Well... maybe split a bottle of champagne between us in the back garden hot tub, but we don't go out or anything.
You know, as I'm writing this, it occurred to me that it's already past New Year's Eve for Che over in Greece. I wonder what he's up to? :)
-- Nanaea
We don't do anything special on New Year's Eve, either. Well... maybe split a bottle of champagne between us in the back garden hot tub, but we don't go out or anything.
You know, as I'm writing this, it occurred to me that it's already past New Year's Eve for Che over in Greece. I wonder what he's up to? :)
-- Nanaea
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Nanaea,
Thanks for the New Years hug -- always welcome, altho I found no shortage of these at home :)
When I said I hate New Year's, it's not because it depresses me but because it doesn't seem like a "real" holiday. Around here, major parties are for the singles and childless under 30; the only "public" gatherings are "First Night" observances that some churches have (presumably complete with silver crosses, holy water, and garlic to ward off the goblins, ghosties, and you Satanic lot).
Most people stay at home. Some have a few neighbors or family members in. We went to one such next door last night: about 6 couples and some grown kids, no big deal. I did see your hot tub mention in time to remind my wife that ours was functioning at the moment (it stays w/ the sold house, tho) and we killed a bottle of Asti therein before going next door. Good idea!
Many years ago, I worked in Cleveland, Ohio for an organization that had its offices in the old Statler Hotel downtown. The only part still used in a hotelesque fashion (not for offices) was the Oak Room Restaurant one floor downstairs. In his later years, that's where the near-dead Guy Lombardo and his boys did their New Years bit that was televised. Maybe it was the midday rehearsal strains of "Auld Lang Syne" coming thru the floor as we finished our work for the year that soured me on New Year's. Who knows?
Thanks for the New Years hug -- always welcome, altho I found no shortage of these at home :)
When I said I hate New Year's, it's not because it depresses me but because it doesn't seem like a "real" holiday. Around here, major parties are for the singles and childless under 30; the only "public" gatherings are "First Night" observances that some churches have (presumably complete with silver crosses, holy water, and garlic to ward off the goblins, ghosties, and you Satanic lot).
Most people stay at home. Some have a few neighbors or family members in. We went to one such next door last night: about 6 couples and some grown kids, no big deal. I did see your hot tub mention in time to remind my wife that ours was functioning at the moment (it stays w/ the sold house, tho) and we killed a bottle of Asti therein before going next door. Good idea!
Many years ago, I worked in Cleveland, Ohio for an organization that had its offices in the old Statler Hotel downtown. The only part still used in a hotelesque fashion (not for offices) was the Oak Room Restaurant one floor downstairs. In his later years, that's where the near-dead Guy Lombardo and his boys did their New Years bit that was televised. Maybe it was the midday rehearsal strains of "Auld Lang Syne" coming thru the floor as we finished our work for the year that soured me on New Year's. Who knows?
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"Maybe it was the midday rehearsal strains of "Auld Lang Syne" coming thru the floor as we finished our work for the year that soured me on New Year's. Who knows?"
The magic of anagrams knows!
"Guy Lombardo's music"="Room ugly -- sad music"
Glad you had a bottle of Asti handy for the hot tub last night! See? Everyone takes Dr. Nanaea's prescriptions. Che has learned the effectiveness of hot tea and sambucca. ;)
-- Nanaea
The magic of anagrams knows!
"Guy Lombardo's music"="Room ugly -- sad music"
Glad you had a bottle of Asti handy for the hot tub last night! See? Everyone takes Dr. Nanaea's prescriptions. Che has learned the effectiveness of hot tea and sambucca. ;)
-- Nanaea
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Wish I had sent you a message "back in time". We outsourced granny help for Nephele and
spent New Year's Eve with thousands of fellow Athenians at Constitution Square (our very own version
of Times Square) swaying to the tunes of Guy Lombardopoulos and getting drenched by rain and thunder.
Lots of fun in a quasi-masochistic sense!
All the best!!!!!
P.S. Nan, does your kind have its own Calendar? If you what year are we at, and when do
celebrate your new year?
spent New Year's Eve with thousands of fellow Athenians at Constitution Square (our very own version
of Times Square) swaying to the tunes of Guy Lombardopoulos and getting drenched by rain and thunder.
Lots of fun in a quasi-masochistic sense!
All the best!!!!!
P.S. Nan, does your kind have its own Calendar? If you what year are we at, and when do
celebrate your new year?
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Pagan Days
Most pagan groups (especially those of the Celtic tradition) celebrate the New Year on the festival of Samhain (pronounced "s'how-in") on Oct. 31st, and more commonly known as Halloween. Some Nordic pagan groups have Yule as their New Year's festival, and some Neo-classicists celebrate the New Year on either Jan. 1st or on the date of the Vernal Equinox. There is no actual numbering of calendar years for the vast majority of these modern pagan groups, as practically all of them claim to be unbroken continuations of The Old Religions which pre-dated Christianity.
The Church of Satan, however, differs from most other pagan groups by openly admitting that it is a new religion, having been founded on Walpurgisnacht (the last night in the month of April) in 1966 by Anton LaVey. Satanists therefore regard the evening of April 30th as the start of each New Year, which immediately leads into the next day's traditional pagan celebration of Beltane (May 1st).
The Satanic Calendar calculates Year One as having begun on April 30, 1966. Therefore we are currently in the Year XXXV A.S. (35 Anno Satanis). On April 30th of 2001, it will be XXXVI A.S.
Sounds like you had a great New Year's celebration in Constitution Square! Did you get the day off from work today? I did! :)
-- Nanaea
Most pagan groups (especially those of the Celtic tradition) celebrate the New Year on the festival of Samhain (pronounced "s'how-in") on Oct. 31st, and more commonly known as Halloween. Some Nordic pagan groups have Yule as their New Year's festival, and some Neo-classicists celebrate the New Year on either Jan. 1st or on the date of the Vernal Equinox. There is no actual numbering of calendar years for the vast majority of these modern pagan groups, as practically all of them claim to be unbroken continuations of The Old Religions which pre-dated Christianity.
The Church of Satan, however, differs from most other pagan groups by openly admitting that it is a new religion, having been founded on Walpurgisnacht (the last night in the month of April) in 1966 by Anton LaVey. Satanists therefore regard the evening of April 30th as the start of each New Year, which immediately leads into the next day's traditional pagan celebration of Beltane (May 1st).
The Satanic Calendar calculates Year One as having begun on April 30, 1966. Therefore we are currently in the Year XXXV A.S. (35 Anno Satanis). On April 30th of 2001, it will be XXXVI A.S.
Sounds like you had a great New Year's celebration in Constitution Square! Did you get the day off from work today? I did! :)
-- Nanaea
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I predate the Satanic Calendar by 3 years, gee that makes me feel Prehistoric (but *not*
jurassic, as presumably is Daividh!).
The Constitution Square festivities were fun despite the rain and cold. Last year's was my all-time
favorite celebration, we saw the sun rise from the Temple of Poseidon at cape Sounion.
Although industrious and hardworking abroad, we Greeks love to take things easy at home, hence
our plethora of state-sancioned holidays including today's :)
We all feel poorer today, having lost our Drachma. The next few days will be an excremental
mess for everyone, as we will all have to think in terms of the new Euro currency dividing
everything by 340.75.
P.S. Daividh: 1 Euro=one pita-gyro.
jurassic, as presumably is Daividh!).
The Constitution Square festivities were fun despite the rain and cold. Last year's was my all-time
favorite celebration, we saw the sun rise from the Temple of Poseidon at cape Sounion.
Although industrious and hardworking abroad, we Greeks love to take things easy at home, hence
our plethora of state-sancioned holidays including today's :)
We all feel poorer today, having lost our Drachma. The next few days will be an excremental
mess for everyone, as we will all have to think in terms of the new Euro currency dividing
everything by 340.75.
P.S. Daividh: 1 Euro=one pita-gyro.
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That's worth about US $3.95 around here (the gyro, not the Euro), which is cheap. Come to think of it, why don't you guys just call the Belgiebucks the "Gyro"? I believe the pronunciation is pretty close, and you'd have more of a feeling of empowerment. And it's less hazardous than getting shitfaced on ouzo and going out beating up Turks.
Ahh, three years before the Satanic calendar. I believe I had an after-school grocery clerk job at that time. (Which makes me downright Devonian, not Jurassic.)
Ahh, three years before the Satanic calendar. I believe I had an after-school grocery clerk job at that time. (Which makes me downright Devonian, not Jurassic.)
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I was so intrigued by your mention of the sun rising from the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, that I just had to find a picture of this temple somewhere on the 'net. And I did!
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~yychang/Greece.html
But alas! What was Lord Byron thinking of when he graffiti'ed that beautiful temple????
-- Nanaea
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~yychang/Greece.html
But alas! What was Lord Byron thinking of when he graffiti'ed that beautiful temple????
-- Nanaea
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Tsk-tsk. Out your way they'd call something like that "the South Bronx", and avoid it instead of rhapsodizing on it. (Say, is that Yankee Stadium in the background?)
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Maybe he was a bad speller, and was bidding farewell to his, uh, "friend", Ron.
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