The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
O.K. so I can’t spell Armageddon!
It’s not the end of the world!
Slàinte mhath (slanj'-uh va') (Good Health) "I think I have made it clear how important drink is to the Scottish character. Is it any wonder how many Glaswegians hold teetotallers in such great contempt. In Glasgow, we've always enjoyed the ancient ceremony of throwing teetotallers into pubs on Saturday night" Arnold Brown (lecturing to a class of immigrants about local customs).
Author: I hear you said this was the worst book I ever wrote ? Critic: No, I said it was the worst book anybody ever wrote.
Who Are You Kidding ?
The proper behaviour all through the holiday season s to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk
you actually kiss the person you're married to. P.J. O'Rourke
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your
neighbours, and let each new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin
Memories from The Big Yin.
"Now I don't know if you remember the first time you ever tasted whisky and the tremendous shock to the nervous system that is. In Scotland this usually happens around the age of four - not because your parents give it to you but because there are these parties at New Year...." Billy Connolly in "Gullible's Travels"
"Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together." Writer Alexander Smith "A Summer in Skye" in 1856.
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