To me and my Greenwich fellas, it's 2004 here, and it feels good. After a whisky-drink, a lager-drink, and a champagne-drink, and a toilet-drink (a little play on that Chumbawamba-song, thanks for playing along!) it's time to hit the sack.
To you americ�nos, and to you nipponesios, and I guess those Down Under and also those brown, fuzzy, flightless birds, you're still in for a treat.
Salutations from Sweden, here's to another year on this slimy mudball. Sk�l!
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Well, I was supposed to go to a party tonight, but both Christina and Mike had to work closing shifts tonight ... silly people!
So, anyway, tonight I stay home. Which is fine with me, because I have to work tomorrow morning and last Saturday I got drunk enough to last all year - it was a Christmas party thrown by my boss, and apparently I was staggering up to everyone proclaiming "I love you maaaaan" and hugging them. Apparently, I also drank an entire bottle of root beer schnaps straight, and according to at least one guy, I took a drag on a mary-jane cigarette (not sure I believe that last one). And I wondered why I'd slept through the entirety of Sunday.
Anyway, 2003 was my final year of college. I have finally finished. And now that I have, I've chosen to pursue a career which doesn't require a college degree (what wonderful timing I have). I've decided I want to own my own pizza shop, ideally a Papa John's franchise. So, since I don't meet the financial requirements at the moment, I'm going to get it the traditional way - bank robbery. Kidding. Anyway, I'm starting the management program, as a "Shift Leader" with PJs in a few months. It'll be a cut in pay for a while, but hopefully soon I'll be promoted to assistant manager and assigned to a store which makes a good bonus. Assistant managers get 1/4 of the store manager's bonus, anywhere from $300 to $2000 a period (thirteen periods a year). With luck, and a few years of hard work, I'll say "fuck it" and get a real 9-5 job. Or maybe I'll be able to own my own franchise. I guess we'll see.
I'm going to stop rambling, drink a nice cold Bass Ale, and hit the sack. G'night, and, remember ...
I LUUUUUV YOU, MAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Happy New Year's Flarites!
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Another year at the maw of endless descent.
Take solace in knowing that for the world needs a bottom, and that bottom is me.
There is nowhere to go but up for the rest of you.
Merry New Year.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Y'know, you're almost starting to border on goth poetry there...
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
It's the Weekend Web, I swear.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nim: and I guess those Down Under and also those brown, fuzzy, flightless birds, you're still in for a treat.
Wait.. Australia and New Zealand surely celebrated their New Year *before* Sweden?
Anyway, happy New Year to you all.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Why wouldn't they? They're still on the "left" side of the International Date Line. Which means they were among the first in the world to celebrate.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Here's a cheer for 2004.
May it be infinitely better than that bitch 2003.
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
Amen.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
a little play on that Chumbawamba-song, thanks for playing along!
Speaking of which, after getting knocked down and most definitely not getting up again yesterday, I have learned to Never. Underestimate. Champagne. ever again. Really, it felt like a firecracker exploded in my brain... ow.
Also, Nimmy: Mudball? Slimey? My home this is!
apparently I was staggering up to everyone proclaiming "I love you maaaaan" and hugging them
And these are the defining moments in life, guys. B)
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
If you live a life of cliches. I just tend to wander around, giggling and proclaiming that I am the best Mario Kart-er in the world ever.
Champagne is quite lethal though. Probably because of the nice taste.
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
Ummm.... I beg to differ..... *I* am the best Mario Kart-er in the world ever.
And don't you foget it
~LOA
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Got a Jersey accent going there, LOA?
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Champagne is truely horrible tasting alcohol.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
And you don't like that nasty beer stuff, too bitter?
OK, that's weird, the clock radio in the bedroom just turned itself on. And no, not because the alarm was set to do so. Just as well I don't believe in ghosts or I'd be freaked out right now. Probably one of the cats stepped on a button. . .
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Sure, tell it to the judge.
I think I set a new personal variety record for New Years. I had Aquavit, lager, white wine, whiskey, port and champagne, when all was said and done.
The trick was to keep down the quantity, I never even got slurred speech or sentimentalitis, not even a hangover, apart from a slight dryness in the meouth.
It may have to do with me wearing cuff links and a tie that evening. Makes you behave. Also, no drinking and standing. Your drink becomes an accessory then, the hand motion becomes repetitive, increasing the intake. You have to nurse it.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I am the best Mario Kart-er ever. There is no argument. I rule. I rule at it sober. I rule at it drunk.
I.
Rule.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Topher: Champagne is truely horrible tasting alcohol.
I agree: they should carbonate scotch from now on.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Champagne is ass. Beer is champagne's ass. The only appropriate beverage is Dr Pepper.
And, in all modesty, I am The Big O of Mario*Kart. Fear my 1337 $ki11z.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Yeah, you'll treasure the memory of Dr Pepper once the diabetes takes over, from drinking Dr Pepper.
My soda of choice for 2004 is lemon/elder Fanta. Does the US have Fanta?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I cock my eyebrow to you, sir. Touch�.
However, I should point out that I consume the caffeine-free diet version of Dr Pepper. As such, I'm actually risking Alzheimer's Disease from the sugar substitute instead of diabetes.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nim: and I guess those Down Under and also those brown, fuzzy, flightless birds, you're still in for a treat.
Considering Australia is GMT +9 or +9.5 or +10 or +11 or +13 for New Zealand (in the summer) - we are well and truly still drinking while you GMTers are just having your clocks reset to 0. Happy New Year!
P.S. This isn't still New Years Day - but I've been away! Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
I could be drinking Fanta right now, were I to go downstairs.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
They still make fanta? Is that in flavors or just cola? I havent drank soda in six or seven years now: I bought some Win-Dixie brand "Check Cola", poured it into a white plastic cup and noticed it left a slimy brown ring in the cup. Same formula as Coke but wit more syrup.
No more of that crap goes into me.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Yeah. And since enough of that stuff comes out of you already, there's no need to increase your dosage anyway. B)
[ January 02, 2004, 04:12 AM: Message edited by: Cartman ]
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Carbonated excrement?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Carbonated excrement?
Yes. They call it Pepsi.
Posted by Capped in Mic (Member # 709) on :
my roommate bought a bottle of Pepsi when i complained that someone opened my Coke. It is a poor substitute.
Fanta? GO BACK TO CANADIA!!!1!!!one!!
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: They still make fanta? Is that in flavors or just cola?
Er, fanta is orange. Cola flavoured fanta would be, well, Coke.
quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: I consume the caffeine-free diet version of Dr Pepper.
Why don't you just live in a fucking bubble and drink piss? Eh? EH?
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
You can drink your piss three times over before the salt and toxin levels become lethal.
Not to mention it beats Nutrasweet, Aspartame and those other things spawned from WWII german/japanese medical experiments.
Maybe 2004 will give us breakthroughs in beverageral studies hitherto unthinkable. Just not synthehol.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nim: You can drink your piss three times over before the salt and toxin levels become lethal.
It troubles me that you know this.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Why don't you just live in a fucking bubble and drink piss? Eh? EH?
Because.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Damn your wit!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Eh. Might as well. Everything else about me has been damned.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
This self-deprecation virus has to be quarantined and killed here, Siegfried, before it infects all of us!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
What one man calls a self-deprecation virus another man calls God's honest truth.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
And what one man calls God's honest truth, another man calls evil's cruel deception. So what's your point?
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist".
There, straight from the fourteenth apostle 'Verbal' Kint, New New Testament of the Orange Catholic Bible.
Now, the greatest trick God ever pulled was convincing Adam that he had given birth to a woman, something not since duplicated until Governor Schwarzenegger's miracle conception, as written down in the Satsuma Baptist Bible.
At a distant second is, of course, God convincing a bystander he was a combusting shrubbery.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I didn't really have a point... much like the Reagan Administration.
ZING!
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Damn 04 already. Had I gone to college right after high school I'd be a senior right now. Instead I was foolish enough to enlist in the Navy. But had I gone to college I could have tried out for ROTC, had the Navy pay for college, and come out as an officer instead. The pay is better and the privileges are better.
Although I wish I could have actually gone out New Years Eve and enjoyed a few drinks. Instead I was in a fucking hospital. Oh well, glad for everyone else that had a good time. There's always 2005.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
We hope.
Posted by Capped in Mic (Member # 709) on :
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam:
quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: I consume the caffeine-free diet version of Dr Pepper.
Why don't you just live in a fucking bubble and drink piss? Eh? EH?
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Oh well, glad for everyone else that had a good time. There's always 2005.