Welcome to 2007: Your Questions Answered

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The thread revolves around participants sharing their experiences and thoughts as they transition into the year 2007. The discussion includes light-hearted banter about New Year's celebrations, food traditions, and personal anecdotes related to the holiday.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Debate/contested
  • Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • One participant humorously claims to report back from 2007, suggesting it feels much like 2006.
  • Several participants inquire about each other's locations and New Year celebrations, with one mentioning a party of 50 people.
  • Food traditions are discussed, particularly the significance of collard greens and black-eyed peas for prosperity in the New Year.
  • Some participants express nostalgia for collard greens, sharing personal experiences from childhood.
  • There are humorous exchanges about the meanings of various foods and their supposed effects on fortune in the New Year.
  • One participant mentions feeling nauseous and seeks remedies from others, indicating a shared concern for well-being.
  • Another participant shares a whimsical encounter with a character outside their lab, adding a humorous element to the discussion.
  • The thread includes multiple greetings and well-wishes for the New Year, with participants expressing their celebratory spirits.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally share a festive mood and engage in light-hearted conversation, but there are no significant disagreements or settled conclusions regarding the topics discussed.

Contextual Notes

Some discussions about food traditions and their meanings may depend on regional customs and personal experiences, which are not universally applicable.

Who May Find This Useful

Readers interested in cultural traditions surrounding New Year's celebrations, food customs, and light-hearted community interactions may find this thread engaging.

  • #61
russ_watters said:
Well, I never need an excuse to walk around in my underwear... :biggrin:
:smile: But I think it requires a decent amount of alcohol to post the pictures here. :smile:

Sorry to hear you'e sick.
Much better than I was for Christmas. It's the gift that keeps on giving apparently. Now I just wake up in the middle of the night hot and sweaty, though there are a lot better ways to accomplish getting hot and sweaty in bed than a virus (and better ways to lose all the weight gained during the holidays too).

Oooh - there is. Happy New Year!

...now back to my movie...

What movie are you watching? I'm watching Harry Potter DVDs tonight.
 
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  • #62
As requested elsewhere (this seemed like as good a thread as any to post these in), updated photos of Ember!

This is her stealing her favorite snowman ornament off the Christmas tree (it's now officially her toy).
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9900/undertreefk6.jpg

But I got even when I caught her playing with Christmas stockings too. :devil:
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2645/stockingqf8.jpg

In spite of her helping herself to toys and not listening to her mommy about climing the tree, Sandy Paws brought her lots of Christmas presents this year!
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3825/toysgt7.jpg

And this is from earlier today when she was taking a nap with a really goofy look (including one ear turned inside out).
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/9070/sleepingaf4.jpg
Sorry this last one is pretty grainy. I have no idea what setting the camera was on; I just grabbed it and snapped the shot before she woke up. Not a bad way to spend New Year's Eve though, huh? I think some of the folks here might look more like that tomorrow morning. :smile:
 
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  • #63
I love the pictures! She is very pretty!:!) :!) :!)
 
  • #64
Moonbear said:
What movie are you watching? I'm watching Harry Potter DVDs tonight.
Spiderman 2.
 
  • #65
Hrm. I haven't decided between

(1) Sleep
(2) Watching "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" again
(3) Watching some more of the "Dungeons & Dragons" cartoon
(4) Video games
 
  • #66
Math Is Hard said:
I love the pictures! She is very pretty!:!) :!) :!)

Thanks. I'm really biased and still think she's the prettiest cat I've ever met. :biggrin: I see a CAT-astrophe in the making at the moment, though. She's in a bookcase on a stack of rather poorly stacked papers that I'm sure are going to avalanche any moment! She's definitely active. I got her two different feather lures for Christmas (one of them is in the photo)...she goes nuts with those, and will chase them for hours if I didn't wear out before she did. She'll be panting like mad but still won't want to stop chasing them...one of them gets some really good fluttering action going with the feathers, so I can make it look almost like a real bird is flying around the room and she'll make some spectacular leaps trying to catch it! :smile:
 
  • #67
Ye gads, that's the first time I've clicked "Submit post"... and saw someone else's post at the end of the thread!
 
  • #68
Hurkyl said:
Hrm. I haven't decided between

(1) Sleep
(2) Watching "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" again
(3) Watching some more of the "Dungeons & Dragons" cartoon
(4) Video games

I vote for Who Framed Roger Rabbit! :biggrin:
 
  • #69
Hurkyl said:
Ye gads, that's the first time I've clicked "Submit post"... and saw someone else's post at the end of the thread!

:smile: Talent. :biggrin:
 
  • #70
Moonbear said:
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Ahhhhhhh. But she looks ready to leap out and pounce on something.

She really is a beautiful kitty.

I decided to watch something cheery this evening, so I ran down and rented "An Inconvenient Truth". I also picked up a couple of scifi movies that I've never seen: The Butterfly Effect, and Time Changer. When Tsu is gone I watch all of the bad SciFi that I can.
 
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  • #71
Ivan Seeking said:
Ahhhhhhh. But she looks ready to leap out and pounce on something.

:smile: Yeah, she wasn't too thrilled about being stuffed into the stocking and didn't stay in it long. She looks really pathetic in one of the other photos, and then the last one I have is her halfway out. But she stayed in just long enough to get the cute picture and then got treats to make up for it. :biggrin:
 
  • #72
MB, do you remember what time bars close in Ohio? I'm about to set up a measurement that I can walk away from for an hour...
 
  • #73
I never noticed before, but as she gets older she looks more and more like our beloved Bun I. She was the one who would hold my hand with her paws while we fell asleep at night. :redface:
 
  • #74
Gokul43201 said:
MB, do you remember what time bars close in Ohio? I'm about to set up a measurement that I can walk away from for an hour...
Nope, don't remember. Hopefully it was 2 AM so you can go out and get a drink to celebrate the new year! Are you there all night?

Ivan Seeking said:
I never noticed before, but as she gets older she looks more and more like our beloved Bun I. She was the one who would hold my hand with her paws while we fell asleep at night. :redface:

Awww...Ember does that sometimes too. :!) Last night she had to sleep ON me all night. Usually she's content to sleep next to me with just a paw touching me. Though, for a few nights, she wasn't coming to bed until early morning, and I missed her purring next to me as I fell asleep. :shy:
 
  • #75
Moonbear said:
Nope, don't remember. Hopefully it was 2 AM so you can go out and get a drink to celebrate the new year!
I'll take a walk and keep my fingers crossed. In any case, the walk can't hurt...


Are you there all night?
Most of it, I expect - will know better in a couple hours.
 
  • #76
Gokul43201 said:
I'll take a walk and keep my fingers crossed. In any case, the walk can't hurt...

Enjoy the walk...and hopefully there's a nice beer at the end of it!
 
  • #77
Half-a-day into 2007...what was I doing at the "big moment"? Trying to get the internet connection back up and running. Spent about 15 minutes in '06 and '07 trying to get things to work only to realize that the problem was the ISP's side.
 
  • #78
Ivan Seeking said:
Ahhhhhhh. But she looks ready to leap out and pounce on something.

She really is a beautiful kitty.

I decided to watch something cheery this evening, so I ran down and rented "An Inconvenient Truth". I also picked up a couple of scifi movies that I've never seen: The Butterfly Effect, and Time Changer. When Tsu is gone I watch all of the bad SciFi that I can.

How is the new TV looking?
 
  • #79
Just heard a ton of gun shots, so I suppose we are now in the New Year. My dog is a little scared, as usual.

Cute pictures MB!
 
  • #80
OK, its 2:32 am, my ears are ringing, and I have to catch at 9:15 am flight, and I am kinda drunk rigvht now. Have a ahppy neaw year! :biggirn:
Edit: Hahhaha, my spelling sucks right now. Why won't this ringing in my ears stop :cry:
 
  • #81
Integral said:
How is the new TV looking?

You would have to ask the folks at Wal Mart.

Same problem.
 
  • #82
Moonbear said:
Enjoy the walk...and hopefully there's a nice beer at the end of it!
There was a "little" more than one nice beer there. But the walk wasn't too bad either!
 
  • #83
It's 07 now. I think someone around here got a cannon. We often hear gunfire - large rifles and shotguns - but this sucker was big!
 
  • #84
Maybe it was the Cannon Law Society sending out smoke signals - http://clsa.org/content/node/222
 
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  • #85
Gokul43201 said:
Maybe it was the Cannon Law Society sending out smoke signals - http://clsa.org/content/node/222

Oh, so I have to stop with my groaners to make room for yours? :smile:


Gokul43201GPA = Gokul43201GPA + 5
 
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  • #86
Happy New Year all!

Physics has finally caught up with my screen name,
where L=lightmatter and D=darkmatter.
I just had to wait about 2 yrs.
 
  • #87
Happy New Year Everyone!
 
  • #88
Ivan Seeking said:
You would have to ask the folks at Wal Mart.

Same problem.

WHAT! Still a no go! Arggg!

We made a Fry's run Saturday, came back with a 42" Samsung Plasma, it is on the wall and looking good... Well since I left for work less then an hour after I got it hung.. I assume it is looking good.


oh yeah... HAPPY NEW YEAR!
 
  • #89
Happy New Year and best wishes to everyone at PF!
 
  • #90
Our new year begings 3 months later than yours(with spring) but anyway::cool::-p

Happy new year everyone!
 
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