New Year's eve traditions at your place?

[BlueCollar]

At mine:

1) Eat 13 grapes at midnight
2) Wear yellow underwear
3) Pour a bottle of distlled water on the sidewalk
4) Leave the front door open

[bluesbassman]

1. Clean the shotguns and drink grain alcohol.

:evilgin:

[BlueCollar]

2. LOL...n/t

[flvegan]

3. Curse the douchebags setting off fireworks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Go to bed about 10:00 with three cats.

That's it.

[Xipe Totec]

5. New Tradition - Waiting for the Nazi gasbag to crash and burn in Hawaii

So far, Rush only has chest pains and is being rushed to the hospital.

:popcorn:

[BlueCollar]

8. link?...n/t

[Xipe Totec]

9. With pleasure:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4204767

[BlueCollar]

10. thankyou....n/t

[femmocrat]

6. Back in my hometown, all the neighbors would go on their porches at midnight and bang pots and pans

and yell "Happy New Year" to each other. It was fun and seems pretty quaint now.

We always ate kielbassa and sauerkraut at midnight for good luck in the new year.

[BlueCollar]

7. thanks for the input...

i like hearing about the different traditions...

:hi:

[Kali]

11. huge bonfire

drinking, snacking, maybe board games - start the fire around 11 so it is really going by midnight - champagne and fireworks or shoot the guns a few times


(disclaimer - not anywhere landing bullets can hit anybody)

menu usually includes some pizza, chips/veggies and dips, hot wings, sweets left over from x-mas

[BlueCollar]

12. firing a few rounds off....reponsibly....

sounds like fun...


happy new year....

:-)

[Kali]

14. it will be fireworks this year

low on ammo - ironically the fireworks are illegal in AZ:eyes:

[tigereye]

19. low on ammo

:rofl: Kali, you are great! Have a great celebration. No bonfires here in the city, alas.

[mopinko]

13. mythbusters disproved that one.

landing bullets have spent their velocity, and are harmless. iirc.

[Kali]

15. is that right?

still it's a chunk of lead falling, right? I read a few people get hit every year.

[mopinko]

18. i believe

in their tests, as the bullets came down, they barely broke the surface in the sandy area where they ran the test.
i love those guys. i hope they continue to do the conspiracy theory things that they have been doing lately. they took apart the moon landing/hoax conspiracy. it was great.

[mopinko]

16. seafood feast.

if we stay home- as many dead crustaceans as we can afford. usually fireworks if we have any.
going out this year, tho.

[elshiva]

17. Happy 2010!

I'm going to do the old English Superstition of leaving a silver coin (probably a quarter, but a dime, a nickel, a 50 cent piece will do, as long as it's silver and real currency) and a piece of bread in foil outside my door on New Year's Eve. Then in the morning on New Year's Day, bring it in. This is a ritual to insure that you will have enough money and food for the rest of the year. Let's hope and pray with this gesture that the economy will get better in 2010.

Also, staying up until past 12 a.m. Usually we watched the ball drop in NYC and Baltimore Harbor fireworks TV, but this year we don't have TV, we are going to set off are own sparklers.

[tigereye]

20. make a fancier dinner than usual

make gingerbread

complain about whatever lame band (well, at least it will be Greenday this year so that's better) and unidentifiable celebs they have on, watch the ball drop and then turn to PBS or NPR for more high-brow fare...

I think we have some raspberry sparkling wine, as well.

[Lindsey]

21. Well, this year I'm going to have a lot of fun. I'm going to

Palm Springs with friends who have a house out there. I'm taking the day off tomorrow so I have a four day weekend - Yee Haw!!!!!!!!

[SoxFan]

22. Just two

1. Indian food for dinner

2. Never to mix Rumpleminz and Sam Adams

[Captain Hilts]

23. Watching "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" on TV. Some station is always showing it. In Britain...

I think they show The Great Escape on New Year's Eve.

[MilesColtrane]

25. If there's any justice, Jonathan Winters destroying the gas station wil be considered the peak of...

physical comedy in the 20th century.

[havocmom]

24. Nuttin special. My year starts on a different date

But, we used to lock my mom outta the house while she was out banking pots and pans together

[Kat45]

26. Three Stooges marathon on TV.

Whether I'm alone or with a friend, it's the Stooges. And I am not a man.

[MilesColtrane]

28. Marry me, you knuckelhead.

Why, I oughta!

[JVS]

27. drink, eat pork