>>>In the USA everyone gets totally drunk in one night & wakes up with a bad hangover.... (s) That is if they don't blow themselves up with Fireworks... (g)
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>>My goodness Tom, how melodramatic? Personally, I find New Year's day to be relatively mundane in terms of it being any different from any other day of the year - apart from, perhaps, the Rose Bowl parade - and having seen so many new years now and found that the year that follows them has nothing at all to do with the fact that another year is upon us why bother to celebrate? Has the war in Bosnia, Afghanistan and elswhere stopped? And who knows what will happen in Hong Kong later this year but I am sure it will not be good for those in Hong Kong or any one else in the so called "Free world". Have we eliminated all nuclear weapons? Have we provided realistic healthcare coverage for all? Have we achieved real levels of mutual cooperation between nations? That would be something to celebrate but I guess I have uncovered here why we really do get drunk and try to kill ourselves - and others - with fireworks and with firing guns aimed skyward (trying to kill god perhaps for failing us?)
>>instead!!!!!!!!!! C'est la vie, N'est pas? Oh what it is to be both a philosopher and a FoxPro programmer? :))) /psb.
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>deep... you don't have a 'visualize world peace' bumper sticker, do you?

No! Why? Would it help? Maybe that's what's missing <g>. (Boy I sure started something here. My big mouth....... :)) ) /psb.