Happy New Year 2014-12-31

[TazManiac]

Well, Happy, Happy.

Its after Midnite out here in the Pacific Time Zone, go kiss somebody!

[illiad]

well, here it is....

[MerchManDan]

A Good New Year to all of you folks.

For myself, many years ago I resolved to never make another New Year resolution. That's the only resolution I've successfully kept & I intend to leave it that way.

[Catawampus]

My year has started off with stomping about in the snow rescuing a cow who had strayed from its herd, slipped on some ice, and gotten itself stuck halfway down a mountain cliff. Followed by driving a neighbour to the hospital because his appendix had unexpectedly ruptured. Can I return 2015 and get a refund? I'm not sure if I still have the receipt around here. . .

[jwhouk]

Sorry, you broke it, you buy it.

[Sgt. Howard]

Tailgate warrantee- once your tailgate crosses the lot border, you own it

[as363]

Happy New Year to all . Cold and snowy here - we had our Fireworks displayed here - courtesy of the local casinos in Reno and Sparks Nevada .

[Opus the Poet]

We did good this year here in Hell and it's suburbs, only one fatality and about a half-dozen non-fatal firearms casualties. They're still toting up the motor vehicle casualties because there is a 30 day window for assigning cause to a motor vehicle wreck for a fatality. I hear tell of about 20 or so wrecks with injuries, but no word on any motor vehicle fatalities.

Here's hoping that zero stays zero...

[Sgt. Howard]

Opus, what west-coast sludge pile do you live in/near?

[Opus the Poet]

I live just outside Dallas TX, and from midnight to about 1 AM sounded like a war zone (flashback time, serious PTSD troubles).

[TazManiac]

pppft. (not your experience, just your geography...)

We (surprisingly) seem to have a cut off of 'small' arms fire @12:30.
("Wadda ya Mean we still have ammo left over?, that stuffs gett'n stale!, keep shoot'n!...")

Two separate regional instances of "lets shoot at the Cops!" though...
SF Bay Area, where all the Peace-nicks came to live. right?

[Thor]

The problem of exploding neighborhoods on NYD is not a universal problem in the US. I lived in Montana for 30 years and never heard a single firework going off. The solution for the NYD detonation avoidance is to move to a place that is historically really really cold on January 1st. Traditions don't take root unless the circumstances are right, which is why you don't have NYD fireworks in the Rocky Mountain West, because no one is crazy enough to want to go out and light off fireworks when it is 20 below zero and hip-deep with snow.

It's also why there is no Boobs For Beads during Mardi Gras here in Portland. Cold rain is not conducive to either parades or flashing. (But when it warms up, everyone is more than happy to go on a nude bike ride. Go figure.) However, we *do* have plenty of NYD fireworks.

[AmriloJim]

NYE fireworks happen here, primarily in neighborhoods of a certain ethnic flavor, but not this year. I'm sure 18F with windchills in the -15F range (up from 3F 24 hours earlier) had a major effect in that.

[zachariah]

Now we know. No new strip until Monday. I had a feeling this would happen. So it's going to be a long weekend waiting for our next Wapsi fix isn't it!

[Sgt. Howard]

Now we know. No new strip until Monday. I had a feeling this would happen. So it's going to be a long weekend waiting for our next Wapsi fix isn't it!

... solitary figure wandering through internet comix wasteland-
"...Must... have...WAPSI..."

[jwhouk]

When I see those three dancing like that, This comes to mind:
"C'mon, baby, dooooo the Loco-motion..."

[Dave]

Now we know. No new strip until Monday. I had a feeling this would happen. So it's going to be a long weekend waiting for our next Wapsi fix isn't it!

... solitary figure wandering through internet comix wasteland-
"...Must... have...WAPSI..."

... checking the disk archives to try to find a stash of old Far Side strips saved for a rainy day, and finding nothing but a few crumbs of old, stale Funky Winkerbean and some fumes of Gasoline Alley ...

[TazManiac]

When I see those three dancing like that, This comes to mind:
"C'mon, baby, dooooo the Loco-motion..."

For some reason, the bastard child of the Macarena
,

something called Gangnam Style came to mind, completely unbidden, I assure you...

[oldmanmickey]

The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came, Sarge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and hopelessness.

It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded.

He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him, and that its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread. He knew no more, for the Spirit neither spoke nor moved.

"I am in the presence of the Ghost of Waspi Yet To Come?" said Sarge.

The Spirit answered not, but pointed downward with its hand.

"You are about to show us shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us," Sarge pursued. "Is that so, Spirit?"

The upper portion of the garment was contracted for an instant in its folds, as if the Spirit had inclined its head. That was the only answer he received.

Forbiddingly Sarge looks towards the other kindred souls he senses near but unseen, "welcome to our nightmare."

[scantrontb]

something called Gangnam Style came to mind, completely unbidden, I assure you...

HA!, for me it was THIS...