Ddaddy
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And wait until you get there to inflate her! Triple dog dare!
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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Now wouldn't that be.....Hey!
Man...I will have to go gold. There re ads everywhere and this site is slow...
Ddaddy
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Once you go gold, you won't get old waiting for pages to load....
Hey, I'm a poet and don't even know it....
Download the browser Brave and it kill the ads load faster as well.
Unconventional
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Talk about a ********....
I laughed so hard at that in the theatre first time I saw that
Thought my date was going to get up and leave
Nope. Was out last night. Will be out tomorrow. Not tonight. Just to be contrary.
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
Talk about a ********....
I forgot how funny that was
Ddaddy
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And this is my date Ruby...
Yea well woof woof is another reason I try to be here when there's high chance of fireworks...
straightlinespeed
Sometimes I pretend to be normal
Are you all going to be just as lame as myself tonight, and stay home and go to bed by 9pm?
Now wait a second....
Ddaddy
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The origin of the Ball drop on New Year’s Eve in Times Square...
It started out as fireworks and dynamite to promote the new New York Times Building, and eventually evolved into the famous ball drop.
On Dec. 31, 1904, hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered in Midtown Manhattan, near the newly constructed New York Times Building.
Then, as the clock struck midnight, there was an explosion of dynamite — and the tower appeared to catch on fire.
But the flames were controlled and very much intentional. In fact, they were the idea of The Times’s publisher, Adolph S. Ochs, who was hoping to show off the company’s new building.
“No more beautiful picture was ever limned in fire on the curtain of midnight,” The Times reported the next day. “From the four corners of the skyscraper lambent flames played. From base to dome the giant structure was alight.”
The sight was “a torch to usher in the new born year, a funeral pyre for the old which pierced the very heavens,” The Times wrote.
By 1905, the city blocks around the new building — Times Square, named after The Times — had already become a New Year’s Eve destination. A description from that first New Year’s Eve celebration in The Times could have been written in any year since: “As early as 9 o’clock the square was packed, and when the time approached when another year should be inscribed upon the century book the crush was so great that progress was well nigh impossible in any direction.”
It started out as fireworks and dynamite to promote the new New York Times Building, and eventually evolved into the famous ball drop.
On Dec. 31, 1904, hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered in Midtown Manhattan, near the newly constructed New York Times Building.
Then, as the clock struck midnight, there was an explosion of dynamite — and the tower appeared to catch on fire.
But the flames were controlled and very much intentional. In fact, they were the idea of The Times’s publisher, Adolph S. Ochs, who was hoping to show off the company’s new building.
“No more beautiful picture was ever limned in fire on the curtain of midnight,” The Times reported the next day. “From the four corners of the skyscraper lambent flames played. From base to dome the giant structure was alight.”
The sight was “a torch to usher in the new born year, a funeral pyre for the old which pierced the very heavens,” The Times wrote.
By 1905, the city blocks around the new building — Times Square, named after The Times — had already become a New Year’s Eve destination. A description from that first New Year’s Eve celebration in The Times could have been written in any year since: “As early as 9 o’clock the square was packed, and when the time approached when another year should be inscribed upon the century book the crush was so great that progress was well nigh impossible in any direction.”
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Wife has now explained I am done like dinner and taken all communication devices from me. No sense of humor clearly! See you boys next year! In shop AFU with hound.
Thank you brother. I was going to take care of it. Ha ha good favor does return.....you will see
So, I have a favorite whiskey glass. Qas st the antique store this afternoon. Found a set of 7...was missing one. Now if I just had friends, I have plenty of Dewars 12, Glenmorangie 12, MacAllan 12, and some bourbons...
Just another day...
Note, non of the Bud Light in the pic. Not allowed in here, just a box to carry the glasses
Me too got stereo turned up to drown out the fireworks....
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