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Post by BSJ on Jan 3, 2018 0:09:10 GMT
Oh! God bless you, eloneen! You said it with just the right amount of "snoutness".
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Post by eloneen on Jan 3, 2018 0:56:43 GMT
So, it's going to be 14 F overnight--very cold for our neck of the woods (I'm sure BSJ is not impressed), and the young man is not interested in going to First Night, the big celebration we usually attend on New Year's Eve. He says that it's "boring" to do that again this year... My baby is growing up!! We'll probably go to a movie this afternoon, then home for dinner and then to the Watch Night service later on, depending on how Mom is feeling tonight. If not Watch Night, we'll stay home and watch the fireworks and ball drop in NYC on TV, do our little champagne toast with hugs and kisses, and call it a night. There are also lots of folks who like to shoot guns at midnight to celebrate New Year's, too, so that's something else besides the drunk drivers to look out for... So apart from watching out for drunk drivers,you also have to avoid falling bullets? Here's a recent online article from Time magazine about people shooting guns to celebrate the New Year, and law enforcement's efforts to get a handle on it in various cities around the country. Craziness! time.com/5082359/new-years-eve-gunfire/Hubby said he saw a report on local TV about the origins of this tradition, and it turns out it comes from Scotch-Irish tradition! (Lots of areas in the south were settled by large numbers of Scotch and Irish people.) Something about scaring off evil spirits. In the report he saw, there were even little kids in one little NC town shooting the guns! Again... craziness, but it was brought over from across the pond!
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Post by Timeblue on Jan 3, 2018 1:04:06 GMT
Wow! those who were killed by gunfire, were they hit directly? or just indiscriminately?
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Post by eloneen on Jan 3, 2018 1:11:25 GMT
Wow! those who were killed by gunfire, were they hit directly? or just indiscriminately? The article says that it's stray bullets killing people. Those doing the shooting aren't typically shooting at anyone in particular, just up in the air with no particular concern for where the bullets land. OK, sometimes some people go out into an open area to shoot , but more often, it's just firing a gun in the back yard at the stroke of midnight. It's not very smart.
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Post by Timeblue on Jan 3, 2018 1:15:24 GMT
We in the Uk complain about indiscriminate fireworks! bullets are a whole new problem...
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Post by eloneen on Jan 3, 2018 2:00:33 GMT
Welcome to the Wild West!
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Post by fourlittlediamonds on Jan 3, 2018 4:35:07 GMT
Well, if they must fire their guns, better in the air, on NYE than in schools, college campuses, churches or shopping malls!
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Post by Timeblue on Jan 3, 2018 9:44:35 GMT
Oh! God bless you, eloneen ! You said it with just the right amount of "snoutness".
Reminds me of the farm that I went to yesterday,4 or 5 litters of pigs of varying ages (one of which was just a week old!)
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