Happy New Year - What a Wonderful World

Happy New Year to you as well. Nice video.

Great vid, Thanks.

Happy New Year to all.

CheenaGringo wrote:

Ah, Neil. Such a sentamental old fart. On the other hand, I understand that Albuquerque is freezing cold and under a few feet of snow at present so I understand why It´s A Wonderful World would feed your delusions. As for Dawg, I viewed Attenborough´s charming if sappy paean to nature sans repulsive humans and it to fits my mood here on December 31st in Ajijic´s brilliant sunshine and splendid warmth. I have a friend in Couer d´Alene, Idaho who despairs of this time of year and must increase his anti-depressant medication in order to stay afloat. I suggest you get out of Albuquerque before it´s too late. If, upon making that decision, you happen to be coming here to Lake Chapala or Chiapas, please bring along some of those New Mexico green chile cheesburgers and a DQ chocolate malted.

Thatz one of my favorite funeral songs... but Louis Armstrong does it better...

Dawg:

"the problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth"!

Weather in Albuquerque? No snow at our house which sits at 6000+' and it was 59 yesterday and 57 today. As you can see from the following photos taken over the wall of our rear patio, not a cloud in the sky and if you look through the trees in the first photo, not much snow up on Sandia Crest with an elevation of 10,678'.
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With respect to your request for Green Chile Cheeseburgers and a DQ Chocolate Malted - it might be possible if you could reach out with that long arm of influence and get assurance that US Airways will be on time next week.

"The problem with assumptions is they think they are the truth".

As George Costanza said to Jerry Seinfeld a decade or so ago; " Just remember, Jerry, if you really believe it it´s not a lie."

If you want me to guarantee that U.S. Airways will be on time and deliver my DQ chocolate malted before it melts, that will cost you three cheeseburgers.

Can you tell me if the DQ closest to the Phoenix airport delivers?

Since the Australians get to celebrate early, they do it up right!

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Great Vid Neil, Happy New Year Everybody!!

Very Nice Neil,

Happy New Year All

prospero ano nueve

11:59 pm Happy New Year to all and to all be blessed! Parker

Happy New Year to everyone!

Happy New Year everyone

Ditto and to you!

And some more thoughts are the New Year:
Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot, Before the days of Dylan, or the dawn of Camelot. There lived a race of innocents, and they were you and me,

For Ike was in the White House in that land where we were born, Where navels were for oranges, and Peyton Place was porn.

We learned to gut a muffler, we washed our hair at dawn, We spread our crinolines to dry in circles on the lawn..
We longed for love and romance, and waited for our Prince, And Eddie Fisher married Liz , and no one's seen him since.

We danced to 'Little Darlin,' and sang to 'Stagger Lee' And cried for Buddy Holly in the Land That Made Me, Me.
Only girls wore earrings then, and 3 was one too many, And only boys wore flat-top cuts, except for Jean McKinney.
And only in our wildest dreams did we expect to see A boy named George with Lipstick, in the Land That Made Me, Me.

We fell for Frankie Avalon, Annette was oh, so nice, And when they made a movie, they never made it twice..
We didn't have a Star Trek Five, or Psycho Two and Three, Or Rocky-Rambo Twenty in the Land That Made Me, Me.

Miss Kitty had a heart of gold, and Chester had a limp, And Reagan was a Democrat whose co-star was a chimp.
We had a Mr. Wizard, but not a Mr. T, And Oprah couldn't talk yet, in the Land That Made Me, Me.

We had our share of heroes, we never thought they'd go, At least not Bobby Darin, or Marilyn Monroe.
For youth was still eternal, and life was yet to be, And Elvis was forever in the Land That Made Me, Me.

We'd never seen the rock band that was Grateful to be Dead, And Airplanes weren't named Jefferson , and Zeppelins were not Led. And Beatles lived in gardens then, and Monkees lived in trees, Madonna was Mary in the Land That Made Me, Me.

We'd never heard of microwaves, or telephones in cars, And babies might be bottle-fed, but they were not grown in jars.
And pumping iron got wrinkles out, and 'gay' meant fancy-free, And dorms were never co-ed in the Land That Made Me, Me.

We hadn't seen enough of jets to talk about the lag, And microchips were what was left at the bottom of the bag.
And hardware was a box of nails, and bytes came from a flea, And rocket ships were fiction in the Land That Made Me, Me.

Buicks came with portholes, and side shows came with freaks, And bathing suits came big enough to cover both your cheeks. And Coke came just in bottles, and skirts below the knee, And Castro came to power near the Land That Made Me, Me.

We had no Crest with fluoride, we had no Hill Street Blues, We had no patterned pantyhose or Lipton herbal tea or prime-time ads for those dysfunctions in the Land That Made Me, Me.

There were no golden arches, no Perrier to chill, And fish were not called Wanda, and cats were not called Bill..
And middle-aged was 35 and old was fifty-three, And ancient were our parents in the Land That Made Me, Me.

But all things have a season, or so we've heard them say, And now instead of Maybelline we swear by Retin-A. They send us invitations to join AARP, We've come a long way, baby, from the Land That Made Me, Me.

So now we face a brave new world in slightly larger jeans, And wonder why they're using smaller print in magazines.. And we tell our children's children of the way it used to be, Long ago and far away in the Land That Made Me, Me.

If you didn't grow up in the fifties, you missed the greatest time in history.

If you didn't grow up in the fifties, you missed the greatest time in history..

Yup!

And on the other hand...........
There was strange fruit on the Southern trees and any number of things I could name that really, really sucked! Memory makes the bad stuff go away and the fun stuff seem even better.

The very best part was that you were young, would never grow old, get aches and pains and anything could happen.

Today is a far better time to be born female, I can tell you that! Am I right, ladies?