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  1. My resolution is to make a comment to every post made here this year. In advance. : AWESOME, Frank, AWESOME.

    Many thanks to you, Harvey, Basil, Sarah and the guest bloggers for the hundreds of great, funny and thought provoking work these past years. Great stuff from people who have great charecter is doubly appreciated

    Hope you all and all the wacky readers and commenters have the best life has to offer this new year.

  2. When you count stuff, you start with one.
    But when you measure stuff, you start with zero.
    Like, that tab that hangs over the edge of a board at the end of the tape measure represents zero when measuring length. Right? And our bathroom scale starts at zero, not one, when measuring weight. Right?

    Sooo… since years measure time, years ending in zero should count as the beginning of a new decade, right?

    I was just wondering.
    Happy New Year, everybody!

  3. Happy new year. My resolution is to finally hook up the electric beer cooler and a mini-gun into the bed of my truck. Since mini-guns are hard to find, I might have to settle for a raptor launcher.

  4. I thought your New Year resolution about having fewer movies where the military are the bad guys was completely unrealistic. I mean, a modern-day Hollywood production has to have either the U.S. military, some other U.S. government agency, or some Evil Capitalist Corporation as the bad guy. If they were to make a movie where the bad guy is, say, a fanatical Muslim terrorist who wants to destroy America… or, say, a creepy Russian president who is also a former KGB guy… I mean, who is going to believe something far-fetched like that?

  5. DeckApe, I like ‘joules,’ too, you know, the kind that come from your airtight stove when it’s oxidizing pure carbon. And the CO2 from those joules goes right to my garden and is delicious.

    My 2010 resolution: work even harder and make lots more money made from trees and cotton so I can buy more carbon rocks that make joules and delicious garden vegetables.

    Man, I still got beets and parsnips in the ground. I made borscht New Years Eve from four giant beets! Mmmm mmmm mmmm.

    /rambling

  6. Um, why does everyone call this “a new decade”? I know, 2000 – 2009 IS ten years, BUT stop and think about it. The Year of our Lord, Anno Domini (A.D.) began with year 1. There was no year 0. Therefore, the first decade would have been the years 1- 10, the second, 11-20, etc. So actually, the “new decade” doesn’t begin until next year.

    Just sayin’.

  7. #19 – tbone1128,
    Jesus wasn’t born 1 year old.
    He did a lot of miracles, but not that one.
    On the first anniversary of his birth, when Mary and Joseph sang, “Happy birthday, dear baby Je-sus…” and they suddenly realized they had enough birthday cake and grape juice to feed 5000 people, that would have been the end of year 1 and the beginning of year 2.
    But you have to count the 364 days previous.
    That’s the difference between measuring time, and just counting years.
    (IMAO)

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