Happy New Year!

[Frans_Jozef]

to my dear and honourable friends and collegues and our cherished and fine bunch of members of Skadi Forum:

Een gelukkig en vredevol Nieuwjaar vol zegeningen en vreugdes!

Boldog új évet!

Gott Nytt År!

Prosit Neujahr!

Buon Capodanno!

Gelukkige nuwe jaar!

Bonne Annee!

[Marduk]

Happy New Year !!!!!!!!

[Frans_Jozef]

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times'
Ring out ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the christ that is to be.

from "In Memoriam"
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

[Nordgau]

NOELINIZ VE YENI YILINIZ KUTLU OLSUN

[Frans_Jozef]

NOELINIZ VE YENI YILINIZ KUTLU OLSUN

Ik versta er de ballen van, mijn vriend/képtelen vagyok megérteni ...oh shit the second bottle of wine emptied and there's nothing left to pour in a glass...not even a woman in the vicinity to accomodate certain strange creepy needs invoked by the alcohol, even if the performance wouldn't be much to be proud off...ROTFL

[Johnny Reb]

Ik versta er de ballen van, mijn vriend/képtelen vagyok megérteni ...oh shit the second bottle of wine emptied and there's nothing left to pour in a glass...not even a woman in the vicinity to accomodate certain strange creepy needs invoked by the alcohol, even if the performance wouldn't be much to be proud off...ROTFL

Happy New Years everybody. Franz, you've got a head start on me. It's only 3:45 pm here. I won't be at your stage (empty bottle, no woman) for hours!

[Frans_Jozef]

Happy New Years everybody. Franz, you've got a head start on me. It's only 3:45 pm here. I won't be at your stage (empty bottle, no woman) for hours!

Hush, my dear, I found another bottle of fruity French red wine and guess I poured myself two glasses in honour of my parents who I owe so much.....well, and one just dedicated to the ones whom kept me in their thoughts in these difficult days...the music is loud here...a medley of soundtracks of mainly British cult series like Doctor Who, The Prisoner, A Man with a Suitcase, and so on...
Better to shut up, I get sentimental when I am drunk...

[Vojvoda]

Srecna Nova Godina!! :drunk

[Frans_Jozef]

Srecna Nova Godina!!

Bottoms up, my friend...those of the wine glasses I mean ;-)

[Taras Bulba]

Happy New Year!