Welcome back, Anatoliy!  Recently you wrote in a message to Carol
Shenkenberger:

 CS>  Rule #3, if not sober, try to hide it (grin)

 AK>  Rule #4, if you can't hide it and have hurt anyone with
 AK>  your words, explain him/her that your words were
 AK>  misunderstood because of your bad knowledge or English 

 AK>  Happy New Year, by the way!


                   Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
                   and never brought to mind?

                   ... we'll take a cup o' kindness yet
                   for auld lang syne.


           These words, traditionally sung just before midnight on New Year's
Eve, are from a Scottish folk song which Robbie Burns apparently wrote out in
1788 & sent to the Scots Musical Museum.

           Fun factoid:  Literally "auld lang syne" = "old long since"... but
this part is often interpreted more freely as "(for) old times' sake".

           With an "auld acquaintance" from E_T posting on New Year's Day for
the first time in quite awhile, I can't resist proposing a toast to Anatoliy.
For those who want to research the words in more detail, however, I must warn
you that a "pint" is half a quart... not half a gallon, as one source claims.

           Anyway, Happy New Year to you too....  :-)




--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
 * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)