IT'S FRIDAY. ALMOST TIME FOR TRIVIA. DECEMBER 29. 2023

4 all our dear friends who have come here through the years to play trivia we wish you
all a Happy New Year. 🌹

Auld Lang Syne (The New Year’s Anthem)
Song by Mariah Carey

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We’ll tak’ a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And auld lang syne
Auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We’ll tak’ a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We’ll tak’ a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne
Ey, oh yeah, ey, ey, eh
Happy New Year baby, eh, oh
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And auld lang syne
Does anybody really know the words
Might as well sing along
Happy New Year baby
Happy New Year baby
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And auld lang syne
Happy New Year
To you and your friends
And have a drink on me
Happy New Year
To you
And have a drink on me
Ten, night, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one
Happy new year

It ‘s that time for me to head home. Hopefully, the traffic lights will recognize my vehicle and will be green when I get there. I will post when i’ m there.

To All Here in The HSN Community. ✨✨

12 feet
New Year’s Eve Ball Design
The Ball is a geodesic sphere, 12 feet in diameter, and weighs 11,875 pounds.

First held on December 31, 1907, to welcome 1908, the ball drop has been held annually since, except in 1942 and 1943 in observance of wartime blackouts. The …

2000
Year 2000 celebrations and the fourth ball (1999–2007)
On December 28, 1998, during a press conference attended by New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, organizers announced that the third ball would be retired for the arrival of the new millennium, and replaced by a new design constructed by Waterford Crystal.

It will be interesting to see what new games we will be playing next week.

1 1999
2 1907
3 12 feet

@oodiebom,

Happy New Year to you and all in the HSN Community. 😎😘🎈😉

Thanks,OODIEBOM! Not only did I laugh but, thought about missing the old days.
Reminds me of my mom and grandma so much, Im very familiar with everything you posted. I’m smiling ear to ear. Happy New Year! to you and all that post here! May you be blessed with a prosperous New Year! xo

Since it’s almost time for New Year’s, here are some DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN:

Women would get dressed up to go shopping?
A popular bicycle accessory was a banana seat?
You used a rotary phone?
Your phone hung on the wall and had an extremely long cord (always tangled)?
Your milk, eggs, and other dairy products were delivered by a milkman?
The Fuller Brush man, the bread man, and the encyclopedia salesmen were three of the many door-to-door salesmen that would visit your home?
You met your friends on the corner in the evening to have ice cream from an ice cream truck?
You made coffee in a percolator?
You got under your desk for atom bomb drills at school?
School papers were copied by mimeograph with the acidic-smelling purple ink?
You called a refrigerator an ice box?
There used to be no swearing on TV?
You found phone numbers in a phone book or dialed information?
You called a number to get the correct time?
Calling the operator to place a long-distance call?
Phone numbers began with a word?
You collected S & H Green Stamps for purchasing household items?
Nurses dressed in white?
You had to adjust the TV antennas to get a good signal?
Wrapping the TV antenna in aluminum foil to get a better signal?
The television was black and white and signed off at midnight?
Riding your bike without a helmet and in a car without a seatbelt?
Playing outside all day and only coming in when the street lights came on?
Walking to your neighborhood school?
Using roller skates that had a key?
Car hops serving food to your car, sometimes on roller skates?
Nineteen cent a gallon gas, 25 cent movies, and 10 cent popcorns?
Ironing almost all your clothes?
Wringer washers and hanging your wash on a clothesline?
Every neighborhood had a corner store with essentials and penny candy?
Eating out was a special treat that only happened rarely and on special occasions?
Soda fountains in drug stores?
At home permanent waves and dye jobs?
Saddle shoes and penny loafers?
Hurrying home from school to watch American Bandstand with Dick Clark?
Using reference materials such as the encyclopedia, atlas, and dictionary?
Playing tether-ball and riding the merry-go-round and tetter-totter at recess?
Wearing gym uniforms and showering after PE?
Wearing multiple slips under skirts to make them stand out?
Rolling hair on sponge rollers or rag strips?
The Easy Bake Oven if you were a girl and G.I. Joe action figures if you were a boy?
Watching for Burma Shave signs on road-trip vacations?
Having to re-type pages over and over until you got it right?
The thrill when you could use white-out tape and later white-out liquid to correct mistakes?
Shopping the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs?
Smoking on airplanes, in restaurants, literally almost anywhere?
You were fed a meal on your airplane flight?
Eating TV dinners while watching a family-favorite program?
Reading Life magazine and The Saturday Evening Post?
Drinking orange-flavored Tang, made popular on John Glenn’s space flight?
Squeezing the packet of dye into the margarine to make it yellow?

Hope you smiled and laughed as I did on some of the above. However, I do remember party lines at Grandparents home. They had to wait and wait and wait for the other people to get off so they could make calls. However, there were times that you could join in to say hello. Oops, did I just age myself?????😀🤣😎