Ask Slashdot: What Is Your New Years Eve Tradition? 256
skade88 writes "What does the Slashdot community do to celebrate New Years Eve? Does your city do something cool and unique to celebrate? Do you celebrate with fireworks in front of your house, or in your favorite MMO (WoW, Minecraft, etc.)?"
BEING AWESORME (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Slashdort: Today is a great day for all the readers of Slashdort, because we will make linquini and boil a Linurx in a stew of Windors. Hooraye! COMMUNISM NOW!
The same thing we do every New Years (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The same thing we do every New Years (Score:3, Funny)
A vow of celibacy (Score:5, Funny)
Each new year I take a vow of celibacy as my father before me and his father before him. It's a long standing family tradition.
My Dad shot rifles into the air on New Years... (Score:5, Funny)
...to scare away the evil spirits. "Haven't seen any this year, have you?" he would always ask. "Must have worked," he opined further. This story was told to a Mexican cabbie who in all seriousness replied that my father was being silly, and that all you had to do was throw water out the back door to scare evil spirits away for the year. Who knew?
FYI, my father was an electronics engineer whose tongue was often so far in his cheek that it might have protruded from the vulgar aperture.
Pet owner (Score:5, Funny)
I spend most of the evening looking over a very scared dog.
It would be highly appreciated if those of you using fireworks waited until midnight.
Commit my code (Score:5, Funny)
I commit all my outstanding code. Then I wait until the next year to fix the build.
Re:My Dad shot rifles into the air on New Years... (Score:4, Funny)
My father was killed by a random bullet fired into the air, you insensitive clod.