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RE: Quill's Bithday on New Year's Eve ... Less Glamorous Than You Might Think - COM #44
The problem with this sort of birthday is that no one ever really gives a shit about your birthday, but the positive is that you don't also have to go out of.your way to throw a party or anything. The economist in me is already wishing my kids be born during festive periods, this way I'll never forget their birthdays because that's something I suck at.
So in the words of a great poet, "bla bla bla bla for 'ol owl enzyme my friend". So touching
Oh and happy birthday in advance.
@belemo,
Thanks mate.
The memorability factor is definitely an upside ... people cannot argue that they forgot New Year's Eve and, quite frankly, they don't. Even decades later, old friends from High School still remember.
For some real silliness, I was going to rewrite Auld Lang Syne completely but decided in favor of authenticity. It's not so much that people are singing the wrong words ... it's that they're fake-singing nothing. Interestingly, everyone seems to be extremely loathe to admit it. If they would, we could just print out the words. But it's like Venezuela ... they deny that there's even a problem in need of fixing. "1,000,000% inflation ... we like big bills. Millions of refugees ... they're on extended holidays."
Happy New Year.
Quill