Happy New Year

[mike carey]

Well, the fireworks in Sydney are over and we're 25 minutes into 2017, and so far so good!

 

A happy, safe and prosperous New Year to one and all. No matter how good 2016 was to you, may the new year be better. Enjoy the thrill of the new as your time zone ticks over into the future!

[whipped guy]

Yes, I saw that on TV and Mike you obviously were the first person that I thought of! Have a Happy!!!! Plus a Happy to all our other posters from Down Under!

[+ José Soplanucas]

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE! Yes, to EVERYONE!

[gallahadesquire]

Oh, my. Is the restaurant and wine store Phantom of the Opera still open? It's on The Rocks, nearby to where this picture would have been taken.

[tyro]

The past two years have been up-and-down for me. Thank you all for being here.

Happy 2017. May God(dess)/Higher Power/the Universe/Life/Mother Earth/Father Time/any deity I've forgotten bless us --- every single one.

T

[+ Funguy]

A very warm, dry, and toasty New Year to one and all.

May 2017 be all that it can be!

 

Funguy

[mike carey]

Oh, my. Is the restaurant and wine store Phantom of the Opera still open? It's on The Rocks, nearby to where this picture would have been taken.

I don't know it and I couldn't find any reference to it on line. There are lots of restaurants at The Rocks, and I suspect they turn over quite quickly. The Rocks is at the southern end of the bridge and would be behind the Opera House as seen in this photo, which would have been taken from Mrs Macquaries Chair or the Botanical Gardens east of the city.

[bigvalboy]

"Here aboard the third rock from the sun

Five billion times around it we have spun. Or, if you please, two thousand and sixteen And as it ends, we ask, what did it mean?

 

 

Like a tattered sticker on a bumper,

A faded yard sign, lying in the grass, Proclaiming here once lived a never-Trumper The year is dwindling down and soon will pass.

 

 

So let’s take stock of all the wounds and bruises

To all the Clintonistas who feel cheated The Bernie Bros and Rubios and Cruzes They did their best but ended up out-tweeted

 

 

How many self-important, high-falutin’

Pollsters, anchors, bloggers were upset To look down at their shoes and see that Putin Just took a WikiLeak, and got them wet?

 

 

We can see our time is growing short here,

Upon the Earth, we’re only just a tenant, Apocalypse, as Nostradamus taught, dear, Won’t happen till the Cubs have won the pennant.

 

 

As foretold in the Book of Revelation

We’re living in a time of fear and doubt. Four horsemen ride to bring the Tribulation Unless we build a wall to keep them out.

 

 

Yet even in the darkness of December

Somewhere up ahead there must be light Be guided by this saying, and remember: Do not go gentle into that alt-night."

Jerry Adler...

[+ purplekow]

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE! Yes, to EVERYONE!

Even to your many enemies who suffered humiliating defeats?

[+ azdr0710]

heartfelt sentiment....

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2016

[+ WmClarke]

Happy New Year everyone!