new year's eve

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10543835/New-Years-Eve-Hogmanay-celebrations-start-early-in-Edinburgh.html

“An Irishman is never drunk as long as - He can hold onto one blade of grass and not - Fall off the face of the earth”

Old Irish toast quotes

jpr: Oh yeah,  happy anniversary to any who may have married on this day!

prediction for Castle fans

jpr: Nathan Fillion stars in new sci-fi tv show based on Nebula 9 Castle episode.. You heard it first here!

Happ New Year?

One medieval English New Year custom (sadly out of favour) involved farmers putting a cake on the horns of a cow. They would then sing a song and dance around it.  If the cake fell forward it meant good luck for the rest of the year?  Where the hell did this idea come from???

Wunderkind

An audience in Vienna has given a standing ovation to 11-year-old British composer Alma Deutscher at the premiere of her opera Cinderella. The girl, who says she gets musical inspiration while skipping,  reimagined the tale of Cinderella, setting it in an opera house run by the wicked stepmother.  Deutscher's Cinderella is two-and-a-half hours long, and the musical score runs to 237 pages.  Did I mention she's 11?

think fast

Snapped at the instant when a bat slipped from the hands of a baseball player and a fan instinctively stretched out his arm to save his son.

thank u japan

most entertaining!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtnYr96Eok

shaka of the zulu s grave

King Shaka was buried here in 1828 after his assassination by his half brothers Dingane and Mhlangana while his army was on campaign