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|    George Pope to August Abolins    |
|    nothing since may'21    |
|    04 Jan 22 10:26:44    |
      MSGID: 1:153/757.0 16afe97d       REPLY: 2:333/808.7 61d464ab       TZUTC: -0800       CHARSET: LATIN-1       >> Seeing it on my desktop in a whole other year!       >> Jan'02 here today. . .       >It's really the same old same old.. one continuous timeline. There's a lot of       > tradition behind "ringing in the new year" only because of a date. Maybe it       >was a conspiracy of a variety of industries [hotelier, booze, etc..] to improv       > or maintain sales. ;)              That would make sense, & the date of the new year changes occasionally to        accommodate another corporate leader's desire to cash in on it & try to outdo        the competition from another angle, as they've sewn up the original?              I skip the hoopla, go to bed early on 31/12, & if I wake up the next day &       all is gone, I'll just go back to bed. (I started that bit for Y2K & kept it       as I like it)              --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5        * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 15/0 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 129/305       SEEN-BY: 134/100 153/105 135 757 7715 154/10 203/0 221/0 6 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/424 426 428 452 664 700 240/5411 5824 5832 5853       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 400 266/512 267/67 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854       SEEN-BY: 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120       SEEN-BY: 460/58 712/848 770/1 2452/250 3634/12       PATH: 153/757 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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