Welcome back, Anatoliy!  Recently you wrote in a message to Carol   
   Shenkenberger:   
      
    CS>  Rule #3, if not sober, try to hide it (grin)   
      
    AK>  Rule #4, if you can't hide it and have hurt anyone with   
    AK>  your words, explain him/her that your words were   
    AK>  misunderstood because of your bad knowledge or English :)   
      
    AK>  Happy New Year, by the way!   
      
      
                      Should auld acquaintance be forgot,   
                      and never brought to mind?   
      
                      ... we'll take a cup o' kindness yet   
                      for auld lang syne.   
      
      
              These words, traditionally sung just before midnight on New Year's   
   Eve, are from a Scottish folk song which Robbie Burns apparently wrote out in   
   1788 & sent to the Scots Musical Museum.   
      
              Fun factoid:  Literally "auld lang syne" = "old long since"... but   
   this part is often interpreted more freely as "(for) old times' sake".   
      
              With an "auld acquaintance" from E_T posting on New Year's Day for   
   the first time in quite awhile, I can't resist proposing a toast to Anatoliy.   
   For those who want to research the words in more detail, however, I must warn   
   you that a "pint" is half a quart... not half a gallon, as one source claims.   
      
              Anyway, Happy New Year to you too....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)