What's 12 feet wide, weighs 11,875 pounds and will be falling on Manhattan in a blaze of light in a matter of hours? The Times Square ball. It's twice as large as last year and sporting quadruple the number of Waterford crystal triangles (2,668).
This year's New Year Eve's midnight ball drop in Times Square also will involve cascading confetti and balloons, and the usual camaraderie with strangers from across the globe who jet in just to be able to say they were there. It's going to be a cold night with an air temp of six degrees. With one third of the people drunk, another third pick pocketers and the rest I'm sure plain clothed officers of the law, I think I'd rather stick a screw driver in my eye before I went there. Akin to sitting in the cold with eighty thousand football fans yelling and screaming in the rain watching their favorite football team kick a pig skin through the goal posts. I'd rather watch it on my big screen t.v. with a big bowl of buttered popcorn and an adult beverage. But that's just me. I'm sure watching this ball fall in the cold is the thing to do if you live in the "Big Apple". I'll be asleep in my nice warm bed when the 60-second countdown to the dropping of the times square ball is heard. And the off-key choruses of "Auld Lang Syne."
Happy New Year Everybody !
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