percy toboggan
31-Dec-08, 18:35
...so, it's New Year's Eve again and a date that was once pure science fiction in my mind looms large for us all.
2009 ! :eek:.......the elders amongst us - and I mean that in no hierarchical way - will probably recognise my sentiments. As we queued at the cinema in '69 to see 2001..a Space Odyssey...and contemplated a very different future to car alarms, credit crunches, and internet forums.
Still we're shaping up well here. This is about the fourth year I've been dropping in and it can still get lively, although a few auld adversaries and allies are missing I raise a glass to all of them....passt and present.
Stimulating debate and challenging opinions are what life as an online agent provocateur, curmudgeon and general lummox is all about.
This year we managed to get up to Caithness for the third time. Like the able Dr.Johnson said of 'The Giants Causeway' the county is worth seeing...but not worth going to see. Although I except the coastline from that ungenerous analogy.
The people are very different. We have a eclectic mix here with very few numpty's...I think the numpty count in Caithness well below the national average. We have some people far more intelligent than I and happily, many more who are on a kind of par. Middle of the road folk who like a blather, and to get things of their chests from time to time.
I wish each and every one of you a very Happy New Year...which might be tougher for all of us...but hey! we can cope.
As far as the internet goes - you are the business....and thanks to the folks of admin who keep the site going so well.
All the best for 2009.
2009 ! :eek:.......the elders amongst us - and I mean that in no hierarchical way - will probably recognise my sentiments. As we queued at the cinema in '69 to see 2001..a Space Odyssey...and contemplated a very different future to car alarms, credit crunches, and internet forums.
Still we're shaping up well here. This is about the fourth year I've been dropping in and it can still get lively, although a few auld adversaries and allies are missing I raise a glass to all of them....passt and present.
Stimulating debate and challenging opinions are what life as an online agent provocateur, curmudgeon and general lummox is all about.
This year we managed to get up to Caithness for the third time. Like the able Dr.Johnson said of 'The Giants Causeway' the county is worth seeing...but not worth going to see. Although I except the coastline from that ungenerous analogy.
The people are very different. We have a eclectic mix here with very few numpty's...I think the numpty count in Caithness well below the national average. We have some people far more intelligent than I and happily, many more who are on a kind of par. Middle of the road folk who like a blather, and to get things of their chests from time to time.
I wish each and every one of you a very Happy New Year...which might be tougher for all of us...but hey! we can cope.
As far as the internet goes - you are the business....and thanks to the folks of admin who keep the site going so well.
All the best for 2009.