Cracked open a 10 year old bottle of White Star Moet&Chandon at midnight PST. It's been in the fridge all that time. Tasted slightly raisony but very dry and still had plenty of fizz.
Not sure if champagne is supposed to age well or not.
Been up a few hours, but can someone sleep the new year in?
Yes I did!
My partner wanted Champagne with his BBQ ribs, cooked cabbage, corn on the cob and mashed potato dinner, it's wasn't midnight but I have to please him......
Just having him here made my New Year night.
It's OK to snore darling!
Happy New year everyone.
Rang in the New Year alone, placed pennies in all the window sils for luck and went to bed.
I've been up for 2 hours now fixing a pork roast and sauerkraut as well as baking a white chocolate raspberry torte for mothers 49th birthday today.
Well, since we all said "nineteen ninety-nine", I think we should go back to that format and say, "twenty-ten", "twenty-eleven", "twenty-twelve", etc...
There WAS a problem with saying "twenty-nine", obviously, but that problem is now gone.
Problem is... twenty-oh-nine is the same number of syllables as two thousand nine (4). But twenty-ten is only three syllables... I figure people will go for the fewest number of syllables to say a date.
Not that it's a big deal, as long as people know what one means.
Umm, remember 1990? How often did you hear anyone say nineteen-thousand-ninety? It was a concise nineteen-ninety. Let's make it a concise twenty-ten. (20-10)
"Twenty-eleven" has five syllables, whereas "Two Oh One One" has only four. So there goes my least syllabic theory.
Off topic again, but I took a Mandarin class last year, and as I recall the dates in that language are such that the years are read out numeral by numeral, as in "Two Zero One One".