New Year's Eve Celebrations. What does your town drop/raise?

me | 12/31/2008 | me

[smokingfrog]

Austin is going to burn this clock...(Resolution Clock Tower)

[Viking2002]

I just brought back my requisite pound of Kuntzler's sweet Lebanon bologna when I went home for Christmas. Normally, I get Seltzer's, but the deli was out. Kuntzler's works, too. You can't find any Lebanon bologna this far south. I grew up on it, and have to have a fix every couple of months or so.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Austin is going to burn this clock...(Resolution Clock Tower)”

In San Antonio we usually have a fireworks night. However the Nazis decided that having fireworks will be a hazard because of dry conditions so they put a few hundred firework salesman out of work and then told them it was for the environment.

And people actually vote for these people.

[dfwgator]

We drop turkeys.

[AGreatPer]

Now that is an ugly clock.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

In Boston they college kids under the influence drop from rooftops while raising Caine as the legislature raise taxes and drops the boom on the taxpayers.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Your town sounds very much like my town.

[cayuga]

Mobile, AL will drop a giant Moon Pie for the first time this year. My tax dollars at work.

[sybilll]

Be polite. Don’t your politicians have names? We don’t call ours turkeys, we call them indicted.
Obligatory, Memphis drops a guitar.

[AGreatPer]

I read that is a $9,000 Moonpie. Also found this:

"New York's Times Square has a crystal ball. Mobile will have it's Moon Pie. Now Pensacola is starting a new New Year's Eve tradition with the Pelican Drop.

A team of cabinet makers constructed the center piece of Pensacola's Downtown Countdown 2008. The 1,000 pound Pelican is 13-feet-tall and 17-feet wide and will be covered with 10,000 lights."

I guess you'd better watch out for Pelican droppings.

[Uncle Miltie]

Girls in our town raise their tops.

< / wishful thinking>

[Publius6961]

Taxes.

(Was that a trick question?)

[Evie Munchkin]

In Portland, OR they drop a stinky, birkenstock-wearing, bicycle-riding hippie lesbian into the river. The river is usually polluted with poo, so no additional environmental damage is done.

[dalereed]

“The hell if I know. We’re usually dead asleep by 10 o’clock.”

Same here, we haven’t ventured out of the house on New Years eve in over 40 years.

Getting on the road is worse than a war zone!

[dalereed]

In the Los Angeles area all the cops hide out under freeway overpasses to hide from falling bullets!

[stevecmd]

Dillsburg,Pa drops a dill pickle

[SFConservative]

Now that is an ugly clock.

Done on purpose, so everyone can feel good about burning it.

[AGreatPer]

I just found this one from Key West. Looks like their gay community is outdoing San Fran.

Southernmost City (Key West) celebrates New Year's Eve with a conch shell drop at Sloppy Joe's Bar, "wench" drop at Schooner Wharf Bar, and red high heel drop with drag queen Sushi at Bourbon Street Pub/New Orleans House.

[Shadowstrike]

Fresh Market in Mobile Alabama has it. My Dad’s Foster father was from Pennsylvania and got us hooked on it.

[Shadowstrike]

Mine too. :(