Welcome back, Anatoliy! Recently you wrote in a message to Carol Shenkenberger:
Rule #3, if not sober, try to hide it (grin)
Rule #4, if you can't hide it and have hurt anyone with
your words, explain him/her that your words were
misunderstood because of your bad knowledge or English :)
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)