# Happy New Year! Please let 2021 be better than 2020

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 31, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-please-let-2021-be-better-than-2020/929383 "2020-12-31T21:23:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-please-let-2021-be-better-than-2020/929383/21 "2021-01-01T08:09:06Z")

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We plan to use our 2020 calendars as kindling today.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-please-let-2021-be-better-than-2020/929383/22 "2021-01-01T08:17:14Z")

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Re: Dave Barry’s year-in-review:

> [@Seanette](#):
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> Is this available anywhere that isn’t paywalled?

He finds one good thing to say about 2020.

Nobody was killed by murder hornets (that we know of)

That’s about the entire article, mainly.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-please-let-2021-be-better-than-2020/929383/23 "2021-01-01T08:42:42Z")

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I’m calling a Mulligan on 2020.  
BTW, I understand why double chocolate vodka and Wild Cherry Pepsi is called a Chocolate Covered Cherry, but can someone please explain why double chocolate vodka and Mountain Dew tastes like a Mounds bar? Where does the coconut flavor come from??

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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-please-let-2021-be-better-than-2020/929383/24 "2021-01-01T09:06:46Z")

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> [@Seanette](#):
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> Is this available anywhere that isn’t paywalled?

The Washington Post does have some restrictions on its regular articles, but that WaPo Magazine article isn’t paywalled for me, and I have no special access to the site.

But **[here is another source](https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/features/article_1f2dd634-9f65-5ae4-bf83-9554efe89819.html)**. The original one is better illustrated, though! 😀

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year-please-let-2021-be-better-than-2020/929383/25 "2021-01-02T14:19:09Z")

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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> If the big ball drops, but no one’s in Time Square to see it, does the year actually end? Is today actually December 32, 2020?

AFAIAC, it’s still really 2020 until noon Eastern on January 20.

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