# Happy New Year!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year/10328
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 1, 1999, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year/10328 "1999-11-01T03:18:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 1, 1999, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year/10328/1 "1999-11-01T03:18:00Z")
Halloween, Samhain, whatever you call it, Happy New Year!
-Melin
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### Author:  [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)
#### Post date: [November 1, 1999, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year/10328/2 "1999-11-01T03:24:00Z")
Mahzeltov!! Or however it is spelled!
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“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good
things.” --Edgar Degas
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### Author:  [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)
#### Post date: [November 1, 1999, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year/10328/3 "1999-11-01T06:03:00Z")
Happy Day of the Dead!
How come that sounds wrong?
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### Author:  [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)
#### Post date: [November 1, 1999, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year/10328/4 "1999-11-01T09:49:00Z")
Thank you…
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Yer pal,
Satan
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### Author:  [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)
#### Post date: [November 2, 1999, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year/10328/5 "1999-11-02T07:23:00Z")
Ditto, Melin! People have been looking at me strangely all day when I wish them Happy New Year!
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Born O.K. the first time…
If you are born again, do you have two belly buttons?