New Year's Feud

Thread Games
21
  1. Drink less
  2. Eat 12 grapes.
  3. 1580s
  4. Black-eyed peas
  5. United States
  6. Dick Clark
  7. Coffee
  8. New York, New York
  9. It Was a Very Good Year
  10. After Midnight
22
  1. Travel
  2. Germany, New Year’s Kiss
  3. 100
  4. Black-eyed peas
  5. US
  6. Ryan Seacrest
  7. Hair of the Dog
  8. New York
  9. In the Year 2525
  10. The Midnight Special
23
  1. Stop smoking
  2. Eat grapes
  3. 1500
  4. Black eyed peas
  5. US
  6. Dick Clark
  7. Hair of the dog
  8. New Years Day
  9. All Those Years Ago
  10. After Midnight
24

I almost went with quitting smoking, but figured that almost no one smokes anymore.

25
  1. Exercise
  2. Eat 12 grapes
  3. 1580
  4. Black eye peas
  5. Samoa
  6. Anderson Cooper
  7. coffee
  8. A Whole New World
  9. Feliz Navidad
  10. Walkin’ After Midnight
26

I had been thinking about my answers from last night, and all that came to me was “exercise.” I decided to wait until morning to see if I could think better. But then, when I came back, Discourse jumped me to someone else’s answer, and so I had to go with my first guess from last night. I’m not even sure exercise would be considered distinct from “lose weight” by most participants.

27
  1. Stop smoking
  2. Poland: eating herring
  3. 1500
  4. Pork and Sauerkraut
  5. Australia
  6. Dick Clark
  7. Redeye (beer and tomato juice)
  8. You Make Me Feel Brand New (Stylistics?)
  9. In The Year 2525
  10. After Midnight
28
  1. Work out
  2. Opening a window so the old year can escape
  3. AD 40
  4. Bread
  5. Niue
  6. Ryan Seacrest
  7. Hair of the dog
  8. New Year’s Day (U2)
  9. The Living Years (Mike + The Mechanics)
  10. Midnight Train to Georgia
29
  1. find true love
  2. wear red clothing (Italy)
  3. 1500
  4. black-eyed peas
  5. USA
  6. Dick Clark
  7. hair of the dog
  8. “New York, New York”
  9. “Year of the Cat”
  10. “After Midnight”
30
  1. stop drinking
  3. 1120
  4. black eyed peas
  5. Samoa
  6. Dick Clark
  7. Pedialyte
  8. New Day Dawning
  9. Year of the Cat
  10. After Midnight
31

I told Rebo I was going to win this game, now I think I’ll be near the bottom. When it comes to #8 I can’t believe I forgot about so many songs with New in the title. I could only come up with that one by Sting.

32
  1. Exercise more
  3. 5th decade B.C.E
  4. Red beans and rice
  5. Mexico
  6. Ryan Seacrest
  7. Hair of the dog’
  8. New Year’s Day, U2
  9. Year of the Cat, Al Stewart
  10. After Midnight, Eric Clapton

(Edited to add a period after #5 to make the list work - no changes made to answers…)

33

Bumping the thread.

(Discourse won’t let me type bump. Or .BUMP)

34

Replies to question 4 has me shocked, shocked I tell you. I always have pork and sauerkraut for new years, and assumed everyone did the same. Never heard of black eyed peas being eaten for new years.

35

It’s a southern thing, typically served with collard greens.

36

I love collards, like black eyed peas, but never heard of them being tied to new years.

I love rice and peas when in the Caribbean. On several islands I’ve had Jamaicans tell me they couldn’t believe I’d ordered rice and peas on a day that wasn’t Sunday (a Jamaican tradition).

37

Only 24 players so far…

38

I wrote Hoppin’ John, which is a dish featuring black-eyed peas. I wonder if it counts?

39

Yes, I combined Hoppin’ John with black-eyed peas. I’ve been getting a head start on the scoring.

Also - in the future, please put pass if you want to leave a blank. (Not you specifically, knoodler. Unless you did it, too!)

40

I’m not familiar with the play— can I insert “pass” and change my mind later?