Pleep & Crew Say Farewell to 2010 & Auld Lang Syne

The 2010 New Year's Eve has arrived.  Pleep, Delete, Leoni and Cubby are gearing up to celebrate in style: Cary Grant and Marx Brothers movies dominate the Turner Classic Movie schedule; College Football Bowl Games, including the Fighting Irish, and a trip to the Deck Down Under for an early New Year's Eve Toast.  Pleep agrees with George Heidkamp that New Year's Eve is amateur night and prefers to be safely home before the rookies hit the streets.  Thanks to David Gates, we have the perfect toasting shot glasses - tiki statues from his trip to Disney World.

2010 has been a fabulous year with many great  (and some sad) milestones: Harry's  8th grade graduation and Head Boy award; the George & Ida birthday mega-party; visitors to the new Daytona Beach condo; college graduations by Matt & Zan Heidkamp and Alex Collins; and, sadly, the passing of Ron Ross (aka The Vodka Bomber).

Watching Mike & Mike this morning, Pleep was surprised when the discussion turned to Auld Lang Syne.  According to recent surveys, the majority of Americans and Britons do not actually know the lyrics.  Everyone seems to be able to hum the song but actually stringing the words together in the right order seems to be the challenge.  Originally a poem penned by Scotsman Rabbie Burns, singing Auld Lang Syne is one of Pleep's favorite New Year's Eve traditions.  In anticipation of the event, Pleep thought it would be helpful to offer a little help by posting the lyrics (and a glossary to help interpret the old Scots phrases.) 

Happy New Year's to everyone.  We will raise our glasses in a virtual toast and hope to make more fine memories in 2011.

Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne

And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp,

And surely I'll be mine,

And we'll tak a cup o kindness yet,

For auld lang syne!

We twa hae run aboot the braes
And pou'd the gowans fine;
we've wander'd mony a weary foot
Sin' auld lang syne

We two hae paidled i' the burn,
Frae mornin' sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin' auld lang syne

And here's a hand, my trusty friend,
And gie's a hand o' thine;
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne

auld – old
lang – long
syne – since
be – buy
pint – pint
stowp – cup
twa – two
hae – have
braes – slopes
pou’d – picked
gowans – daisies
fit – foot
paidl’d – paddled
burn – stream
dine – dinner
braid – broad
fiere – friend
gude-willy waught – good-will draught