Mark Twain wrote to the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise January 1, 1863:
New Year's Day--Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. We shall also reflect pleasantly upon how we did the same old thing last year about this time. However, go in, community. New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion.
Do you have any Humbug Resolutions?
4 comments:
No, I have no humbug resolutions. I always resolve to stay just as charming as I've always been.
Bah Humbug! I've gotta loose weight! YIKES!
more cowbell's!
I don't have a comment. I was just reading these when I spied the word verification.
souppot
How appropriate for today!!
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