Happy New Year!

I thought I could be ahead of the game this year and come up with the perfect gratingly-catchy rhyme-based sentiment to describe the new year, a "great in '08" for the new generation that isn't accurate enough to be depressing ("economic decline in 2009"). I turned to an online rhyming dictionary for answers, but came away more confused than ever.
Once you get into 6 syllable rhymes for nine things start to get interesting.
Personal favorites:
- alpine celery pine
- acoustic delay line
- willard van orman quine

Are these even real words?


Anyway, to ring in the new year I went to Riverside (home of the Whopper) to go to a New Year's Party at Megan's house, a small affair where I accidentally got drunk and then drunk-dialed my sister, who I forgot was with my mother. I PLAYED IT COOL but since both of them read this the secret's out.

Here's something irritating: when people say they are allergic to traits, behaviors, turn-of-phrases, etc. Example: In I, Robot Will Smith tells someone that he's "allergic to lying." NO YOU AREN'T WILL SMITH. Disapproval is not a disorder of the immune system.
I also hate it when people say they're allergic to foods that they don't like. Just say you don't like it! You're not offending the mushrooms by not liking them. They don't like you either! If mushrooms were anthropomorphic they'd probably want to thank you for not eating them anyway. That being said, it is my most ardent wish to have a real-life moment where I can be invited to eat shrimp for dinner and tell someone I hope it's not jumbo shrimp, due to my paralyzing allergy to oxymorons. If this happens I will even break out the epinephrine shot as a prop.