Good Morning Kossacks and Welcome to Morning Open Thread (MOT)
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Let me be the first to say it to you: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
The old year dies today, another one starts tomorrow. Visualize a newborn babe and a tired, worn out old man, who looks your way..
Its a poor rundown old face, covered with scars and just a oozing vice from every pore. Slowly, sadly, the old man turns to look at you, comes closer, looks deep into your eyes with his piercing bloodshot orbs, wipes a booger from his nose and says very slowly in a deep sepuchral voice: "Morning Open Thread will start in 5.....4....3....2....1..NOW!!!!!