Comments on: What Else Will Drop on New Year's Eve?

What Else Will Drop on New Year's Eve?

ericb — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:15:40 -0800

This New Year's Eve you can watch the drop of the "Waterford Crystal New Year's Eve Ball" (which will now become a year-round attraction hovering above Times Square). Not interested? How about watching the dropping of a drag queen, a pirate wench, pickles and sausages (among other things) while ringing in the New Year?

TripAdvisor's Top Quirkiest New Year's Eve Events in the U.S.

Drag Queen ("Sushi") Dropped in a Ruby Shoe, Key West, FL. Conch Shell Dropped at Sloppy Joe's, Key West, FL. The Lowering of the Pirate Wench at Midnight, Key West, FL. New Year's Eve Peep Drop , Bethlehem, PA. Walleye Fish Drop, Port Clinton, OH. New Year's Eve Pickle Drop, Mount Olive, NC. The Great Sausage Drop, Elmore, OH. Bologna Drop, Lebanon, PA. Gumbo Pot Drop, New Orleans, LA. Maryland Crab Drop, Easton, MD. Cheese Drop, Plymouth, WI. Acorn Drop, Raleigh, NC.

By: mullingitover

mullingitover — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:32:53 -0800

You can add 'inhibitions' and 'judgement' to the list, location: wherever I end up.

By: nicwolff

nicwolff — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:50:03 -0800

And "pants".

By: The Michael The

The Michael The — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:05:13 -0800

Man, central PA (the TMT homeland) is a hotbed of dropping things. Not only do you have the bologna in Lebanon, you have: A strawberry in Harrisburg A Hershey's Kiss in Hershey An Indy car in Carlisle An anchor in Shippensburg A wrench in Mechanicsburg A pickle in Dillsburg A white rose in York A red rose in Lancaster A sled in Duncannon A huckleberry in New Bloomfield A goat (not real) in Falmouth A lollipop in Hummelstown A M&M in Elizabethtown An orb in Manheim A lion (also not real) in Red Lion A wooden cow in Blain A canal boat in Liverpool For some reason, there's a BBC site describing the reasons for some of these, and the rest are here.

By: geekyguy

geekyguy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:37:51 -0800

The West Coast's First Ball Drop, Sacramento, CA.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:43:57 -0800

A ball made of Hula Hoops, Aluminum Foil, & Christmas Lights, Gorham, Maine (also the Giant Sardine in Eastport)

By: fieldtrip

fieldtrip — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:09:20 -0800

Will any of these be streaming on the tubes? I clicked a couple of links and didn't see any mention.

By: Pyry

Pyry — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:42:31 -0800

Drops?! What is this, the 18th century? I want to see Harrison Ford, Will Smith, and Bruce Willis running away from a carbomb that explodes right as the clock strikes 12. In slow motion. My generation's MTV and internet shortened attention span demands it.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:22:40 -0800

this is just more evidence of florida being an interesting place to visit and new york becoming deathly dull - i hate to bang on about it, but there you are.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:07:57 -0800

Times Square has become nothing but a corporate slum. It was lots nicer and more fun when it had the sleaze. As for dropping stuff: For whatever reason, this always seemed backwards to me. Send stuff up, not down. (Except Nicwolf has a nice idea for something to drop).

By: mannequito

mannequito — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:49:50 -0800

So we're in agreement? At midnight tonight, every mefite worldwide drops their pants?

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:22:58 -0800

I'm planning on chucking empty gin bottles, obcenities, and my dinner off of my roof around midnight or so. Come on by, bring the kids!

By: Chrysostom

Chrysostom — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:32:46 -0800

Bologna Drop, Lebanon, PA. That's Lebanon bologna, mind you, not that Oscar Meyer stuff.

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:36:08 -0800

The Lowering of the Pirate Wench at Midnight, Key West, FL. Clicking on that link did not bring me to where I thought it would.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:40:47 -0800

Holy hell, the new and improved state-of-the-art Times Square ball now weighs 17 times what the original iron one weighed 100 years ago? Way to go, progress! How long before it drops too fast and crushes someone?

By: Coatlicue

Coatlicue — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:46:47 -0800

Stupid acorn drop. Hanging off a freaking crane in downtown Raleigh. Freaking City of Oaks, with all the concomitant-ass pollen you could hope for --and die from! I wonder if Cary, NC drops a triple-wide stroller.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:58:35 -0800

I've always been a bit annoyed by the phrase "Ball Drop". Not for the obvious urological reasons (although adding Dick Clark into the mix is a tad much), but because it's not a drop so much as a gentle lowering. If I wanted to watch a gentle lowering of a glowing golden orb, I'd just watch the sunset, which, come to think of it, would make a lot more symbolic end-of-year sense.

By: Chrysostom

Chrysostom — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:29:01 -0800

I'd just watch the sunset Tricky to align with midnight, though, unless you're in orbit.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:44:23 -0800

I always thought the ball-drop was a stupid tradition. OMG! It's a ball! On a pole! Which symbolizes a new year, obviously.