Sunday, December 31, 2006

New Years Celebration

Move over Times Square. We here in North Carolina have our New Years celebration and it just may empty your streets as they rush to Mt. Olive. It is the Mt. Olive Pickle Drop! For the eighth time, The Mt. Olive Pickle Company will drop a pickle into a redwood tank. The tank is located at the corner of Cucumber and Vine in Mt. Olive.

And, being more rational then New Yorkers, the drop will occur at 7 p.m. North Carolina time, December 31st. That happens to be midnight Greenwich Mean Time (also known as Universal Time Coordinated or Zulu Time). After all, isn’t that the official start of the New Year – New York is NOT the center of the Earth despite what they think. sniff

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