Greetings, Friends

(with apologies to Frank Sullivan and The New Yorker)\

As the Yule log burns to embers,
Time to greet our forum members.
Let us flee from winter’s freeze,
To sip hot glüg and talk degrees.

Hang in, hang on, hang tough, hang loose,
O moderators kizmet, Bruce
SurfDoctor, airtorn, Randall1234,
And two more holding down the floor:

He who is surely not a trainee hack,
The hard-to-rhyme Maniac Craniac.
And to #1 poster, Mr. Ted Heiks,
Who will soon reach ten thousand postings. Yikes!

We miss some folks who were here at first,
Like oxpecker, Reginstein, Head and Hirst.
Tho’ politically right of General Franco,
We really miss you, Uncle Janko.

To caldog, StefanM, and to Orson,
To the memory of Marci Thorson.
Soon comes April Fool and the Ides of June.
In the meantime, hi there Kim Jong Un.

All ready now for New Years Eve
are Tracey, Jack and Foerster, Steve.
Report for duty, shake a leg,
Anderson (Ian) and DesElms (Gregg).

Hello, four Bills, and come on over:
Dayson, Huffman, Highsmith, Grover
Don’t drink too much and go all blotto,
BlueMason, AUTiger and Fortunato

Mike Albrecht, pass the wassail juice
To TCord, edowave, GeneralSnus,
And folks north and south of the Mason-Dixon,
Like PhD2B and tcnixon.

Hey -kevin-, want to litigate?
Then go see nosborne48
And just in on the train from Yonkers,
It’s Lawrie Miller and bazonkers

Salutations, rickyjo,
RFValve and friendorfoe
Let’s go to that New Years rave
With Hayden and Wagner, two guys named Dave

Joy to Barack and Michelle Obama,
Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama.
WIthout pugbelly, we’d be pugless.
And without Rich we’d have no Douglas.

A hall of fame vote for Sammy Sosa,
And a tip of the hat to cookderosa,
roysavia, Major56 and Lerner,
Mr. Engineer, Charles, Coach Turner.

We have a special hall of fog
For folks who use a cryptic log
Like JLV, emmzee, ITJD,
b4z28 and firstmode4c,

k5fk and bo79
and Japhy45 at the end of the line.
cyber and delta, back in the saddle,
With shotojuku and skidadl.

May your new year be most dandy,
Ambrose (Shawn) and Borchers (Andy)
RobbCD, BLD, MarilynD, any “D”
And come back and join us, Professor Kennedy.

Be no coward, be a mensch,
PaulC, Howard, Peter French.
Help us deal with schools so shady,
Levicoff and David Lady.

Share a pot of new year’s chili
With mattbrent, homer, Han and Hille.
They don’t post here, but I wish they’d call in:
Contreras, Ezell, and George D. Gollin.

Seven more posters of renown:
Christopher Green, George and Eric Brown,
raristud2, jigamafloo,
lawrenceeq, and abner, too

Greetings, Simon, and David Boyd
sentinel and Michael Lloyd
TEKMAN, Ike, and Tony Pina,
decimon, CDHale, Dr. Gina.

A nod to the bloke who holds the reins
For that other good forum, his name is Gus Sainz.
And hail to the leader of this fine ship,
Hip hip hooray to Captain Chip.

For all your postings, thanks a million,
meagain and gkillion.
Nearly done now, but WTF,
Forgot jake_A and friartuck,

This wish to you, in the winter air:
May the new year bring happiness.
--John B. Bear

 

Happy new year Dr. Bear and to all the Degreeinfo family.:hail::hail:

 

Excellent!

Dr. Bear, you have influenced more people here (including me) than you will probably ever know.

Best wishes to you and your family for a healthy and prosperous 2012!

 

Dr. Bear - Happy New Year to you as well!

 

Very entertaining, Doc! I guess I'll have to post a ton in the next year if I want to see what you will rhyme my username with. =P

 

Very well done! A very Happy New Year to you, Dr. Bear.

 

oxpecker?...:thinking:

 

Thanks Dr. Bear. I hope you have a fun New Year's celebration and a great 2012.

 

Absolutely love it. Happy New Year to all!

 

With a couple of intentional exceptions, I believe I included everyone with at least 1,000 posts. --John

 

You are a poet and we didn't know it.

 

Thanks Dr. Bear!

Also, thanks for giving me a swift Karate kick to the buttocks when I felt like giving up on the capstone at Aspen for my MBA. Your words put me back on track, and I have an MBA to show for it!!!!!!!!!!! Hells to the YES!!!!!!!!!

Abner :smile:

 

Happy New Year to Dr. Bear and all the regulars and guests at DegreeInfo. Thanks to Chip for the forum.

 

Happy New Year to everyone!

I have received valuable assistance from people on this forum over the years, and I greatly appreciate that!

 

Greetings and salutations!

 

yesh......

 

Here's to a wonderful new year for you, Marina and Mariah. I am looking forward to working with you this year.

Tony

 

Dr. Bear,
Happy New Year to you and your family also