Forget the Big Apple -- Drop a Peach

[babylonsister]

Forget the Big Apple -- Drop a Peach
In Creative Towns, All Kinds of Objects To Descend Tonight

By William Wan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 31, 2008; Page A01


Why drop a ball? Of all the ways mankind could mark one turn around the sun and the beginning of the next, why do we feel compelled to drop a big honking globe from the top of a pole?

"Yeah, dropping a ball is a little random," Don Wisniewski agreed.

That's why for the first time at the stroke of midnight tonight, he and the entire city of Annapolis will drop a sailboat.

No, not the polished wooden kind -- sockless sailors everywhere would cringe -- but a three-foot steel frame outlined in bright lights. And the Annapolitans are not alone.

In Georgia, they will drop giant peaches and chicken nuggets. In Maine, a sardine. In Key West, Fla., revelers will lower an elegantly dressed drag queen named Sushi wearing in eight-foot-long ruby stilettos.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/30/AR2008123003279.html

[salguine]

1. Plus, a peach would look like a giant butt, which would be extremely funny.

[Orsino]

2. And in D.C., of course, they drop regulations...

...while out in L.A., they drop names.

[liberalpress]

3. Bill Clinton will drop

his pants!

John McCAin will drop his teeth!

Larry Craig will drop the soap!

[trof]

4. And in Mobile, Alabama a giant MOON PIE!

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/1221-moon-pie-drop-in-mobile/786150157

[MsTryska]

5. I think everyone should drop a drag queen!

How awesome is Key West?!

[babylonsister]

7. That made me laugh, too, though how does one drop

a drag queen? :shrug:

[MsTryska]

8. I'm sure it's soem sort of harness and wire thing

but it would really be cool if drag queens came flying down those big sashes of fabric like at cirque du soleil!

[Phentex]

6. the Big Peach has given the ol' apple some issues...

They keep remaking the Big Apple. It's not even an apple anymore!