1. It ain't over till it's over.
   
2. This is like deja vu all over again.
   
3. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
   
4. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
   
5. The future ain't what it used to be.
   
6. A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
   
7. It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
   
8. I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.
   
9. Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
   
10. Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded.
    
11. I don't know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
    
12. You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there.
    
13. I don't want to make the wrong mistake.
    
14. If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
    
15. In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
    
16. Interviewer - "Why, you're a fatalist !" - Yogi Berra - "You mean I save postage stamps? Not me."
    
17. Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
    
18. Mrs. Lindsay - "You certainly look cool." - Yogi Berra - "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."
    
19. I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
    
20. "That ain't the way to spell my name."--After he got a check that read 'Pay to bearer'.
    
21. How can you hit and think at the same time?
    
22. You can observe a lot just by watchin'
    
23. Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't go to yours.
    
24. Never answer an anonymous letter.
    
25. We made too many wrong mistakes.
    
26. When asked what time it is: "Do you mean now?"
    
27. For a spring training drill, Yogi instructed his players to: "Pair off in threes."
    
28. Reporter: "What would you do if you found a million dollars?" Yogi: "If the guy was poor, I'd give it back."
    
29. I usually take a two hour nap from one to four.
    
30. You can observe a lot just by watching.
    
31. You give 100% in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left.
    
32. I never said most of the things I said.

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Origins of Famous Songs: Auld Lang Syne

About the origin of the famous song Auld Lang Syne, history of the music and words written by Scottish poet Robert Burns.

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AULD LANG SYNE Robert Burns c. 1788

"Auld Lang Syne" has become a well-known and well-loved song in all English-speaking lands. Many people, if asked, would call it a Scottish folk song, and it is true that the melody may originally have been a folk tune. The words, however, were written by Scotland's famous poet, Robert Burns, who lived from 1759 to 1796. He wrote this particular poem about 1788, using in its 5 stanzas a goodly measure of Scottish dialect.

The title words mean, literally, "old long since" or, colloquially, "the good old days." The phrase "auld lang syne" appears at the end of each verse and in 3 of the 4 lines of the chorus, as well as in the title. Other dialect words are sometimes altered in modern versions of the song to make them more easily understood.

It is believed that the words and music 1st appeared together in published form in the Scots Musical Museum in 1796. The melody is also known as "The Miller's Wedding" and it was possibly in this form that Robert Burns 1st heard it. But it is a melody that is sometimes credited to composer William Shield, who used it, or something very similar to it, in his opera Rosina, presented at the London Covent Garden Opera House in 1783. It appeared in the overture to the opera and was played so that it imitated the sound of Scottish bagpipes.

Regardless of origin, the tune with the Burns words quickly became a famous song and before long was popular as the last song to be sung when an evening party broke up. The ritual developed that the group stood up in a circle, each one crossing his arms in front of his chest and clasping his neighbors' hands to left and right. While singing, all arms were swung forward and back in time with the music.

Still often sung at parties, picnics, around campfires, "Auld Lang Syne" is most often sung at New Year's parties when the old year dies at midnight and the new year is ushered in.

England and Scotland both claim the song, and the U.S. has certainly adopted it as its own also.

Death by plum pudding - Christmas Day in the workhouse

It was Christmas Day in the harem,

  The eunuchs were all standing round,

With dozens of naked women

  All scattered on the ground;

When in came the mighty Sultan

  To gaze at his marble halls.

He said: "What do you want for Christmas?"

  And the eunuchs all shouted:

"B*lls!"