"Happy New Clinton Year" joke
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has announced that Bill and Hillary Clinton will have the honor of pushing the button that lowers the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball. According to CBS News, this year's ball "is double the size of previous balls and is covered in 2,668 Waterford Crystals...Organizers of the New Year’s Eve party say the bigger, brighter ball will remain in place all year atop the building at 1 Times Square to celebrate other holidays including Valentine’s Day, the Fourth of July and Halloween."
Imagine it - Bill in full glory! He’s used to lowering balls onto people’s faces, but only one person at a time. Tonight he’ll have a whole city looking up as his ball descends on them. And twice the size of most balls, naturally.
The honor is equally apropos for Hillary who, many have speculated over the years, has at least one ball. One presumes this won’t be the last ball dropped by the new secretary of state.
As for staying with us beyond New Year’s Eve -- through Valentine’s Day, Fourth of July, Halloween -- apparently this ball, unlike any New Year's ball before it, just won’t go away. When 2009 is finally over, there it’ll be again, making another grand entrance, for the dawning of yet another Clinton year - I mean ball year. It’s the ball for all seasons, the all-purpose ball - just like the all-purpose Clintons, those trick candles that just won’t go out, but stay with us for ever and ever…
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