So unless we can hitch a ride on some souped-up neutrinos, 2011 is gone forever.
Happily, the pests don't usually hitch a ride on a bus to the Big Apple.
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Huxtable flagged down a passing lorry driver and attempted to hitch a ride home.
So why not have it here, where he could drive away and leave me to hitch a ride back into town?
The next day I realised my way forward was to hitch a ride in a car that was already booked to go on a ferry.
If you want to see the archipelago from Con Dao, ask around in the evening and you'll be able to hitch a ride with a fisherman early the next day.
Energy and commodities trading has attracted the attention of hedge funds and Wall Street firms, which are eager to hitch a ride on the explosive growth in both markets.
But despite the support of computer makers groaning under Intel's dominance, trying to hitch a ride on the back of a grumpy 800lb gorilla was proving a precarious form of existence.
Billionaires and near-billionaires Mark Shuttleworth, Dennis Tito, Anoush Ansari and Simonyi have already taken advantage of the infrastructure built by fallen superpower Soviet Union to hitch a ride to the International Space Station.
One of the latest is the so-called ExoPlanetSat nanosatellite developed by MIT and Draper Laboratory, which recently got the go-ahead from NASA's Cubesat Launch Initiative and is now set to hitch a ride into space sometime in 2012.
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Luckily for us, a couple had just tied the knot on the beach near our boat and we had to hitch a ride with the newlyweds to a place where the captain and his wife could be airlifted out.
There was still a bit of drama because Julie, who doesn't see well at night and wasn't going to drive all the way to Malibu in any case, wanted to leave her car in Santa Monica and hitch a ride with us.
Some, perhaps many, would hitch a free ride as ratings leaked.
As a result, countries and organisations that came late to the problem were able to hitch a free ride on the experience of those that had begun first.
One argument says that it behoves any country that wants to be a good global citizen to contribute to a global police force and not to hitch a free ride from America.
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