Some are still merrily inebriated from the night before.
Meanwhile, the blue gantries, now a symbol of people power, still merrily light up the Gauteng night sky.
After seven seasons, "Always Sunny" is still merrily spinning out plotlines for all five degenerates, including the rare dirtbag woman, Sweet Dee (Kaitlin Olson).
I'm now a week shy of seven months pregnant and still merrily, if not a little more breathlessly, cycling my 15-mile round commute to work.
"It is amazing that Korea's commercial banks are still merrily doling out loans without worrying about their payback schedule," Andy Xie, Asia economist for Morgan Stanley, wrote in October.
In the three years since the economy melted down, when so much that mattered to most Americans was being cut back or deep-sixed, that budget was still merrily expanding.
Alas not - instead, the markets are still swigging merrily from the punchbowl.
Most men, even the feminists among us, still swim merrily along in all the advantages that masculinity proffers.
This time yesterday, there were still people merrily attending polling booths, downing democracy sausages, chewing the fat over the expected Malcolm Margin in the great 2o16 federal election.
All January, I watched a Christmas bouquet of roses on one mantel diminish until the flowers were a blighted shrivel and the water green scum, a huge Santa on a stick still beaming merrily out of the ruins.
