HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIANTHUS

Many happy returns of your birthday, Di. Also, wishing you Travelling Mercies as you come to the States (although nowhere near where I live!).

Happy birthday to our Princess Di; (no disrespect meant!)
Our Google Queen always will try
To answer our questions
And give us suggestions.
We hope that your day was so high!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Today's Birthday Boy's Michael Herman
Not a mermaid, you know, but a merman
So let's celebrate
It's still not too late,
As nearly as we can determine.

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Happy Birthday, Michael. Let's see some more posts from you!

It also was the birthday of my grandmother who is now dead. She had been born in Scotland and had planned her whole life to go back and visit. When she finally got around to it, in her eighties, she just was too old, and thus nervous, to travel. She taught me the importance of not putting off traveling until it's too late.

October 28 .... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MESHAL !!


Happy Birthday to our friend Meshal
May we write you some Limericks? We shall!
كل سنة و انت طيب
Kul sana wa inta tayyeb
Somewhere east of the Suez Canal.

[edited by the Meter Reader]

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Happy Birthday, Meshal!

I can't write a limerick in English, let alone Arabic, so my good wishes will have to suffice, I'm afraid.

Yes, Happy Birthday, Meshal!

Wordmatic

Happy Birthday, Meshal!

Jerry, very nice limerick!

October 31 --- Sir Joseph Swan


Today's birthday boy was enlightened.
Of Halloween never was frightened.
He lit up the night
With the Ediswan Light,
For which he was duly beknightened.

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This is most interesting. I never knew that the glass insulated screw base, used universally in the USA and known as the Edison Screw, was actually invented by Joseph Swan's younger brother, Alfred!

The bayonet base, used in most of the rest of the world, was also invented by Alfred.

Happy Birthday, Sir Joe, though you're, well,
Not corporeal, but we're so swell
Now, we'll find us a way
Now to greet you and say--
Many happy returns, what the hell?

Happy Birthday, Sir Joseph Swan--you're unreal!

My dear friends, I thank you kindly. Your group here is immensely talented.

You are correct, Mr. English, about Alfred's invention. My brother, an architect, followed in my footsteps as an inventer. Alfred worked for more than a year perfecting the insulating material in which the terminals at the base of the incandescent electric lamp are held. Eventually his device was improved by developing a cap with a brass collar and insulating the caps with his insulating material, which he named Vitrite. Alfred was savvy in that he patented an automatic process where the Vitrate cap was cheaply and quickly produced. I believe (though Mr. English might correct me on this) that these caps are still being used in your day.

Thanks jerry, arnie, wordmatic and Kalleh

Honestly, I forget my Birth day

و كل سنة و أنتم طيبين
wa Kul sana wa intum tayyebeen

Nov. 11: KHC

Birthday greetings to Kay Charbonneau
Hoping you're happy wherever you geau
Just turn a new page
And forget about age
That's what Old Timers do, dontcha kneau ?


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Nov. 12: museamuse ..... χιλιόχρονη γενέθλια
and Chronia Pola!

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Happy birthday to Kay and to Muse.
(Remembering these days is no use!)
We hope you had fun;
Enjoyed it a ton!
And we hope you were treated like Zeus!

Once again I am late. So sorry!

Happy birthday, Kay and Muse. Muse, how about posting with us again? We so enjoyed you. KHC, we'd love to see more of you in the higher forums!

Yes indeedy! Happy Birthdays to KHC and museamuse!

Tuesday's birthday star is in Shoreline
Where we see him munch cake and pour wine
His tin joints don't rust
For he treats them, we trust,
With double U D thirty-nine.

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Interesting that the shortest month has the second-highest number of registrants.

H A P P Y ... B I R T H D A Y ... A R N I E

Yes, indeed. Happy birthday, arnie! And, so say all of us: you're a jolly, good fellow!

Happy Birthday, dear Arnie...you're great!
Your finding our site was good fate.
You're honest and true,
And we all respect you.
[Now the Bluffing Game win we await!]

Happy Birthday, Arnie...I hope you celebrated well!

Happy Birthday, Arnie! Enjoy the day.

Wordmatic

Thank you all for your good wishes!

I celebrated with an excellent dinner in a Spanish restaurant yesterday evening with two members of the family, and a very fine Chinese meal last Saturday with seven of 'em.

It really does seem that you English people only eat from other cultures. I hope you at least had a good, old-fashioned English breakfast!

Well ... I admit that English cuisine is not exactly noted for its excellence. There are plenty of exceptions, though.

One of the benefits of a multi-cultural society is that it is fairly easy to find interesting food from other places in the world.

London has restaurants serving food from almost every other country in the world, and the other large cities have several. Most small towns can boast a Chinese and/or Indian restaurant, at least.

Nov 11 I embarkd upon my 78th year

I fel slighted

Belated but heartfelt Happy Birthday wishes to
Dalehileman ...

But, as the Bethlehm innkeeper said, "How was "EYE" to know ???

(Just wait till next year, Dale. People born in 1930 deserve all the special treatment they can get ). . .. ... ..... ........ (or was it 1929?)


Nov. 11:

Eiffel slighted?

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DALE!

On your birthday we should have said "HAIL!"
Had we known it, we would have, Sir Dale.
We hope on that day,
You spellchecked okay.
Next year we'll be good...without fail!

Dec. 17: Chris J Strolin

Mr Strolin, whose first name is Chris,
Says he thinks something's clearly amiss.
He's still here and alive
At age 55,
But his childhood was never like this.

Happy Birthday to Strolin who's rollin'
in lim'ricks; his brain is so swollen
With puns, rhymes and meter
(Makes life even sweeter!).
Let's extoll his cajolin', patrollin'!

Happy Birthday, CJ!

Hey hey, CJ, just popped in to say
have a very rhyming and happy birthday.
Eat a lot of cake and some chocolate too
and enjoy the poems written just for you.

Happy Birthday to Strolin, yes Chris;
I'm tardy, but don't mean to diss--
Let's hope 'twas a blast;
Didn't fly by too fast
And the wisdom of age brings you bliss!

Wordmatic

Today's the birthday
Of our friend Pamfenway
... thinking of you
On December twenty-two
Hoping everything's going your way !!

Dec. 27: zmježd

Happy Birthday to our old friend zmježd
No matter what anyone claims
Whether valid or fake
Your style takes the cake
In the pronunciation of names.

BLTN = better late than never.

~~~~~~ jerry

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Happy Birthday Zmjezd

and as Jerry said BLTN

Thanks, you two.

Aw, heck. Once again I am late!

Happy Birthday, Zmježd!

Happy birthday to talented Z;
His knowledge of words, you'll agree,
Is really immense,
(Makes me feel a bit dense!);
We hope that he partied with glee!

OOh! Happy Happy, Z, and many glorious returns of the day!

quote:

Originally posted by Caterwauller:
many glorious returns of the day!

Does that mean he's taking unwanted gifts back for a refund?

unwanted gifts back for a refund

My hearty thanks to the belatedly gracious three. One of the bennies for reaching my age is that the number of gifts is quite small and rather select. I have no intention of returning Bishop & Coulston's Roman Military Equipment: From the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome.

I go away for a couple of days and zmj sneaks in a birthday! Many happy returns, zmj!

January 16 SciFiJunkie

Our friend who's to fiction addicted
Has a birthday that's long been predicted
Today is the day
We send good thoughts her way
Antidote for what's got her afflicted.

Happy Birthday, SciFiJunkie!

Happy birthday to those that I've missed
Zmj, SciFiJunkie--don't feel dissed!
I was lost in a fog
In a post-New Year's bog,
And those days just got lost in the mist!

Wordmatic

Happy birthday, SciFiJunkie. Ta, WM.

quote:

There are allegedly more than 400 registered members in this community

But only 30-odd are active members. See the monthly stats I post here. Sadly, many have fallen by the wayside; others joined, asked one question, and left; and for some strange reason/s many more joined but have never posted.

Happy Birthday to Wordcrafter's Sci-Fi;
I hope you were able to fly high,
Eating ice cream and cake
And a juicy big steak,
With Champagne and some wine and a mai tai!

2 Feb 08 .... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MarkMyWords48 wherever you are ...

We'd love to see Mark here again. I think he is from Norway? Not sure.

Have a good one, Mark!