BS: Happy birthday Bill D

Subject: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 May 10 - 08:49 AM

Many happy returns to you Sir. I still remember your rendition of Mrs Ravoon a few years back at the Getaway.

Here's hoping that you have an absolutely super day.

Live long, die happy.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: freda underhill
Date: 20 May 10 - 09:10 AM

Happy birthday Bill D (for Devil's advocate and Damn smart).

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: gnu
Date: 20 May 10 - 09:17 AM

I'll third those.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 10 - 09:21 AM

HB Bill (for CCCCS)
Live happy die long
Have an abssolutely super day today and 10 years from now
73 is yesterday's 90.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Micca
Date: 20 May 10 - 09:21 AM

Happy Birthday Bill, You Philosopher you!!
Now all together
1..2...3
" Emanuel Kant was a real piss-ant
who was very rarely stable
Heidegger,Heidegger was a boozy bugger
who could think you under the table
David Hume could outconsume Schopenhauer and Hegel
and Wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just as schlosshed as Schlegel...."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 May 10 - 09:47 AM

Happy Birthday, Bill.
I thought of you yesterday when the final touches for the new office arrived. Included is a huge bowl carved from a tree knot. It is stunning. There are several other wood pieces but that one said "Bill".
Enjoy!
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: GUEST,999
Date: 20 May 10 - 09:51 AM

Best wishes to you, Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 20 May 10 - 10:17 AM

*big grin*
♫Tis sweet to be remembered...♫

As I posted to someone on Facebook...it just hit me that there's no senior citizen's discount on beer!

How soon do I move from just 'senior' to "geezer"? There's a point at which lots of stuff is overlooked or just forgiven because it's sorta 'charming'.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: frogprince
Date: 20 May 10 - 10:28 AM

There must be some logical distinction between senior and geezer. Happy Birthday, Mr. Turner (of wood).

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Amos
Date: 20 May 10 - 10:33 AM

Senior is a descriptive attribute; geezer is a categorical imperative.

Glad you're kicking, Bill!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 20 May 10 - 10:45 AM

A categorical imperative! I Kant think why I missed that...wow... I am both relieved and empowered!

Watch out, ladies! ☺

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 May 10 - 10:53 AM

Happy Birthday Bill. Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: olddude
Date: 20 May 10 - 11:16 AM

73 why you are still a youngster compared to "Green sleeves" and other folk songs my friend. Well many many more to ya.   Eat lots of cake and we will raise a glass to ya..

Now we still paid 12.40 cents for Bobart's birthday hooker (on his Groupies thread), should we have her pay ya a visit .... LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 May 10 - 11:20 AM

Happy Birthday, Father Wisdom/Inveterate Guide!**BG**

Hope you have a wonderful day and year. May you have all that you need and desire with prosperity in all good things whether you *believe* or not. LOL!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 20 May 10 - 11:21 AM

Hey... only 72! Donuel's math ain't gonna deprive me of one year! I need 'em all...

(sure...send her over. I'll give her an hour she'll never forget.......listening to me sing and explain Philosophy)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 May 10 - 12:00 PM

Happy birthday, Bill! I've got a whole bunch of great "spiritual" books you should check out ASAP in order to get a fresh viewpoint on things and escape the dry and dusty halls of philosophical/mental complexity.

I suggest:

1. The Tao of Pooh
2. The Teh of Piglet
3. The Inner Tradition of Yoga
4. The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity (out of print now, I think)

None of them say a word about "God", hell, heaven, or anything else like that...but I think you'd find them good reading.

And to get a traditional North American Indian viewpoint, I suggest:

"Seven Arrows" by Hyemeyosts Storm. (also out of print, but you can find used copies on Amazon, I should think)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 20 May 10 - 12:07 PM

WAIT.... I'm **71**.... math has never been MY strong point.
I just gained a virtual year....

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 20 May 10 - 12:10 PM

LH... now that my ancient eyes are failing, you suggest reading BOOKS?

naawwww...why don't you just give me a brief synopsis that I can enlarge on the screen

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 May 10 - 12:18 PM

Geez, look at this, he's getting younger before our eyes! Shed two years in a single day. I have to start having birthdays like that.

Happy Beer day, Bill!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 20 May 10 - 12:20 PM

"I have to start having birthdays like that."

Oh, you will when you get near MY age...(whatever it is)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 May 10 - 01:44 PM

Books are better. Just get a large magnifying glass.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Janie
Date: 20 May 10 - 01:50 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 10 - 01:51 PM

HB, BD

BG

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Janie
Date: 20 May 10 - 01:54 PM

Oops! Guess I was so excited about your birthday that I was struck "speechless!"

Happy Birthday, Friend.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: gnu
Date: 20 May 10 - 01:57 PM

Bill D... "WAIT.... I'm **71**.... math has never been MY strong point."

Ah, was that a Senior's moment or...

Just kidding. Yer one of the sharpest knives in this here Café.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Genie
Date: 20 May 10 - 02:26 PM

Oh, geeze! ANOTHER one??

Not only did you have one just a year ago, Bill, but everyone else seems to be having them too. Hardly very original.


That said, whoop it up and enjoy it anyway!

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 May 10 - 03:05 PM

You're a decade older than me, Bill. You may refer to me as a "young whippersnapper" if you so desire.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 May 10 - 03:38 PM

You know, Bill doesn't really get the credit he deserves. He, a true Mudcat Icon, right up there with Catspaw and Rick Fielding and Gargoyle...

Happy birthday, Bill!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Becca72
Date: 20 May 10 - 04:06 PM

Little Hawk: "You're a decade older than me, Bill. You may refer to me as a "young whippersnapper" if you so desire."

Hawk,
He's over 3 decades older than I; the line forms to the left :-)


Happy Birthday, Bill!!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: bobad
Date: 20 May 10 - 04:09 PM

Happy Birthday to my favorite resident philosopher.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Beer
Date: 20 May 10 - 04:13 PM

Many many more Bill.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 20 May 10 - 04:19 PM

...to the tune of "I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart"

♫"I wanna be a Mudcat Icon,
I wanna kvetch and sing and ....♫

...hmmm... most of what I want to do doesn't scan...need a different tune.

(I HAVE large magnifying glasses..I can't remember where they are. The computer is locked in place and is even larger.)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 May 10 - 05:19 PM

Good thing. Did you hear what happened to Chongo's computer?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Barb'ry
Date: 20 May 10 - 05:27 PM

Happy birthday, Bill. When are you going to come and visit us?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 May 10 - 05:42 PM

You move from senior to geezer just before you move from geezer to fart.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 20 May 10 - 06:23 PM

Barb'ry...when my ship comes in! (last seen rounding the horn in a gale)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Art Thieme
Date: 20 May 10 - 07:01 PM

Ah, yes, Bill, for sure; have a fine one!
Art

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: gnu
Date: 20 May 10 - 07:04 PM

I knew a horny Gale once... nice girl. Worth more than $12.40.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: ranger1
Date: 20 May 10 - 08:21 PM

Happy birthday, Bill! Here's hoping I get back to the Getaway someday.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 May 10 - 11:27 PM

Glad I got the computer back before the day was over. I started reading the thread and wondered when someone was going to correct the age. Then Bill finally did it and got it wrong. I knew this because except for about a 3 week period, we're 10 years apart. I feared I had lost a year or two somewhere though since I generally agree with Bill on about everything. Damn near gave me heart failure......and I already have way too much of that!

I hope you had a great day and have an even better week and an even better yet year. My best friend Karen sends her best to you and your best friend as well. I figure they both have some kind of genetic defect as they seem to not only tolerate us but they actually seem to love us too. Anyway.............

Glad you've decided to celebrate every year rather than every ten as you once planned!

Pat and Karen

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 20 May 10 - 11:47 PM

Thanks, Pat (& Karen)... I hope to stay 10 years ahead for 20-30 years. I have quit figgering why they tolerate me/us and just count my blessings.

It's been a great day! Especially finding I had lost count, and get to stay 71 for another year! When I was in my late 20s-early 30s, I also lost track a little, and had to stop and actually think about it. I think it's sorta healthy NOT to be dwelling on the details, and just DOING stuff.....and I have a lot of wood that needs 'doing' in the next 2 weeks.

Thanks to everyone for the good wishes....

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: My guru always said
Date: 21 May 10 - 03:58 AM

Bit late, but Many Happies for Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and All Your Days!
Hil

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 May 10 - 04:55 AM

a few more late happies to you, bill

keep enjoying that birthday - 73rd? 72nd? 71st? - whatever.

and those following

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Noreen
Date: 21 May 10 - 05:03 AM

Hi Bill Dear :)

Sorry to have missed the Big Day, but hope to talk more in the near future.

Busy weekend ahead. :/

Love and hugs to both you and the lovely Rita xxx

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: clueless don
Date: 21 May 10 - 09:41 AM

Gosh, and here I am feeling ancient at 60!

Hope you had a great day, Bill. Hope to see you at the WFF (in the crafts area, presumably.)

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: topical tom
Date: 21 May 10 - 03:57 PM

Happy Birthday, Bill and many more!(whatever the hell your age is.It's only a number after all.)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: gnu
Date: 21 May 10 - 04:00 PM

Yup, tt, until yer number is up.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Genie
Date: 21 May 10 - 06:01 PM

Micca, I'll see your philosopher poem and raise (?) you this:

"Well, Friedrich Nietzsche, but Emmanuel Kant.
You once had high ideals, but Jeremy Bentham.
Yes, Friedrich Nietzsche, but Emmanuel Kant --
He's just an old Whitehead with a partial Plato."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 May 10 - 06:06 PM

LOL.....Good job there Genie. You managed to work Bill's favorite philosopher into his poem.....Alfred North Whitehead.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 21 May 10 - 06:19 PM

"Nietzsche is pietzsche"

Hey...y'all know what Jeremy Bentham's famous for?

I kinda like Whitehead for his admonition: "Strive for simplicity, but learn to mistrust it."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: gnu
Date: 21 May 10 - 06:19 PM

It's a process Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 21 May 10 - 06:45 PM

...and the process IS reality...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 21 May 10 - 07:21 PM

Anyone born in May can't be all bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 21 May 10 - 07:37 PM

My father, me, my son. 15, 20, 27

(Makes me wonder what was so special about the middle of August. ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: gnu
Date: 21 May 10 - 08:25 PM

Well, with the heat and humidity it's hard to sleep... plus, yer already sweatin anyway. May as well get slippery too.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 21 May 10 - 08:53 PM

Maybe yer half-undressed as well... (I don't remember...and I think I had air conditioning)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bobert
Date: 21 May 10 - 09:22 PM

Must missed it... Sorry, Bill... Hope it was a good 'un... See you at Glen Echo...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Severn
Date: 21 May 10 - 10:05 PM

Happy birth, Day!

Day say it's come 'round again! It's that time of the year when the Bill comes due, and may you be paid in full, fulfilled and filled full. May you get your due and may it be a doozy! Waist deep in all kinds of due. But not Waste deep.

Anyway, enjoy!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: GUEST,Micca
Date: 22 May 10 - 07:31 AM

Genie, it was the "Philosophers song" from Monty Python
The rest goes

There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram

And René Descartes was a drunken fart
I drink, therefore I am

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Genie
Date: 22 May 10 - 06:58 PM

Ah, yes. That does sound like Monty Python - and I think I've even seen that skit.

My "retort" was just a little song snippet that popped into my philosophy-major head a number of years back.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: LilyFestre
Date: 22 May 10 - 08:01 PM

Hey Bill D!

   Happy, Happy Birthday!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 22 May 10 - 10:59 PM

*smile* great! My first wishes for next year!.... since I get to be 71 all over again, it oughta be fun...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 May 10 - 12:15 PM

Belated happies from a traveler to the most grateful man I know.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: DougR
Date: 23 May 10 - 05:30 PM

Oops, Bill D., I missed your birthday. Hope you had a good one.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 23 May 10 - 06:14 PM

Hey...thanks. I'm collecting enough good wishes to get me thru.....oh, August at least. (well, good wishes plus air-conditioning oughta do it.)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 May 10 - 06:17 PM

Fer that yeh have to come North for some good ole mountain air, Bill.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 23 May 10 - 06:27 PM

*grin*...mountain? I remember a few hills, but....

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: CET
Date: 23 May 10 - 07:06 PM

And many happy returns from us as well.

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Janie
Date: 20 May 15 - 09:14 PM

Happy Birthday, you old codger and one of my most important mentors when it comes to learning to think things through. Thankful for you in so many ways.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 May 15 - 09:35 PM

another birthday! enjoy the celebrations

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: GUEST,bbc
Date: 20 May 15 - 11:02 PM

Happy Birthday, Bill (although I see this is a recycled thread)! Thanks for continuing to be a voice both of reason& fun, on-site!

Best, always,

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: gnu
Date: 21 May 15 - 07:00 AM

Happies atchya!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 May 15 - 12:15 PM

Hi Bill!

As we discussed elsewhere, the mountain is considering coming to Mohammed this Fall, though not for Getaway-- that still awaits Greg's retirement.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: fat B****rd
Date: 21 May 15 - 03:33 PM

All the very best to you, Bill.
Charlie

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 May 15 - 08:11 PM

Happy birthday from me, too!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 21 May 15 - 10:39 PM

Wowee... if Facebook causes me to miss an important Mudcat thread, I'd better reorganize my priorities. (except that priority right now in our local festival at Glen Echo park, where my wife & I are in charge of the craft program. Happens in 8 days.....)

Thanks all........

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 May 15 - 11:14 PM

Many hippoes return for the days, deer!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 May 15 - 11:58 PM

Ah, Bill. You age so elegantly...

Happy Birthday!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 22 May 15 - 06:35 AM

Did you figure out how old you are this time, bill ? Happy birthday to my most respectful debating opponent !

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: GUEST,maeve who must take time to restore her cook
Date: 22 May 15 - 09:55 AM

Even without a personal meeting, I'm right glad you were born, Bill.
Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 22 May 15 - 09:52 PM

Pete... I now can compute my age with a computer program. On my birthday, I was 27759 days old.

And I can feel them,... *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 26 May 15 - 05:27 PM

ah, you caught me out there. you must have known I am no good with math[s] or computing !.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 27 May 15 - 10:26 AM

I collect freeware programs, so any math I can't do quickly, I probably have a tricky program to do it for me.

(I don't really 'know' about computing, but like cars, I can drive one)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Amos
Date: 27 May 15 - 12:23 PM

Sorry I missed your day, Bill, but I wanted to say something anyway. You are a first-rate sparring partner and a grand ole soul, and I am happy to call you a friend. Keep those revolutions coming.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy birthday Bill D
From: Bill D
Date: 27 May 15 - 03:32 PM

Rotations, actually... *grin*... unless you meant to refer to the ones we spar about.