BS: Happy birthday Bill D

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.

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 - 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: Mrrzy
Date: 21 May 15 - 11:14 PM

Many hippoes return for the days, deer!

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: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 May 15 - 08:11 PM

Happy birthday from me, too!

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: 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: gnu
Date: 21 May 15 - 07:00 AM

Happies atchya!

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: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 May 15 - 09:35 PM

another birthday! enjoy the celebrations

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: 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: 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: 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 - 06:14 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: 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: 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: 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: LilyFestre
Date: 22 May 10 - 08:01 PM

Hey Bill D!

   Happy, Happy Birthday!

Michelle

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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 - 06:45 PM

...and the process IS reality...

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 - 06:19 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: 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: 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: gnu
Date: 21 May 10 - 04:00 PM

Yup, tt, until yer number is up.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Bill D
Date: 20 May 10 - 06:23 PM

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