BS: Happy Birthday - Amos

Subject: BS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY - AMOS
From: rumanci
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:12 AM

Much to my surprise I have the honour of creating a Birthday Thread
(sorry Joe !!)
LOL

Happy Birthday Amos

Thirty again huh ?   It can't be true ! .......you're making MOM feel very old today   ;-)

hugs
rum xx

Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY - AMOS
From: Emma B
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:22 AM

Many many happy's

and many many more......

Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY - AMOS
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:23 AM

I did so poorly at it the first time I figgered I better try again. Besides, who wants to be 60????? LOL.

Thank you!!

And happy birthday too to MUDJACK, one of my favorite barrelchested muso's of the Great Northwest!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY - AMOS
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:25 AM

Yo A! Go A! Have a great day eh!

g

Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY - AMOS
From: Edain
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:27 AM

Happy Birthday Amos

Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY - AMOS
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:30 AM

Thirty huh, is that dog years or human?

Just joking my friend, I know you had your party at the weekend but what the hell, break open a few beers and put your feet up, forget the DIY for a day.

Giok

BTW 'Happy Birthday to you ♪ ♫'

Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY - AMOS
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:31 AM

BBBBRRRRAAAAAWWWWWMMMMPPPP

......flurp...................poit...poit.....

..............aaahhhhhhhh............good one..............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY - AMOS
From: MMario
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:47 AM

HOw come *you*get a do-over? I'm gonna tell MOM!

Have a happy -

Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY - AMOS
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:49 AM

Aw, Spaw's in his flatulence and all is well with the world. Nice to ...hear from you, Spaw!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY - AMOS
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:54 AM

Tanks, MM, gnu, Edain and Giok. You guys are great buddies indeed.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Big Mick
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:59 AM

...poit.....poit????????? Jaysus, buddy, you damn near made me shit meself with that one ...... hahahahahahahaha

Happy Birthday to one of our best. See you in October.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY - AMOS
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:59 AM

Now that's what you call the seal of approval 'A'
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 12:04 PM

I love Mick, but I have never thought of him as a seal...although there is a certain streamlined similarity in profiles... hmmm... this gives new dimensions to the notion of the Great Silkie returned to land as a folkie. "I am a folkie on the land, I am a Silkie on the sea...and when the leaves fall from the trees, my home it is the Geddawee.....". LOL!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 12:16 PM

Way to go, Amos! We love you (well, most of us do...and those who don't...what can you do such as they?)

Shatner wants a rematch. Just thought I'd tell you that. He says he really won last time anyway (in the Steel Cage Match), so he's offering it out of his own generosity. I hope you appreciate that, I really do.

Shane says, "Flip ME! The guy is so flippin' OLD, man! He is WAY over the flippin' hill, eh?"

Yeah? What does he know, eh? He's in the slammer again.

Chongo says, "Make it a good one, buddy. Have a banana dacquiri on me, and chase it with a good whisky on the rocks. Don't let the dames turn your head around, and keep your gat well oiled and ready for action."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: sian, west wales
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 12:38 PM

Many of the happiest returns. Long may you wave.

siân

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: open mike
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 12:54 PM

well, then, I hope it was the best birthday ever!
and i hope to meet you before another one rolls
around..

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 12:54 PM

Happy Day to you my friend. I wish I was going to the Getaway this year, I'd bring you a special Birthday beer from Alaska. But my boss only lets me take one vacation each year and I've already had my fun in 2005. Many happy returns.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 01:07 PM

Many happy returns Amos. I'm sure that Mary and I can arrange a belated birthday greeting at the Getaway......


He he he he he.....

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Azizi
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 01:11 PM

Happy Birthday, Amos

Much respect and appreciation!

Best wishes,
Azizi

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 01:24 PM

Rollin' the Golden Globes your way, Amos. LOOKOOOOUUUTTTTTTT!
Happy Birthday. Hope you're OK.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Severn
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 01:47 PM

Best wishes! Keep on going strong and enjoying life. Looking forward to encountering you in person at the Getaway.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 01:55 PM

They let old guys like Amos have birthdays still? Wow... My doctor said I had to give them up, cause even at my age, they were killing me slowly....

many more Amos... many more!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:09 PM

Ya know, Jacqui, I was gonna get very nervous about these hints but the thought of the Skipper inspires me to remain brave in the face of great temptation!! LOL But I dunno -- you gals start talking about rolling them Globes and I begin to remember the old Star Trek adage: "Resistance is futile....". Sigh.

Thank you all so very much. Wodda wild and motley crew this place has!! Ya jes' gotta love it.

I realize that having raised my daughter (nearly complete) my next twenty years are going to be wide open, so take warning, all ye fair lasses... LOL!! There will be some interesting times ahead, no mistake.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:23 PM

It's the candles you're supposed to blow Amos!!
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:29 PM

Well, candles have lots of uses you know. I once knew a lovely Moroccan housewife who was very pregant, her first, IIRC; and she kept a couple in her bedside table to nibble on because it seemed to fill a need, like pickles and ice cream is reputed to do for some gals during pregnancy.

One of the all time great inventions, the candle.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:31 PM

When boy scouts approach you and lead you across the street--even if you don't WANT to cross the street, be very very nice to them. They mean well.

Happy Birthday, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: MMario
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:35 PM

she kept a couple in her bedside table to nibble on

sounds a little kinky...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Metchosin
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:38 PM

Happy Birthday Amos! ......from another old virgin.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: alanabit
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:07 PM

Happy birthday to one of Mudcat's most cheerful blokes.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:18 PM

Happy Birthday

Hope to meet you in October!

Love Khatt x

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:22 PM

I'd wish him happy birthday but he didn't bake me a cake. Or even invite me. We could have played pin the tail on the donkey and drunk Kool-Aid and went on a scavenger hunt and eaten ice cream and cake 'til we puked, but I wasn't even invited.

So in a fit of depression I spent a day and a half in the environs of DC.

Let that be a lesson to ya.

Oh, hell, Happy Birthday. Welcome to the club.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:39 PM

Happy Birthday, Amos!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Áine
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:44 PM

Happiest of B-Days to ya, darlin'!!! ;-) Sending you a great big Texas size hug and kiss for prezzies -- now, use 'em wisely ;-)

Love ya loads, Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: MMario
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:47 PM

yo! GG! We gonna see you at Getaway?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:52 PM

Wisely?   WISELY?? A kiss from the Galactic Redhead is NOT something that fits in the same breath as wisely -- it knocks the wisdom outta yer head faster than a kick from a Tennessee mule on moonshine, I betcha!

Nevertheless, I will treasure them is spite of being wholly unequipped to use as instructed! :D

Y'all get back here more often GG!

A

(MM -- I tried to get her to come and she said she was too shy....this from a Goddess who does Bellydancing!! Does that beat all or whut??).

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: MMario
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:54 PM

We can give her a false nametag! No one would know who she was...

I am crestfallen.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:07 PM

Yeah, she makes my crest do that too....


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,William Shatner
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:23 PM

I had a number of things to do today. I'm a busy man. Most of them were, relatively speaking, just a tad more important than posting on this forum. Just a tad! :-) But, hey, I'm a generous guy. I've had a lot of experience over the years with what it means to be...human. I know how much it means to some people just to get a little recognition, a little confirmation that they are not alone in a huge unfeeling universe, and that someone out there cares.

So...it is with at least a moderate level of enthusiasm that I take a couple of minutes out from my busy day here, Amos, to say....

Happy Birthday!!!

You lucky sod. I could just have ignored it entirely. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy...

You are now only 365 days away from the next chance to have this happen. Cross your fingers, buddy, and hope for the best!

- William Shatner

p.s. I won that Steel Cage match. You lost. Live with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:25 PM

I don't think so, rughead. Read the thread. It is clear who trounced whom, and you were the whom.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Pseudolus
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:28 PM

Happy Birthday Amos...and many more!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Raedwulf
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:43 PM

Blimey! Do fossils still get birthdays? I thought they just got carbon-dated (no, that's not the name of a nice girl, Amos), which I've heard is painful (OK, so now you're *sure* she's a nice girl, Amos...).

So many happy returns of Miss Carbon, Amos! ;-)

R

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:44 PM

Happy Birthday Amos....Hope you have a lot more left ahead of you as you have behind you!


Hubby

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:47 PM

From one virgin to another! Happy Birthday see you next month.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:52 PM

holy shit! This guy got a personal birthday greeting from William Shatner! Jaysus, buddy, count yyour blessings. This don't happen just every day.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,Welford
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:54 PM

No, it happens on your birthday, dimwit!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:57 PM

Up yours, Welford! Not unless your damn lucky, it don't.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:57 PM

Make friends with Little Hawk, agree with everything he writes, defend him against cynics, and you too can have the Ultimate Reward -- birthday wishes from an over-sized hasbeen with a dead hamster on his head...hey, man, GO for it!!! LOL!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Raedwulf
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 05:21 PM

I prefer to argue with Little Hawk - it makes more sense... And so does he!! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 06:39 PM

Your failure to fully appreciate the fine qualities of William Shatner is possibly the only really serious flaw in what is otherwise a sterling character, Amos. It's a shame, really. You fall just short of perfection.

Most people are quite unaware that William Shatner completely revolutionized the whole concept of acting way back in the 1950's when he did a series of brilliant roles in the movies and on TV, such as his appearance on Twilight Zone. It wasn't Brando who changed the movies forever, it was Shatner. Brando was a mere flicker of the blinding light that Shatner shone upon the world of film art.

I can easily say that had Shatner been alive in 1914, and been in charge of the Allied forces, World War One would have ended 2 years sooner! Millions of lives could have been saved. How? He would have sung to the troops, that's how. He would have led them by example to go where no man had gone before! He would have inspired feats of arms that even Alexander could never match. I kid you not.

Damn shame he was born too late, isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: MOAB
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 07:37 PM

Happy birthday, Amos dear. There's a card with a check for $10.00 in the mail. Sorry it's going to be late but I never can keep you children's birthdays straight.

Love,

Your Mom

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 07:39 PM

May this birthday bring to you
joy and happiness all day through!
We wish you well and hope you find
only wishes warm and kind
and on this very special day
may you be giddy, bright and gray...woops, I mean gay...damn, I mean...aw shit, have a good one anyway.

Lonesome EJ

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 07:45 PM

May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)

Birthdays come, but once a year
Marking time, as Death draws near
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 07:52 PM

Well, gol danged!!!

Happy B-Day there, Amos... So yer another danged Virgo... Eplans a lot... I'm one, too, but, I ain't given out my birthday to nhobody 'cept maybe the law, when they got flashlight in the friggin' face and other hand on their service piece...

Yeah, here's my drivin' license, sir, was I doin' anythin' wrong???

But that's 'nuther story...

Hey, I di bake ya' a yeller cake... No, it weren't 'sposed to turn out yeller and, well, when I baked it it weren't yeller but that was fir last year's B-Day... It's yeller now and I reckon rather than risk sendin' it to ya in the mail that I'll jus' bring it to the Getaway fir ya and lead a rousin' round of "Happy Birthday to You" in Open G tunin'....

Not...

But I will bring the cake...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:28 PM

All the best returns to you Amos !! Glad I stopped in today !! Sounds like your going to Yorkshire I hope . Have a tune with the Ducks and Bill Sables for me if you are . Humm <><><>< Britairlines.com
         MANY HAPPY RETURNS

                                           GUY

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:36 PM

Oh yes sorry you couldnt get a Flesher Banjo from someone for the day !@!! All the best . Guy

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,Tír Eoghain
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:37 PM

Happy Birthday Amos.

Many happy returns

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:40 PM

Well, I am almost done turning sixty. I have fought every inch of the way, squalling like a five year old and pontificatin' like a 20-year-old and passing judgement like a fifty-year-old, but I can't lick it nor scare it off either, so I guess I had better call Uncle on this thing before it escalates and makes me 64!! Old Time sure knows how to worry a body, I'll say that. But on the other hand, I am that much closer to doin' all the good stuff I haven't had time for yer, like sailing around the world and writing the great American doowop. Anyway, whatever, I promise it'll be fun and interestin'...at least to me... can't make no guarantees aside from that!

You guys are the greatest. Thanks for all your loverly kind words, they touch me aged heart.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Tinker
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 09:43 PM

Well, I still gonna try and get a few words in here to wish Amos Happy Birthday. Now it seems a bit of a tough act to follow. I guess I'll just deliver a birthday hug at Getaway and leave it at that....

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Beer
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 10:04 PM

From Quebec to San Diego a very happy birthday. Have a beer on me.,
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:03 PM

Bobert, great minds DO think alike. Another Virgo here, but I bypassed the opportunity of a thread by not mentioning the date when it happened. (There do seem to have been quite a few reporting in on this thread).

I didn't bake a cake, but I did to a search on Golden Globes. Mostly I found photos of the Beautiful People in Hollywood with their statuettes and fancy clothing. Not much except the one above to share with ol' Amos. (Now we both know there are many terms that one might enter into a search engine to get a higher percentage of the desired results, but if one plays the game by the unspoken rules, one settles for what one finds on the first search. Along the way I did find an interesting site about a Golden Girl--Doris Day).

Happy, Happy, Amos!

Maggie (SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 12:30 AM

Thanks Mag.

You need to put "Temple" into the Mudcat search, not Google, to get this particular context. You will get the point soon enough, as we say in the training sessions, and you definitely qualify for transcendental meditation in our services, if you're interested in contributing to our spiritual sensitivity and forward approach to divinity.

Regards,

Fr. Frontisiima Delectibus
Director,
Initiation and Relations
Temple of the Golden Globes

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 12:43 AM

Ah, the Temple of the Golden Globes. I have spent many a pleasant hour relaxing in the Garden of Perfect Serenity that lies between them.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: darkriver
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:39 AM

"It is clear who trounced whom, and you were the whom."

It is for remarks like this, Amos, that I look forward to your posts.

Happy birthday, and may you have many more years of inspired nonsense.

Doug

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,Stephen L. Rich
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 02:06 AM

HAPPY BOITHDAY!!!

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: JennyO
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 08:34 AM

Good grief! Sixty sounds so OLD, but - and I hate to say it - I am going to be one of those there sexagenarians in a couple of weeks, and I'm not ready to be old yet. The 'sex' part I can handle though :-)

Hope you had a great one, Amos!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 09:05 AM

Thanks for BSEG, there, darkriver! And thank you, Jenny...maybe we can figger out a way to remove the agenarian part, and just leave the sex.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 09:05 AM

It'll be okay, Amos. Really. Being sixty isn't bad. I've been sixty since February and nothing important has fallen off or anything. I mean, the wrinkles aren't painful or anything, and you can get a lot of reading done during the extra time you'll be spending on the...well, you'll get a lot of reading done. Of course, you'll probably forget where you put your trifocals, but that's nothing because you'll also forget where you put your dentures and your cane, what your name is, where you live, and who that woman is who lives in your house. The extra sleep you get will almost compensate for the other things you used to do in the bed, only you won't remember what they were.

None of this has happened to me, but I hear a lot of talk.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: JennyO
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:38 AM

maybe we can figger out a way to remove the agenarian part, and just leave the sex.

Sounds good to me, Amos!


On the other hand, is this to be our future? ARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!

I'M FINE, THANK YOU
(Anon)

There is nothing the matter with me.
I'm as healthy as I can be.
I have arthritis in both my knees
And when I talk, I talk with a wheeze.

My pulse is weak, and my blood is thin
But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in.
Arch supports I have for my feet
Or I wouldn't be able to be on the street.

Sleep is denied me night after night,
But every morning I find I'm all right.
My memory is failing, my head's in a spin
But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in.

The moral is this, as my tale I unfold,
That for you and me who are growing old,
It's better to say "I'm fine" with a grin
Than to let folks know the shape we are in.

How do I know that my youth is all spent?
Well, my "get up and go" just got up and went.
But I really don't mind when I think with a grin
Of all the grand places my "get up" has been.

Old age is golden, I've heard it said;
But sometimes I wonder as I get into bed
With my ears in the drawer my teeth in a cup,
My eyes on the table until I wake up.

Ere sleep overtakes me, I say to myself,
"Is there anything else I could lay on the shelf?"
When I was young my slippers were red,
I could kick my heels over my head

When I was older my slippers were blue,
But I still could dance the whole night through.
Now I am old, my slippers are black,
I walk to the store and puff my way back.

I get up each morning and dust off my wits
And pick up the paper and read the obits.
If my name is still missing, I know I'm not dead
So I fix me some breakfast and go back to bed.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: curmudgeon
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:43 AM

Belated salutations ! Sixty isn't all that bad and still beats the alternative. Looking forward to meeting you at the Getaway - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:08 AM

Just to save you being stuck on 69
G

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:34 AM

Ya ruins all my fun, mate!!! LOL!!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Pied Piper
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:36 AM

Happy birthday Amos, all the best.

Here's your presi; a do it yourself very small piece of brain.
If you build the circuit as drawn and feed current into the top rail through a 1M-Ohm variable-resistor (potentiometer) connected to the positive terminal of a 9V Battery grounded to the bottom rail you can listen to the oscillations through an amplifier connected across the Membrane capacitor. Lowering Cm moves the oscillations to a higher, more musically interesting frequency.

Enjoy

PP

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 12:06 PM

Wow!! Thanks, PP!! I am most tempted to go down to Midway electroncis and buy a breadboard just to try this one out. But I have to finish a waterfall first. That's a great prezzie, thank you!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,Chanteyranger
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:02 PM

Happy birthday, famous Amos! All the best,

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:11 PM

Famous Amos sheesh, I always thought it was Catsup Jessup.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:57 PM

That's Mudcatsup to you, sirrah! :D

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:58 PM

Hey ya ol' fart. Day older, huh? LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 05:57 PM

Thank you, Murd. Always a joy to hear from ya!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:14 PM

Anything to brighten yer day, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:20 PM

Amos, if you can remember to wear a bib it'll help a lot with the drool. As for other things, well, it "depends."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,Dave Swan
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:20 PM

Many Happy Returns of the Day, pal.

Celebrate!

Have the missus kiss you for me. No, wait. I'll kiss her, then she can kiss you and...

On second thought, a kiss at your age is probably wasted, so I'll just kiss her, and to hell with you.

Cheers,

D

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:23 PM

Amos, in all honesty, you don't look a day over 82. You are doin' fine, buddy.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:37 PM

Sorry. Meant to say 72. Hard to read the screen when it's only in 12-point type and enlarged to 400%.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 07:15 PM

Took the words right out of my mouth, Bruce. ;-) He looks great, doesn't he? Damn near as good a shape as Shatner, considering.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:24 PM

Well, I love Amos an' all, but so few compare with William. Sorry, Amos, but facts is facts.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:37 PM

Amos is heard to issue a huge sigh of relief at not matching up to Shatner's physiognomy

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:04 PM

Hey, Amos! Get on a plane quick--you'll want to go to Hawaii to see this! That darned Gluon has been out there haring around and she ran into something. See if we need to go pick up anything, will you?

Hawaii Telescopes Record Cosmic Explosion
September 13, 2005

HONOLULU - Telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii recorded the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen, probably caused by the collapse of a massive dying star, according to University of Hawaii astronomers.

Astronomers from Japan and Hawaii used the telescopes to measure a dying star some 12.8 billion light years away, at the edge of the known universe.

The burst released about as much energy as the sun will emit during its 10 billion year lifespan, according to Lennox Cowie, an astronomer with the university's Institute of Astronomy.

"It's very difficult to detect objects at this distance because they're very, very faint," Cowie said. "This is a very exciting gamma ray burst. It's quite dramatic."

Because gamma ray bursts last only a short time, scientists set up an automated communications network to alert them when NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst satellite, launched last year, detected radiation so they could train the telescopes on the source.

The call came in early on Sept. 4, and university astronomer Paul Price aimed NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea and the Magnum telescope on Haleakala at the source of the radiation.

"Because these explosions are so bright, they give us the opportunity to study stellar birth and death in the most distant universe in a manner we could only dream about a couple of years ago," Price said.

As scientists look farther away, they are looking further back in time, he said. With new technology, they are likely to see a star even farther away, he said.

Cowie said that by studying gamma ray bursts, scientists will be able to learn more about the star formation of the universe, and how our sun formed.

Studying the formation of stars will also help scientists understand how various elements, including carbon, were formed.

"This is a very fundamental aspect of the origin of everything, including us," Cowie said.

The astronomy team, led by Tokyo Institute of Technology astronomer Nobuyuki Kawai, used the 27-foot Subaru telescope to measure the precise distance of the dying sun.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:05 PM

Yes indeed, he looks so natural.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:38 PM

(He never looked that good when he was alive!)

"This is a very fundamental aspect of the origin of everything, including us," Cowie said.


This could be important, ya think?

LOL!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 04:19 AM

Sheesh, nobody ever blew up planet in honour of my birthday! Come to think of it, I can't remember anybody blowing up anything for my birthday.
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: gnu
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 04:50 AM

Had to blow up your birthday present on your own, Giok? Hope you weren't too tired to enjoy it.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 05:29 AM

Don't be rude about Samantha.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 08:12 AM

Well, it's been a glorious thread, even if it has degenerated into a pale shadow of naughtiness. Appropriate enough.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 09:21 AM

Twasn't us wot founded the Temple of the Golden Globes old bean!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 09:58 AM

If that star blew up on your birthday then you are REALLY old.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 11:57 AM

Too flippin' old for words...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: BaldEagle2
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 12:03 PM

I say, old chap, was it really your birthday?

Drat - I missed it.

Too busy chasing off blasted raccoons and the like.   Well, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all, I always say.

Do hope it was a riot.

And next year, a nudge a tad earlier would be much appreciated.

Chin chin!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 12:22 PM

September's really popular isn't it....!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 12:24 PM

I mean, how many are there with a birthday this week?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 12:25 PM

Could it be 100?

*BG*

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 12:40 PM

Hmmm...September's the ninth month...I suspect that I know what some folks' parents were doing during the Christmas holidays....

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 01:09 PM

Not only turkeys get stuffed at Christmas
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Justa Picker
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 01:13 PM

Just saw this thread. A happy belated one to one of my most favorite and most enjoyable personalities this place has to offer.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 01:17 PM

Im in good company here as well : Sept 2nd 1950 .
The virgo jokes can be tough though dont you think?.Something about likeing to clean our closets all the time or falling asleep while making love . THank god for rising signs and suns and the like !!!

I had a nice quiet day of making pots on mine . I hope yours was great ! Happy unbirthday Amos and all the other Septemberites   !!! Yours Guy

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Fortunato
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 01:55 PM

Happy birthday, Amos.
chance

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 01:59 PM

Thanks so much, JP and Guy....a pleasure to hear from y'all, too! And well done on surviving into September again.

Yeah, it is clear how many folks like to handle the depth of winter, and keep their heating bills down, too! A stand-up solution, IMHO.

My birthday is well over now, though. Many thanks, everybody!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: gnu
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 02:50 PM

..."A stand-up solution,..." Not for Baptists. Someone might think they were dancing. (Yeah, I know it's an old joke. But, if even one person hasn't heard it, my efforts have been rewarded.)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 03:45 PM

I was born a month early. But at that time my parents lived in Eastern Washington where it is very cold in January.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: MMario
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 03:47 PM

Amos just wants us to stop posting to this thread so he can start pretending that each day he isn't actually another day older.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 04:38 PM

Just found out this evening that tomorrow is the birthday of Limpit's piano teacher! Seems they get cold in Russia in December too!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 04:58 PM

Gadzooks! I missed another birthday! [I tend not to miss my own, unfortunately, because they've taken to running over me like a truck!]

Anyway, a most happy birthday, Amos (drag 'em out for at least a week). Thirty ain't so bad. I've done it twice already, and I'm working on the third time around.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: JennyO
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 11:16 AM

Well that theory about our parents snuggling up on cold December nights all falls down here in Oz. December nights are usually stinking hot here. Didn't stop my brother and I from both being born in September (2 years apart). Not only that, but at the time, my parents lived in Parkes, which is in the Central West of NSW, and it is ESPECIALLY stinking hot there!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 11:43 AM

Well when you get hot you take your clothes off, and when you take your clothes of, well..................things sorta happen!
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: JennyO
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 12:57 PM

'Spose you could look at it that way Giok ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 01:12 PM

At Giok's age he'll look at it any way he can!! That's why he has key-hole shaped eyebrows.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 09:26 PM

This thread has certainly taken a twist. Happy birthday, Amos. I can't wait to see what pops up here next.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: JennyO
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 10:17 PM

I'm waiting too. The nights here right now are comfortably cool ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 10:22 PM

Hmmmmmm? How'd thay sneak this by me???

Happy b-Day, buddy...

See you in a couple three weeks...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 10:51 PM

Can't wait, man. THanks, everybody!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Sep 05 - 09:25 AM

Keyhole shaped Amos??? C'mon!!

Keyhole surgery, is that peeping through said orofice at a laparascopic dancer?

Or Keyhole Kate
Or The Keyhole Nebula

I'll see you in 4 weeks and we'll discuss this physical aberration.
Giok