BS: Happy Birthday - Amos

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: JennyO
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 12:57 PM

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

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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Fortunato
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 01:55 PM

Happy birthday, Amos.
chance

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: 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: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 01:09 PM

Not only turkeys get stuffed at Christmas
G.

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: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 12:25 PM

Could it be 100?

*BG*

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 - 12:22 PM

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

LTS

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: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 11:57 AM

Too flippin' old for words...

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: 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: 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 - 05:29 AM

Don't be rude about Samantha.
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 - 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: 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: Rapparee
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:05 PM

Yes indeed, he looks so natural.

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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:14 PM

Anything to brighten yer day, Amos.

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 - 01:58 PM

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

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: 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: GUEST,Chanteyranger
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:02 PM

Happy birthday, famous Amos! All the best,

Chanteyranger

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: 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 - 11:34 AM

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

A