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BS: Happy Birthday to gnu

08 Mar 14 - 05:02 AM (#3608199)
Subject: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: maeve

He's a part of the heart of the Mudcat and a friend to many here.

Happy Birthday gnu. Please thank your mum for the fine friend and loyal son you are. Happy, happy day to you.

Maeve & Truelove


08 Mar 14 - 06:15 AM (#3608202)
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From: JennieG

Best wishes for a beautiful day, gnu!


08 Mar 14 - 07:04 AM (#3608208)
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From: ragdall

Happy Birthday, gnu!
I hope that you and Mum had a wonderful day.

rags


08 Mar 14 - 07:32 AM (#3608213)
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From: Ed T

Happy big day gnu.
My mother must be a day younger, as she will turn 100 tomorrow.
:)


08 Mar 14 - 07:35 AM (#3608214)
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From: billybob

Happy Birthday xx
Wendy


08 Mar 14 - 07:52 AM (#3608219)
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From: Leadfingers

I've given up having birthdays now - The cake would be HUGE to get all the candles on - but Happies to you mate >


08 Mar 14 - 08:11 AM (#3608221)
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From: freda underhill

happy birthday, gnu, hope your day is a good one!


08 Mar 14 - 08:35 AM (#3608225)
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From: fat B****rd

All the very best to you, Gnu. And many more of them.
Charlie


08 Mar 14 - 08:56 AM (#3608229)
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From: Megan L

To a dear friend ahd gie ye lots o hugs and kisses but ahm a glaikit tired auld mrs. so in stead a'll hiv tae say hae yersel a super day.

Awra Best
Frae
Meg


08 Mar 14 - 09:49 AM (#3608235)
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From: Ernest

Happy Birthday from over here too!

Glad that you are still posting here...

Best wishes
Ernest


08 Mar 14 - 10:15 AM (#3608239)
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From: frogprince

Happy B'day, gnu; keep yer stick on the ice !


08 Mar 14 - 10:38 AM (#3608242)
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From: Amos

What? You survived another whole year? Oh, well done me son! Celbrate!


08 Mar 14 - 10:40 AM (#3608243)
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From: gnu

My Bday yesterday started early in the morn with a poem from Freda Underhill...

G stands for Gnu, whose weapons of attack
Are long, sharp, curling jokes, and a very strange quack.
To these he adds a name so short and strong,
That even wordy mudcatters pronounce it wrong.
How often on a dim and soggy eve
The song soaked mudcatters ardently believe,
'Come, let us sing with ______' Then no more is heard
but sounds of strong men struggling with a word;
Meanwhile the distant Gnu with patient eyes
Oberserves his music stand and sighs...
Happy Birthday Gnu
from way Down under
don't drink too much
or you may chunder

with sincere apologies to Hilaire Belloc

Thanks, Freda!

It continued from there and it continues today with the posts above. Thanks all. Warms my heart.


08 Mar 14 - 10:54 AM (#3608246)
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From: gnu

I wrote some posts at other sites... here is one from last night that sums up the best part of my Bday...

I wrote several posts on other sites regarding my birthday as it relates to Mum. Ya see, she's the one that did all the work. All I did was cause her pain and start screaming... been at that ever since eh? >;-)

I have just come from one and I snipped this from yesterday and today. It is rather personal but I feel it is worth sharing, if for nothing else than it makes ME feel good about today...

I am delighted with my plan. Mum is 87 and not so well. She is saddened by the fact that she can't get me something for the big day. She is having a more than usual bad day today, so... I went shopping for birthday presents for Mum. I got 2 pairs of PJ pants, 6 pairs of HD socks and Kaspersky 2014 Pure 3.0. I put the items in one a them there gift bags what I got at the Dollar Store and covered it with the fancy white paper. I will take the bag to Mum's tomorrow AM and act real surprised like when I open up the bag and say things like "OMG! JUST WHAT I WANTED! HOW DID YOU KNOW?! AND SOCKS! AND KASPERSKY!!! I love you, Mum. Thanks." I hope she gets a laugh out of it.

Yesterday, as I usually do on her and my Bday and at Kissmeass, I gave her two dozen roses, white and red, a big hug and a 'thanks for looking after me' for, well, this year it will be 57 years and nine months. Hmmm... part of that should be 'putting up with me' I suppose.

Today... I made her laff when I opened my gifts. Best Bday present ever.

Thanks for the good wishes, the PMs, the emails, the phone calls...


08 Mar 14 - 11:41 AM (#3608256)
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From: Ebbie

Youse is a class act, guhnu (sp?). Missed your birthDAY but am right on time for your birthWEEK. LOts of Happies to you.


08 Mar 14 - 11:58 AM (#3608262)
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From: Jeri

I'm late as usual, but HAPPY AFTER-BIRTHDAY!

As for your story about your mum, love and laughter are way more important than presents. Sounds like you have plenty.


08 Mar 14 - 11:59 AM (#3608265)
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From: SINSULL

Happy Birthday, gnu, albeit one day late. I suggest a Gnu Festival for the month of March!
Celebrate!
Mary


08 Mar 14 - 12:06 PM (#3608266)
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From: Q (Frank Staplin)

Happy day, Gnu.


08 Mar 14 - 01:06 PM (#3608276)
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu

Ebbie... guhnu is bang on.

Oh... BTW... Freda... I am at this very moment having a bit of the hair of the dog that chundered me. Twas not my intention but neither was it my intention to prechunder until past 3AM talking on the phone with a buddy in a way west time zone. What a way to end a birthday. Thanks, buddy and keep yer head up comin over the blue line! Gee! I got Skyped by 8 people living in Europe and I got phone calls from more than that living in NA. Great fun. Telecommunications have come a LONG way. We didn't even have a phone until I was 9 years old because my old man grew up without one and he didn't care for them. "Good news and bad news travel at the same speed. Besides, all the neighbours have one if there is an emergency." Now, most people have TV and internUt and I appreciate my neighbours... from Germany to Iceland to UK to NA. Thanks.


08 Mar 14 - 02:53 PM (#3608297)
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From: ChanteyLass

Here's another happy birthday wish from me to you, gnu!


08 Mar 14 - 03:31 PM (#3608304)
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From: Sandy Mc Lean

All the very best to gnu, and also to your mother too
I didn't start to make a rhyme, but that's what happens all the time
I'm just a bit too late to say, have a really great birthday!


08 Mar 14 - 06:00 PM (#3608328)
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From: CET

Happy Birthday old fella.

Edmund (younger by 11 days).


08 Mar 14 - 08:30 PM (#3608360)
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From: gnu

Even CET? I guess I can't be all bad. >;-)

Thanks again. You people are good folk.


08 Mar 14 - 10:17 PM (#3608374)
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From: Rapparee

I spent MY birthday in Canada. Why don't you spend yours in Pocatello? Was it happy? Oh, the question is absurd! Had anything been wrong, I would certainly have heard.

All gnus is good gnus.


08 Mar 14 - 10:56 PM (#3608378)
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From: Ed T

I celebrated today in Moncton:)


08 Mar 14 - 11:58 PM (#3608384)
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From: olddude

Happy birthday to my favorite wArthog many more my friend


09 Mar 14 - 12:49 AM (#3608386)
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From: Big Al Whittle

happy birthday!


09 Mar 14 - 07:41 PM (#3608584)
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From: jacqui.c

Belated happies to my friend, who one day I hope to meet in person!

Live long, die happy.


09 Mar 14 - 11:37 PM (#3608629)
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From: Janie

I'm late to the party. Power has been out for a few days. That just means added value in terms of the best of wishes for the stalwart Gnu nee Wildebeest. Cherish you, friend. Love your warts, love your wisdom, love how fully present you always are.


10 Mar 14 - 05:26 AM (#3608664)
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From: gnu

Thanks.


10 Mar 14 - 01:33 PM (#3608741)
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From: GUEST,David C. Carter

A bit late but Happy Birthday.I,m in London and have not been on the Mudcat.

Hope you had a good day.

David


10 Mar 14 - 02:01 PM (#3608747)
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From: GUEST,highlandman at work

Happy Birthday to Gnu...
I'd sing you the whole song but then I'd have to send a quarter to Time Warner.
Sorry I'm late, have a great day anyway!
-Glenn


10 Mar 14 - 05:06 PM (#3608790)
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu

Glenn... haahahahaa!

Okay last thanks for all and anyone who posts again. Otherwise, this thread might continue. Unless ya got a good joke, may as well let it die.


07 Mar 16 - 07:07 AM (#3777106)
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From: Megan L

Great Gnus its Gnu's birthday think of you often lad even though I'm not around as much these days.


07 Mar 16 - 07:30 AM (#3777109)
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu

Makes your entrance all the more special, M. Thank you.


07 Mar 16 - 07:35 AM (#3777111)
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From: GUEST,#

Happy Birthday, gnu.


07 Mar 16 - 08:33 AM (#3777119)
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From: Charmion

It's that time again. Hippo birdie to gnu, and long may you wave.


07 Mar 16 - 10:32 AM (#3777146)
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From: frogprince

wave what ? Anyhow, have a good one Bro













wave


07 Mar 16 - 10:33 AM (#3777147)
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From: fat B****rd

All the very best from Dunfermline, Gnu.


07 Mar 16 - 11:43 AM (#3777158)
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From: Donuel

Happy 45th.


07 Mar 16 - 01:06 PM (#3777180)
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From: olddude

Happy 21 you are now legal gnu


07 Mar 16 - 01:43 PM (#3777187)
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu

Thanks, peeps!

Dan, I have always been legal... never been caught and that's legal according to my lawyers Pluckem Fuckem & Chuckem, Attorneys at Bench & Bar.

Odd that I haven't received a florist's delivery or even a telecon from Bee. Perhaps she's walking the Royal Corgis or on a fox hunt. As for Chuck, the fucker never calls. Maybe the Shamrocks and Thistles I sent him years ago stuck in his side. As for Justin, I guess he's a tad busy on accounta he's gone south, eh? Went to visit Barry at the White House (Must be a tad embarrassing going to Washington after Barry said he might have the Stanley Cup at the State Dinner. Now, Canucks are polite so I expect, if Barry ever goes to Ottawa, Justin won't say a word about the dishes used at our State Dinners... Canuck joke).


07 Mar 16 - 02:18 PM (#3777205)
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From: keberoxu

many happy returns


07 Mar 16 - 06:40 PM (#3777245)
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: maeve

Happy to know you, happy you are celebrating another birth year, and very happy you're seeing the world clearly.

That makes it Happy Happy Happy Birthday, g.
Maeve and TL


07 Mar 16 - 08:14 PM (#3777257)
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: GUEST,Mrr

Hippo birdie, ewe deer gnu!


07 Mar 16 - 08:36 PM (#3777265)
Subject: RE: gnu-al for another year at it
From: Severn

Best birthday wishes on this site, too. And for an excellent coming year, as well.


07 Mar 16 - 09:27 PM (#3777275)
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From: ChanteyLass

Happy birthday from me, too, gnu!


07 Mar 16 - 10:40 PM (#3777281)
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From: Janie

Happy Birthday, darlin' gnu. You be the bestest!


08 Mar 16 - 04:57 AM (#3777318)
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From: David C. Carter

Happy birthday gnu,here's wishing you hundreds more

All the best to you


David


08 Mar 16 - 05:35 PM (#3777474)
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From: GUEST,DrWord

Nice bit about doing mum's birthday shopping for her!

here's more happy regards, dear gnu. Hope you have a whole mess of very merry unbirthdays, too!

keep on pickin' and grinnin'
dennis


09 Mar 16 - 02:46 PM (#3777696)
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From: gnu

Thanks all.

gnightgun


10 Mar 16 - 05:01 AM (#3777810)
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From: Roger the Skiffler

a gnother birthday? ATB

RtS (late as usual)