BS: Happy Birthday to gnu

Subject: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: maeve
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 05:02 AM

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

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From: JennieG
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 06:15 AM

Best wishes for a beautiful day, gnu!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: ragdall
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 07:04 AM

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

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 07:32 AM

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

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From: billybob
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 07:35 AM

Happy Birthday xx
Wendy

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Leadfingers
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 07:52 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: freda underhill
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 08:11 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: fat B****rd
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 08:35 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Megan L
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 08:56 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Ernest
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 09:49 AM

Happy Birthday from over here too!

Glad that you are still posting here...

Best wishes
Ernest

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 10:15 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 10:38 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 10:40 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 10:54 AM

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...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 11:41 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 11:58 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 11:59 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 12:06 PM

Happy day, Gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 01:06 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 02:53 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 03:31 PM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: CET
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 06:00 PM

Happy Birthday old fella.

Edmund (younger by 11 days).

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 08:30 PM

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

Thanks again. You people are good folk.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 10:17 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 10:56 PM

I celebrated today in Moncton:)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: olddude
Date: 08 Mar 14 - 11:58 PM

Happy birthday to my favorite wArthog many more my friend

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Mar 14 - 12:49 AM

happy birthday!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Mar 14 - 07:41 PM

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

Live long, die happy.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Janie
Date: 09 Mar 14 - 11:37 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu
Date: 10 Mar 14 - 05:26 AM

Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: GUEST,David C. Carter
Date: 10 Mar 14 - 01:33 PM

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

Hope you had a good day.

David

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: GUEST,highlandman at work
Date: 10 Mar 14 - 02:01 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu
Date: 10 Mar 14 - 05:06 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 07:07 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 07:30 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: GUEST,#
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 07:35 AM

Happy Birthday, gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Charmion
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 08:33 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: frogprince
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 10:32 AM

wave what ? Anyhow, have a good one Bro













wave

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 10:33 AM

All the very best from Dunfermline, Gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 11:43 AM

Happy 45th.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: olddude
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 01:06 PM

Happy 21 you are now legal gnu

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 01:43 PM

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).

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 02:18 PM

many happy returns

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: maeve
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 06:40 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 08:14 PM

Hippo birdie, ewe deer gnu!

Subject: RE: gnu-al for another year at it
From: Severn
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 08:36 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 09:27 PM

Happy birthday from me, too, gnu!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Janie
Date: 07 Mar 16 - 10:40 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: David C. Carter
Date: 08 Mar 16 - 04:57 AM

Happy birthday gnu,here's wishing you hundreds more

All the best to you


David

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: GUEST,DrWord
Date: 08 Mar 16 - 05:35 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: gnu
Date: 09 Mar 16 - 02:46 PM

Thanks all.

gnightgun

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to gnu
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 10 Mar 16 - 05:01 AM

a gnother birthday? ATB

RtS (late as usual)