Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 10:38 AM

Ah, yes, but I have SINSULL's B.D. gift all wrapped and ready to go...

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

(Well, actually, it's very tasteful...and wrapped in an attractive and practical manner.)

Linn

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: ranger1
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 04:54 PM

Happy belated, Tom!

And now you've done it, SINSULL is going to take that as a challenge, you know.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: curmudgeon
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 04:44 PM

Many thanks to all for the well wishes now that I am officially "old."

SINSULL - I fear no gift!

Spaw - To paraphrase George Burns, "I love them, thats how."

Skipper jack - I could never forget Baggywrinle.

Charlie and Judy - I think I did most of my "aging" prior to the Festival; no time once it started.

Thanks again - Tom

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 02:22 PM

We never noticed you growing any older over the entire Festival weekend.

But belated happy returns!

Charley Noble and JudyB

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: gnu
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 10:06 AM

I missed it too. Hope you had a good one! or two.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Alba
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 09:06 AM

Well this is now a belated Birth Day Greeting Tom!
I swear I posted to your Birth Day Thread here last night...but no post was there this morning.....it's out there lost in cyberspace, maybe another man called Tom in another dimension will stumble across it and think wow how did this get here!
Anyways, on to my Happy Birth Day Wish for You.
May Your New Year ahead bring you all require to be Happy, Healthy and content in Life
My warmest Wishes to you as always,
Jude
"Your Gift awaits"......*shhhudddder* why does that sound like a warning!! *smile*

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 08:55 AM

Hi, Skipper Jack!

Check out the thread on the Portsmouth (NH) Maritime Folk Festival which occurred this past weekend.

Linn

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 07:57 AM

Happy Birthday Tom,

From Baggyrinkle (Swansea Shantymen) Wales UK.

How is the Maritime Festival Scene going over there?

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 07:53 AM

Many happy returns Tom. Live long, die happy. Sorry I couldn't be there to say it in person.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 07:52 AM

I fit in a few minutes to greet Tom with "Happy B.D.!" first thing in the morning, then gave him a gift that I spent hours slaving over the wrapping of -- tastefully folded the Barnes & Noble bag around it and scribbled "Happy Birthday" on a bright colored 3x5 file card. I KNOW I have a real birthday card in the card drawer somewhere (because I always acquire these things early), but didn't have time to find it, sign it, rubberstamp the envelope, etcet etcet.

We stopped at Newick's on the way home for Tom's birthday dinner (ten bucks off -- only on your birthday) and watched the sun set over Great Bay while eating some of the sweetest whole fried clams (Tom) and haddock and shrimp (me).

Arghh...gotta go to work (and leave Tom to write the festival thank yous to the newspapers, etc.

Linn

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Micca
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 07:45 AM

Yeah, Tom from me too (a day late and a dollar short) but with a fair wind I will buy you a drink to celebrate both birthdays in a mmonth or so, at the Press Room even!!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Crane Driver
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 07:36 AM

All the best, Tom

Regards to Linn too.

Andrew & Carole

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: bfdk
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 05:26 AM

Belated Happy Birthday from here, too. Hope you had a great day :-))

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 05:17 AM

Gotcha!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 05:17 AM

Tom, I gotta' fess up that I always feel a little sorry for you............Bats, Jeri, Sinsull.............Kinda' like the trifecta from hell ain't it......When Sins say, "Your gift awaits," it has to send chills down your spine. Try to have a nice birthday anyhow.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 04:59 AM

Well Tom, I forgot too, and it's now my birth month and not yours, but I wish you many happy returns of yesterday.
Giok

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 11:58 PM

Holy Cow! Glad you let us know before the day's end.

Happy Birthday, Tom!! Sure are glad you are here to celebrate in and in fine fashion it sounds!

Here's to many more!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 09:38 PM

He almost made it through the day without a birthday song too, First he got the Hallelujah Chorus Birthday Song, then a funeral dirge from Peter and gardy, and finally "You're no bloody use to aqnyone..." from most of the street.

An appropriate end to a stunningly beautiful day filled with great music.
Happy birthday, Tom. You gift awaits.
MAry

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Severn
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 09:32 PM

Happy Birthday!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 09:23 PM

Yeah, yeah, happy birthday and all that.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 09:22 PM

Absolutely -- wish I could have joined you this weekend....sounded wonderful.

Subject: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Jeri
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 08:27 PM

You always started these things for me, so I owe you. The Portsmouth Maritime fest that Curmudgeon organized was the best yet and he departed for a birthday dinner. Amazingly, he almost coasted through this beautiful day without a birthday thread!

You made this a lovely day for a lot of people, and I know you had a good one too. Happy Birthday, my friend.