Happy Birthday, Bill D!

Subject: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: GUEST
Date: 20 May 02 - 06:22 PM

All the best to one of the nicest 'Catters going

Not that the rest of you aren't nice or anything, OK I'll shut up now

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 May 02 - 07:02 PM

(hi Bill)

Happy Birthday!

~S~

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 May 02 - 07:05 PM

Actually Guest, you're quite right and I'd normally make a lot of snide remarks about Bill, but just now it strikes me that every now and again I oughta' have the guts to say what I think without couching it in a joke. Bill is one of the nicest guys around and his value here is inestimable. While no one has to wonder how Bill feels about an issue, music or otherwise, he has always stated things with a combination of sincerity and good humor that is admirable and has often soldiered on through the muck and the mire which bogs most of us down.

Again, I would normally say how lucky Bill is to have Rita as someone who can tolerate him, but indeed these two are blessed to have each other and nothing is better than two fine and wonderful people sharing a life together.

Bill, I wish both you and Rita the very best today and everyday and thank you for steering a clear path here many times for the rest of us to follow. Yeah, I don't often follow it, but that's my problem. But I certainly respect what you say in every post and appreciate the style and class that allows the love and compassion that still comes through in your writings here. Many thanks for just being here.

Happy Birthday to one of the very best!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Nancy King
Date: 20 May 02 - 07:28 PM

Have a great one, Bill -- and many more!

Nancy

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 May 02 - 07:29 PM

Forgot to say-- heartfelt condolences, Bill, on having attained that age where you must surrender your curmudging license, because as Spaw has pointed out, you just can't quite pull it off any longer.

~Susan

(And Spaw, you better get back to ball-kicking real soon, since no one else can quite pull THAT off.)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Ferrara
Date: 20 May 02 - 08:15 PM

Well happy birthday from me too!!! -- Since you're bound to read this this evening....

Last Thursday was our 21st wedding anniversary as well.

[Aside: May is a horrendously crowded month, because the kid's 20th birthday (I almost said 21st....) is in exactly a week. (He was born a year and a week after we were married, not a week later!)]

Anyway we had a beautiful day on our anniversary, and today is another day to celebrate how lucky we've been to each find someone who tolerates us.... Bill is my best friend, as well as my husband. *BG*

AND, he's taught me an awful lot about folk music although I haven't given up all of my wrongheaded non-purist ideas yet;-)

Rita,
who is cooking a pot roast for his birthday dinner right now
(the kid [known in these circles as Shadowmonk] volunteered to peel & cut the potatoes seeing as it's a special occasion....)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Barry Finn
Date: 20 May 02 - 08:46 PM

Hey Bill sent a PM to you two, didn't know about your birthday though. Happy, happy, happy. Did I hear that for this grand day you're getting the big surprise (now I hate to spoil a suprise, but this is different), back to your suprise. You get the wonderfull pleasure of paying for the all expense weekend for two at the Mystic festival. I can hear Rita in the backround saying "Bill! You are the man. It's your birthday, what the hell". All the best, see you soon. LOL, Barry

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: JenEllen
Date: 20 May 02 - 09:00 PM

My Mudcat Super-Secret Blue Cliquey Decoder Ring set to "Birthday" in your honor.

My grandfather had two little rules for life:
On your birthday, you can eat cake with your fingers, and on Christmas, you can eat candy for breakfast

It served him well, and since it is your birthday....

~Jen

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: MMario
Date: 20 May 02 - 09:05 PM

Happy B'day Bill; congratulations on the 21st to you both; and Happy B'day again to the Shadowmonk!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: CarolC
Date: 20 May 02 - 09:24 PM

Happy Birthday Bill!

Congratulations to you and Ferrara on your 21st aniversary and also Happy Birthday to Shadowmonk.

One thing a lot of people don't know about Bill D is that on top of being as nice as he is, and a treasure trove of useful information, and just an all around Swell Guy, is the fact that he sounds almost exactly like Jimmy Stewart ;-)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: kendall
Date: 20 May 02 - 09:31 PM

Don't look now, but, this place is crawling with Taurus' Have a funny one, Bill.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 20 May 02 - 11:16 PM

Why was he born so beautiful?

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Amos
Date: 20 May 02 - 11:25 PM

Well done, BillD, on your survival!!

The great thing about getting old is, it proves you survived!!

A

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Áine
Date: 21 May 02 - 01:07 AM

Hey there, fellow 'bull of the stars' -- Happy Bday!! Hope you had a great one, full of fun.

All the best, Áine

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 21 May 02 - 03:10 AM

Happy birthday, congratulations etc etc to you and yours Bill. All the best from the fB.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 May 02 - 03:43 AM

Geez, Spaw said all of the really nice things!*bg*

Since you are so fond of ...., I figured I've give you a few more for your birthday, so.........................................................................................................................................
............................................................................................................................................
........................HAPPY BIRTHDAY!..........................................................................................
........and,....Congrats to you and Rita....Rog & I have one year on you! Also.....Happy Birthday to the "Kid," too!

Now...don't use all of these......up too fast....you'll want more this year than ever, probably.**BSEG**

kat

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: GUEST,karen k
Date: 21 May 02 - 03:48 AM

Happy Birthday, Bill! Hi, Rita! Hope to see you both at Mystic. I'll probably come only for Sat. Wish you were coming to Old Songs. Can't wait until the Getaway. Hope your day was wonderful and that the pot roast was delicious.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Jeanie
Date: 21 May 02 - 05:24 AM

Have a lovely birthday, fellow Mudcat bull, and a really great time celebrating with your family ! With Love, - jeanie

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Ferrara
Date: 21 May 02 - 08:40 AM

Hey!! Karen K's going to Mystic! What good news. See you there, if the good Lord's willin' and the creek don't rise.

Believe it or not, I don't think Bill's seen this thread yet. This deduction is based on two clues: (1) he hasn't posted here yet, and (2) he wasn't grinning last night when he turned the computer off.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Fortunato
Date: 21 May 02 - 09:09 AM

happy birthday, bill. and happy wedding aniversary Ferrera. 21 years married to bill. Cripes, Rita, you get that much time for armed robbery! All the best! Cheers, Chance

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: alison
Date: 21 May 02 - 11:05 AM

congratulations on your anniversary....

and Happy birthday Hunky!!!!

lots of love and hugs from Down Under

alison

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 21 May 02 - 11:38 AM

Happy B from the land of ice and snow. Ya made sense when I got here.....and ya still do!

Cheers

Rick

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Bill D
Date: 21 May 02 - 11:44 AM

**ENORMOUS GRIN**

well...Rita had to poke me!..I somehow missed it when I went to the shop to work on a project---and then got lost in the pot roast! (Yum)

Thanks to all and a message for you young ones: If you live a good, clean, sensible life and get to bed early...etc....you won't have nearly the fun I have had! It will be great getting to Mystic for the first time and I hope to meet everyone of you during the next 40 years.

(and NO one else has ever said I sound like Jimmy Stewart!)....there were a few oblique references to my similarities to Rudolph Valentino, though....*wink*

ok, on to more mundane stuff...like naked Pentacostals in a Pontiac, Octopus & Flagellation, and Possum farts....

Bill D. .."more like he is now than he ever was before"

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Noreen
Date: 21 May 02 - 03:18 PM

Hope you enjoyed Rita poking you, Bill.........

Happy Birthday from me too!

Noreen

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: SharonA
Date: 21 May 02 - 03:42 PM

Happy birthday, Bill D, from a fellow first-name-and-last-initial Mudcatter! ManY HappY ReturnS!

SharonA

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: gnu
Date: 21 May 02 - 03:57 PM

May you basque in the glow of the praise of this thread as we basque in the glow of your presence.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 May 02 - 07:34 PM

Happy Birthday, Bill. See you at the Getaway. This time, I will bring the towels.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: Bill D
Date: 21 May 02 - 09:04 PM

awww...such a deal, SINSULL...and thankS, SharonA, it is nice to have a namE, huH?

(and sure, Noreen...she does indeed...and appreciates reciprocity, too!)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Bill D!
From: GUEST,micca at work
Date: 22 May 02 - 06:35 AM

Hi Bill, happy (late) Birthday and anniversary wishes from me too, I somehow managed to miss this thread completely!!! it was such a PLEASURE to meet you guys lat year, and You were exactly like I imagined you (not sure if that is good or bad) and Rita, Jed and Rick and the zithe3er out under the trees at the Getaway is a treasured " Magic moment" for me!!! BTW I think CarolC IS right !!! its the laconic drawly delivery that does it!!