BS: Happy Birthday - Amos

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:08 AM

Just to save you being stuck on 69
G

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: curmudgeon
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:43 AM

Belated salutations ! Sixty isn't all that bad and still beats the alternative. Looking forward to meeting you at the Getaway - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: JennyO
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:38 AM

maybe we can figger out a way to remove the agenarian part, and just leave the sex.

Sounds good to me, Amos!


On the other hand, is this to be our future? ARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!

I'M FINE, THANK YOU
(Anon)

There is nothing the matter with me.
I'm as healthy as I can be.
I have arthritis in both my knees
And when I talk, I talk with a wheeze.

My pulse is weak, and my blood is thin
But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in.
Arch supports I have for my feet
Or I wouldn't be able to be on the street.

Sleep is denied me night after night,
But every morning I find I'm all right.
My memory is failing, my head's in a spin
But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in.

The moral is this, as my tale I unfold,
That for you and me who are growing old,
It's better to say "I'm fine" with a grin
Than to let folks know the shape we are in.

How do I know that my youth is all spent?
Well, my "get up and go" just got up and went.
But I really don't mind when I think with a grin
Of all the grand places my "get up" has been.

Old age is golden, I've heard it said;
But sometimes I wonder as I get into bed
With my ears in the drawer my teeth in a cup,
My eyes on the table until I wake up.

Ere sleep overtakes me, I say to myself,
"Is there anything else I could lay on the shelf?"
When I was young my slippers were red,
I could kick my heels over my head

When I was older my slippers were blue,
But I still could dance the whole night through.
Now I am old, my slippers are black,
I walk to the store and puff my way back.

I get up each morning and dust off my wits
And pick up the paper and read the obits.
If my name is still missing, I know I'm not dead
So I fix me some breakfast and go back to bed.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 09:05 AM

It'll be okay, Amos. Really. Being sixty isn't bad. I've been sixty since February and nothing important has fallen off or anything. I mean, the wrinkles aren't painful or anything, and you can get a lot of reading done during the extra time you'll be spending on the...well, you'll get a lot of reading done. Of course, you'll probably forget where you put your trifocals, but that's nothing because you'll also forget where you put your dentures and your cane, what your name is, where you live, and who that woman is who lives in your house. The extra sleep you get will almost compensate for the other things you used to do in the bed, only you won't remember what they were.

None of this has happened to me, but I hear a lot of talk.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 09:05 AM

Thanks for BSEG, there, darkriver! And thank you, Jenny...maybe we can figger out a way to remove the agenarian part, and just leave the sex.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: JennyO
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 08:34 AM

Good grief! Sixty sounds so OLD, but - and I hate to say it - I am going to be one of those there sexagenarians in a couple of weeks, and I'm not ready to be old yet. The 'sex' part I can handle though :-)

Hope you had a great one, Amos!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,Stephen L. Rich
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 02:06 AM

HAPPY BOITHDAY!!!

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: darkriver
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:39 AM

"It is clear who trounced whom, and you were the whom."

It is for remarks like this, Amos, that I look forward to your posts.

Happy birthday, and may you have many more years of inspired nonsense.

Doug

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 12:43 AM

Ah, the Temple of the Golden Globes. I have spent many a pleasant hour relaxing in the Garden of Perfect Serenity that lies between them.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 12:30 AM

Thanks Mag.

You need to put "Temple" into the Mudcat search, not Google, to get this particular context. You will get the point soon enough, as we say in the training sessions, and you definitely qualify for transcendental meditation in our services, if you're interested in contributing to our spiritual sensitivity and forward approach to divinity.

Regards,

Fr. Frontisiima Delectibus
Director,
Initiation and Relations
Temple of the Golden Globes

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:03 PM

Bobert, great minds DO think alike. Another Virgo here, but I bypassed the opportunity of a thread by not mentioning the date when it happened. (There do seem to have been quite a few reporting in on this thread).

I didn't bake a cake, but I did to a search on Golden Globes. Mostly I found photos of the Beautiful People in Hollywood with their statuettes and fancy clothing. Not much except the one above to share with ol' Amos. (Now we both know there are many terms that one might enter into a search engine to get a higher percentage of the desired results, but if one plays the game by the unspoken rules, one settles for what one finds on the first search. Along the way I did find an interesting site about a Golden Girl--Doris Day).

Happy, Happy, Amos!

Maggie (SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Beer
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 10:04 PM

From Quebec to San Diego a very happy birthday. Have a beer on me.,
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Tinker
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 09:43 PM

Well, I still gonna try and get a few words in here to wish Amos Happy Birthday. Now it seems a bit of a tough act to follow. I guess I'll just deliver a birthday hug at Getaway and leave it at that....

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:40 PM

Well, I am almost done turning sixty. I have fought every inch of the way, squalling like a five year old and pontificatin' like a 20-year-old and passing judgement like a fifty-year-old, but I can't lick it nor scare it off either, so I guess I had better call Uncle on this thing before it escalates and makes me 64!! Old Time sure knows how to worry a body, I'll say that. But on the other hand, I am that much closer to doin' all the good stuff I haven't had time for yer, like sailing around the world and writing the great American doowop. Anyway, whatever, I promise it'll be fun and interestin'...at least to me... can't make no guarantees aside from that!

You guys are the greatest. Thanks for all your loverly kind words, they touch me aged heart.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,Tír Eoghain
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:37 PM

Happy Birthday Amos.

Many happy returns

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:36 PM

Oh yes sorry you couldnt get a Flesher Banjo from someone for the day !@!! All the best . Guy

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:28 PM

All the best returns to you Amos !! Glad I stopped in today !! Sounds like your going to Yorkshire I hope . Have a tune with the Ducks and Bill Sables for me if you are . Humm <><><>< Britairlines.com
         MANY HAPPY RETURNS

                                           GUY

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 07:52 PM

Well, gol danged!!!

Happy B-Day there, Amos... So yer another danged Virgo... Eplans a lot... I'm one, too, but, I ain't given out my birthday to nhobody 'cept maybe the law, when they got flashlight in the friggin' face and other hand on their service piece...

Yeah, here's my drivin' license, sir, was I doin' anythin' wrong???

But that's 'nuther story...

Hey, I di bake ya' a yeller cake... No, it weren't 'sposed to turn out yeller and, well, when I baked it it weren't yeller but that was fir last year's B-Day... It's yeller now and I reckon rather than risk sendin' it to ya in the mail that I'll jus' bring it to the Getaway fir ya and lead a rousin' round of "Happy Birthday to You" in Open G tunin'....

Not...

But I will bring the cake...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 07:45 PM

May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)

Birthdays come, but once a year
Marking time, as Death draws near
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 07:39 PM

May this birthday bring to you
joy and happiness all day through!
We wish you well and hope you find
only wishes warm and kind
and on this very special day
may you be giddy, bright and gray...woops, I mean gay...damn, I mean...aw shit, have a good one anyway.

Lonesome EJ

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: MOAB
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 07:37 PM

Happy birthday, Amos dear. There's a card with a check for $10.00 in the mail. Sorry it's going to be late but I never can keep you children's birthdays straight.

Love,

Your Mom

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 06:39 PM

Your failure to fully appreciate the fine qualities of William Shatner is possibly the only really serious flaw in what is otherwise a sterling character, Amos. It's a shame, really. You fall just short of perfection.

Most people are quite unaware that William Shatner completely revolutionized the whole concept of acting way back in the 1950's when he did a series of brilliant roles in the movies and on TV, such as his appearance on Twilight Zone. It wasn't Brando who changed the movies forever, it was Shatner. Brando was a mere flicker of the blinding light that Shatner shone upon the world of film art.

I can easily say that had Shatner been alive in 1914, and been in charge of the Allied forces, World War One would have ended 2 years sooner! Millions of lives could have been saved. How? He would have sung to the troops, that's how. He would have led them by example to go where no man had gone before! He would have inspired feats of arms that even Alexander could never match. I kid you not.

Damn shame he was born too late, isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Raedwulf
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 05:21 PM

I prefer to argue with Little Hawk - it makes more sense... And so does he!! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:57 PM

Make friends with Little Hawk, agree with everything he writes, defend him against cynics, and you too can have the Ultimate Reward -- birthday wishes from an over-sized hasbeen with a dead hamster on his head...hey, man, GO for it!!! LOL!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:57 PM

Up yours, Welford! Not unless your damn lucky, it don't.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,Welford
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:54 PM

No, it happens on your birthday, dimwit!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:52 PM

holy shit! This guy got a personal birthday greeting from William Shatner! Jaysus, buddy, count yyour blessings. This don't happen just every day.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:47 PM

From one virgin to another! Happy Birthday see you next month.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:44 PM

Happy Birthday Amos....Hope you have a lot more left ahead of you as you have behind you!


Hubby

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Raedwulf
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:43 PM

Blimey! Do fossils still get birthdays? I thought they just got carbon-dated (no, that's not the name of a nice girl, Amos), which I've heard is painful (OK, so now you're *sure* she's a nice girl, Amos...).

So many happy returns of Miss Carbon, Amos! ;-)

R

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Pseudolus
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:28 PM

Happy Birthday Amos...and many more!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:25 PM

I don't think so, rughead. Read the thread. It is clear who trounced whom, and you were the whom.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,William Shatner
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:23 PM

I had a number of things to do today. I'm a busy man. Most of them were, relatively speaking, just a tad more important than posting on this forum. Just a tad! :-) But, hey, I'm a generous guy. I've had a lot of experience over the years with what it means to be...human. I know how much it means to some people just to get a little recognition, a little confirmation that they are not alone in a huge unfeeling universe, and that someone out there cares.

So...it is with at least a moderate level of enthusiasm that I take a couple of minutes out from my busy day here, Amos, to say....

Happy Birthday!!!

You lucky sod. I could just have ignored it entirely. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy...

You are now only 365 days away from the next chance to have this happen. Cross your fingers, buddy, and hope for the best!

- William Shatner

p.s. I won that Steel Cage match. You lost. Live with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:07 PM

Yeah, she makes my crest do that too....


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: MMario
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:54 PM

We can give her a false nametag! No one would know who she was...

I am crestfallen.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:52 PM

Wisely?   WISELY?? A kiss from the Galactic Redhead is NOT something that fits in the same breath as wisely -- it knocks the wisdom outta yer head faster than a kick from a Tennessee mule on moonshine, I betcha!

Nevertheless, I will treasure them is spite of being wholly unequipped to use as instructed! :D

Y'all get back here more often GG!

A

(MM -- I tried to get her to come and she said she was too shy....this from a Goddess who does Bellydancing!! Does that beat all or whut??).

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: MMario
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:47 PM

yo! GG! We gonna see you at Getaway?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Áine
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:44 PM

Happiest of B-Days to ya, darlin'!!! ;-) Sending you a great big Texas size hug and kiss for prezzies -- now, use 'em wisely ;-)

Love ya loads, Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:39 PM

Happy Birthday, Amos!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:22 PM

I'd wish him happy birthday but he didn't bake me a cake. Or even invite me. We could have played pin the tail on the donkey and drunk Kool-Aid and went on a scavenger hunt and eaten ice cream and cake 'til we puked, but I wasn't even invited.

So in a fit of depression I spent a day and a half in the environs of DC.

Let that be a lesson to ya.

Oh, hell, Happy Birthday. Welcome to the club.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:18 PM

Happy Birthday

Hope to meet you in October!

Love Khatt x

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: alanabit
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:07 PM

Happy birthday to one of Mudcat's most cheerful blokes.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Metchosin
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:38 PM

Happy Birthday Amos! ......from another old virgin.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: MMario
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:35 PM

she kept a couple in her bedside table to nibble on

sounds a little kinky...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:31 PM

When boy scouts approach you and lead you across the street--even if you don't WANT to cross the street, be very very nice to them. They mean well.

Happy Birthday, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:29 PM

Well, candles have lots of uses you know. I once knew a lovely Moroccan housewife who was very pregant, her first, IIRC; and she kept a couple in her bedside table to nibble on because it seemed to fill a need, like pickles and ice cream is reputed to do for some gals during pregnancy.

One of the all time great inventions, the candle.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:23 PM

It's the candles you're supposed to blow Amos!!
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:09 PM

Ya know, Jacqui, I was gonna get very nervous about these hints but the thought of the Skipper inspires me to remain brave in the face of great temptation!! LOL But I dunno -- you gals start talking about rolling them Globes and I begin to remember the old Star Trek adage: "Resistance is futile....". Sigh.

Thank you all so very much. Wodda wild and motley crew this place has!! Ya jes' gotta love it.

I realize that having raised my daughter (nearly complete) my next twenty years are going to be wide open, so take warning, all ye fair lasses... LOL!! There will be some interesting times ahead, no mistake.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 01:55 PM

They let old guys like Amos have birthdays still? Wow... My doctor said I had to give them up, cause even at my age, they were killing me slowly....

many more Amos... many more!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Severn
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 01:47 PM

Best wishes! Keep on going strong and enjoying life. Looking forward to encountering you in person at the Getaway.