BS: Happy Birthday - Amos

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST,Tír Eoghain
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:37 PM

Happy Birthday Amos.

Many happy returns

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST,Stephen L. Rich
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 02:06 AM

HAPPY BOITHDAY!!!

Stephen Lee

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:34 AM

Ya ruins all my fun, mate!!! LOL!!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Pied Piper
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:36 AM

Happy birthday Amos, all the best.

Here's your presi; a do it yourself very small piece of brain.
If you build the circuit as drawn and feed current into the top rail through a 1M-Ohm variable-resistor (potentiometer) connected to the positive terminal of a 9V Battery grounded to the bottom rail you can listen to the oscillations through an amplifier connected across the Membrane capacitor. Lowering Cm moves the oscillations to a higher, more musically interesting frequency.

Enjoy

PP

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 12:06 PM

Wow!! Thanks, PP!! I am most tempted to go down to Midway electroncis and buy a breadboard just to try this one out. But I have to finish a waterfall first. That's a great prezzie, thank you!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,Chanteyranger
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:02 PM

Happy birthday, famous Amos! All the best,

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:11 PM

Famous Amos sheesh, I always thought it was Catsup Jessup.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:57 PM

That's Mudcatsup to you, sirrah! :D

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:58 PM

Hey ya ol' fart. Day older, huh? LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 05:57 PM

Thank you, Murd. Always a joy to hear from ya!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:14 PM

Anything to brighten yer day, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:20 PM

Amos, if you can remember to wear a bib it'll help a lot with the drool. As for other things, well, it "depends."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: GUEST,Dave Swan
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:20 PM

Many Happy Returns of the Day, pal.

Celebrate!

Have the missus kiss you for me. No, wait. I'll kiss her, then she can kiss you and...

On second thought, a kiss at your age is probably wasted, so I'll just kiss her, and to hell with you.

Cheers,

D

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:23 PM

Amos, in all honesty, you don't look a day over 82. You are doin' fine, buddy.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:37 PM

Sorry. Meant to say 72. Hard to read the screen when it's only in 12-point type and enlarged to 400%.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 07:15 PM

Took the words right out of my mouth, Bruce. ;-) He looks great, doesn't he? Damn near as good a shape as Shatner, considering.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:24 PM

Well, I love Amos an' all, but so few compare with William. Sorry, Amos, but facts is facts.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:37 PM

Amos is heard to issue a huge sigh of relief at not matching up to Shatner's physiognomy

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:04 PM

Hey, Amos! Get on a plane quick--you'll want to go to Hawaii to see this! That darned Gluon has been out there haring around and she ran into something. See if we need to go pick up anything, will you?

Hawaii Telescopes Record Cosmic Explosion
September 13, 2005

HONOLULU - Telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii recorded the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen, probably caused by the collapse of a massive dying star, according to University of Hawaii astronomers.

Astronomers from Japan and Hawaii used the telescopes to measure a dying star some 12.8 billion light years away, at the edge of the known universe.

The burst released about as much energy as the sun will emit during its 10 billion year lifespan, according to Lennox Cowie, an astronomer with the university's Institute of Astronomy.

"It's very difficult to detect objects at this distance because they're very, very faint," Cowie said. "This is a very exciting gamma ray burst. It's quite dramatic."

Because gamma ray bursts last only a short time, scientists set up an automated communications network to alert them when NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst satellite, launched last year, detected radiation so they could train the telescopes on the source.

The call came in early on Sept. 4, and university astronomer Paul Price aimed NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea and the Magnum telescope on Haleakala at the source of the radiation.

"Because these explosions are so bright, they give us the opportunity to study stellar birth and death in the most distant universe in a manner we could only dream about a couple of years ago," Price said.

As scientists look farther away, they are looking further back in time, he said. With new technology, they are likely to see a star even farther away, he said.

Cowie said that by studying gamma ray bursts, scientists will be able to learn more about the star formation of the universe, and how our sun formed.

Studying the formation of stars will also help scientists understand how various elements, including carbon, were formed.

"This is a very fundamental aspect of the origin of everything, including us," Cowie said.

The astronomy team, led by Tokyo Institute of Technology astronomer Nobuyuki Kawai, used the 27-foot Subaru telescope to measure the precise distance of the dying sun.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:05 PM

Yes indeed, he looks so natural.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:38 PM

(He never looked that good when he was alive!)

"This is a very fundamental aspect of the origin of everything, including us," Cowie said.


This could be important, ya think?

LOL!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 04:19 AM

Sheesh, nobody ever blew up planet in honour of my birthday! Come to think of it, I can't remember anybody blowing up anything for my birthday.
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: gnu
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 04:50 AM

Had to blow up your birthday present on your own, Giok? Hope you weren't too tired to enjoy it.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 05:29 AM

Don't be rude about Samantha.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Amos
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 08:12 AM

Well, it's been a glorious thread, even if it has degenerated into a pale shadow of naughtiness. Appropriate enough.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 09:21 AM

Twasn't us wot founded the Temple of the Golden Globes old bean!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Peace
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 09:58 AM

If that star blew up on your birthday then you are REALLY old.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 11:57 AM

Too flippin' old for words...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: BaldEagle2
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 12:03 PM

I say, old chap, was it really your birthday?

Drat - I missed it.

Too busy chasing off blasted raccoons and the like.   Well, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all, I always say.

Do hope it was a riot.

And next year, a nudge a tad earlier would be much appreciated.

Chin chin!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 12:22 PM

September's really popular isn't it....!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 12:24 PM

I mean, how many are there with a birthday this week?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday - Amos
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 12:25 PM

Could it be 100?

*BG*

LTS