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Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!

30 Sep 07 - 08:27 PM (#2160749)
Subject: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Jeri

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.


30 Sep 07 - 09:22 PM (#2160780)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: TRUBRIT

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


30 Sep 07 - 09:23 PM (#2160782)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Rapparee

Yeah, yeah, happy birthday and all that.


30 Sep 07 - 09:32 PM (#2160801)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Severn

Happy Birthday!


30 Sep 07 - 09:38 PM (#2160803)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: SINSULL

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


30 Sep 07 - 11:58 PM (#2160857)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: katlaughing

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


01 Oct 07 - 04:59 AM (#2160936)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: John MacKenzie

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


01 Oct 07 - 05:17 AM (#2160945)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: catspaw49

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


01 Oct 07 - 05:17 AM (#2160946)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: The Fooles Troupe

Gotcha!


01 Oct 07 - 05:26 AM (#2160951)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: bfdk

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

Best wishes,

Bente


01 Oct 07 - 07:36 AM (#2160984)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Crane Driver

All the best, Tom

Regards to Linn too.

Andrew & Carole


01 Oct 07 - 07:45 AM (#2160990)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Micca

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!!


01 Oct 07 - 07:52 AM (#2160997)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Bat Goddess

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


01 Oct 07 - 07:53 AM (#2160998)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: jacqui.c

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


01 Oct 07 - 07:57 AM (#2161001)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Skipper Jack

Happy Birthday Tom,

From Baggyrinkle (Swansea Shantymen) Wales UK.

How is the Maritime Festival Scene going over there?


01 Oct 07 - 08:55 AM (#2161034)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Bat Goddess

Hi, Skipper Jack!

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

Linn


01 Oct 07 - 09:06 AM (#2161037)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Alba

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*


01 Oct 07 - 10:06 AM (#2161076)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: gnu

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


01 Oct 07 - 02:22 PM (#2161309)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Charley Noble

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

But belated happy returns!

Charley Noble and JudyB


02 Oct 07 - 04:44 PM (#2162281)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: curmudgeon

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


02 Oct 07 - 04:54 PM (#2162285)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: ranger1

Happy belated, Tom!

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


03 Oct 07 - 10:38 AM (#2162728)
Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Curmudgeon!
From: Bat Goddess

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