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BS: Happy Birthday Amos

12 Sep 02 - 03:14 PM (#782284)
Subject: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Bobert

Yeah, folks, it was a hot & sultry day, oh, about nineteen hundred and sixty three when our Amos popped out after putting his mother thru the first of many hours as a pain in the...... Well, we ain't even going there since someone will test me in Plumbing 101 and Iz ain't so much as opened the book.... But nevermind that 'cause its:

*********** Amos's most recent 39th Birthday************

so..........Make it a Happy one!!!!!....................


12 Sep 02 - 03:18 PM (#782289)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: GUEST,Mudjack

Aah....Amos is another year old today, Put another candle on your birthday cake, your another year old today. May your day be blessed with song and more songs.
Mudjack


12 Sep 02 - 03:28 PM (#782294)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: MMario

consider the entire Barbarian Birthday song to have been sung

yadhtriB yppaH somA!


12 Sep 02 - 03:51 PM (#782309)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Little Hawk

Well, as you may know, I'm no big fan of the tradition of celebrating birthdays, but...

I'll make an exception this time.

Happy Birthday, eh? Totally decent, man! Cool! Rock on!

- LH


12 Sep 02 - 03:53 PM (#782310)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: C-flat

Delighted to add my congratulations to this list.
Happy Birthday!
C-flat.


12 Sep 02 - 04:01 PM (#782316)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Steve Latimer

Happy Birthday Amos!!!


12 Sep 02 - 04:03 PM (#782323)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

Jeeze!! Wodda grin this gets!! You guys are SO cool!

Thanks a million!

A


12 Sep 02 - 04:05 PM (#782324)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Dave Swan

Many Happy Returns of the Day, your Amosness.

Love D&P


12 Sep 02 - 04:06 PM (#782329)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Chris Amos

And a very happy birthday from the right hand side of the pond.

Many of 'em.

Chris


12 Sep 02 - 04:35 PM (#782359)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Jack the Sailor

Happy Happy Birthday Amos!


12 Sep 02 - 04:39 PM (#782361)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amergin

Happy Birthday, Amos! now...please put the marlinespike down...i need to ask a question here.....ok...please put the monkey's fist on the deck too...and step away...

ok...is it true that when you get to acertain age that you stop counting years...and start counting wrinkles? I figured I would ask you....I prefer the voice of experience....


12 Sep 02 - 04:43 PM (#782363)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Venthony

Every good wish and prayer, Tony


12 Sep 02 - 04:47 PM (#782366)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: skarpi

HAPPY BIRHTDAY AMOS, ALL THE BEST SKARPI ICELAND.


12 Sep 02 - 04:48 PM (#782367)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Deda

Dearest Bro -- I'm SO GLAD that you made it through those first perilous few weeks, and the doctor who thought your were DOA turned out to be WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. Other than that I won't disclose any family secrets -- except that by 1963 you had thoroughly mastered the fine art of getting into trouble (could have charged admission and given lessons), and had even put in a few years on learning the guitar!

mucho hugs, little sister


12 Sep 02 - 04:51 PM (#782370)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

I have never thought wrinkles worth counting, amigo -- I consider them badges of honor and I wear them with pride, but I ciollect them in batches!

Besides, my own wrinkles are produced by much grinning and laughing and I am too busy manufacturing them to count!!

Deda: Never mind all that!! I didn't inhale. Except when I did.

Mucho hugs back atcha!!

Love,

grinning A


12 Sep 02 - 04:52 PM (#782373)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: MMario

Deda? He didn't charge you for mischief lessons? My older siblings got half the allowance to pass on their tips!


12 Sep 02 - 04:54 PM (#782375)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: songs2play

Just to be different Amos Penblwydd Hapus i Chi! (Welsh Happy Birthday), and just for helping me with the blue clickie.

Amos Hongera! or Heri ya Siku kuu! - any ideas of the language ?


12 Sep 02 - 04:58 PM (#782380)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amergin

Amos..having actually had the pleasure of meeting you....well I believe that entirely....You are one of those special folks that laughter comes to easily...here are to many more birthdays.


12 Sep 02 - 05:08 PM (#782387)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

Icelandic, Eskimo, or Transvaal Pygmy, by the look of it...

Thanks, Nathan. It lies at the bottom of every situation, just waiting to be recognized. Promise!

A


12 Sep 02 - 05:10 PM (#782388)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Catherine Jayne

HAPPY BIRTHDAY


12 Sep 02 - 05:13 PM (#782392)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Peter T.

many more, friend, many more. yours, Peter T.


12 Sep 02 - 05:50 PM (#782423)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: GUEST,Giac, dog sitting

Happiest of happies, nice person.

Mary


12 Sep 02 - 06:00 PM (#782432)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Dharmabum

Happy Birthday Amos!

DB.


12 Sep 02 - 06:58 PM (#782482)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

AW, thanks, guys. Made my day -- honest-- I can't tellya!!

Well, so what language was it, anyway?

A


12 Sep 02 - 07:06 PM (#782493)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amergin

swahili


12 Sep 02 - 07:09 PM (#782498)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

Well, I was close. One-third of my guess was less than half a continent off! :>)

A


12 Sep 02 - 07:13 PM (#782502)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Gareth

Congratulations on surviving so far.

The'Cat (and the US of A) needs good people like thee.

Best wishes,

Gareth


12 Sep 02 - 07:30 PM (#782515)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Mudlark

To the tune of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, in C (and that's concert tuning...)

Today is Amos's birthday
He's a Virgo, that's a very good sign
Tho I've only just made his acquaintance
I hope to know him for a very long time.

Chorus:

Hap...py Birth...day
To you, dear Amos, to you, to you
Hap..py Birth..day
To you, dear Amos, to you

I know that you're very good company
Your playing and singing is more than just fine
You're really one hell of a fella
And as mellow as a well-aged red wine.

Chorus:

Your horoscope advises you reach out
And ask for a hug on this day.
So you wont have to ask, I am offering,
And a big Birthday hug's on the way

Clink!

Nancy


12 Sep 02 - 08:08 PM (#782546)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

Nancy:

I am just all mushed up, here.

Thank you!!

Gotta go renew my Kleenex...


A


12 Sep 02 - 08:28 PM (#782564)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: curmudgeon

1963? You wax too eloquent for one so young. Keep on having those birthday celebrations ad infinitum. I'm now going to drink a dram to your health and longevity -- Tom


12 Sep 02 - 08:50 PM (#782579)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

Tom:

It's kinda like estimating the distance to those heatwaves coming off the blacktop, ya know -- these guys are guessing wildly.

I was eighteen, living on the hoof in San Francisco, the winter JFK got taken out.

Have another dram on me, then, and here's to longevity for us all!! And thank you kindly!

A


12 Sep 02 - 08:57 PM (#782582)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: curmudgeon

So you're still a youngster; I was nineteen and in a debating tournament in Burlington VT -- Tom


12 Sep 02 - 09:06 PM (#782589)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: curmudgeon

Never did quite get the hang of mathematics; I was twenty. HBD -- Tom


12 Sep 02 - 09:31 PM (#782612)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: harpmaker

Happy Birthday to you Amos!!


12 Sep 02 - 09:45 PM (#782625)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Liz the Squeak

Ah, a whole year and 2 days older than me!! Hope it was a good day for you. Will eat a ginger snap in your honour tomorrow - I doubt they'll make the journey into work, let alone a trip across the pond, so I'll be your proxy. Cream or chocolate sauce?

LTS


12 Sep 02 - 09:47 PM (#782627)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

Chocolate sauce, definitely, Liz!! Thanks!! I owe you some chocolate anyway, so there ya go!


A


12 Sep 02 - 09:56 PM (#782635)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Liz the Squeak

You owe me chocolate? Hmm, how did I let YOU get away?

Seems to be the time of year - a work colleague celebrates his tomorrow (well, later today, it's 2.50am in the UK as I type), so plenty of Virgos to keep things in order!

Take care, hope the day was fun.

LTS


12 Sep 02 - 09:59 PM (#782641)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: GUEST,Trotlsdorf

Wunderbar, Amos! All ze good citizens of Trotlsdorf vish to giff you zer congradulashuns on ziss auspicious occasion! Trotlsdorf iss ze town in vich iss located ze famous castle uff Schloss Bumpsenhausen in vich iss ze biggest library uff vorks by famous psychoanalysts like Freud, Jung, und Liebenscheiss. Ve haff noticed zat you haff a really goot apreziation uff Herr Liebenscheiss und haff served as his Norse American sponsor, vee might say. Ziss iss goot! Really goot! Vee are all getting very drunk und singing songs for you tonight. Ja! Long liff Amos und long liff Liebenscheiss!

Ooooompa! Oooompa! Oooom-pa-pa! Ooooompa! Oooompa! Oooom-pa-pa!

(*sound uff much cheering und yelling in beckground*)


12 Sep 02 - 10:09 PM (#782652)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Genie

Harpie Birds To Use, Eh?

Ya doesn't look a day older than Bob Dylan, Amos!  Er ... I mean, ya doesn't look a day over 39!

Keep on pluckin', Aim!

Genie


12 Sep 02 - 10:13 PM (#782656)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Jerry Rasmussen

And a Happy Birtday to you, Amos. It seems like I cross threads with you so often that we're in danger of getting all tangled up.

It's always a pleasure reading what you have to say...

Jerry


12 Sep 02 - 10:40 PM (#782667)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

Thanks, Genie!! Thanks, Tweekenshnitzel!! It's a pure honor to be celebrated all the way from the hallowed halls of the Liebenscheiss Library!!

And thank you, Jerry, the pleasure is purely reciprocal!!


A


12 Sep 02 - 11:06 PM (#782689)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Genie

Sorry, Amos,

That was supposed to be

Harpie Birds, Eh?  (To Use)

Genie


12 Sep 02 - 11:17 PM (#782695)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Peter Kasin

Amos! All the best on your big day. Great meeting you and family on your trip up here. 39! Welcome once again to the Jack Benny club.

All the best,

Chanteyranger


12 Sep 02 - 11:26 PM (#782701)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

Well, thanks, Chanteyranger; but I never did return the application, because they said they would bill me if I did!.

:>) I really enjoyed your company, too!

A


13 Sep 02 - 12:06 AM (#782743)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: X

Happy Birthday Amos. Why didn't you tell us it was going to be you B-day when we asked you your "vintage?" We'll have to do something special on the 28th.

Hugh


13 Sep 02 - 12:06 AM (#782744)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Peg

Happy Birthday! I made it with two minutes to spare!!!

peg


13 Sep 02 - 12:34 AM (#782759)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: The Pooka

Whoaaaa, I've been Offline lately & missed this! Well, albeit belatedly, Happy Birthday to be sure to be SURE, Amos my recently-found Mudfriend! & manymanymany more!

In the summer of our lifetimes, the skies were always blue,
We'd weave our dreams with noble thoughts and dreams could all come true,
*Believe in all your youthful dreams, and they'll live on for you,*
When the grey October clouds go drifting by.
- T. Makem

Best wishes,
-- Joe

PS - "Why do we remember the past and not the future?" -- Stephen Hawking


13 Sep 02 - 12:56 AM (#782768)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

Pooka:

How beautiful!! Thanks a ton! And it isn't belated out here on the Left Coast!

We remember the past because we have put it on automatic --Those remembering machines keep all the correct amounts of blackness in place and the pictures well-filed! :>) And if we were completely free we would create endless futures, pasts and presents with equal abandon.

That of course would be much too upsetting for most people to live with!!

The reason we don't remember the future is because we like to pretend we haven't created it, and it will surprise us -- again, automatically .

No reason not to practice increasing your powers of creation on both fronts!

A


13 Sep 02 - 01:17 AM (#782777)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Genie

Bobert, I just noticed the thread title in detail. Shouldn't it be either

"Happy Birthday, Amos"

or

"Happy Birtday To Youse, Amos?"

Genie *BG*


13 Sep 02 - 01:39 AM (#782787)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: harpgirl

I wrote you a salutation earlier today Amos. But it just disappeared!!!!Imagine that around here!!!!????

Anyway, I said something like "you're creative, curious, witty..HB from hg...but I have to add courageous...

...and you have had a GREAT DEAL of what you have said censored here at white bread and mayonnaise McMudcat tonight!!!!

Stay outfront anyway...your admirer...harpgirl


13 Sep 02 - 01:45 AM (#782789)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: GUEST

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: GUEST:Gargoyle From: Amos Date: 12-Sep-02 - 09:23 PM

That old Guest Gargoyle, That old Guest Gargoyle, He rides this site, Like a waterlogged cargo, He don't like helpin' He don't like typin' He just keeps snipin' along.

He don't like birthdays, Or idle chatter, An' what he likes Doesn't reallly matter, He just keeps snipin' He won't stop snipin' along.

Now you and me, We stop and wait, Thinkin' how best to communicate Choose them words, Tune that prose, Try not to step On someone's toes.

But that old guest Gargoyle, That old Guest Gargoyle, He sure know's plenty But he don't share any, He just keeps sniping He won't stop snipin' He keeps on snipin' aloooong.

That the one you wanted, Mister Happy?

A


13 Sep 02 - 09:14 AM (#782940)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

Ya know what, guys? I'm sorry I penned that parody of Old Man River. In reflection, it looks kinda harsh.


Anyway, thanks to all of you for the wonderful wishes -- they really made my day, and that's a fact.

I hope we can do it again next year!!!

I really do di g youall the most!

A


13 Sep 02 - 12:12 PM (#783103)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: CarolC

Oops! Almost missed this.

Happy Belated Birthday, Amos! Hope it was a good one!


13 Sep 02 - 01:30 PM (#783169)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Áine

Hey Bubba! Sorry I missed your 'official' B-day; but, I sent you a lil' sumpin' special in the ether . . . hope you like it (very wicked grin)

Happy, happy, happy B-Day Greetings anyway, TGG


13 Sep 02 - 01:38 PM (#783181)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Morticia

A day late and a dollar short as usual but happy birthday to the man with the sexiest voice I've ever heard!Hope I get to meet it's owner one day.


13 Sep 02 - 02:02 PM (#783199)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: SharonA

There once was a 'Catter named Amos
Whose SONG CHALLENGE songs are quite famous
Around these here parts,
And unlike Spaw's farts,
He never does nuthin' to shame us!

(Best I could do on the spur of the moment!)

Happy belated birthday, Amos!

Sharon


13 Sep 02 - 02:15 PM (#783210)
Subject: RE: BS: HAPPY BIRTDAY, AMOS
From: Amos

Mighty fine, Sharon!! Mighty fine!!

SHucks -- I never 'spected two days of rolling in clover like this! :>) (Or dead salmon, depending on how catty I feel! :>))

AIne, so far I've liked every transmission I've ever seen from you, so it's a safe bet! :>)

Morty, yer making me blush here!! You gonna stretch your stateside expedition to the Left Coast? We'll putcher up if you want explore the legendary border country!! :>)

Carol, it was just fine, thank you! Hope your weddnin' is a smashing success...well, depending on who gets smashed, I guess! :>)

Thanks again, one and all!


A