Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on June 13, 2020, 01:41:37 PM
-
I've been using birthdays on the quotes thread to give sone focus to the choice, which is why I quoted the genius that was Yeats today. I couldn't help but notice that it is also James Clerk Maxwell's birthday today, a stone cold genius, so I am starting a thread where we can note notable birthdays. It's a bit cheerier than the deaths.
http://clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/html/about_maxwell.html
-
So it's a happy birthday amongst others to Harriett Beecher Stowe and Donald Trump, but also Jerzy Kosinski who wrote Being There (or maybe didn't). Fascinating life
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kosiński
-
I've been using birthdays on the quotes thread to give sone focus to the choice, which is why I quoted the genius that was Yeats today. I couldn't help but notice that it is also James Clerk Maxwell's birthday today, a stone cold genius, so I am starting a thread where we can note notable birthdays. It's a bit cheerier than the deaths.
http://clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/html/about_maxwell.html
A religious man too.
-
A religious man too.
He had brown hair too.
-
A religious man too.
..and a sporter of a fine beard.
-
..and a sporter of a fine beard.
Scottish too.
-
Scottish too.
And invented instant coffee in his house.
-
And for today a big HB to Edvard Grieg
https://youtu.be/bR3N1yBEGbw
-
Stan Laurel, Enoch Powell, and Geronimo all having a slice.of birthday cake today. If anyone hasn't seen Stan & Ollie, it's a lovely little film. Neither Powell nor Geronimo makes an appearance
-
Also one of the 20th century's great photographers Irving Penn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Penn).
The Irving Penn Foundation (https://irvingpenn.org/galleries#galleries-paintings-drawings)
-
Amongst other birthdays Stravinsky, Escher and Mark Linn-Baker. I only mention Linn-Baker because it makes me want to watch My Favourite Year - which contains a stunning performance from Peter O'Toole as not Errol Flynn.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Favorite_Year
-
Couple of Trentvoyager's favourites birthdays today with Paul McCartney and Alison Moyet
-
Couple of Trentvoyager's favourites birthdays today with Paul McCartney and Alison Moyet
I only knew half of those facts. Alison's birthday had escaped me.
-
And amongst those receiving metaphorical birthday bumps today Wallis Simpson, Salman Rushdie, and Thelma Barlow
-
Parties today for Jean Marie Le Pen, Wendy Craig, and Brian Wilson.
-
And amongst those receiving metaphorical birthday bumps today Wallis Simpson, Salman Rushdie, and Thelma Barlow
and Boris Johnson, Aung San Suu Kyi, and me - 69 yesterday (age, not sexual position, unfortunately).
-
and Boris Johnson, Aung San Suu Kyi, and me - 69 yesterday (age, not sexual position, unfortunately).
Happy birthday for yesterday Steve - and I'm sure he won't object if I also note that today is Owlswing's birthday, and also the birthday of the younger of my two granddaughters (who is 4 today).
-
And listening to Happy Birthday today, Jean Paul Sartre, Francoise Sagan, and Ray Davies
-
And another year for Elizabeth Warren, Lindsay Wagner, and Meryl Steep - all born on same day. Also renowned author Dan Brown
-
Three cheers for Winifred Holtby, author of the great South Riding, Joss Whedon - writer of the magnifcent Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.
Also as per the quotes thread, the great Alan Turing
-
New milestones for Juan Manuel Fangio, Mary Wesley, and Phil Harris, the last of whom I sang along to many many times
-
And a careless whisper tells me that it is the birthday of George Michael, George Orwell, and Carly Simon
-
Uptick in age for Babe Didricksen Zaharias, Patty Smyth (not Patti Smith) and Georgie Fame.
-
And the birthday wishes ring out for Helen Keller, Ross Perot, and Charles Stewart Parnell.
-
Felicitations of the day for Rousseau, Richard Rodgers, and Lalla Ward
-
And blowing out candles today for Ray Harryhausen, Stokely Carmichael, and Katherine Jenkins
-
And a grand Huzzah for Winston Graham, Lena Horne, and Mike Tyson
-
And another year chalked up for Gottfried Leibniz, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (George Sand), and Debbie Harry
I missed that Olivia De Havilland celebrated her 104th birthday
-
A round of for they are jolly good people for Ken Clarke, Imelda, and Jerry Hall
-
Birthday cards being delivered for George M Cohan, Franz Kafka and MFK Fisher
-
In addition two Toms. Meesrs. Stoppard & Cruise.
-
King Louis XI of France, Robert Adam, Scottish designer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist writer, WH Davies, Welsh poet, and Ken Russell, film director.
-
King Louis XI of France, Robert Adam, Scottish designer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist writer, WH Davies, Welsh poet, and Ken Russell, film director.
Yep, as noted when I started the thread I was using birthdays to help select quotes which is why Charlotte Perkins Gilman appears on that thread today.
The Yellow Wallpaper is a great novella, and iirc correctly, I mentioned it in the Favourite Books thread.
-
And amongst today's participants in pass the parcel are Garibaldi (resisting urge to make a biscuit joke), Leona Helmsley, and Neil Simon.
-
And Yankee Doodle Dandy.
-
Does anyone fancy taking a bet on how many witty ways Nearly has left in him to preface the fact of some celebs' birthdays?
My £5 says he's going to run out in about ten goes from now... ;)
-
Does anyone fancy taking a bet on how many witty ways Nearly has left in him to preface the fact of some celebs' birthdays?
My £5 says he's going to run out in about ten goes from now... ;)
If I last that long I will be happy.
-
And the postman has a bulging sack for Pancho Villa, Ernst Mayr, and Katherine Helmond.
-
alles Gute zum Geburtstag John Byrne, Jennifer Saunders, and George W Bush
-
And today’s postal order from Grandma goes to…
…Ringo Starr, Bill Oddie, Jon Pertwee and Rob Newman.
-
Today’s candle extinguishers: Kevin Bacon, Anjelica Huston, Virgil van Dijk & Robbie Keane.
-
Marking another successful circumnavigation of the sun today are: Sunil Gavaskar, Neil Tennant, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Virginia Wade.
-
Today’s candidates for the bumps are Suzanne Vega, Caroline Quentin and Caroline Wozniacki.
-
Wondering today whether the wrapping paper is bio-degradable are Harrison Ford, Patrick Stewart, Erno Rubik and Ian Hislop.
-
James Lovelock of Gaia hypothesis fame is 101.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/18/james-lovelock-the-biosphere-and-i-are-both-in-the-last-1-per-cent-of-our-lives
-
Am reminded that it would be be Kirsty MacColl's birthday today. One of those celebrity deaths that affected me in ways I was surprised by. It's odd how sometimes you only realise what people you never knew meant to you until they die. We are a very strange animal.
-
Does anyone fancy taking a bet on how many witty ways Nearly has left in him to preface the fact of some celebs' birthdays?
My £5 says he's going to run out in about ten goes from now... ;)
Since starting to read this thread, my mind has been composing a short post of admiration for the variety of different approaches NS has used!
-
Am reminded that it would be be Kirsty MacColl's birthday today. One of those celebrity deaths that affected me in ways I was surprised by. It's odd how sometimes you only realise what people you never knew meant to you until they die. We are a very strange animal.
Indeed. I was revisiting "Dinnerladies" by Victoria Wood yesterday, and that loss for some reason still upsets me.
-
Indeed. I was revisiting "Dinnerladies" by Victoria Wood yesterday, and that loss for some reason still upsets me.
Part of the great 2016 cull of people I admired.