Author Topic: Happy Birthday! (Read 3487 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #25 on:** June 29, 2020, 10:01:11 AM »

And blowing out candles today for Ray Harryhausen, Stokely Carmichael, and Katherine Jenkins

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #26 on:** June 30, 2020, 12:07:34 PM »

And a grand Huzzah for Winston Graham, Lena Horne, and Mike Tyson

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #27 on:** July 01, 2020, 09:51:29 AM »

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

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #28 on:** July 02, 2020, 07:59:57 AM »

A round of for they are jolly good people for Ken Clarke, Imelda, and Jerry Hall

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #29 on:** July 03, 2020, 09:39:07 AM »

Birthday cards being delivered for George M Cohan, Franz Kafka and MFK Fisher

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #30 on:** July 03, 2020, 10:30:52 AM »

In addition two Toms. Meesrs. Stoppard & Cruise.

Steve H · « **Reply #31 on:** July 03, 2020, 10:41:08 AM »

King Louis XI of France, Robert Adam, Scottish designer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist writer, WH Davies, Welsh poet, and Ken Russell, film director.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #32 on:** July 03, 2020, 10:45:24 AM »

Quote from: Constable Dogberry on July 03, 2020, 10:41:08 AM

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.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #33 on:** July 04, 2020, 08:28:19 AM »

And amongst today's participants in pass the parcel are Garibaldi (resisting urge to make a biscuit joke), Leona Helmsley, and Neil Simon.

Steve H · « **Reply #34 on:** July 04, 2020, 10:28:47 AM »

And Yankee Doodle Dandy.

bluehillside Retd · « **Reply #35 on:** July 04, 2020, 01:39:05 PM »

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...

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #36 on:** July 04, 2020, 01:42:49 PM »

Quote from: bluehillside Retd. on July 04, 2020, 01:39:05 PM

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.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #37 on:** July 05, 2020, 08:28:42 AM »

And the postman has a bulging sack for Pancho Villa, Ernst Mayr, and Katherine Helmond.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #38 on:** July 06, 2020, 10:20:15 AM »

alles Gute zum Geburtstag John Byrne, Jennifer Saunders, and George W Bush

bluehillside Retd · « **Reply #39 on:** July 07, 2020, 01:47:04 PM »

And today’s postal order from Grandma goes to…

…Ringo Starr, Bill Oddie, Jon Pertwee and Rob Newman.

bluehillside Retd · « **Reply #40 on:** July 08, 2020, 11:52:35 AM »

Today’s candle extinguishers: Kevin Bacon, Anjelica Huston, Virgil van Dijk & Robbie Keane.

bluehillside Retd · « **Reply #41 on:** July 10, 2020, 02:41:56 PM »

Marking another successful circumnavigation of the sun today are: Sunil Gavaskar, Neil Tennant, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Virginia Wade.

bluehillside Retd · « **Reply #42 on:** July 11, 2020, 04:33:09 PM »

Today’s candidates for the bumps are Suzanne Vega, Caroline Quentin and Caroline Wozniacki.

bluehillside Retd · « **Reply #43 on:** July 13, 2020, 07:49:20 PM »

Wondering today whether the wrapping paper is bio-degradable are Harrison Ford, Patrick Stewart, Erno Rubik and Ian Hislop.

Walt Zingmatilder · « **Reply #44 on:** July 18, 2020, 10:39:30 PM »

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

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #45 on:** October 10, 2020, 06:58:33 AM »

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.

SusanDoris · « **Reply #46 on:** October 10, 2020, 07:27:28 AM »

Quote from: bluehillside Retd. on July 04, 2020, 01:39:05 PM

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!

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #47 on:** October 10, 2020, 08:19:14 AM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 10, 2020, 06:58:33 AM

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.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #48 on:** October 10, 2020, 08:26:28 AM »

Quote from: Trentvoyager on October 10, 2020, 08:19:14 AM

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.

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