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08 November 2007
Happy birthday to kmellis !!! Even if he don't come round here no more...
It is your birthday and that fact leads me to reflect, nay, even to refute, the standard, accepted wisdom that birthdays are a simple way to count the years attained by any given member of the human race. Why, birthdays, often considered simply the most egregious excuse for what is called in the vernacular "partying down like a motherfucker" are in the most absolute sense of the word a day on which someone, in this case, you, dear, were born. Naturally, use of the Gregorian as opposed to the absolute, or Augustinian calendar, or, as is often preferred by the confusing, the Mayan calendar (in which, as an interesting aside, the world is going to end in 2012 or possibly 2014, but that is neither here nor there, really) confuses the issue somewhat, as do those godforsaken souls who were born on a leap year. But for the purposes of this paragraph we will make the culturally biased assumption that today is your birthday; the number of years you have been on this planet is hereby generally recognized to have increased by one, and I, for one, have found the planet to be a markedly more pleasant place due to your presence upon it. Therefore, happy birthday, ethereal bligh! And many more happy returns, or, as it is often called, the enter key, to you!!
Ah, thanks, guys! Relatives are taking me out for dinner at the restaurant of my choice. So I expect to be eating some very good pasta a few hours from now.
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