October 09, 2005
Curious George: Half Birthdays
I've known about half birthdays for a long time now, but every time I mention them, someone seems to need to be informed. What I was wondering is how many people actually know about half birthdays, and for those of you who don't know, how many of you can figure it out.
Here's a clue: My birthday is April 7th and my half birthday is October 7th.
It's not that hard to figure out.
Also, when are your half birthdays?
Lieutenant Penis C. Dweeberson
I'm a musician, so I can only count to four.
Half birthdays are good, particularly when your real birthday sucks. (Once I got dumped four days before my birthday, so yeah, teh suck. My half birthday that year was much needed.)
Why stop there? Celebrate your every uncial birthday!
It seemed to me that the big deal about 1/2 birthdays was in elementary (grammar)school through high school, so that kids whose birthday fell outside the school year could have a day when their moms had to bake cupcakes for the class, too.
Mine was of no consequence 4/20--10/20, but my eldest son got skunked on the birthday celebrations twice. July 1--January 1.
Never celebrated it before. Maybe one year when I'm feeling especially self-indulgent.
...what?
This is personal blog-fodder, surely.
This is the stupidest thing I ever heard of.
I'd have to agree.
This is the stupidest thing I ever heard of.
If true, then you haven't been reading my posts closely enough.
Statistics prove, prove that you've one birthday,
one birthday ev'ry year.
But there are three hundred and sixty four
unbirthdays.
That is why we're gathered here to cheer.
A very merry unbirthday to you, to you.
A very merry unbirthday to you,
It's great to drink to someone and I guess that you will do.
A very merry unbirthday to you.
Mine was of no consequence 4/20--10/20...
Dude, your birthday is 4/20...that's, like, so totally cool...
*takes another hit from the monkeybong*
Eeked on your second post...Duude...
*Assumes sympathetic expression*
Incidentally, Kaeldra is also the soup-poster. Maybe some actual content in the next post?
SOUP POSTER!!!!!!!!
/rages about
*Expression slowly changes to one of soup-induced anger*
I'm sure you're really nice, Rinny, but couldn't you bring something a little more solid to the table than this?
I am sixty-three and 1/3. Now I am going to bully my friends and kin into celberating one third-birthdays. Starting with mine.
Should be interesting to record their spontaneous responses to this suggestion. But I doubt many will be of a sort suitable to repeeat here.
How old are you, anyway, Kaeldra/
But what do half-birthdays have to do with John Titor?
February 29th. Useless half-birthdays.
Never mind all that nonesense. It's my real birthday in a couple of weeks. If you start the collection now, you can probably get me something really nice.
Just a suggestion...
You probably already have plenty of beetroot.
Kaeldra's just a soup-posting, half-birthday celebrating sock puppet! I love you Kaeldra!
Yeah. Gimme some soup lovin'.
I've decided to celebrate only the tens; 30, 40, etc. I dislike birthdays and holidays in general, so this should work quite well.
Dogs must eat a lot of cake as they have seven birthdays a year. I also imagine they get lots of beautifully wrapped sticks.
Bones.
Heh. You said...
Oh, never mind.
But seriously, now would be a good time to club together for that Glock 17 I've been after...
I told you, get a 35.
OK. As long as I can positively, definitley kill every motherfucker in the room with one, I'm good.
Yeah, sure you can. As long as there are less than 15 (with a preban mag or cop version). And they make a big hole. In fact they can take your head clean off.
Get me one of them then, guys.
It's always a good birthday party when people start flaunting their... guns.
My parents' dog always gets a bunch of gifts at Christmas: a new collar, a big box of dog biscuits, a plastic stocking full of treats and a toy, every year. He's learned to delicately unwrap each present except the dog biscuits, which he takes great joy in shredding and snarfling in about half a second.
You dog-spoiler, you.
At this time we have 4 dogs -- our own two and two that belong to a kinsman's family -- and all of them gobble the peanut butter dog biscuits the kitchen gods make.
I don't bother to make any kind of special cookie or biscuit that the human specie cannot eat.
Food for people is superior to anything designated "dog."
Pondering this thread's premise, the half-birthday, and the subsequent burden of quarter-birthdays, one eighth birthdays, etc I conclude every day is for all practicval purposes everyone's one three hundred sixty-fifth birthday.
And it occurs to me we've been making a serious mistake all these years. Wot we need instead is to celebrate the birthhour of of a person.
h p b r h a
= a half birthday
a y i t y
=the other half
I had to have a half birthday party once, because my birthday is in July, and most of my friends were away whenever I wanted to have a party. I didn't have any birthday parties from about age 10 until I was 13, when I finally gave in and had a party to celebrate my 13 1/2 birthday.
I still have some little nerds figures my friend decorated from that party - and nothing else from my "real" birthdays.
Half-birthdays hadn't yet been invented when I was small.
Although the protocol among kids was often to say you were eight and a half or ten and a half. As if somehow that would help ye grow up faster. But this was a strictly kids-culture thing - adults never paid attention to half-birthdays.
Back then, adults didn't pay all that much attention to kids, thank goodness.
Perhaps not a half-birthday (you can figure that one out for yourself) but today is/was fish tick's birthday. I wonder if anyone will catch this from the side bar.
Caught it, and am kinda peeved she didn't even say thank you for the huge floral bouquet I sent her.
mentally...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLASH TICK!
May happinesses and huge mental floral bouquets surround you like so many happy herring farts amongst the herring!
I will
make sure
it's noticed
by
upping the
comment count.
Oh gawrsh! Thanks veddy much, y'all!
Yay!
Where cake?
Pie.
NOM!
are you ready for your birthday spanking now, tick???
Too late! Maybe next year, thanks.
for those of you who don't know, how many of you can figure it out.
Here's a clue: My birthday is April 7th and my half birthday is October 7th
Wow. A clue? "Today is opposite day. It's fun to play. How many of you can figure it out? Here's a clue: If it is really sunny outside today and someone asks me what the weather is like, I say it's raining!"
Okay, Kaeldra, let me try the opposite day game: You are an organism that is worthy of continuing to live who has a fully functioning human brain.
In general, though, I find people to be stupid and selfish.
Heh.
She is in high school, and I retract my prior comment.
My brother was 10 3/4 this year. I wonder if you can figure it out?
A paradox, a paradox!
A most ingenious paradox!
A hah a hah a hah a hah
A paradox.
Why a paradox? Why not a paracheekens?
Paracrocs?
No thanks, trying to cut down.
Viaduct?
I'm a stranger here myself.
O Tannenbaum?
pairasocks?
happy late birthday Tick
Happy March 10 birthday curieux, you brat!
Joyeux anniversaire, curieux!
Merci Koko.
Happy Birthdays peeps!
(Or half Birthdays... whatever..)
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