Hippy Bathday!
zoaran substitute
Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
You share your birthday with:
1520 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman
1604 - William Brereton, English soldier and politician
1739 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman
1775 - Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the War of 1812
1802 - Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and political writer
1813 - John Sedgwick, American Civil War general
1819 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer
1830 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer
1842 - Guglielmo Ciardi, Italian painter
1842 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator
1851 - Walter Reed, American physician and biologist
1857 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate entrepreneur
1857 - Michal Drzymala, Polish peasant rebel
1860 - John J. Pershing, American general
1863 - Arthur Henderson, British politician and union leader, Nobel
Peace Prize 1934
1873 - Constantin Carathéodory, mathematician
1874 - Arnold Schoenberg, composer
1876 - Sherwood Anderson, writer
1877 - Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer
1885 - Wilhelm Blaschke, Austro-Hungarian geometer
1886 - Sir Robert Robinson, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1887 - Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1893 - Larry Shields, jazz musician
1894 - J.B. Priestley, playwright and novelist
1894 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet
1895 - Morris Kirksey, American athlete and rugby player
1903 - Claudette Colbert, actress
1911 - Bill Monroe, singer (Bluegrass band)
1916 - Roald Dahl, writer
1918 - Dick Haymes, Argentine vocalist
1917 - Robert Ward, composer
1922 - Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist
1923 - Aurelio Fierro, Italian singer
1923 - Edouard Boubat, French photographer
1924 - Maurice Jarre, composer
1925 - Mel Torme, singer
1925 - Amilcar Salomón Zorilla, Peruvian painter
1929 - Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer
1932 - Barbara Bain, actress
1937 - Don Bluth, animator
1938 - Judith Martin ("Miss Manners"), etiquette writer
1939 - Richard Kiel, American actor
1941 - David Clayton-Thomas, singer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1941 - Tadao Ando, Japanese archictect
1944 - Jacqueline Bisset, actress
1944 - Peter Cetera, American singer and bass guitarist (Chicago)
1945 - Noël Godin, Belgian humorist
1948 - Nell Carter, American actress and singer
1950 - Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish politician
1952 - Randy Jones, musician (The Village People)
1952 - Don Was, singer and composer
1952 - Raymond O'Connor, American actor
1961 - Dave Mustaine, musician (Megadeth)
1965 - Zak Starkey, British musician
1967 - Michael Johnson, American track and field athlete
1968 - Emma Sjöberg, Swedish model and actress
1969 - Shane Warne, Australian cricketer
1971 - Goran Ivanisevic, Croatian tennis player
1971 - Stella McCartney, British fashion designer
1973 - Christine Arron, French runner
1977 - Fiona Apple, singer
1980 - Viren Rasquinha, Indian hockey team member
1980 - Ben Savage, actor
1982 - Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
On this day in history:
509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated
on the ides of September.
122 - The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
533 - Belisarius and the Roman Empire defeat Gelimer and the
Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium near Carthage, North
Africa.
604 - Pope Sabinianus is consecrated.
1440 - Gilles de Rais is taken into custody upon an accusation brought
against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1743 - England, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
1759 - Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near
Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the
French and Indian War
1788 - The United States Constitutional Convention sets the date for
the country's first presidential election, and New York City
becomes the temporary capital of the U.S.
1791 - King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution
1813 - The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning
point in the War of 1812.
1847 - Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as
Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle
of Chapultepec. American General Winfield Scott captures
Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
1862 - Union soldiers find Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field
outside Frederick, Maryland.
1898 - Hannibal Williston Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1899 - Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be
killed in an automobile accident.
1900 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a larger American column
in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine American
War.
1906 - First airplane flight in Europe
1914 - During World War I, South African troops open hostilities in
German SW Afica (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift
police station.
1923 - Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over,
setting up a dictatorship.
1939 - Canada enters World War II.
1940 - German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
1940 - Italy invades Egypt.
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first
woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and
the United States Senate.
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Soviet
Union.
1956 - The dyke around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1965 - Baseball: Willie Mays becomes the fifth member of the 500
home run club with a home run at the Astrodome in Houston,
Texas.
1968 - Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1970 - First running of the New York City Marathon.
1971 - State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica
Prison to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.
1971 - Frank Robinson becomes the 11th member of the 500 home run
club with a home run at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore,
Maryland.
1979 - South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda
(not recognized outside South Africa).
1985 - The Super Mario Bros. video game is released by Nintendo.
1987 - Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an
abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many
people in the following weeks and leading some to die from
radiation poisoning.
1988 - Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the
Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure).
1989 - Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond
Tutu.
1993 - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian
peace agreement initiated by Norway.
1993 - Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993.
1994 - Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
1996 - After surviving for six days, U.S. rapper/actor Tupac Shakur
dies after being shot four times in a drive by shooting in
Las Vegas, Nevada.
1999 - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are
killed.
2001 - Civilian airplane traffic in the U.S., which had been
grounded following the September 11, 2001 attacks, is
allowed to resume.
2004 - The anime InuYasha finishes its run in Japan with episode 167.
Deaths on this day:
81 - Roman Emperor Titus (born 39)
1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (born 1265)
1438 - King Duarte of Portugal (born 1391)
1506 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
1592 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (born 1533)
1598 - King Philip II of Spain (born 1526)
1632 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria, regent of the Tyrol (born 1586)
1759 - James Wolfe, British general (born 1727)
1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (born 1749)
1872 - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, German philosopher (born 1804)
1881 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general and politician
(born 1824)
1885 - Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (born 1821)
1894 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (born 1841)
1912 - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (born 1849)
1915 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of
Ohio (born 1835)
1928 - Italo Svevo, Italian author (born 1861)
1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine
1973 - Betty Field, American actress (born 1913)
1977 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (born 1882)
1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist
1987 - Mervyn LeRoy, American film director
1996 - Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor
1998 - George Wallace, American politician
1999 - Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (born 1913)
2001 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress
2003 - Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana
The BBC's "on this day" page:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/13/
What on earth is the treaty of worms? It's not actually as interesting
as it sounds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Worms_(1743)
Hope you have a nice day, and hope that there aren't too many worms
involved...
-zoara-
Jim
>
>
> Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
> but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
>
<waves><lifts glass><falls over>
Jim
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Peter Ceresole
> > Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
> > but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
> >
>
> <waves><lifts glass><falls over>
Mind the sheep!
--
Peter
Bella Jones
> Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
> but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
>
[...]
>
> Hope you have a nice day, and hope that there aren't too many worms
> involved...
Nor germs! (from here I am anyway).
Many happy returns from me, ye lusty wench. Arr!
Oh, hold on, that's next week. <blush>
--
bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
Roger Merriman
only in wales, though there where some goats in the lanes yesturday
afternoon.
Roger
Jim
<maintaines dignified silence>
Chris Ridd
<j...@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
> In article <1h2tzhk.19a135uj18rm0N%NE...@wodger.demon.co.uk>, Roger Merriman
> wrote:
>> Peter Ceresole <pe...@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Jim <j...@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
>>>>> but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <waves><lifts glass><falls over>
>>>
>>> Mind the sheep!
>>
>> only in wales, though there where some goats in the lanes yesturday
>> afternoon.
>>
>
> <maintaines dignified silence>
Happy birthday Elana!
Cheers,
Chris
Sara Kirk
zoaran substitute <net...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
> but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
>
Many hippys!
A bit distracted by listening to "War of the Worlds" (or is that
Worms...) but wishing you all the best anyway.
--
Sara
Sara Kirk
<m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> Many happy returns from me, ye lusty wench. Arr!
>
> Oh, hold on, that's next week. <blush>
ooo yes - don't let me forget!
--
Sara
Peter Ceresole
David Kennedy
>
> Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
> but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
Have a good one Elana
>
--
David Kennedy
Tim Gowen
> A bit distracted by listening to "War of the Worlds"
Is that the new CD edition with the extras that I'm not admitting to
wanting?
Tim
--
Tim Gowen
Peter Ceresole
I think it's the mp3 of the Orson Wells Mercury Theatre radio broadcast
of 1938. <http://www.mercurytheatre.info/>
--
Peter
Tim Gowen
> I think it's the mp3 of the Orson Wells Mercury Theatre radio broadcast
> of 1938. <http://www.mercurytheatre.info/>
Ah, well I feel stupid now!
I listened to that again, though, before going to see the recent film
version.
Tim
--
Tim Gowen
Andrew Stephenson
net...@fastmail.fm "zoaran substitute" writes:
> What on earth is the treaty of worms? It's not actually as
> interesting as it sounds:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Worms_(1743)
Far more amusing is The Diet Of Worms, which has entertained many
a sniggering schoolboy. (And giggling schoolgirl, I doubt not.)
--
Andrew Stephenson
Sara Kirk
<t...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Nope, the one on <http://www.mercurytheatre.info/> - I'm saving Rebecca
for another day. Excellent stuff.
--
Sara
iChat: sarakirk (AIM)
So, what are you going to do? Sucker me to death?
Roger Merriman
> Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
> but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
>
>
snips
>
>
> The BBC's "on this day" page:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/13/
>
>
> What on earth is the treaty of worms? It's not actually as interesting
> as it sounds:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Worms_(1743)
>
> Hope you have a nice day, and hope that there aren't too many worms
> involved...
>
heh no worm pies....
happy birthday!
>
>
> -zoara-
Roger
Bruce Horrocks
<j...@magrathea.plus.com> writes
>In article <1h2tzhk.19a135uj18rm0N%NE...@wodger.demon.co.uk>, Roger
>Merriman wrote:
>> Peter Ceresole <pe...@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Jim <j...@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > > Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
>>> > > but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> > <waves><lifts glass><falls over>
>>>
>>> Mind the sheep!
>>
>> only in wales, though there where some goats in the lanes yesturday
>> afternoon.
>>
>
><maintaines dignified silence>
Have you heard the one about the dyslexic who went to a toga party
dressed as a goat?
--
Bruce Horrocks
Surrey
England
<firstname>@<surname>.plus.com -- fix the obvious for email
Jim
>>>> > > Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
>>>> > > but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
>>>> > >
>>>> >
>>>> > <waves><lifts glass><falls over>
>>>>
>>>> Mind the sheep!
>>>
>>> only in wales, though there where some goats in the lanes yesturday
>>> afternoon.
>>>
>>
>><maintaines dignified silence>
>
> Have you heard the one about the dyslexic who went to a toga party
> dressed as a goat?
>
No - what happened?
Graeme Wall
Bruce Horrocks <ne...@horrocks.plus.com> wrote:
> In message <slrndidm3...@odin.magrathea.local>, Jim
> <j...@magrathea.plus.com> writes
> >In article <1h2tzhk.19a135uj18rm0N%NE...@wodger.demon.co.uk>, Roger
> >Merriman wrote:
> >> Peter Ceresole <pe...@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Jim <j...@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
> >>>
> > > > > > Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old
> > > > > > she is, but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say.
> > > > > > Probably.
> >>> > >
> >>> >
> >>> > <waves><lifts glass><falls over>
> >>>
> >>> Mind the sheep!
> >>
> >> only in wales, though there where some goats in the lanes yesturday
> >> afternoon.
> >>
> >
> ><maintaines dignified silence>
>
> Have you heard the one about the dyslexic who went to a toga party
> dressed as a goat?
>
Was he the one who couldn't sleep because of worrying over whether there
really was a Dog or not?
--
Graeme Wall
My genealogy website:
<http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/index.html>
Peter Ceresole
> Was he the one who couldn't sleep because of worrying over whether there
> really was a Dog or not?
Short words are tricky. I remember a very long time ago, half asleep,
spending a long time wondering about the intrinsic value of the word
'cat', and how it mapped across to the real thing.
--
Peter
Flavio Matani
> Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
> but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
Happy belated (I never get to see anything that happens on a Tuesday,
busy teaching day), hope you had a very good one!
--
flavio matani
guitar tuition
homepage.mac.com/flavio_matani/guitar/
www.livejournal.com/users/flavius_m/
Bruce Horrocks
<j...@magrathea.plus.com> writes
>In article <9fASz9JA...@horrocks.plus.com>, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
>>>>> > > Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how
>>>>> > >old she is,
>>>>> > > but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
>>>>> > >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > <waves><lifts glass><falls over>
>>>>>
>>>>> Mind the sheep!
>>>>
>>>> only in wales, though there where some goats in the lanes yesturday
>>>> afternoon.
>>>>
>>>
>>><maintaines dignified silence>
>>
>> Have you heard the one about the dyslexic who went to a toga party
>> dressed as a goat?
>>
>
>No - what happened?
He said he was just kidding around.
Jim
> In message <slrndifr9...@odin.magrathea.local>, Jim
><j...@magrathea.plus.com> writes
>>In article <9fASz9JA...@horrocks.plus.com>, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
>>>>>> > > Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how
>>>>>> > >old she is,
>>>>>> > > but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
>>>>>> > >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > <waves><lifts glass><falls over>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mind the sheep!
>>>>>
>>>>> only in wales, though there where some goats in the lanes yesturday
>>>>> afternoon.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>><maintaines dignified silence>
>>>
>>> Have you heard the one about the dyslexic who went to a toga party
>>> dressed as a goat?
>>>
>>
>>No - what happened?
>
> He said he was just kidding around.
>
Badoom-tish!
Bella Jones
> In article <nrkU+IBc...@horrocks.plus.com>, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> >>>>>> Mind the sheep!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> only in wales, though there where some goats in the lanes yesturday
> >>>>> afternoon.
> >>>>>
> >>>><maintaines dignified silence>
> >>>
> >>> Have you heard the one about the dyslexic who went to a toga party
> >>> dressed as a goat?
> >>
> >>No - what happened?
> >
> > He said he was just kidding around.
> >
> Badoom-tish!
I'd give it the badoom but not the tish, personally. The joke's popped
its wad in the first line. Needs a rearrange, IMO.
Jim
How about a 'wah-wah-wah-waaaaaaah'?
Andrew Stephenson
Gra...@greywall.demon.co.uk "Graeme Wall" writes:
After selling his soul to Santa?
--
Andrew Stephenson
Bella Jones
> In article <1h2vzdh.13y62z31yo7q8iN%m...@privacy.net>, Bella Jones wrote:
> > Jim <j...@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In article <nrkU+IBc...@horrocks.plus.com>, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> >
> >> >>>>>> Mind the sheep!
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> only in wales, though there where some goats in the lanes yesturday
> >> >>>>> afternoon.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>><maintaines dignified silence>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Have you heard the one about the dyslexic who went to a toga party
> >> >>> dressed as a goat?
> >> >>
> >> >>No - what happened?
> >> >
> >> > He said he was just kidding around.
> >> >
> >> Badoom-tish!
> >
> > I'd give it the badoom but not the tish, personally. The joke's popped
> > its wad in the first line. Needs a rearrange, IMO.
>
> How about a 'wah-wah-wah-waaaaaaah'?
Nice touch, but I was thinking more 'wank wank oops'.
Howaret Ings
> Today is Elana Kehoe's birthday, everyone. I don't know how old she is,
> but even if I did, I'd be too gentlemanly to say. Probably.
>
> -zoara-
Happy Birthday Elana! Hope you have had a good one!
Peter
--
How are t'ings?
Bruce Horrocks
<m...@privacy.net> writes
All right, all right, there's no need for you all to have a /go at/ me.