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Alec Rivers wrote:

Phil Reynolds wrote:Seems like the ideal time for a reprise of Laddiman's Cake Walk.

Hmm, gives me an idea ....

I forgot all about this! Click here for my interpretation.

Happy 31st birthday to my nemesis, Mr McCurdie.

I didn't actually know he was on the forum until it was shown on the birthdays bit at the bottom!

Having said that, he has only done one post, so he has been a bit on the quiet side.

Happy Birthday, Phil! Big 4-0 soon.

James Robinson wrote:Happy 31st birthday to my nemesis, Mr McCurdie.

Is he the guy that RASPILLED you good and proper?

Dinos Sfyris wrote:

James Robinson wrote:Happy 31st birthday to my nemesis, Mr McCurdie.

Is he the guy that RASPILLED you good and proper?

That was uneyelingly harsh Dinos.

Dinos Sfyris wrote:

James Robinson wrote:Happy 31st birthday to my nemesis, Mr McCurdie.

Is he the guy that RASPILLED you good and proper?

Unfortunately so. I still haven't and will never get over the fact that I just capitulated on that game.

Really if I'd won that game, I would've almost certainly been in the finals.

Obviously I was never going to win the series, not in a million years against Kirk, but I still think I could've done a reasonable job there.

It's going to haunt me for the rest of my life is that blumming conundrum.

James Robinson wrote:Really if I'd won that game, I would've almost certainly been in the finals.

Obviously I was never going to win the series, not in a million years against Kirk, but I still think I could've done a reasonable job there.

It's going to haunt me for the rest of my life is that blumming conundrum.

Commiserations, James.
I expect Ian Dent's happy though.

It's cool though how the word blumming/blooming/bloomin' is coming back into popular use. I saw some of Never Mind the Buzzcocks the other day, and the guy from N-Dubz kept saying it all the time.

Derek Hazell wrote:

James Robinson wrote:Really if I'd won that game, I would've almost certainly been in the finals.

Obviously I was never going to win the series, not in a million years against Kirk, but I still think I could've done a reasonable job there.

It's going to haunt me for the rest of my life is that blumming conundrum.

Commiserations, James.
I expect Ian Dent's happy though.

It's cool though how the word blumming/blooming/bloomin' is coming back into popular use. I saw some of Never Mind the Buzzcocks the other day, and the guy from N-Dubz kept saying it all the time.

Bring back the retro cuss words, like fiddlesticks and crikey.

Happy birthday Sue.(you are catching me up)
I thought I would get in before Charlie.
BTW how's that effigy of John Gaunt coming along.

Hippo Burpday, Sue!

As a prezzie, I'm happy to pop up one day soon to show you what you said you wanted showing. Remember what we were talking about in Manchester?

And Happy Birthday, Lara.

(No prezzie, tho, I'm afraid.)

Alec Rivers wrote:And Happy Birthday, Lara.

(No prezzie, tho, I'm afraid.)

Happy birthday Tara!

Happy birthday Sue! Can I come too please to see what Alec's got?

Lesley Hines wrote:Happy birthday Sue! Can I come too please to see what Alec's got?

Happy Birthday, Sue!

Unlike Lesley, I'm not desperate to see what Alec has got for you, although I'm slightly intrigued.

Marc Meakin wrote:Happy birthday Sue.
I thought I would get in before Charlie.

Hadn't realised it was going to be that kind of birthday bash. Is there still room in the queue, Sue?

Have a great day, anyway. And you too, Lara

Happy Birthday to Sue Sanders and Lara Searle!

Howard Somerset wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:Happy birthday Sue.
I thought I would get in before Charlie.

Hadn't realised it was going to be that kind of birthday bash. Is there still room in the queue, Sue?

Have a great day, anyway. And you too, Lara

Thank you, all. I had a lovely birthday involving getting tipsy in the middle of the day, and then going in London to see a comedy gig (David O'Doherty – well worth seeing) Missed the last train home but that's another story!

Re; Alec's 'gift'. Sorry - I have no idea either - we talked of many things in Manchester and I've slept since then! But I'll FB him and find out!

I thought it quite appropiate that Howard picked upon the phrase 'Birthday Bash', especially following Marc's tongue-in-cheek comment about getting 'in before Charlie'. As Marc was posting on the spoiler thread on Dec 1st, I know what he's alluding to. It seems my dislike of Jon Gaunt was unworthy of posting, an opinion supported apparently by my lowly position on the popularity poll!! So thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday on here, on FB , by email and by text. I seem to have quite a lot of friends for someone who is apparently SUCH a waste of space!!

I’ve enjoyed getting to know so many new people and, almost without exception, you’re a great bunch. However, the exception is starting to get tiresome now and I really can’t be doing with being any sort of pawn for someone working through his insecurities (though the recurring excuse that crops up amongst forumites looking for explanations of a somewhat cocky manner is ‘immaturity’) So, I'm going to bow out for a while. I might come back, I might not (that’ll have the quote button being hit!) I hope to see some of you at Lincoln, but for now, I can’t be bothered with the churlishness. Everyone up for the Eggheads, you have my email address, I'll keep you posted.

Cheers and have a great Christmas and New Year

Sue x

Sue Sanders wrote:

Howard Somerset wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:Happy birthday Sue.
I thought I would get in before Charlie.

Hadn't realised it was going to be that kind of birthday bash. Is there still room in the queue, Sue?

Have a great day, anyway. And you too, Lara

Thank you, all. I had a lovely birthday involving getting tipsy in the middle of the day, and then going in London to see a comedy gig (David O'Doherty – well worth seeing) Missed the last train home but that's another story!

Re; Alec's 'gift'. Sorry - I have no idea either - we talked of many things in Manchester and I've slept since then! But I'll FB him and find out!

I thought it quite appropiate that Howard picked upon the phrase 'Birthday Bash', especially following Marc's tongue-in-cheek comment about getting 'in before Charlie'. As Marc was posting on the spoiler thread on Dec 1st, I know what he's alluding to. It seems my dislike of Jon Gaunt was unworthy of posting, an opinion supported apparently by my lowly position on the popularity poll!! So thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday on here, on FB , by email and by text. I seem to have quite a lot of friends for someone who is apparently SUCH a waste of space!!

I’ve enjoyed getting to know so many new people and, almost without exception, you’re a great bunch. However, the exception is starting to get tiresome now and I really can’t be doing with being any sort of pawn for someone working through his insecurities (though the recurring excuse that crops up amongst forumites looking for explanations of a somewhat cocky manner is ‘immaturity’) So, I'm going to bow out for a while. I might come back, I might not (that’ll have the quote button being hit!) I hope to see some of you at Lincoln, but for now, I can’t be bothered with the churlishness. Everyone up for the Eggheads, you have my email address, I'll keep you posted.

Cheers and have a great Christmas and New Year

Sue x

Sue

Many belated happy returns for your and I am sorry I missed it yesterday.

You will be sorely missed by many posters on here and I believe that the forum will be a worse place without your sparkling wit.

Hoping to see you back soon.

Al.

Sue Sanders wrote: I seem to have quite a lot of friends for someone who is apparently SUCH a waste of space!!

I don't think you're a waste of space, despite your barrage of insults towards me .

Stay with us, lurking at least.

Ursa Major.

In the immortal words of Fletch from porridge "Don't let the bastards grind you down"
Also in the words of KC and his Sunshine band, please don't go, as you will be sorely missed.
I apologise, if any of my coments have upset you.
FTR I think John Gaunt is a twat of the highest order, but it takes allsorts.

Hippy Bathday Sue. David O' Doherty is indeed a funny fupping baxtard.

Happy Birthday to Ian Volante, because I quite enjoy his posts. And also to Series 41 semi-finalist Gary Woodward, who was so "thrilled to have found this site" that he lasted 2 months here . . . unless of course he died.

Derek Hazell wrote:Happy Birthday to Ian Volante, because I quite enjoy his posts. And also to Series 41 semi-finalist Gary Woodward, who was so "thrilled to have found this site" that he lasted 2 months here . . . unless of course he died.

Thank you! Glad to entertain someone, sometimes!

Happy birthday, Ian.

Happy birthday Sir Prune! I'm not convinced your age is correct, as that would mean you pre-date Mr Turing's fine machine, although not Mr Babbage's excellent contribution. Anyhoos, I enjoy our games, and look forward to many more

"Many happy returns of th.. , oh sorry, I SAID .. MANY .. HAPPY .. RETURNS .. OF THE DAY.. MR PRUNE !! YES. .. MANY .. HAPPY .. oh, never mind."

It appears to be true: it says so on the main board, so it must be!

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something to do with this thread, I feel:

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2501&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=120

So, Happy Birthday, indeed, Mr Prune, and I hope you win a game today.

Hey! There's another one who's older than me. Congrats, Prune.

Happy birthday Jesus. I'm not sure how old he's supposed to be though, because if the date system is based around him, why's he not born on the 1st of January?

Gavin Chipper wrote:Happy birthday Jesus. I'm not sure how old he's supposed to be though, because if the date system is based around him, why's he not born on the 1st of January?

Lordy! Now there's a monster thread-fuck if ever I saw one!

Gavin Chipper wrote:Happy birthday Jesus.

You are incorrect. Officially, it's NOT Jesus' birthday today. His birthday is unknown.

In fact, Jehovah's Witnesses claim it to be in the Summer, but it seems we'll never know.

James Robinson wrote:

Gavin Chipper wrote:Happy birthday Jesus.

You are incorrect. Officially, it's NOT Jesus' birthday today. His birthday is unknown.

In fact, Jehovah's Witnesses claim it to be in the Summer, but it seems we'll never know.

If his birthday is known, who officially says it isn't his birthday? Surely that would imply it might be his brithday, and to 'officially' rule out the 25th of December would seem a bit odd.

Michael Wallace wrote:

James Robinson wrote:

Gavin Chipper wrote:Happy birthday Jesus.

You are incorrect. Officially, it's NOT Jesus' birthday today. His birthday is unknown.

In fact, Jehovah's Witnesses claim it to be in the Summer, but it seems we'll never know.

If his birthday is known, who officially says it isn't his birthday? Surely that would imply it might be his brithday, and to 'officially' rule out the 25th of December would seem a bit odd.

December 25th was borrowed for Jesus' birthday. It was orignally belived that December 25 is a festival to celebrate Mithras, but that's not true either. Every country seems to have a different day when they celebrate Jesus' birth.

Jesus was a literary genre.

James Robinson wrote:

Michael Wallace wrote:

James Robinson wrote:You are incorrect. Officially, it's NOT Jesus' birthday today. His birthday is unknown.

In fact, Jehovah's Witnesses claim it to be in the Summer, but it seems we'll never know.

If his birthday is known, who officially says it isn't his birthday? Surely that would imply it might be his brithday, and to 'officially' rule out the 25th of December would seem a bit odd.

December 25th was borrowed for Jesus' birthday. It was orignally belived that December 25 is a festival to celebrate Mithras, but that's not true either. Every country seems to have a different day when they celebrate Jesus' birth.

Yeah, but you were implying that the 25th definitely isn't his birthday. If it's not known when his birthday is, then surely it could be, we just don't know it is.

25 December was originally a Pagan holiday known as the Feast of Saturn. In AD 354, Bishop Liberia of Rome, in an attempt to suppress Paganism, declared that this date was the birthday of Christ. It seems it did the trick.

p.s. I haven't checked, but I think Easter was a Pagan festival, too. lol

Alec Rivers wrote:25 December was originally a Pagan holiday known as the Feast of Saturn. In AD 354, Bishop Liberia of Rome, in an attempt to suppress Paganism, declared that this date was the birthday of Christ. It seems it did the trick.

p.s. I haven't checked, but I think Easter was a Pagan festival, too. lol

Bit of a conspiracy theory. My sources say it's much more likely that the new traditions just melded with the old ones - the timing of the festival was never going to change, it just naturally evolved from the old pagan one into the current version - there's probably always been a midwinter festival, it naturally mirrors the fashion of celebration of the time.

James Robinson wrote:
But, really I couldn't start without mentioning the special birthday girl. Our very own Rachel Riley is 24 on Monday.

So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RACHEL. (Although, I don't think she can read this. (Unless, she's on here under a pseudonym.))

and a Happy Birthday to Rachel from me, too. A wonderful woman. She's an amazing number cruncher, and acts like a seasoned presenter after less than a year.

At the series 61 finals drinkies, although she didn't know me from Adam, she chatted to me about us both being at schools in Essex, not the same one, posed for piccies, and wrote a lovely message on my autograph notebook. A very pleasant personality.

Happy birthday, Rachel Riley!

Drew Carey's got your mind on your money and your money on your mind!

Just kidding!

Happy Birthday, Dinos!!

Have a great day. Hope you and Emma enjoy your combined birthday and engagement party.

Happy birthday Dinos Have a fantastic day xx

I hope you have a shit birthday Dinos.

Happy birthday, Dinos!

Happy birthday/engagement.

Happy 21st Dinos!

Happy 21st, dude.

Many happy returns to you on your 21st, Dinos.

Hope you have a great day Dinos

Happy 21st Dinos!

Cheers fellaz (and Lesley) had a fantastically indulgent weekend and the best birthday/engagement party hybrid ever

Good!

Ian Volante wrote:

Alec Rivers wrote:25 December was originally a Pagan holiday known as the Feast of Saturn. In AD 354, Bishop Liberia of Rome, in an attempt to suppress Paganism, declared that this date was the birthday of Christ. It seems it did the trick.

p.s. I haven't checked, but I think Easter was a Pagan festival, too. lol

Bit of a conspiracy theory. My sources say it's much more likely that the new traditions just melded with the old ones - the timing of the festival was never going to change, it just naturally evolved from the old pagan one into the current version - there's probably always been a midwinter festival, it naturally mirrors the fashion of celebration of the time.

I admit I've come to this thread a month too late. Haven't really visited much of late but was just checking this thread out after reading Jason's latest Larsenesque post. Yeah, my understanding is that the Christian festival of Easter just supplanted an existing pagan festival, with the word deriving from 'Eastre', the goddess of Spring whose name comes from oestrus meaning the female fertility cycle. Easter is linked to the phases of the moon which is why it is a 'moveable feast', and along with Saturnalia, as Alex said, the pagan feast on 25th December was kept in the diary (but relabelled as Christian) to try and keep peace between them and the natives (though the bastards did fuck with dragons, turning them from symbols of fertility into symbols of evil that must be slayed by saintly Christian, killing in the name of God!) As for when Jesus was born, some say it was (September) 4 BC!! And proof comes in the lyrics of 'Jesus Christ Superstar'; in the words of the disciples to Jesus....

Why'd you choose such a backward time in such a strange land?
If you'd come today you could have reached a whole nation.
Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication.

You can't argue with guru of our time and venerated DC guest Sir Tim Rice now, can you?

Sue, just so you know, I like you

Jason Larsen wrote:Sue, just so you know, I like you

Wahey!

*makes rude arm gestures*

Ian:

Really!

Sue Sanders wrote:You can't argue with guru of our time and venerated DC guest Sir Tim Rice now, can you?

I heard that people who argue with Tim Rice end up with their feet in concrete boots several fathoms beneath the ocean surface. He doesn't fuck about. That is his way. Or so someone once told me anyway.

JimBentley wrote:

Sue Sanders wrote:You can't argue with guru of our time and venerated DC guest Sir Tim Rice now, can you?

I heard that people who argue with Tim Rice end up with their feet in concrete boots several fathoms beneath the ocean surface. He doesn't fuck about. That is his way. Or so someone once told me anyway.

I've heard he's second in command only to Don 'Fix It' Saville

Gavin Chipper wrote: So while I'm here, happy birthday to everyone for when your birthday is, every time it occurs!

Thanks very much.

Happy birthday Ralph!

Thank you Innis!
Appreciated.