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Am I in bad books?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:22 am
by Neil B
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:15 am
by garyb
i never celebrate birthdays for a variety or reasons no one cares about(like that the earth's orbit is not as regular as we like to think. and the leap years...

), but i love wishing people a great day.
have a great day!
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:45 am
by Mr Arkadin
Well no-one spotted my birthday at the beginning of last month - and that's just how i like to keep it (not for gary's arcane reasons

but because i just don't get excited by them - it's just another day to me).
But i can wish you a happy birthday

.
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:25 am
by braincell
You can only have one birthday in your life. That is the day you were born. That day will never come again. Every day you get older. You are not suddenly a year old just because the stars are in the same position every 365 days. You could call it the anniversary of your birth but again, the alignment of the stars holds no significance to me. Pointless ritual.
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:04 am
by Neil B
braincell wrote:You can only have one birthday in your life. That is the day you were born. That day will never come again. Every day you get older. You are not suddenly a year old just because the stars are in the same position every 365 days. You could call it the anniversary of your birth but again, the alignment of the stars holds no significance to me. Pointless ritual.
Ah, but what if they say you can't have your old age pension because you aren't even one year old ??
To be fair, I agree with all of you to some extent but thanks for the birthday wishes anyway
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:06 am
by Cochise
Happy Birthday!
Don't worry for that, I often forget the Birthday of my parents...
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:18 pm
by alfonso
Well, it's not a conspiracy...sometimes happens that someone spots a birthday and starts a topic, the topic gets noticed (I think that everytime the name "Ralf" appears everybody comes to see what's up) and the others chime in....
Anyway happy post birthday...

Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:54 pm
by kylie
well, it was sunday, so your birthday just might have been unnoticed since if of people refused to switch on the computer and went out to take some fresh air instead.
all the best from over here
I hope you had a nice day, despite the accentuated insignificance this ritual might mean to other people. you are free to celebrate it, if it means something to
you
-greetings, markus-
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:36 pm
by sharc
I'm sure it wasn't intentional Neil.
I don't usually post on the birthday threads so I suppose you can feel privileged
...even if it is a few days late

Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:21 pm
by Me$$iah
I noticed that it was your birthday.
I was gonna start a thread, but then I thought, oh yeh, its only Neil.... Fuck him...
HAHAAHAHAH no .... just joking .... seriously ... hope you had a good one
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 12:12 am
by Neil B
Thanks folks - appreciate it.
Me$$iah - most people think the same as you ... "it's only Neil so......."
Don't worry - I read the small print.
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:47 am
by FrancisHarmany
You're in books ?
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:13 am
by Neil B
FrancisHarmany wrote:You're in books ?
Come to think of it - yes I am
I'm on the covers (photos) of many biking maps in Scotland or my photos are used for them........
I'm in the Outer Hebridean holiday brochure 2006/7 - (photo).............
And in 1984 I wrote a beginners guide to programming in BASIC language (book - 250 pages) which sold very well and had to go to a second publication. (Now I'm a Luddite)
Not included in the list above are any police records (oops, I didn't say that)

Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:07 am
by FrancisHarmany
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:43 am
by Neil B
stardust wrote:My honest respect.
Being a internet celebrity is not too difficult.
But being in offline hardware in the books

Ah, but the programming book was typed up for me by a pregnant neighbour, who went dislexic because of her "condition".
Rumour has it that a cargo ship bound for Hong Kong used the book for programming navigation systems and ended up close to the Pyramids in Egypt - all hands lost but instead of drowning, they choked on sand

Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:59 pm
by Shroomz~>
Best wishes Neil,
cheers,
Mark
Re: Am I in bad books?
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:51 pm
by nightscope
Neil B. wrote:I don't know.... have I offended people here?
Let me take this opportunity to wish you, belatedly, a very happy last birthday and also present felicitations for all the rest of 'em. And those to come. And even those will never come.
ns