Saturday, May 28, 2016

But I Ain't Dug No Sixteen Tons...?

     Another year older, nevertheless. 

     Yes, gentle friends, it is that time again -- and, for a wonder, my birthday falls on neither 500-Mile Race Day nor Memorial Day!

      I am now about twenty years older than I ever expected to be. And there's still no Lunar settlement and no Orbital Hilton. You people need to get to work on that. I'm too old to learn Mandarin.

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  1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBERTA !

    TIME DISTANCE AND SPEED ARE ALL RELATIVE

    MAY YOU CONTINUE TO GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH

    MANY HAPPY RETURNS AND BEST WISHES TO ALL HANDS AND ALL PAWS !

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  2. And the world is a better place for your twenty extra orbits... Here's to many more.

    Happy Birthday Roberta!

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  3. And it's very nice of Indianapolis to stage a race in honor of your birthday...

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  4. Happy Birthday to You, Bobbi!

    Enjoy the weekend, and the well-deserved adulation and thanks for another year of thinking-mans snark, humor, and good old plain talk.

    May the wind be ever at your back...

    Raz

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  5. And happy birthday to you

    B

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  6. JohninMd.(HELP?!??)May 29, 2016 at 12:38 AM

    Yeah, turned 63 on the 11th, never thought I'd see it either. Concur on space accommodations, but Heinlein's Mr. Harrelson never showed up...

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  7. Maybe you can feel better about it if you express it in Celsius. When Tom Lehrer was 53, he described it as 11 Celsius.

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  8. I would be happy with a robot that did housework. But I'm afraid all we are going to see is rampaging killer robots.

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  9. Belated best wishes for the happiest of days

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  10. Belated happy birthday, ma'am, and many happy returns of the day.

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  11. JohninMd, think of it this way: Next year we'll be 40 again. (40 Hex, but hey.)

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  12. Happy Birthday!

    And as my Dad told me innumerable times: "Wait 'till you get to be be MY age!"

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  13. "They promised us JetPacks. They gave us Facebook.)

    (The reality of aging...)

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