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#90924 01/03/2003 11:07 PM
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Today J. R. R. Tolkien would have been as old as Bilbo!...111!

http://www.msnbc.com/news/854541.asp?0cv=CB20


#90925 01/03/2003 11:32 PM
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happy birthday, JRRT!

with his today, and mine tomorrow, it'll be a great weekend!





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#90926 01/04/2003 7:30 AM
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O_o

happy birthday etaoin?


#90927 01/04/2003 1:15 PM
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happy birthday etaoin?

yes, thanks! my fourenty-first...



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#90928 01/04/2003 2:25 PM
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Happy Birthday etaoin!


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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sweetie!


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Have a great birthday, etaoin! Immerse yourself in hobbity conviviality!

(Did anyone partake of any of the pub celebrations for Tolkien mentioned in the article?)


#90931 01/04/2003 5:11 PM
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oh well.. so.. think a wish :) :
http://www.hampsterdance2.com/birthdaydance.html

(i'm afraid something is spoilt because i couldn't hear the sound, sorry)


#90932 01/04/2003 7:51 PM
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rav--no offense, but I suspsect not hearing the sound is a GOOD thing! Nice to have you here, by the way. My friend from your country seems to have left us.


#90933 01/04/2003 8:01 PM
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Happy B-day, etaoin! At fourenty-one you're still a mere babe!


#90934 01/04/2003 9:18 PM
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thank you all so much! it has made my birthday extra-special to have you share it.
and to be called a babe...

now if you'd like to come help us shovel the snow...



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#90935 01/04/2003 9:21 PM
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Dear Nancy,

Have you seen his picture? He's a babe, all right! (tee, hee!) <eg> He'll die when he sees this!


#90936 01/04/2003 9:25 PM
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now I'm really blushing!



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#90937 01/05/2003 1:33 AM
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What? [blinking eyes at the sudden light] Did I hear birthday?

Aha! My fellow Swan!

Bacche! Bene venies!
Gratus et optatus!
Per quem noster animus
fit letificatus!


#90938 01/05/2003 1:58 AM
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haha! thanks, I think I get the basic jist of all that.
btw, I'm doing the Swan with the Dartmouth Symphony in February. not only that, but I'm doing all the baritone solos as well. wish me luck!



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#90939 01/05/2003 2:05 AM
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Arright, Eta! Where's the Swan come in relative to the baritone solos? Will you have a chance to build up their expectations before you blast them with the c-t?


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thanks! yes, there are a couple of baritone solos before, including immediately preceding the tenor, and a couple after, including immediately! people should be quite surprised when the first Swan note flies out! it should be great fun, and the conductor is fabulous, and I'm really looking forward to it.



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#90941 01/05/2003 9:01 AM
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>wish me luck!

good luck!


#90942 01/05/2003 12:39 PM
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Eta! Happy birthday.

If y'all were performing this in less inclement weather, we'd be up there in a flash. Break a vocal cord.


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thanks! it's February 22nd, so by then, who knows? could be tropical...



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Spent your birthday shovelling snow did ya? We sure did around seacoast! Three inches an hour for eight hours. Then a little shower of snow that night just for fun. Mother nature is sure celebrating your birthday!
Suggest you do as I do - celebrate the rest of the month!
Hau'oli la hanau! And many happy returns of the day. Aloha



#90945 01/08/2003 1:10 AM
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Three inches an hour for eight hours. Then a little shower of snow that night just for fun.
Braggart. We had the 4th.-wettest Dec. since records have been kept, and now we're warming up again!


#90946 01/08/2003 1:13 AM
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well, we have 30" on the ground here at my house. it looks beautiful.
tomorrow I leave for Toronto, ON for four days. anybody know what the weather is like up there?



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#90947 01/08/2003 1:23 AM
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And here in wintery Colorado, I just got back a few minutes ago from taking Theo to Cub Scouts, arriving back home about two hours after sunset. I was quite comfortable in shorts, sandals, and a t-shirt, and tomorrow is supposed to be even warmer, pushing 75!

Go figure!



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The weather in ild has been a little odd, too. Up in the South Island, on December 27th, one little town recorded an air temperature of -2 Celsius - unbelievable! Three days later, less than 150k away, another town record 36.2C. Weird.


#90949 01/08/2003 1:43 PM
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It's global warming, I tell you. We're all gonna d-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-e!

- Pfranz

#90950 01/08/2003 4:03 PM
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Phranz, we're gonna die anyway..some of us won't stutter so much, but anyway.. :P


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So who says we're all a-goin' to die, rav?
Me, I'm immortal until proved otherwise.


#90952 01/04/2004 8:16 PM
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Why waste a perfectly good piece of pape...er.. file ..er.. post!

Happy birthday, again, etaoin!


#90953 01/04/2004 8:26 PM
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thanks, musick!
I am now the answer to the ultimate question...



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#90954 01/04/2004 8:28 PM
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You're 37?
Ask tsuwm.

#90955 01/04/2004 8:34 PM
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> You're 37?

Nope, he's 54, if we answer the ultimate question in base 10, as opposed to base 13.


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oct du lieber!



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#90957 01/04/2004 10:33 PM
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Or either thirty-twelve.



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