Happy birthday, Jackie.

May you spend it in peace and happiness with the love of your family and close friends around you.

Your guiding spirit in many of the threads (since I at least joined last year) has done so much to shape the positive and enlightened tone of discussions, jokes and celebrations of language between hands old and new. I wish you well on this day and hope it is a presentiment of a happy year to come. Blessings be yours.

Thank you, lovely person. All I have to do to have several close friends around me is to come here.

A lot more than "several friends" around here ... 2,159 at last check ... to wish you a Happy, Happy Birthday!


Dear are your charms to me,
Dearer your laughter free,
Dearest your constancy.
Jacqueline aroon!

(with apology to poet Gerald Griffin. It just fit so well!)

Much love and aloha, Jackie
From your friend, wow

Hap-hap-happy Birthday, Jackie!

May you get the biggest piece of the chocolatiest cake ever, with the gooiest frosting. And, if you eat it standing up, it won't contain a single calorie!

Hippo birdy two ewes
Hippo birdy two ewes
Hippo birdy dear Jackie
Hippo birdy two ewes
..................Ant, mangy Moors

All the very best to you Jackie. May your day be filled with love and happiness. Someone once told me that it is not important how long you have walked along the path of life. The importance lies in how many people have been glad to travel with you. Well, you have a whole slew of people here that are very happy to walk along with you sweetie. Remember that always.

xx

Gin.

Happy Birthday Jackie!

Ali

Happy Birthday, Jackie!

You don't look a day over 20!

A very Happy Birthday to you, and may I add this:

Jovial
and
cool,
kind
in
everything!

Buckets of friendship!

KEVEN

or even

Jolly
Awesome
Charming
Kentuckienne
Indubitably
Excellent

I can hardly hope to surpass the flowery posts preceding my own, so I won't try.
Suffice it to say that you have made me feel welcome from the first day I happened upon this venerable forum. Thanks for everything, and have a wonderful birthday! Love, Alicia

Happy Birthday Jackie

You are SOME person.

Have a great more two hours and forty-eight minutes of your birthday. (my clock is probably way off)

-Scott

Four minutes off. I'd better reset this clock. Ever since last day light savings time I thought every thing was four minutes earlier than it was.

-Scott

Re the final two hours and forty-eight minutes of your birthday

"Nonsense!" declared the High Priestess.
Jackie's birthday on March 9 is a special celebration of the exact day but that doesn't mean the celebration has to stop. Jackie has the whole month to accept plaudits, dinners, gifts, flowers and greetings!

You GO girl!
wow

Yom Hu'Led-et Same'ach Jackie - a day filled with Joy and Gladness!

I trust it was such, ha'verah shelee (my friend)!

Shoshannah

Somehow I seem to have missed this thread until this morning, so here I am doing what I am famous for -- sending belated birthday greetings. Jackie, best wishes and many mint juleps.

Same thing here... A very happy belated birthday to our Jackie!
[here-is-a-birthday-hug emoticon]
Marianna

Lo and behold! I am sooo pleased that it was my birthday message to Jackie that has made me a Journeywoman!

Marianna, congratulations--I'm honored to be your "catalyst". You are very sweet![hug back emoticon]

Rapunzel, a belated (hi, Bob) thank-you for that loving note. Would you-all believe, since the ninth, I have been too busy to read any posts? Running all over the place, and once I actually did a little work.
Avy, you are a beloved friend, indeed.
JtdII, thank you.
wow--what a GREAT suggestion! Sounds excellent to me.
Shoshannah, thank you, ha'verah shelee.
Bob, belated no matter, Sweetie. 'Tis getting on to mint julep time, indeed.

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Um--would you-all do me a favor and stop this now? It's pretty embarrassing, since I raised Cain about making
non-language-related posts!