Happy birthday wherever you are squid and Seian. It seems a long time since we heard from either of you.

Bingley

Yes, Bingley. It has been awhile, hasn't it. I join you in wishing them happiest of b-days.
Consuelo

Feliz Cumpleanos Consuelo. I don't know how to do the ~ above the anos. Sorry.

Hope you're having a fun day, Consuelo ~ make it the first in a really good year!

Oh yes- happy happy birthday! and a i hope you have a whole year of happy unbirthdays, too.!

Yes indeed, a wish for a day of fun and exitement for the both of you.

Just got back into town from a day trip -- just in time to wish you a H.B., Consuelo.
BTW, no postings from you recently. Has anybody seen Consuelo in the last few days?

A belated happy birthday to you consuelo. Anu suggests a subscription for a belated birthday gift, but I suspect you already have one.

Bingley

D'OH...and, Happy Birthday to all those that I've missed in the past few...

I think I'm blind...

(It's all 64 slices of 'merican cheese...)

Geoff - I know I am 2 days early on this one but I won't have internet access on Sunday so have a great Birthday!

Geoff, fellow Scorpio, Happy Birthday to you! May it be as good as mine was. Thanks to everyone!

Happy birthday Geoff..i hope you too, woke to sunny sky's and cool breezes, and the day just keeps getting better!

Happy Birthday, Geoff - hope you're having fun and Fun doesn't mind the attention

As I am away for a couple of days, also a big HB hug to Ann for tomorrow!

Belated happy birthday to Geoff, and on time for once, just, a very happy birthday to Sparteye.

Bingley

A very happy birthday for Sparteye.
[fireworks e]

Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!
The very best to you today, Sparteye!

Our Dog must be the dog star, rising before dawn as a herald! way to go jim!

Happy birthday, Sparteye!
(Sports-related note to the birthday girl: doesn't it figure that Paterno would tie the record by beating my Northwestern, and then break it by beating your OSU? I do love and admire JoeP, but did he have to do it *that way? )

Edit-- thanks, bingley (US college football: career victories by a coach.)

Bonne fete Sparteye! (oops, there should be an "accent circonflexe" (little hat) on the 1st e in fete)

May this day be the start of a most fabulous year.

Happy Birthday Sparteye! With Wordapalooza in this Birthday year how could it be anything but wonderful. Can't wait for this grand function to begin and to meet you, Ann and everyone else too.

Only one hour left in which to wish Sparteye a happy birthday on the correct day, folks!

In reply to:

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doesn't it figure that Paterno would tie the record by beating my Northwestern, and then beak it by beating your OSU? I do love and admire JoeP, but did he have to do it *that way?

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I don't even know what sport we're talking about here, but what does beaking it mean?

Bingley

Bingley, the sport is football. Joe Paterno is the 70-something head coach of the Penn State team, and with a victory over Ohio State last Saturday, he broke the all-time record for wins. "Beak" is a typo for "break."

Oh dear, and beak it sounded so evocative of something or other, too. I thought it might be when one of the players hurls himself face down on the ball in American football to score a try? a goal? whatever they do score in American football anyway.

Bingley

I think that you are thinking of a "touchdown," Bingley.

When a team carries the ball (or catches it and retains possession in) the opponent's endzone, the team scores a touchdown, which is worth 6 points.

Other ways to score in football:

Point after touchdown: Upon scoring a touchdown, a team has an opportunity to kick the ball through the upright goalposts. If it does so, it gets another point.

Two-point conversion: Upon scoring a touchdown, a team may, instead of kicking the point after, attempt in a single play to again penetrate the endzone with the ball. If it does so, it gets two more points.

Field goal: a team may, when it has possession of the ball during regular play, attempt to kick the ball through the goalposts. If it does so, it gets three points.

Safety: if a team traps the other team in its own endzone with the ball, the trapping team scores two points.

For more football terms, and more precise definitions, see
http://www.firstbasesports.com/glossaries/ftbglos.htm

quiz, Sparteye (to which I'm not certain my answer is correct): is it possible for a football game to end with a score of 1-0, and if so, how?

>a score of 1-0

And would you read that as "one nil"?

Bingley

Apparently the Canadian Football League (CFL) has slightly different rules about numbers of downs and scoring which some say make the game more exciting than the American version. I'm not much into football so I'm not sure, but my national pride urged me to post this bit of info anyway. The very little football I have watched was CFL football, during the Grey Cup (our finals, equivalent to the US Superbowl but played a good two months earlier, and often in the snow). Any Canadian football fans on the board want to expand on that? (Rouspeteur/BelM/plutarch?)

Funny you should mention that, Kieva, since I amost remarked in my prior post that a score of "one" is the only mathematically impossible score in football.

And we would pronounce that score "one-zero" or "one-oh" or "one-nothing," Bingley, but never "one-nil."

The major differences between American and Canadian (ha! go ahead, everybody, fight about that terminology!) are: (1) the dimensions of the playing field, the Canadian field being larger; (2) the number of players, 11 in American, 12 in Canadian; (3) three downs to advance 10 yards in Canadian, but four downs in American; (4) in Canadian, a team can score one point for a rouge, awarded to a kicking or punting team if an opposing player is trapped in the end zone on a return play.

For more details, see http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~leblancj/stampeders/compare.html

Sounds like a sports thread takeover to me and some people complain about food, mutter, mutter ... How about looking in "Loanwords from German"

sparteye, I believe vaguely that in some high school leagues, at least, if one team fails to show up the forfieted game is scored as 1-0 -- which can be important for league "tie-breakers" at season end.

Gah! People, this is the BIRTHDAYS thread, if you please!!!

Well, then, happy birthday to intercollegiate football, first played on November 6, 1869.

And to Troy Aikman, born on November 21.

[duck-and-run emoticon]

Jo, you are so kind, and gentle.. it doesn't work.. you must out and out threaten a FOOD FIGHT to stop a sports thread..

maybe your threats don't work-- but when it comes to a food vs sports thread--no one wants to tangle with me! when i threaten food fight, sports talk stops.. (all this power is going to my head!)
Back to Birthday wishes, Please!

I really did set up a thread in Loanwords from German. I hope that y'all be very happy there.
To be honest, I might even join in as I haven't a clue about the rules of the football that is played with those big shoulder pads, looks a bit sissy to me, compared to a good old game of rugger!

Please continue in another place.
Now Helen, was that still too gentle?

Arkport one,Hornell none.
using local towns because I despise football, and don't know any major league teams.

Happy birthday pi, wherever you have wandered, wherever you have roamed!

"one nil"

One ill? Who's sick?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, my friend!


Love,

Jackie

in time. Close enough. Have a wonderful and happy birthday, Avy.

and come back soon, we miss you.

Bingley

(It's the 22nd in Zild, as of this writing.)
Happy Birthday, Sweet Max. Much love.

How wonderful to be able to add my Birthday wishes to Avy and Max on the same day even though their birthdays are on different days. Have a terrific birthday you two!

(Thanks Jackie!)

Many belated confabulatory wishes for your birthday, Max.

Bingley