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#1427 12/13/00 02:00 PM
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St. Helena feast day is some time in the first week of may-- 4th or 5th i think...
I am very glad there is no rule that we must be named after the saint upon whose feast day we are born. On my birthday in those bygone days, it was Saint Scholastica!
Ann has worked very conveniently for me and it "ages" well.
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Sorry to be so late on this one - I've not had time to look on this bit of the board recently!
My handle stems fro aquiz team of which I was a member, back in the good old days at Ruskin College, Oxford. The leader of the team was a dogmatic socialist who had received the scathing comment from a worsted adversary (he had used some wooly arguments!) "You're just a Rhubarb Commando!" He named his team in honour of this soubriquet.
When I moved to Lancaster University, I bought a house in a village which is known locally as "Rhubarb City," so it seemed appropriate to apropriate the team's name.

As to age - it would seem I am a mere youngster at 61 (late November - Saggitarian con-man!)


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wow moaned (as if she had never, ever committed such a literary solecism herself): Wow sayeth: Wasn't there was an effort to make May 1st "Law Day" as I recall it was during Cold War times and was a sorta' anti-communist ploy. Never had much success.
Would that (taking the sum of this thread together) make it the Day the Law was Lei'd Down?
Grooooooaaaaannnnnn


I take the pain was from too many hotdogs at the amusement park where your carousel was?



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As to age - it would seem I am a mere youngster at 61

Would that mean I'm still in the womb at 17?


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As to age - it would seem I am a mere youngster at 61

Would that mean I'm still in the womb at 17?


When I was 10, I got knocked down by two cyclists while crossing a road. This happened on Guy Fawke's day, just 17 days before my eleventh birthday. When asked, I gave the nurse my DOB, but she entered the current year, instead of the year of birth. While lying on the exam room table, I heard the attending doctor remark - "well, it seems we have a ten-year old foetus in here today."


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Max, responding valiantly to a cri de coeur from Jazz, said: When I was 10, I got knocked down by two cyclists while crossing a road. This happened on Guy Fawke's day, just 17 days before my eleventh birthday. When asked, I gave the nurse my DOB, but she entered the current year, instead of the year of birth. While lying on the exam room table, I heard the attending doctor remark - "well, it seems we have a ten-year old foetus in here today."

Well, it's understandable if you were born in the Hawkes Bay region. There's so much wine drunk up that way that everything is well-pickled. I wouldn't be surprised if even the corpses from the district's graveyards fronted the bar in the local pubs ...

And it must take some really special talent to get knocked down by two cyclists. My congratulations!



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Well, it's understandable if you were born in the Hawkes Bay region.

Nope. I was born in Sulphur City, but the accident happened while living in Tokoroa. As for the two cyclists, I have always been rather proud of that achievement, it always impresses/puzzles people that I managed to pull that off, or should I say, them down!


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proud of that achievement...

Showing singular effishiency


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Max corrected: I was born in Sulphur City, but the accident happened while living in Tokoroa.

Rotorua -> Tokoroa -> Hastings. Is that a kind of eastward continental drift. Or incontinental, if that's more appropriate?



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>>>Does anybody see the same thing in their neck of the woods...here, women will often try to plan their pregnancies so that they will have the baby in the summer or autumn so as not to be pregnant in the wintertime. <<<

I was born just at the beginning of a medium size blizzard. After my parents took me home, my mother didn't leave the house for several weeks. I don't think she cared for that very much. However, that's not the reason that I intend to plan my pregnancies to avoid winter. My birthday is Dec. 29. That's just 4 days after Christmas!!! To a small child, it seemed a horrible punishment for me to have my birthday so close to Christmas. Uncles and Aunts would give me 1 present and say "that can be for your birthday too." I never got to have a birthday party in class because we were always out for Christmas. My friends were always away on my birthday, so my parties were sad affairs. I have no intention of putting my children through that! Summer babies for me!


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