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Posted on 20/09/19 05:57:55 AM
Mariner
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Happy Birthday Me
Amazingly I have today reached the age of 74, and the old adage springs to mind "There is no fool like an old fool". Sue, my wife, is also of that opinion.
Sue is getting on a bit herself and is no longer able to walk as far as the shop to buy me a birthday card, so she asked me to make one for me for her, which I was glad to do.
I didn't want to go down the standard hearts and flowers route, so I came up with this bit of black humour, and showed it to her to make sure she wouldn't object. She did object. So I am throwing it out to you lot. Don't take it the wrong way. It's a universal sort of card, I mean you could copy it and send it to very close friends or enemies alike!




Posted on 20/09/19 10:01:43 AM
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Well, I would prefer that it wasn’t your last but Happy Birthday anyway.

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Posted on 20/09/19 10:46:35 AM
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I don't see my wife taking very kindly to that either!

Happy Birthday.

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Posted on 20/09/19 11:56:10 AM
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Happy birthday Michael. There will be many more birthdays before the last one! xx

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Posted on 20/09/19 12:47:57 PM
Mariner
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Thanks Gordon, David, Anna.

Posted on 21/09/19 01:51:05 AM
lwc
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Happy Birthday!

Posted on 21/09/19 10:22:20 PM
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Michael It's too ambivalent or ambiguous to be anything other than nasty! Do you have good relationship with your wife? Do you hate yourself and despair about it? But a happy birthday to you anyway.

Here's a question for you and--indeed--anyone else who might see this: " What epitaph would you have on your gravestone?

Posted on 22/09/19 5:38:56 PM
josephine harvatt
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I think it is a little tooo dark for me! May I go against the mesage of the card and wish you many happy returns!

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Posted on 24/09/19 10:36:54 PM
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Happy Birthday Michael - many happy PS days ahead .
Many ways to take this so I'll venture that with old age comes many aches and pains ( and Doctor's Visits) so while there may be many more they may not be as Happy.

Posted on 26/09/19 01:40:20 AM
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michael sinclair wrote:
Michael It's too ambivalent or ambiguous to be anything other than nasty! Do you have good relationship with your wife? Do you hate yourself and despair about it? But a happy birthday to you anyway.
Here's a question for you and--indeed--anyone else who might see this: " What epitaph would you have on your gravestone?


Michael,
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On my gravestone, if I ever have one, I would like the following line: "I told you I was ill!"

Spike Milligan, the most talented member of The Goons, asked for that to be put on his gravestone. I read somewhere that his request was not granted. But really I would like my ashes to be mixed with gunpowder, poured into a large rocket and fired off at midnight at the end of All Fools Day.





Posted on 26/09/19 01:42:19 AM
Mariner
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Thank you Loyd, Josephine and Frank.

Posted on 26/09/19 4:36:01 PM
Steve Caplin
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Happy birthday Michael!

I read of a man who left instructions in his will for his ashes to be put into an egg timer, so he could keep active.

Makes sense to me.


Posted on 27/09/19 02:44:55 AM
Mariner
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Good one Steve.


Posted on 27/09/19 07:54:27 AM
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Wouldn't it gum up the clockwork?

................................. Oh ........... wait a minute ........ just got it.

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Posted on 05/07/21 3:35:11 PM
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6 days before my birthday. I'll have to remember that. Happy early birthday for the many more to come Mariner. Old soldiers never die...

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