whee! let's hear it for arrant pedantry!

[fox]

One should not say "Today is my birthday," since a person has only one birthday, the very day he was born. More properly, one should say "Today is the anniversary of my birthday." Assuming, of course, it is the anniversary of one's birthday. -- Beth Baniszewski, of Columbia, MD, in a second-runner-up Style Invitational entry from August 1, 1999



Last year on my birthday the anniversary of my birthday, wordplay and ellen_fremedon took me out to lunch, and when we came back to work I found money in the parking lot and then I got to my desk and learned that Jerry Falwell had died.

This year, the Indians are up 4-1 in the 8th (and in first place in the AL Central, and no, I don't care that there's more than three quarters of a season to go), there is free iced coffee at Dunkin' Donuts, and the California Supreme Court has ruled in favor of equal marriage rights.


Who wants cake? :-D

[eta: And you know who else's birthday is today? I'll tell you:

Tenzing Norgay (a.k.a. Not Sir Edmund Hillary)
Jasper Johns
Sir Peter Shaffer (who wrote Equus and Amadeus and so on)
Pierre Curie
James Mason (the Voice of God [g])
Anna Maria Alberghetti
Madeleine Albright
etc.]

Comments

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

Felicitations on the anniversary of your nativity nonetheless, sugarpop!

[insptr-penguin.livejournal.com]

Death! I mean cake!

Happy Anniversary Of Your Birthday then. :)

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary of Your Birthday, Fox.

[misscake]

Happy Birthday Anniversary! Clearly you were born on a very fortuitous day!

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Clearly, you need to have birthdays more often.

[reginagiraffe]

Especially one in November.

(Happy Birthday, again!)

[chromodynamics.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary of your Birthday!

Sounds like we should celebrate monthly or weekly anniversaries for you, not just yearly ones!

[cannons-at-dawn.livejournal.com]

Many Happy Returns! :)

[bayleaf.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary of your birth, dude! Well done, this year and last. :) (Also, hey, are you still looking for housing? Two good friends of mine are looking for a third roommate. They live in the complex right across from Sandy and Evelyn.)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

(<lj user="wordplay" was telling me about that today. I'm not sure I'm prepared to go the housemate route again; I've been living alone for a long time, and it suits me quite well. But if I'm struck by lightning and change my mind in the next week or so, I will have you make introductions. :-) )

[merrycontrary.livejournal.com]

I am always up for cake, but especially on days like today. Happy Day On Which You Were Born All Those Years Ago!

[abka.livejournal.com]

Happy Day After the Anniversary of your Birthday!