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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 09:40 am: | |
I'm 39 today. That gives me one more year before my "life begins". |
Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen
Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.142.147.219
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 10:26 am: | |
You can be 39 forever, you know. Happy Birthday! |
Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b
Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 10:30 am: | |
I've been 28 for the last eight years. Or 14 for the last 22, some would say... Have a good 'un! |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 10:35 am: | |
As Wilde said, I've been 35 since my 40th birthday and that was many years ago now. |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 10:39 am: | |
wasn't that Lady Bracknell? |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 10:42 am: | |
yeah |
Frank (Frank) Username: Frank
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 11:14 am: | |
Happy Birthday, mate. If you need any tips or fatherly advice on what it's like to be 39, look no further than your Uncle Frank. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 12:07 pm: | |
Happy birthday, Gary! |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 12:16 pm: | |
Happy birthday, you old twat. |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 12:35 pm: | |
Happy Bloody Birthday GF! |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 12:39 pm: | |
Oh and, That gives me one more year before my "life begins". Well I had to wait until I was 42 for my life to begin. Mind you, it's been worth the wait |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 12:41 pm: | |
Thanks, you bunch of unutterable fuckers. Especially you, McMahon. |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 12:45 pm: | |
Happy birthday you old fart. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 01:21 pm: | |
Happy birthday, Gary! Read Edwin Morgan's poem 'The Second Life' for a truly positive take on turning forty. You've still got that to look forward to. The poem I mean, not the turning forty. That will suck. But it will be a picnic compared to what follows.
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Skip (Wolfnoma)
Username: Wolfnoma
Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 216.54.20.98
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 01:26 pm: | |
Happy Birthday Gary! Don't get too rowdy. |
Frank (Frank) Username: Frank
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 01:56 pm: | |
Nah, rowdy, not Fry, not now, only slip-on shoes, a half-ounce of Golden Virgina, a copy of the Radio Times and the fast-dial button to the local surgery for emergency instant ear-wax removal await our lad now. |
Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey)
Username: Darren_o_godfrey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.200.116.133
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 02:38 pm: | |
!yraG yadhtriB yppaH eht s'tahT .sdrawkcab gninnur strats gnihtyreve hcihw ta ega !ytrof nrut ot evah reven uoy oS |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 02:43 pm: | |
Joel - I just read 'The Second Life' and it's marvellous. I ordered Morgan's Selected Poems after your recommendation on this forum, and have been dipping into the poems. "Slip out of darkness, it is time." |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 02:44 pm: | |
For the record, I found turning 40 a breeze. |
Frank (Frank) Username: Frank
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 02:55 pm: | |
I tried turning 38 again, and that was far from easy, let me tell you. |
Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey)
Username: Darren_o_godfrey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.200.116.133
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 03:04 pm: | |
I had a terrible time with forty. Ditto, thirty. And I suspect, in a few months when I turn 50, I'll just explode. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 03:46 pm: | |
Darren, I too had a hard time with 30 - no longer being in my twenties was tough to take. I also struggled with 35, because there was no way on earth I could continue to even pretend that I was in my early 30s. By comparison, 40 was a cakewalk for me. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.155.251
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 04:04 pm: | |
I thought the title of the thread was referring to your car passing its MOT, Gary. It's how I feel each year... |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 04:07 pm: | |
Next year Gary starts going for an MOT himself every year... |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.161
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 04:22 pm: | |
Happy birthday, Gary. |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 04:27 pm: | |
Happy Birthday!! Now the countdown starts... |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 04:55 pm: | |
You have approximately 525,600 minutes until you turn 40. Or 8760 hours. And for about one third of that time, you'll be asleep. |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.224.17
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 05:07 pm: | |
Me, I'd sleep out the first third up front, and enjoy the rest undisturbed. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 05:18 pm: | |
Thanks, all. narreD yllaicepse. Weber, as ever, your comments are as comforting as a ride on the head of a rhino. |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 05:23 pm: | |
I try my best. |
Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey)
Username: Darren_o_godfrey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.200.116.133
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 06:36 pm: | |
.yraG, emoclew ylniatrec er'uoY |
Skip (Wolfnoma)
Username: Wolfnoma
Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 216.54.20.98
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 08:48 pm: | |
Frank, I just realized I keyed "rowdy", I meant "randy".
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 08:57 pm: | |
Same thing in my house, to be Frank for a moment. |
Frank (Frank) Username: Frank
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 09:13 pm: | |
Skip - if it's a Freudian slip, I'd keep that one locked in it's darkest recess Gary - to be Frank takes skill and a certain amount of debonair panache... (Where's bloody Joel when you need him)! I'll refrain from further disastrous punning attempts...it's not even a real pun. |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85
| Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 09:31 pm: | |
Happy birthday, young 'un. I'd better not tell you what I turned a few weeks ago. I remember I felt terrible about the thought of turning 25, then the idea of turning 30 was even worse. By the time it got to the thought of turning 40 it was just horrendous. But when I started to get close to 50 I realised you really *could* turn the clock back (in your head, at least) and do the things you meant to do all those years ago. I haven't looked back since. Enjoy it while you can Gary - you only live once. Or maybe twice in your case, or three times, or four ... |
Ian Alexander Martin (Iam)
Username: Iam
Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 207.6.255.47
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 04:41 am: | |
Gary: happy birthday! JLP: I'm 44… have not been paying attention for the last two years, or am I a late bloomer? ...or something involving bloomers...? |
Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b
Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 08:33 am: | |
It's nice to be the baby of the group... but I can relate to Zed's comment about hitting 30. I remember Rhys telling me the same thing about his 30th vs. his impending 40th. 30 was the big one. You're officially not a youth anymore... once you adjust to your mortality and the ever-accelerating speed at which the years hurtle by as you rocket towards Planet Death, it gets a lot easier, I've found. Sorry, I've not lightened the tone here, have I... |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 08:44 am: | |
I went through my death anxiety when I was 12. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 08:44 am: | |
The one advantage of being a long-term hypochondriac who's since kicked the habit. |
Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo
Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 09:06 am: | |
Hi, Gary! Happy birthday to you... and to me: I was born August 31 too, a bunch of years before you were ushered into the world. Indeed I was born in 1946 which I believe to be Ramsey's year of birth too. I have just pre-ordered your Canted Steps novel. I am looking forward to a real treat! |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 09:15 am: | |
Thanks, Giancarlo! We August folk really are the best, aren't we? Let's not fraternise with this riffraff any more. Let's set up our own message board. |
Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo
Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 09:23 am: | |
...and, Gary, horoscopically speaking, we are sharing being Virgin! |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 09:44 am: | |
At my age, too. It's hororscopifying. |
Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.24.20.234
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 10:13 am: | |
Happy birthday for yesterday. |
Frank (Frank) Username: Frank
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 10:40 am: | |
Giancarlo - also happy birthday, matey. Have a good un. Simon - 'Planet Death'...nearly spat my tea out (again)... |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.158.238.131
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 09:41 pm: | |
I will be 44 in December... I know it's incomprehensible at 39, but you will be a 44 year old smiling ruefully at your foolish fears of 40 before you even bloody know it. gcw |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.155.251
| Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 10:35 pm: | |
...and then you start worrying about reaching 50! And then hit 50! And think "fuck it, I'm having a drink and going out to see a band". |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85
| Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 - 12:51 am: | |
Mick - see my earlier post on this thread. I reckon 50 is the new 20. Happy birthday to Giancarlo for yesterday too. Hope it was a good one. |
Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo
Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5
| Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 - 08:01 am: | |
Hi Caroline! Thank you! Yes, it was a good one: I stayed home from work, ordered Fry's forthcoming novel, went out for a rural dinner with my girl-friend the artistic dance teacher (not my teacher, though), had Jung's huge "Red Book" as her present, got slightly intoxicated with local wine so my friend had to drive me back home. End of birthday song. |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.166.161
| Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 - 09:01 am: | |
A belated happy birthday to you, GF! |