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Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 01:49 pm: | |
How did that happen? Ah well, I've jotted down a few random thoughts on hitting this milestone: http://www.garymcmahon.com/ |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 02:02 pm: | |
Your thread title is just an open invitation to Joel . . . C'mon, make him work harder. |
Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 02:03 pm: | |
So, where'd you park your dinosaur, grandpa? |
Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 02:49 pm: | |
Happy 400th, Zed! Wait a minute...wrong number of zeros there. What I meant to write was: Happy 4,000th, Zed! Ah, that's better. Cheers, gramps! |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 02:53 pm: | |
Are you officially an old fogey now or an old git? Happy b'day. |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.32.55
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 03:11 pm: | |
Happy 40th, Gary! Welcome to the old timers' club. Come over and have a nice cup of Horlicks and some digestives... |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 03:14 pm: | |
Happy birthday, Zed! |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.36
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 03:22 pm: | |
Happy Birthday indeed, Zed! The late thirties are messy - just look at the numbers - 38, 39 - too curvy, too tangly - but 40 - straight lines and an empty circle of nothing - a nice, fresh start.... |
Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 03:28 pm: | |
Happy birthday oh aged one. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.41.133
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 03:30 pm: | |
Happy birthday Zed! |
Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 04:00 pm: | |
The zero in 40 is there because now that he's an old man, that's Gary's body shape. Completely round. |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.36
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 04:09 pm: | |
"Middle-age spread," as I saw the cartoonist Roz Chast put it, recently.... |
Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 06:46 pm: | |
Happy birthday! |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.22.113
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 07:41 pm: | |
I had a birthday last week. (Christ, not another one! The do tend to come faster and faster.) I'm not saying how old I am, suffice it to say that next to me Gary is a snot. But not to worry, you'll all get there eventually. |
Niki Flynn (Niki)
Username: Niki
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 08:08 pm: | |
The late thirties are messy - just look at the numbers - 38, 39 - too curvy, too tangly - but 40 - straight lines and an empty circle of nothing - a nice, fresh start.... 31, 33, 37 and 39 are fine. Odd numbers and angles are safe (but not multiples of 5). 40's a terrible number and I think I'll skip it and go straight to 41 when it's my turn! So I'll wish you a premature happy 41st, Zed! |
Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.106.17
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 08:27 pm: | |
Happy birthday. |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.143
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 08:40 pm: | |
Zed - my life didn't even really begin till I was 40. I can still remember it, finding that book in that tiny little shop in Whitechapel, suggesting that the way to immortality was to kill a few prostitutes while chanting certain rituals and making obeisance to certain deities. In fact I still have the top hat and cane, but the red silk lining of my cloak has seen better days. In fact now I only wear it to... I've said enough Happy Birthday my friend! |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.177.50
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 08:56 pm: | |
You forgot to sign off with: "Yours truly, .... " |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.143
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 08:59 pm: | |
Indeed I did! I sincerly hope you will accept my most profound apologies. And half a kidney, which is in the post |
Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.208.112.230
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 09:30 pm: | |
Happy birthday, Gary. If it helps, tell people you're thirty five and sixty months. |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.224.185
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 10:25 pm: | |
I just picked up the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 today and you're in it, Gary! (Mammoth/old --> insert gag into earhole, turn crank) Really pleasantly surprised to see your name, Joel's and Simon's along with Ramsey's. At least you can't say you haven't accomplished anything by 40. |
Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b
Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 11:19 pm: | |
Happy birthday, mate! |
Niki Flynn (Niki)
Username: Niki
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 11:49 pm: | |
Jeez, at least get it right, lads. The "from hell" letter referencing "half the Kidne" ended with "Signed, Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk". "Yours truly" was used in the "Dear Boss" letter. |
Niki Flynn (Niki)
Username: Niki
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 11:50 pm: | |
Not that I've been reading Lord P's correspondence, you understand...
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Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.232.21
| Posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 - 12:02 am: | |
God, there must be something wrong with me... your blog made me tear up. ;) emotionally, a |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.245.56
| Posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 - 02:22 am: | |
Also remember: you're not actually IN your 40's, until you're 41. You're still in your 30's - 1 runs from birth to age 1, then 1 to 2, and so on... so the 10th, part of the first set of 10, is the ENTIRE year 10 - so until you're 41, you're still in your 30's.... This is a little bit of tortured logic I like to call: comforting. |
Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173
| Posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 - 10:54 am: | |
Happy birthday, Gary! |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47
| Posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 - 11:14 am: | |
You've got to be careful with birthdays, they're bad for you. It's been proven that the more you have the more likely you are to pop your clogs |
Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b
Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182
| Posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 - 11:44 am: | |
On the other hand, the more you have, the longer you live. |
Frank (Frank) Username: Frank
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46
| Posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 - 02:46 pm: | |
Belated birthday wishes, mate. At least you've got a reason to be bitter now (: |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.232.21
| Posted on Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 11:54 pm: | |
Craig, you've got it backwards. When you turn 1 you have FINISHED your first year. And when you turn 40 you have FINISHED your 40th year. You're actually starting your 41st. Just like the we're IN 21st century, Zed is IN his 41st year... A little something I like to call: extra anxiety. |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.224.24
| Posted on Monday, April 27, 2009 - 08:35 am: | |
A, why do you have to put the negative spin on it?... I was trying to comfort him by taking the reverse-view - you don't have go throw cold water on the fact he's decrepitly one-foot-in-the-grave.... |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Monday, April 27, 2009 - 02:10 pm: | |
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