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     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
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 |
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 |
So, where'd you park your dinosaur, grandpa? | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Happy birthday, Zed! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.36 |
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 |
Happy birthday oh aged one. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.41.133 |
Happy birthday Zed! | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
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 |
"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 |
Happy birthday! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.22.113 |
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 |
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 |
Happy birthday. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.143 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Happy birthday, mate! | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
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 |
Not that I've been reading Lord P's correspondence, you understand... | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.232.21 |
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 |
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 |
Happy birthday, Gary! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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