| Author | Message | ||
     Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.74 |
Well, it's my birthday. The big ship has sailed up the alley alley oh and I am 40. I am not entirely sure how this has happened but it has. I did wake this morning with a vague notion about string theory and sentience that would suggest the Many Worlds Interpretation of Hugh Everett (fictionalised 20-odd years before he came up with it in Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker) is a good candidate for the basis of a theory of everything, because the human mind may well be dependent on quantum interferance to function (see the latest developments on quantum computers and imagine it on our biochemical brains and you'll see what I'm getting at), but I suspect someone else has already worked that out. Bit early for birthday cake, though. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
Mark, you're suppposed to wake up on your fourtieth vowing never to touch the stuff ever again. This is indeed a novel approach. Still, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, old sport! Hope you have a good day! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.74 |
cheers, me dear. Saves me right for all that science book reading. It's really not right, you know. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.129.3 |
Happy birthday, Mark! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.138 |
I think someone else here mentioned the old saw about the age of 40: "The old age of youth, and the youth of old age." So I'll repeat it. Happy Birthday, Mark! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
Many Happy Returns, Mark! | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Happy birthday Mark! | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
Make it a good one, Mark!  | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.186.20.147 |
Happy 40th, Mark. Mine is looming next April... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
And mine next August. Argh! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69 |
Cheers, folks! Actually, so far my 40th is a helluva lot better than my 20th. I'm not paralysed down half my body for a start. I reckon on this evidence by my 60th I should be one fit and healthy guy! Thinking about it as well, I felt most...content with an age...at 34. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Happy birthday, mate. I'm 41 and life's never been better. Cheer up, you big jessie. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
Yes indeed - I'm 42 and Gary McMahon's life has never been better.  | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.19.96.119 |
Happy birthday, Mark. 40 - I can only say that I'm very jealous. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Just out of interest... how many of us are actually under 40 now? We might need to drum up some support among the yoof of today, to ensure the guvnor's legacy is passed on to the next generation... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
Well, I wasn't born until ten to three in the afternoon, so technically.... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.78 |
'It is an astonishing thing to me to find that I am really not a bit happy unless I am writing. Even a letter will do.' Dirk Bogarde. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Happy Birthday, mate. Have a good un. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
I'm only 38... you old sods | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 95.131.110.102 |
Happy Birthday Mark! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.75 |
Cheers! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Happy birthday, young 'un. Your life has only just begun!  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
Sounds like a Carpenter's song. Now I'm really scared...! | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
I'm 39. And I intend to stay this age for the rest of my life.  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.73 |
Uh, are you sure that's really what you want, Kate? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Happy Birthday, Mark! I spent 4 solid days partying when I turned 40, from Thu-Sun, and loved every single moment of it. Since then it's like I've been going through a second adolescence, without the angst. Lord knows what'll happen in 2015 when I turn 50!! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
I'm 54, but still feel like I'm 14. Fact! | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Happy 40th Mark - I'm 41 now and life's as good as it's ever been! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
is that good news or bad, Mark? Ta for the congrats, gang. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>Since then it's like I've been going through a second adolescence, without the angst.<< I think that just about sums it up for me too. Folks who know me keep saying I must be getting younger - mentally, if not physically.  | ||
| Skip (Wolfnoma) Username: Wolfnoma Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 216.54.20.98 |
Happy Birthday Mark. Now, enjoy some scotch and a cigar. And, if your not so inclinded to do so I will gladly offer my liver and lungs for the occasion. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I don't know if he eats human livers and lungs, Skip.  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.78 |
I was a vegetarian for a few years but lungs and livers turned me back to flesh. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
I'm 36... come on, somebody around here must be younger, surely..? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
It's not without interest that all RCMBers are more or less the same age, give or take a couple of decennia  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
I think most of us grew up with Ramsey's books, when horror fiction was having its day. I'm getting nostalgic. |