Happy Birthday, Byron

mickey_one · Post by **mickey_one** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:01 pm

I hope you have a lovely day and continue to entertain us with your posts. Your invariable good humour is much enjoyed here.

Byron · Post by **Byron** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:41 pm

pm sent. Thanks very muchly for those words. I'd like to thank my agent, my parents, my far better half, my local greengrocer, our family dogs, all the team in the backroom who made it all possible, sniff sniff, the editors, the musical arranger, sniff sniff sniff, my dresser, my hairdresser, my truss designer, the scientists at Preperation H, Morrisons' Fish counter, our local postman, the chap next door who keeps the noise down, the mechanics who take care of our fleet of Dinky Cars, my literary tutor at kindagit, kindergartt.....school, and last but not least, The Lord GB, without whom none of this twaddle would have been possible, sniff, sniff........

mickey_one · Post by **mickey_one** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:48 pm

Byron wrote:pm sent. Thanks very muchly for those words. I'd like to thank my agent, my parents, my far better half, my local greengrocer, our family dogs, all the team in the backroom who made it all possible, sniff sniff, the editors, the musical arranger, sniff sniff sniff, my dresser, my hairdresser, my truss designer, the scientists at Preperation H, Morrisons' Fish counter, our local postman, the chap next door who keeps the noise down, the mechanics who take care of our fleet of Dinky Cars, my literary tutor at kindagit, kindergartt.....school, and last but not least, The Lord GB, without whom none of this twaddle would have been possible, sniff, sniff........

blimey, after all that I am not sure you should be allowed a birthday next year at all!

I am also deeply concerned whether it should be "Morrison's Fish counter" or, as you wrote, "Morrisons' Fish counter".

I have never personally visited such a down-market super-market., but I understand that they enjoy a degree of popularity in some of the poorer parts of the Kingdom.

Also, how comes the Fish earn a capital but the counter, apparently, does not.

Please strive to deal promptly with these important issues.

darkladyali · Post by **darkladyali** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:52 pm

Happy Birthday John, I wish you much love, peace and happiness
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lots of Love
Ali

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:54 pm

happy birthday John!!!

darkladyali · Post by **darkladyali** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:08 pm

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:31 pm

Such beautiful graphics you bring here, Ali

!

Yes ~ Happy Happy Birthday, John... my very best swims the channel to you ~ [Mickey ~ the Fish are Pisces, after all, and deserve capitalization!] to bring you wishes drenched with goodwill

!!

Love,
Lizzy

darkladyali · Post by **darkladyali** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:49 pm

Just for mentioning it Lizzy, here are some flowers for you as well

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:52 am

[Awwww.....thank you, Ali

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~ Lizzy]

Byron · Post by **Byron** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:48 am

Years ago when I was only 68, I had a friend who was full of olde worlde advice. He was a fount of knowledge and old wives tales, which accounted for his limp.
I was much troubled back then, and uptight, and worried and things. My mind wandered quickly over all my woes and tribill, tridubla, triboolatshuns and sleep evaded and alluded me. What shall I do? I asked the fount, and he said I must imagine fields full of sheep what wanted to get home. No matter how they tried, they couldn't manage to get home. One day, the chiefsheep said "Woa boys and girls, we need to get outat here, we shall escape this fields by climbing out," and that's what they didn't do. Sheep is stoopid!
Anyway, the fount gave me his olde and trustie family's gadget. He used to be a Time and Motion study man. He worked with the whaling fleets out of Scunthorpe. Too wet on a boat to keep track of time and motions, so he used his gadget to count the jobs. (the puns come thick and fast) So, I took the gadget and took his advice as well (he was doubly generous) and used the gadget to count imaginary sheep trying to climb out of fields, unsuccessfully, until they started to get jumpy, ever since that day I've been grateful to my friend Bill Morrison, for his family's gadget, what used to belong to all of the Morrisons' families. Their now, worlde famous Morrisons' (families) Fish counter. Oh I know it was for whales and motions, but when you're all at sea for a while, anything will do to get you to where you want.

darkladyali · Post by **darkladyali** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:00 am

Byron said
Sheep is stoopid!
So just to prove they aint all daft

Byron · Post by **Byron** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:00 am

Is that Lee bending down?????

darkladyali · Post by **darkladyali** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:58 am

Nuh, too much hair

Diane · Post by **Diane** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:00 am

Happy Birthday, John

. Long may you run.

Love,

Diane

darkladyali · Post by **darkladyali** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:50 pm

Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.
The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.

They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.

"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.

Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.

"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up".

Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.

"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.

Happy Birthday, Byron

Happy Birthday, Byron

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