Happy Birthday, John!

Amy Austin | July 18, 2005
Well, gollllly... so many birthdays, so close together -- I'm running out of creative birthday wishes! Hmmm. John, may you celebrate more birthdays than a dozen prairie dogs! ;-D

Scott Hardie | July 18, 2005
I love being in charge of this site, because I programmed it to automatically wish happy birthdays on the menu so that I don't have to remember to say it. ;-) But I wonder if there's a limit to how many discussions we can use to wish each other a happy birthday. I once toyed with the idea of limiting each discussion title to one-time-use only, and when I dug through the database to see how many times certain titles had been duplicated, I found three called some version of "Happy Birthday, Scott!" I don't know if the trend is going to go anywhere.

Amy Austin | July 18, 2005
Yeah, I guess it is kind of dumb for me to start "discussions" when it's already auto-programmed from you... but I guess that's why I've done it 3 times now -- just to join in acknowledging the wish, since the message *did* originate from you, and I just wanted to say "happy birthday" to Steve, Megan, & John as well. I won't do it anymore if it's really that redundant... and I understand totally, especially since I wouldn't necessarily be inclined to do so for *everybody* who's birthday is annonunced -- really just those with whom I've competed the most on Goo and chatted with the most on TC...

Scott Hardie | July 18, 2005
I can't tell if you're joking or serious, so: It's all good. Just because I automatically "wish" someone a happy birthday doesn't mean everybody else has it so easy. :-) I could see how starting a new discussion for each birthday could get redundant since there's a new one every week or two, but believe me, I'm not going to stand in the way of something that strengthens the sense of community around here. Please, keep it up.

Amy Austin | July 18, 2005
Not joking, but like I said, I really would understand if you wanted otherwise. It's cool... I don't even know that it matters to anybody to hear it from a virtual stranger, anyhow! ;-)

Scott Hardie | July 18, 2005
Well, it matters to me. I was flattered when I found out I'd been wished a happy birthday by (mostly) strangers for three consecutive years. :-)

Michael Paul Cote | July 18, 2005
Happy B'day John. I don't care if it's redundant. As far as I'm concerned, you can't get too many birthday wishes, especially at our age ;-p

Amy Austin | July 18, 2005
;-)

John E Gunter | July 19, 2005
Thanks everyone. Notice that this is on the 19th, not the 18th, was doing other stuff for most of the day rather than reading TC, sorry Scott! :-D

And yes, I'm still signing my posts! :-P

John

Scott Hardie | July 21, 2005
What? Hell, I don't even read TC some days.

Happy birthday Skunkape.