Happy Birthday MJP!

[esart]

I know he probably won't like that I started this thread, but I'm doing it anyway. It's February 4th and it's MJP's birthday. I love him, so this is what he gets, dammit!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY you crazy beast! I love you!

For this special day, I got him a signed 1st edition of Last Night of the Earth Poems. (A special thanks to Bill for helping me find it.)

And also a special thanks to Chronic for helping me not get ripped off on the other thing I almost got.

 

[d gray]

happy birthday man! if not for you there'd be no us!!!

live long and prosper.

 

[hank solo]

Happy Birthday mjp.
And many more....

 

[hoochmonkey9]

happy birthday!

 

[cunningham]

my best to the boss. may you have many more, you surly fucker.

 

[reasonknot]

Don't forget the flask! happy birthday.

 

[Bukfan]

Happy Birthday, mjp! Have a great party, and don't get too drunk, if there is such a thing as too drunk.

 

[Digit]

Happy birthday. I hope you have a really super time. Birthdays are the only days that are truly our own. Cheers!

 

[the only good poet]

is that a van gogh?!

many happy returns, as they say.

 

[bospress.net]

happy birthday! I have something to send, but got crazy busy and have not sent it yet.


Bill

 

[Mark73]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 

[marina del rey]

Happy birthday!

 

[justine]

happy birthday you stinky old fart

 

[number6horse]

Happy Birthday Michael. Nobody gets to call you Michael except on your birthday, so there. I did it.

 

[zoom man]

Yes, Happy Birthday Michael

 

[Stavrogin]

The Happiest of Birthdays you crazy beast. Room for one more on this splendiferous day. Teehee. Oh, I'm dead now....nevermind.

 

[Bukfan]

is that a van gogh?!

Yes, indeed it is.

 

[Black Swan]

We're everywhere with all these birthdays happening at the same time.

 

[cirerita]

Life begins at 50, right? Have a good one, Young Man!

 

[Ponder]

Hope you had a quiet birthday, Boss of all bosses.

 

[mjp]

Hope you had a quiet birthday, Boss of all bosses.

As I hope you did!

 

[roni]

Half a century, eh?

HAPPY B-DAY, gramps!
We love you!

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Happy Birthday! Only 9and a half more years and you can start withdrawals from your I.R.A. account.
By the way, always ask for a senior citizen discount, most people will just give it to you and it saves money. Also you can join AARP which saves you more on hotels and rental cars than AAA. You only need to be 50 to join. Yes, there's nothing wrong with being a cheap old man.

 

[mjp]

you can start withdrawals from your I.R.A. account.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

What is that?

Oh Jesus, my IRA account - I'm still laughing...

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Yes an Individual Retirement Account is that savings account tied to mutual funds or stocks that recently lost about half it's value.

 

[mjp]

I haven't exactly spent my life in IRA-friendly work situations, or demonstrating any manner of financial responsibility. But then I've never had any money to be responsible with, so it doesn't really matter. I will be working until I drop dead, and on that day I still won't have any money in the bank. I have already accepted that.

Life is short, and I got to do a lot of things that got in the way of that IRA. But I think I got the better end of the deal, honestly. I wouldn't trade my 20s and 30s for a savings account that I can start to peel money away from when I'm sixty! Throwing away your youth and banking on old age seems like a bad choice to me.

FTW.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

FTW is exactly what I thought when my IRA lost half of it's value in a few months. It's now at 65% of it's 2005 value. See, this is why we have to be reminded to be happy at least once a year. Happy Birthday, until the day we die.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I haven't exactly spent my life in IRA-friendly work situations...

Being intolerant of Bushmills leads to this sort of problem. Hope you had a good birthday, you crusty old bugger.

 

[mjp]

I tolerate Bushmills, but only enough to keep the Dublin Brigade off my ass.

 

[Rekrab]

Well this is a little late, but happy birthday, mjp! I need to check for new posts more often. I'm sure by the time you're ready to retire, they will have fixed this bad economy worldwide economic collapse and impending apocalypse thing and the federal coffers will be overflowing with money -- good, solid money, backed with gold -- enough to cover everyone's retirement, just like in the old days. That's what I'd be telling myself if I were your age. A man's got to have hope, right?