Taw ages?
Well then we all learn something new in the internets.
I can hear those bones crunching from age.
You also become one year old wiser!
Happy Brithday.

Happy Birthday Taw! (hopefully you like birthdays!) This forum wouldn't be the same without you, nor would the world!

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age." - Thomas B. Aldrich

I pray you'll never stop pummeling the crap out of that heartless sod, old-age, Tawakalna; your whimsical musings are an inspiration to some of us young souls with old hearts

bah! every tanj year FD rubs my declining years in my nose, knowing how little I enjoy the gradual and inexorably increasing decay of my physical form into a creaking, groaning mass.

Still it's marginally less humiliating than tomorrow's so-called secret plan (identical to last years secret plan and the year before) of my extended family to force me to sit for several hours with a paper hat on my head trying on various items of clothing that fit badly and look worse, attempt to blow out an increasing number of candles on a cake without giving myself hypoxia or a coronary, whilst insincerely expressing thanks for various soap-on-a-ropes, hankies, and bath cubes that I'll never use unless Mrs Taw puts them in the bath for me.

Indeed, imagine the delight I'll feel whilst everyone gets roaringly drunk on the alcohol they purportedly brought me as presents knowing full well that i never touch the evil stuff, and as the party gets into full swing my presence won't even be missed when I slope off to the garage for a crafty smoke and to escape the company of people I otherwise only see at Christmas and funerals. I'm sure they do it because they know how much I hate parties, especially "surprise" ones, and because they think that it means they'll keep me sweet for another year of free computer repair work.

hopefully mini-Taw might have got me F.E.A.R.-Extraction Point and C&C:Tiberium Wars like I asked him too. Although I expect he probably forgot.

(but Mrs Taw has baked me a nice-looking cake - how it tastes may be another matter!)

Edited by - Tawakalna on 7/28/2007 2:23:35 PM

Your only 43 Taw, still got a couple good years left in ye.

Edited by - Finalday on 7/28/2007 2:47:59 PM

Happy Birthday Taw, hope you have a good one, and cheerup misery gut's at least it's only once a year.


**Edit** bloody hell I just reached 800 posts, I never thought I'd be here long enough for 200

**shuffles off with a new headache**

Edited by - Bejaymac on 7/28/2007 4:15:15 PM

Happy birthday! have a goodun



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Happy Birthday, old man. Hope you get Command & Conquer 3. It's a hell of a good game.

Have the bbc come asking for your opinions on the subject matter of "Grumpy old ba***rds!" yet? They should


Happy B'day Taw
Hope the cake is great, the clothes fit (and look suitably retro) and the family talk is stimulating

Computer games though? Computer games are bad, mkay?!

Happy B-day Taw...ya old man

Happy Birthday Tawakalna and hope to see ya next year.

“SISU”
(Pronounced: siss-sue)
(Meaning)
Guts, Tenacity, Steadfastness, Courage, and an Indomitable will to Succeed, and Survive.

well, it wasn't too bad in the end.

I managed to make my excuses from the "surprise" party after an hour and came home to have a nap. As far as presents are concerned, this year I got:

F.E.A.R. - Extraction Point (off Mrs Taw)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl (Mrs Taw again)
C&C: Tiberium Wars (Mrs Taw!)
2 homemade walnut whips, 1lb of sherbet, 1/4lb of crystallised ginger, and some rose turkish delight (off daughter Taw)
Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima box set (off the mother-in-law)
a wallet made from multi-part invoice paper (Mrs Taw but I think I paid for it)
some expensive Italian aftershave (Mrs Taw again)
box set of Andromeda - no comments please! (Mrs Taw's sister)
some home-made jam (Mrs Taw's brother's wife)

and of my favourite little offspring, apple of my eye, and on whom I bestow my generosity, I got..

a 99p bar of chocolate reduced to 49p because it's out of date, the tight fisted little git, and I know he's got about £300 stashed away upstairs. No Wii for him this Christmas then!

however most of the day was spent with me doing 2 lots of laundry and ironing, 2 lots of washing, hoovering (again) repairing the rabbit-prisoner's hutch, making dinner and tea and fetching Mrs Taw to and from her work. Even Grand Mullahs have to do the housework, and on their birthdays too!

bah, I'm off to play FEAR-EP and pretend that the evil Replicas are a certain stingy 13yr old.

p.s. thanks for the birthday wishes everyone, i know I moan and complain but I'd be quite upset if no-one remembered. Thank heavens the Hare hasn't posted yet, it's so refreshing to have a rabbit-free thread!

just got this in my email and thought i'd share it - maybe you'll get a larf out of it like i did

9 Things I Hate About Everyone (especially on my birthday)

1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?


2. People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the T.V.. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually.


3. When people say 'Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too'. Damn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?


4. When people say 'it's always the last place you look'. Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? Gonna Kick their asses!


5. When people say while watching a film 'did you see that?'. No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor.


6. People who ask 'Can I ask you a question?'.... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?



7. When something is 'new and improved!'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.


8. When people say 'life is short'. What the hell?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?

*Calls from shadows and smirks in amusement at the gift of crystallised ginger (an Esquilaxitavian delicacy)*. Bah! I have better things to do than salve your ego evil Mullah! That being said, I know that you would pine if I didn't "pay my respects" (don't get excited, it's just an expression ), and here I am. So... the F.E.A.R expansion, eh? You'll have to tell me if it is any good. I myself have tried to play the game, but it kept crashing because I had the graphical settings too high *sigh*.

Edited by - esquilax on 7/29/2007 4:06:29 PM

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