I have "julie" written on my calendar today so I'm assuming its our Julie's birthday? Hope I have this right.........happy birthday jules!

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2002

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For some reason I don't have Julie on my b'day "hit list". I have Joy...but not Julie!! Thanks for picking up on it, EM!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIE!!

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2002

Yes, it is indeed her birthday. I think you don't have it on your list, Marcia, because she didn't volunteer it last year. Don't worry, though, EM, I was on my way in here to 'out' her anyway! {big evil grin}

And she's OLD! She turns 67 this year! {hear the sound of yanking chain?} Bwahahahahaaahaaaaaaaa!!

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2002

Happy B-Day Julie - hope everyone is nice and cooperative with you.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2002

Happy Birthday Julie! I hope your horses are feeling better. Just give Joy a wedgie or a swirlie or some similar big sister torture the next time you see her!

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2002

Wow!! 67...?? As in 67 years?? Hee Hee!!!

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2002

But, but...I thought JOY was the older sister!?!?

(Sorry; I can't help sticking up for the underdog! Or is it underfrog? No matter..)

Happy Birthday, Julie! And many more to come, I sincerely hope!

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2002

You WOULD have to remember THAT, wouldn't you Polly! And yes, definitely the underFROG. But you should know, Miz Pollywog! ;-)

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2002

(BAD PUNS CON'T)...

since we live on a "lake" (the maps say so, but its really a big pond, the perimeter of which is turning green scummish as the summer progresses), we share this earthspace with millions of little amphibians, and the dumber ones insist on daily jumping into the pool and ending up spinning about undertoad in the skimmer, (I once actually caught my offspring, whilst flinging contents of said skimmer down the hill, singing something to the effect of "there's a toad in the bucket...")...... whereupon we discover them on a daily basis and throw them back into the "lake," and bid them farewell once again with a "I toad you so!" or suchlike.

So tell us, Julie, how comes it that you have the name of rumplefrogskin, and how comes it that my email says you didnt get the card i sent u?

Hope u had a good one, and your lot is more favorable in near future than it has been in near past.

Blessings,

-- Anonymous, July 27, 2002

Well gee, I thought maybe I was going to be able to just sneak by on that one....

But thank you anyway. And thank you on behalf of my MUCH MUCH older sister, Joy (who is 15 years older than I am. At the very least.)

I actually have no idea why things are bouncing to the rumplefrogskin account....I just cleaned out the box there a couple days ago! And as for where Rumplefrogskin came from, well, I needed an account that no one else was likely to have taken yet, and we all know "Rumplestiltskin is my name" from the classic fairy tale...Joy is the one who suggested inserting 'frog' in the middle instead, seeing as how I'm a frog person from way back. Other kids had teddy bears or dolls that they dragged around? I dragged around frogs. (live ones, and a stuffed toy one, my constant companion -- he even still has a place of honour in the house)

And truth to tell, things ARE looking up!! Much to my amazement and due to a lot of wrangling by my real estate agent -- I sold the house!! That's a pretty darn good b'day present right there! Signed up all the papers and yelled "Hasta la pasta!!!" over my shoulder as I galloped off into the sunset.

My birthday celebration was a bit strange. We were going to go out for dinner and a movie, but my cousin had to take an emergency trip to the hospital today, and I ended up going over to their house to pet sit the dog instead. That's okay, she's a very nice little Dachshund, named Molly, and is about the size of a Wisconsin bratwurst. I call her 'The Weiner-dog of The Baskervilles' and she's such a ferocious hound, that when I let myself in the kitchen door to take her out, she weedled all over the linoleum. Oh well, that's what paper towels were invented for.

So we elected to have traditional potato and onion soup birthday supper at home, with corn bread and some of my homemade strawberry jam instead, and a video tape.

Just wait tho -- it's Joy's birthday in only 9 days.

-- Anonymous, July 27, 2002

HAPPY_birthday!!!!

-- Anonymous, July 27, 2002

Oh, Happy, happy Birthday Julie. Here's wishing you all the best!!

-- Anonymous, July 27, 2002

Happy birthday, Julie. If you're 67 and Joy is your older sister and is at least 15 years older than you then that makes her, uh, uh, probaly the oldest person on the forum. I hope I can get as much done when I'm 67 as you seem to do! What supplements are you taking?

Wildman, (impressed)

-- Anonymous, July 28, 2002

Wildman (very gullible)! ;-D

Actually, I MIGHT be the oldest person on this board. Not sure . . . probably not . . . I'll confess my TRUE age (in actual years, anyway) on my birthday . . . :-P

-- Anonymous, July 28, 2002

Kool, Joy!! I'm looking forward to Aug. 4th.! Maybe we should have a "True Confessions" posting. We can confess everything from true hair color to true age :-)!!

-- Anonymous, July 28, 2002

Gullible? Not so! And nothing you can say will change my mind. I have it in writing! You're 80 something! I'm good at math! I use to say that I was fifty something when asked my age. Never felt like I was fifty something until my wife informed me that I was fifty-five. I was devastated! That was four years ago and I've felt fifty something ever since! Hope I still feel fifty something in another year.

Wildman, (aging fast)

-- Anonymous, July 28, 2002

Wildman...close your eyes and just keep clicking your heels together and saying to yourself "age is just a state of mind...age is just a state of mind..."!!!

-- Anonymous, July 28, 2002

Oh Marcia. I've tried the heel clicking thing before but I keep ending up in Kansas with that damn pesky dog nipping at my heels. Ain't happy with that scraggy dog anyway. Wouldn't be so bad if I could just find Dorothy there but I imagine she's older, now, than I am so I'd probably be disappointed anyway. Wonder why that stupid dog doesn't age and why he hasn't lost his teeth!

You're suppose to only be as old as you feel. That means that I'm around Joy's age!

Wildman, (staying home)

-- Anonymous, July 28, 2002

Next time, bring the dog. Julie wants him!

-- Anonymous, July 28, 2002

Growing old is MANDATORY . . . growing up is OPTIONAL. That's why b- days don't bring me down (well, not yet anyway).

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2002

Happy Birthday, Young Lady!

ˇFeliz Cumpleanos a ti!

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2002