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Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:07 am**

.....HAVE A LOVELY DAY KOAN. :-6

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:38 am**

Happy Birthday and lots of lovely hugs:sneaky:

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:42 am**

Hiccy Burpday. :p

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:12 am**

Have a great day, Koan!

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:40 am**

have a great day koan............21 again:wah:

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:36 am**

Happy Birthday Koan..... BOUQUET OF FLOWERS... I dont know how to post:-4

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:15 am**

HAPPY BIRTHY !!! Koan :-6

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Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:11 am**

you guys are quick this year

didn't have to promote myself at all :wah:

Thanks all.

I get to start out with a free visit to the chiropractor.

The joys of getting old.

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:25 am**

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:39 am**

:yh_party:yh_partyHappy Birthday to a Dear Friend:yh_party:yh_party

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:10 am**

Happy 50th birthday koan. Don't worry 50 is the new, well it's still 50.:wah:

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:45 am**

Have a good one Koan !!!:D :-4

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:46 am**

You don't look a day over 24. I think you faked your age in hope of early retirement. I think I will send the government a picture of that flat stomach of yours and tell them you are a lying little wench.

Happy Birthday

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:13 am**

Happy birthday babes,

hope you're having a fab time.

S xxxx

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:18 am**

Happy Birthday Koan...hope you have a fabulous day.

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:41 am**

Happy Birthday Koan!! Hope you have a wonderful day!!

Here's something from me to you.....:-4

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:19 pm**

wow

thanks everyone!

WW, you remembered the Doritos :-6 And I forgot to bring a bag of Lamb & Mint crisps to send to you in return :wah:

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:23 pm**

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOAN

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:24 pm**

koan;693638 wrote: wow

thanks everyone!

WW, you remembered the Doritos :-6 And I forgot to bring a bag of Lamb & Mint crisps to send to you in return

Awww, no really that's okay

...this is YOUR day...:wah::yh_party

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:50 pm**

Happy Birthday Koan!:-6

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:52 pm**

:yh_dance

I had to eat a massive bowl of ice cream because... there wasn't enough left to make another bowl full.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:35 pm**

koan;693689 wrote: :yh_dance

I had to eat a massive bowl of ice cream because... there wasn't enough left to make another bowl full.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Why have I never thought of that before? :wah:

Happy Birthday Koan! :-6

Posted: **Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:36 am**

Abbey, my son thinks your new Avatar is brill !! And so do I :yh_rotfl

Posted: **Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:26 pm**

neffy;693439 wrote: have a great day koan............21 again:wah:
A fellow Virgo, a fellow aging Virgo at that. We should get together. PM me. We could plan an event together seeing as how I know lots intresting stuff you might enjoy learning.

Posted: **Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:44 am**

double helix;695223 wrote: A fellow Virgo, a fellow aging Virgo at that. We should get together. PM me. We could plan an event together seeing as how I know lots intresting stuff you might enjoy learning.;)Shall I post one of my boring rambles, just for fun? To do, I think, with "Deo Volente", said by the pious when proposing some future act and often abreviated "d.v.". I shall, one says, do such-and-such, d.v., meaning "If God is willing that I should". These days it would be associated more as a mental act of piety within Islam than within most strands of mainstream Christianity but we've fallen off over the years, piousness isn't what it used to be.

Anyway, in the Old West the equivalent phrase extended to "God willing and the Creek don't rise", and note the capital C on Creek. This is nothing to do with travel disruption during heavy rain, this is a reference to the Creek Nation and the possibility of ambush to the wagon trains.

Some wag at the time varied this into a distinctly literary "Beware of Creeks bearing gifts" as a warning to the settlers, and this became a regular jokey aphorism or proverb for generations of mid-Western Americans. His joke was the one-letter shift he'd applied to the far older "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts", a reference to "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" - "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts" - which is said in Virgil's Aeneid by Laocoon when the Greeks presented the Trojans with a large wooden horse. The Greeks, you'll remember, infiltrated the defenses of Troy by offering mock conciliatory friendship in this way to lower the Trojans' guard, and then slaughtered the inhabitants. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, indeed.

Nought from the Greeks towards me hath sped well.

So now I find that ancient proverb true,

Foes' gifts are no gifts: profit bring they none.

This has been a public service announcement on behalf of Internet Safe Practices Inc.

Posted: **Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:17 am**

No idea what you're on about, Spot, but I'm blonde. Happy Birthday, Koan - from another Virgo!

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:36 am**

AussiePam;695265 wrote: No idea what you're on about, Spot, but I'm blonde. Happy Birthday, Koan - from another Virgo! I don't think spot knows what spots on about either. I know I don't. Viva la Virgo, lest they rule the world some day!

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:52 am**

YZGI;693514 wrote: Happy 50th birthday koan. Don't worry 50 is the new, well it's still 50.:wah:
I guess I should clarify this. Koan did not turn 50. It was a joke. I thought she might defend herself but obviously didn't feel the need.

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:26 pm**

double helix;695546 wrote: I don't think spot knows what spots on about either. I know I don't. Viva la Virgo, lest they rule the world some day!

Virgo's cant rule the world they are too cautious:wah:

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:59 pm**

YZGI;695670 wrote: I guess I should clarify this. Koan did not turn 50. It was a joke. I thought she might defend herself but obviously didn't feel the need.

:wah:

nope.

btw, everyone... my birthday is over

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:02 pm**

I was starting to think that you might be 50 years old by the time this thread dies!!:wah::wah:

I think you just have another piece of cake just because!:)