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  1. No butt kissery but to celebrate your birthday on the eve of the REAL big day (the annual Iowa – Iowa State Football Game) here’s a joke for you…
    A first grade teacher explains to her class that she is a Cyclone fan. She asks her students to raise their hands if they are fans too. Not really knowing what a Cyclone fan was, but wanting to be liked by their teacher, their hands fly into the air. There is however one exception. A little girl named Stacy has not gone along with the crowd.
    The teacher asks her why she has decided to be different.
    “Because I’m not a Cyclone fan” she reports.
    “Then what are you?”, asks the teacher,
    “I’m a proud “Hawkeye” boasts the little girl .
    The teacher is a little perturbed now, her face slightly red. She asks Stacy why she is a Hawkeye fan.
    “Well, my Dad and Mom are Hawkeye fans, so I’m a Hawkeye fan too”, she responds.
    The teacher is angry now “That’s no reason,” she says loudly. “What if your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot. What would you be then?”
    Stacy smiles and says, “Then I’d be a Cyclone fan.”

  2. Happy Birthday, Harvey! And happy birthday, Jeenius! I can only hope that my daughter (who turns 1 today) can grow up to be as cool as you. Now I must go, for we are having steak for her birthday supper and I must start the marinating.

  3. “On the bright side, its only four more days until International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrgh!”
    While I commend your enthusiasm for the holiday, TLAPD is Sept 19. Remember that your hook only counts as one and not five. Arrrrrr.

  4. Obsequious, eh? Try this.
    On this day, we celebrate wildly for without your birth our lives would be as cold, dead ashes in a gutter filled with rotting leaves and some other gunky stuff that has worms swimming in it if you look at it under a microscope.
    With you, there’s not so many of those wormy doodads.
    How was that?

  5. Well, I would wish you happy birthday, but since you actually post here, I’ll bet U are anti-abortion and believe that “life begins at conception”. At that rate, you will be one year older than the number on your drivers license and that won’t happen for another 3 months. HAPPY BIRTHDAY anyway.

  6. Actually, anonymous commenter, I’m not a pro-life religious conservative. I’m a hawkish Libertarian atheist.
    As for my views on abortion, I believe that the government’s obligation to protect the unborn’s individual rights MAY (but not necessarily MUST) begin to outweigh an adult female’s right to do whatever the hell she wants to with her own body sometime around the point of viability i.e. about 6 months.
    I look at it this way: the dividing line between a miscarriage and a stillbirth is a pretty good dividing line between legal and illegal abortion.
    Anyway, my point is – you lost the bet.

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