Happy Birthday vifferman!

**vifferman** · 24th December 2008, 08:25

Thanks very much everyone!

Originally Posted by Trudes

Hey happy 100th you old fart!

Hope you have a lovely birthday and the vifferbabe spoils you rotten!

I'm not really 100 (close though...)
The vifferbabe started the day by telling me off, because I had a shit night's sleep, due to serious toothache, so I wasn't happy when I woke up. At 12:05am, and at 5am...

Originally Posted by Maha

Happy Birthday Viff...my god you were almost Jesus! Fa La La La Laaaaa.

Originally Posted by martybabe

Happy Birthday VMAN, almost the same Birthday as baby Jebus. Have a bloody startling one Ian.

In fact, historical and other data suggests that Jesus was probably born in October. The December thing is just a transmogrification of the pagan Yuletide / Winter Solstice celebrations.
But you knew that...

Originally Posted by Okey Dokey

Do you get separate birthday/Christmas presents, or do you have to settle for a combination Christmas & birthday gift?

Sometimes separate, sometimes combined, and (lately) pretty much none.
This time I got a rude t-shirt from #1Son, emphasising my oldness, and a trial microlight flight voucher from the vifferbabe.

Originally Posted by MadDuck

Happy birthday Vifferman

So the party starts this morning and goes until midnight tomorrow????

Heh - that'd be fun! No parties for me.

The vifferbabe did ask if I wanted a big...uh... demicentennial... celebration... but I couldn't be bothered. Besides, it'd be no fun with just me, her, and #1 Son (the other two are buggering off to a BBQ this afternoon), and I don't exactly have bazillions of friends. Surprising, huh?

No, I'm at work now, then tomorrow'll be rather hectic, as we have to conjure up Christmas dinner before rushing off to the airport to fly to San Francisco.

**vifferman** · 24th December 2008, 09:06

Come and help yourself - it's in the kitchen, and it's chock full of chocolatey goodness.

**Ocean1** · 24th December 2008, 09:26

Happy bithday mate, and ignore all the above ageist bullshit.

You only need to worry when you start to forget names.

And then faces.

And fergitting to zip up yer fly.

ANd then fergitting to unzip yer fly.

Originally Posted by vifferman

rushing off to the airport to fly to San Francisco.

Cool.

Union Square, Macey's, Cheesecake Factory, Gumbo.

**racerhead** · 24th December 2008, 09:32

Originally Posted by vifferman

Come and help yourself - it's in the kitchen, and it's chock full of chocolatey goodness.

Yummy, cant beat some chocolate cake

Happy birthday

**vifferman** · 24th December 2008, 09:37

Originally Posted by Ocean1

Happy bithday mate, and ignore all the above ageist bullshit.

Thanks Mark!

Originally Posted by Ocean1

You only need to worry when you start to forget names.

And then faces.

And fergitting to zip up yer fly.

ANd then fergitting to unzip yer fly.

That sounds almost Eggs Zachary like the t-shirt #1 Son had printed - did you put him up to it?

Originally Posted by Ocean1

Union Square, Macey's, Cheesecake Factory, Gumbo.

Ahh! That reminds me - last time we went to SF (two years ago yesterday!), there was a guy on the Mrkn VFR forum who worked in the Cheescake Factory who said to visit him. Wunner if he still works there....

This time we're gunna do all the things we forgot or didn't know about last time: Knob Hill, Chinatown (only skirted the edge of it last time, but our hotel is next to the gates), MOMA, Golden Gate Park (we were right next to it, and didn't know it was there!!), mebbe Alcatraz, and mebbe some festive... nocturnal activity

... (difficult when sharing a room with one of the troglodytes every night).

**jrandom** · 24th December 2008, 09:40

Happy birthday dude.

Have fun in F-F-F-F-Frisssco!

Originally Posted by vifferman

Knob Hill

Hur. Hur. Hur.

**vifferman** · 24th December 2008, 09:42

Originally Posted by jrandom

Happy birthday dude.

Have fun in F-F-F-F-Frisssco!

Thanks! Have a great Xmas (everyone else too!!)

Weird looking taco....

Seems a bit overcooked....

**MotoGirl** · 24th December 2008, 09:50

Hope you had a goodie, Ian!

**MyGSXF:Me** · 24th December 2008, 09:56

Happy Birthday Vman..

have an awesome trip away!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Hitcher** · 24th December 2008, 09:58

Birthday cake that doubles as Christmas cake? Where's the justice?

Have a great day Monsieur Viff.

**Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)** · 24th December 2008, 10:06

Have an awesome birthday - and a great trip away - I'll just settle for riding around the east cape and camping lol.

**vifferman** · 24th December 2008, 10:08

Thanks Adele - very pretty!

Thanks MyGSXF! I'll try to - just hope my brain behaves. If I stay semi-inebriated most of the time, I should be OK.

Thanks BMW! Enjoy your trip!

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Birthday cake that doubles as Christmas cake? Where's the justice?

Have a great day Monsieur Viff.

Thanks Brett. In this case, the birthday cake is doubling as a birthday cake (taking any leftovers home, since the fambily didn't bother with one),

Heh... #1 Son wanted me to buy the Frankensteinian Meatcreation they made at work for Xmas: the Turducken.
They boned a turkey, stuffed it with cranberry stuffing and a boned duck, which they stuffed with chestnut and summat stuffing and a boned chicken, which they stuffed with sage and onion stuffing (no quails left in stock).
They dreamed up the ultimate extension of this, which involved a lamb, goat, pig, cow, camel, hippo, and elephant, which were mostly not in stock.
So, they refined their Turducken in when they sold the other one, and left the turkey's wings and drumsticks on, then the duck's head and neck, which they then stuck out of the turkey's sutured-up neck hole for a bizarre appearance.