Loading ...Yeppers, today is Bas’ birthday, and you know what happens now. First I have to say that, though we’ve never met in person, I feel very close to you and I think I can truly call you a friend. Over the past year through the whole Katrina mess you’ve been supportive and wonderful. You’ve given me encouragement and laughter and it would have been a very different experience without your care and friendship. I can’t tell you how much it means to have good friends like you in times of crisis and in the good times too, and I can’t thank you enough for being there for me.
And of course, we have to do the “today in history” thing, never forgetting that the best thing to happen on Oct 2, happened 40 years ago when Bas was born. But other stuff happened too.
Pope Urban IV died for one thing (I had to kick things off with a pope, you know?)
Yom Kippur is today. Folk’s’ll be fasting and praying and tossing goats off of cliffs. I hope you’ll do something more exciting than that. Well, okay, the goat tossing could be interesting. Its kind of like cow-flinging, but without the catapult.
You share a birthday with King Richard III, Paul von Hindenburg, and Mahatma Gandhi. You just can’t beat sharing a birthday with Gandhi. (I share one with Prince William - but that just doesn’t even touch Gandhi)
You’re a musician and a lot of musicians share your birthday, greats like Don McLean, Alice Prin, Richard Hell (Yes, I am a fan of the Voidoids), Sting, Phil Oakey of the Human League, James Root of Slipknot, and probably most notably, Tiffany. You’re in some fine company there.
Saladin captured Jerusalem today. Well not today, but today in 1187. They were so busy with that goat they didn’t see’im coming.
Today in 1937, Sam Caldwell was the first guy in the US to be arrested for possession of marijuana. And its just gone downhill from there folks.
Today is the anniversary of the comic strip The Peanuts, first published in 1950. Happy birthday, Charlie Brown.
Opus Dei was founded this day in 1928.
And here I thought the marijuana charge was bad.
Well despite the Opus Dei, the marijuana arrests and the Peanuts, I hope you have a very happy birthday. I send you love, hugs, Voidoids, and lots of birthday wishes. Toss a goat for me!
(cue the dutch goat noise)
Buy me a beer!
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Dutch goats seem like they would be funny… do they wear different bells or something than US goats do? Do they sound more Dutchy? Today at least, ALL of them should stay away from cliffs, regardless of national origin.
Happy birthday, Bas! You’re in some great company there for birthdays. I’m afraid I can’t claim quite the same company. I do like that my birthday is the same as Agnes Moorehead’s, though. I did so love her on “Bewitched”.
I also share a birthday with King Willem II Frederik of the Netherlands as well as Dutch tennis player Richard Krajicek.
I can’t compete with Ganhdi, though. That’s a good one. He may be outdone only by Tiffany (I hope the Dutch escaped that phase of ‘music’ in the US).
Have a great birthday, Bas.
Ohh Che… You got me all weak in the knees now.. Pearly droplets in the corners of my eyes.. Thank you!
As for Gandhi.. I can’t think of anyone i’d like to share a birthday with more then Gandhi. I didn’t know that. He has always been my hero.
I LOVE Richard Hell & the Voidoids!!! Hell, and i’ve only got this one 7″ to prove it… ‘The kid with the replaceable head’
Phil Oakey makes me melt. ‘Hello Louise’ is one of my all time favourites.
King Richard III bless him!
And for the rest.. Blimey! Busy day!
Ahh and thank you dear Mojo! And i have to say Krajicek must be of good eastern neighborly decent, given his name… The Dutch are excellent in importing the ‘good stuff’. Hence free use of marijuana here! ALthough we grow that ourselfs now. Hell.. I’ve been to parties where they handed out binliners filled with the stuff. Grrreat parties indeed…
This is growing into a travel add, isn’t it?!
Suffice to say that Dutch goats utter: ‘Meeeeeh’.
And.. Hmm.. Yeah Tiffany triggers a blurred recollection here. I must have tossed here of a cliff years ago. But she initially did make it ashore. She never got to lay down on my turntable though..
Wow! Need a beer now.
Thank you both; love you Che!
Bas you also share a birthday with a coworker of mine, but as she is just a co-worker, I can’t say that it is amazing that you share a birthday. She’s very smart, though. That’s something I guess.
And I love that they had binliners with the stuff. In the states, we have trash bags.
Happy birthday, Gandhi co-birthdayer!
Only 1 view? Something must be wrong with the counter
I hope you had a great birthday Bas, and what a great idea - tossing Tiffany off a cliff. Why I didn’t think of that is beyond me.
I was probably too busy pondering the drawbacks of wearing an iron mask.
I share a birthday with Sartre, as well as Prince William. Gotta love Sartre. Pope Leo IX was born on my birthday. Another Pope. Machiavelli died on my birthday. And of course Increase Mather, my favourite puritan ever, was born on my birthday.
Well, considering there are four comments (now five) on the post, I’m thinking the view-counter has gone nuts.
Ah, great… just rubbed cayenne pepper in my eye… gotta go now.
Thanks Richard! And.. Ehh.. I always had a soft spot for intelligent co-workers, so… Honoured!
Snorting cayenne now Che? Careful! You’ll get rust on the Saintly halo! (Not to mention the iron mask…
Sartre is an absolute brilliant birthday-sharer! ‘Les Jeux sont fait’ is a beautiful book.
OK… Now let’s work on that counter… Mmm..
Sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll, blender, free money, free sex, free drugs, free love, free hammer, free blender, free callipygian, free chocolate, bitter-sweet chocolate, chocolate sextoys, world peace… kalipygian, calligigan, calipygian, kalipygian, calipugian?
Or… Should i just mention i’m trying out Firefox now?!
I cannot believe that Bas’ conversion from IE to Firefox has gone uncommented. Surely this was one of the three miracles needed to elevate Che from mere pope to saint!!
Thats because I don’t believe it. But I’ll check my stats logs to see if my sole dutch reader has truly made the switch. Then we’ll count it as a miracle.
Of course, if you’ve already been elevated, then the miracle can go to someone else. Can Bas claim his own conversion as a miracle that he created? Isn’t that conflict of interest? Surely there is some arcane Catholic text (or catholic text) that covers self beatification.
Yeah but we’re not catholic. Let’im beatify himself, dammit.
We really only go to church for the chocolate, you know.
Self-beatification it is then. We’ll have a church of saints.
I’ll even skip the miracles and declare myself the patron saint of Gods! And of comic books because I love them.
Bas can be the patron saint of animal noises and Firefox converts.
He’ll also be the patron saint of page counters that don’t work, because his birthday page is the ONLY page where the counter doesn’t work. I feel it has to be his fault somehow.
That is Bas’ second miracle — counters that don’t work. One more and he is a Saint!! Just one more!
Come on Bas! Give us a miracle!
The Saints won the superbowl… raaaaaahhhhh!
Just checking to see if my miracle, making the Shattered Prayer entirely italicized works everywhere I post.
Nope. I am only partly miraculous!
Thank goodness.
I hate to comment.. sorry comment the fact that the counter froze when i started using Firefox?!
Stigmatic behaviour if you ask me… I like the tabs thing very much by the way. Colors are shit. It’s got a build in gamma correction. Must be 0.7 or something. But now i understand why people couldn’t read some of MY webpages!
He, he… Check your logs, Che? What happened to the All Seeing Eye?
I really don’t check my logs very often. Its not like I don’t know who reads this blog. Bas, R the P and JtO (aka Mojo). I don’t really have to go sifting through pages of dull charts and graphs to figure that one out.
I prefer SeaMonkey for colours, but it doesn’t seem to want to install on this computer. The tabs are great. They’re even better with tab-mix plus. I also use perma tab for my Gmail and my Netvibes.
Che, what you must know about Sony computers is that they have their own Sony software for colors, graphics, sound processing, etc. They do not, repeat, do NOT like you using non-Sony software. Why would you? They’re perfect, right?
So, the only Sea Monkey you’re likely to get going on that machine is a video of some kid’s brine shrimp collection. Good luck!
BTW, who makes this tab-mix plus? I’m intrigued…
Ah sea-monkeys, every child’s first real disappointment. They look nothing like they do in the illustrations. You’d wonder why anyone would name software after it - this software is a disappointment.
Well its more honest than Microsoft anyway.
Tab-mix plus! Its a Firefox extension that greatly enhances your tabbing pleasure. Can’t do without it. It can be downloaded directly into firefox from here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/
Also, perma tabs is a nifty program that keeps one or more of your tabs permanent. its handy for bumbling oafs like me who are always closing tabs by accident. The important ones I just make permanent. it can be found here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2558/
Surely, someone else must check this blog. We don’t look at it 387 times.
(Yes, you do, and don’t call me Shirley)
I was so tempted to use my power of italics, but I resisted.
Well this page has only been visited once, even though there are 25 comments, so you never know.
I think readers get drawn in by the blender, then frightened off by the rampant popes, the animal noises, and the hammers in the butt.
Feel free to use italics, but if you screw up and I have to go in the back end (hehe…
to fix it, I’ll … I’ll… well I’m not going to do anything am I? So go ahead.
Hah! I think we’re not qualified counter raisers anymore… We’re part of the system now… Very Matrix.
Mmm.. Can you have bold BOLD here? And underline underline??
Merry Chocolate my popenesses.
I was never a qualified counter raiser anyway. I’ve banned my own IP from being read by the counter. I don’t want my counter counting ME. But everyone else is a counter raiser - its just the script on this page I guess.