Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Be sure to check in next year!
Happiest of Birthdays Lex! It’s just a number…
Happy Birthday, youngster… er…. Sir….
Grecian formula inbound – works on facial hair too. Many more b-days to ya.
Happppppy Birthday! Just think, Lex, next year you will officially “scream” speedily into early geezer-hood. Too bad I won’t be there to welcome you into the club, because by then I’ll be 66 and transitioning into early Fossil-hood.
)
(But of course since 60 is now the “new 40″ and 70 the “new 50″ I guess next year will put you back in your 30s!
The question still remains, at what age does one become a codger? We now have your authoritative opinion on the start of geezerdom, but when does codgerdom begin?
QM/
Codgers are embittered Geezers or Fossils. (I guess that would make me a CGFer–being that I’m in the “transition” stage.
And while “Geezer Power!” is a great slogan, somehow “Fossil Power!” doesn’t quite get it. Maybe I’ll pull a Jack Benny and just stay a Geezer. 
I guess at 64 I’m in my mid-geezerhood years. The real tough thing is having the mind and emotions of an eighteen year old stuck firmly in the body of a 64 year old geezer.
I’ve been 39 for, let’s see,–, going on 31 years now. Doesn’t hurt a bit.
But of course since 60 is now the “new 40″…
My ass. It’s still OLD, no matter what the frickin’ Boomers say. And you know I know what I’m talkin’ about, given you’re my senior by mere months, VX.
Happy B’day. Having crossed the threshold I can attest 50 ain’t fatal but enjoy your last year under the milestone with vigor.
You really are a pup, aren’t ya? Happy Birthday to a Good Man.
Subsunk
Happy Birthday, Lex!
You are getting up there, aren’t you?
Happy Birtheday, Lex!
Adding the years is not all that bad — there are many more yet to come.
And here is a special rendition for someone who is very familiar with “cats”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG76k4vClXI
I would say that adding the years in the manner Lex has done today is … creative and speaks volumes about the mindset of our host. Which isn’t a bad thing.
Happy Birthday Lex …As an old OLD friend of yours, I can assure you that you are in your prime, you sweet kind man, and that the fun is just beginning. So many new things to learn to do, so many new things to learn to be. You may lose some things, like perfect balance and the ability to run a three minute mile, but you’ll continue to gain in intellectual understanding and friends who love you …
It’s a trade-off. But a good one.
Fondly, Marianne
Happy Birthday!
Feh. Let him eat cake.
Bruce/
Great site–how’d you find it?
VX
Please note that the recipe only requires one cup of Guinness. Thus leaving the recipeer the other 5.5 cups. Sounds like a fair trade.
concur. Redhead, pastry recipes and photos, and a quote from an old friend to boot?
“To enjoy the flower of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.” — Robert Heinlein
Lex, best wishes for this, yet but another day. The trick is to continue stringing them together without gaps.
1911 + 4? Wow…old fart, ain’t ya?
Sheesh…just a kid! Happy B-Day, Lex, and many more in health and happiness!
Happy birthday, jump out of a plane, feel the wind in what remains of your hair and blow a few cobwebs away. However, this might be a little on the advanced side: Catching that connecting flight .
You’ll be 60 before you know it. I speak from experience. I retired at your current age and it seems like last week.
Now that SNO is gone, give me a holler if you need someone to go to the gun range.
Happy Birthday, Lex! Sorry I have no witty or wise advice for you. Sometimes one just gets older. Oh! And more forgetful.
Enjoy and pay close attention, ’cause as Paul B said, the time really does fly by.
Happy Birthday Lex! MANY happy returns!
Hey, on the bright side, at least you’ll have a cool weapon to post next year!
I’m just wondering whether it’ll be Ma Deuce or the Desert Eagle in .50 AE
I believe codgerhood requires screaming, “Back in my day…” while you chase kids off the porch with a broom.
Lex, if FedEx delivers a long, skinny package, don’t answer the door.
Durn, I was hoping for a Hillary Swank…
Hmmmm – tastes are changing with age apparently. I remember not too long ago that it would have been Scarlett Johnassen or Jessica Simpson.
Yeah, but the package requirements called for long and skinny…
Have a happy one. Take the rest of the day off!
Just wait until the AARP solicitations start flooding your mailbox.
Hmmmm….
1911+4 = 1915
2009-1915 = 94.
You haven’t aged a day.
I got silly hammered on my 30th, as I thought I’d never reach 40…I got seriously hammered on my 40th as I felt the same way about 50. When I reached 50, I ate some oatmeal, some orange juice and took my vitamins, seeing how I’d finally reached the unachievable, and I might just see 60
Happy Birthday, Lex!
Be happy! 9MM + 4 only = 13!
Oh … um … it’s a 45 .. sorry.
It could be a modified Browning Hipower and not an 1911.
What’s that saying, “If I knew I’d live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.”?
Have a happy one.
Ah hell, the half century mark ain’t so bad. George Burns did a whole century and knocked back a sizable quantity of his favorite beverage daily, so what’s to worry?
Am I to understand that the line forms at the rear for delivery of the traditional birthday
paddlingcongratulations?Happy Birthday to ya, Lex!
Ohhh, to be in the half century neighborhood again! Happy Birthday, Lex… and so many returns that you’ll need a larger caliber; much larger!!!
Happy Birthday, Capt. Lex. As has been said above, it’s only a number (he said, looking up the hill about a year and a half.)
And by the way, the Germans are celebrating today.
http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20091109/4af7afe0_3426_13350200911091941340417
Too bad President Reagan couldn’t be there.
Happy Birthday!
I thot you wuz younger than me??? Someone’s math is off. Or senile memory, more like it.
Buono compleano!
Happy Birthday, Lex!
Many happy returns.
Things aren’t ALL bad. Hey, I turn 234 in the morning.
Semper Fi!
Happy Birthday puppy. I’ll have a glass of straight gin in your honor this evening but can’t go as far as garnishing it with a cuke. I’ll stick to lemmon peel. Playing the Old Course at The Homestead tomorrow. Hop a jet and come along. Boss.
Make sure it’s Bombay Saphirre, Boss
Byron, it’s not exactly Saphirre due to the high cost of everything here in the Virginia controlled stores. I have sampled Sapphirre before in Panama and agree that you have an excellent taste for gin. Perhaps when the wife and I go to DC for the terricota warior exebition at the end of the month, I can slip over to Bolling AFB and get some quality gin at a resonable price. I will be happy to share with any and all visiting the area.
I dunno, Guys. I guess I’m old school, but I always went for Tanqueray for Martinis as was so smooth and lacking in bite and moderately priced as well; while I’m a Beef-Eater guy for G & Ts precisely because of “bite” and juniper taste (few modern Gins use juniper berries anymore, btw, except for REALLY expensive ones, so Beefeaters is great value for $) I just think there is a law of diminishing returns in terms of taste once one goes up the price scale to some of the newer, more exotic brands.
Good Grief. I remember when you posted just the .45. Now there is a lot of ammo to go with it.
Happy Birthday!
Your advancing age reminds me of the gent who went to apply for Social Security. When asked for his ID as proof of age, he remembered he had left it in the car. Thats OK said the clerk, just open your shirt. After observing the greying of his chest curlies, the clerk took that as proof of his age and completed the paperwork.
When he arrived home, he relayed the story to his wife who only shook her head in dismay. When asked what was wrong she replied: “Why the heck didn’t you drop your drawers? You could have qualified for disability.”
I’t won’t be long before you’re applying Lex. Just remember to wear clean scivies just in case.
“Clean skivvies?” Those count? So THAT’s why they turned me down for my disability!
Just a thought…skid marks on skivvies will sink you every time. Best
Many happy returns Lex. Each is just one day closer to seeing Him as He is.
Happy Birthday Lex!
I’m only a couple of rounds behind but I feel your pain. Happy birthday!
Birthday greetings, Lex! Party like you want to wake up in the morning without a hangover, if that’s possible for a jet jock to do. (snicker)
Many happy returns, and may you have MANY more to come. Besides, you’re still a younster yet — no grandkids to make you feel really old and really young at the same time.
SNO will fix the lack of grandkids problem soon enough.
Happy birthday, Lex! A glass is charged with Booker’s Straight Bourbon (Batch No C02-A018, 63.45% / 126.9 Proof).
Held high towards Sandy Eggo in your honor.
Sip bourbon!
Two!
[Your just a bit older than my wife and she was too young for me.]
Happy Birthday Lex. And many more, healthy, wealthy and wise.
A lesser man/writer would have just written, I turned 49 and next year is gonna be worse. Only you, (and another reason I check here all the time) would think to use a 45, 4 rounds and Munch’s most famous painting. Great job
Happy Birthday again and keep it coming.
Happy Birthday, Noble Sir, and many more to come!
*heeheehee* Neat word-picture.
Happy Birthday! Like a fine wine, may it all get better with age.
Now is the time to reflect.
Was there a birthday anniversary that went uncelebrated?
Perhaps the forty-fifth, as an example, was so unwanted it was ignored?
Well starting next year, you can make up for that by celebrating the 45th properly, if out of sequence.
If it is a hit, keep celebrating it year after year. If it lacks something, perhaps add a number for next year until you find the right resonance between birthdays gone by and birthdays celebrated.
Happy Birthday, Lex
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. Good to know you take that advice to heart
Happy Birthday Lex!
Found a bottle of Guinness in the fridge and a Guinness glass in the
cupboard. Am hoisting in your Honor.
Cheers!
Kent
Hope you are having a relaxing Birthday with Guinness in both hands!
get yourself a full magazine and report back here!
Isn’t it grand to have kids?
I’ve only got the one but not only is she cute as a button she’s as smart as Einstein (she’s six so we can still compare and contrast with some wriggle room). Aging without kids would probably suck, a lot.
Happy birthday. Look at the young ones, ogle the wife and be merry. You sir, have a universe under your roof. Lucky B(^(^^%d!
hope you have a picture of Ma Deuce handy….. i hit that this year, but since i didn’t hit the lottery too, i still don’t own one.
happy happy joy joy!