Hosting a party for my father’s 70th, so I have a ton of preparations to do. I’ll check in when I can.
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Hosting a party for my father’s 70th, so I have a ton of preparations to do. I’ll check in when I can.
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SFAW
Happy Birthday to your Father!
Too bad his kid turned out so messed up, what with bein’ a blogger and all.
merrinc
Happy Birthday, Mr. Cole! I hope you get a clean debt ceiling hike as a gift.
ruemara
Happy Birthday, Cole Sire! You can leave us with the blog. We won’t burn it down. Much.
PurpleGirl
Happy Birthday to Mr. Cole. I hope he has a very good day and the party is a smashing success.
JPL
How nice. Have a wonderful party and give your dad lots of birthday hugs from us.
murbella
Did you miss this Cole?
US formally recognizes rebel government
better put your obama-concerntroll pants back on.
c u n d gulag
John,
Happy Birthday to your Dad!!!
As we say in Russian – “Mnogaya Lyeta!” Literally – ‘Many years.’ I’d translate it into ‘Many, many, happy returns.’
David Hunt
Happy Birthday wishes to your father.
SiubhanDuinne
Best birthday wishes and hugs to your dad on his 70th. Is his actual birthday today? Cause if so, that makes him the fourth person of my acquaintance born on St. Swithin’s Day.
cbear
Happy b-day to Pops Cole.
You’re a good son, John.
kindness
Happy Birthday Dad.
Give him a drink from each one of us but cut him off after a dozen.
gogol's wife
Happy birthday to Mr. Cole. I hope Ginny and Guesly are included in the fun. “Oh, my God!”
Halteclere
July 15th is a good day for a birthday. Happy birthday to your dad! My daughter will be born will be born today – at 2:30 (give or take a few minutes depending on the competency of the epidural injection).
Tommy D
Just celebrated my 70th. Collegial happy birthday to another man in his prime.
Violet
Happy Birthday, Mr. Cole! Have a wonderful party. Are Lily, Rosie and Tunch going to be wearing party hats? Pictures please!
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
Hoist your glasses, you lot:
Happy Birthday to King Cole! LONG LIVE THE KING!
Dee Loralei
Happy Birthday Mr Cole!
And to baby girl Haltclere! Congrats daddy!
mr. whipple
Party Like It’s 1941!
Paul in KY
Best Wishes to Mr. Cole & a happy Birthday to Tommy D as well.
Yutsano
Oto-san ga o-tanyoobi o omedeto gozaimasu!
(I think I mangled the grammar there a bit :)
Josie
Happy Birthday to Mr. Cole. John, you are lucky to have him close so you can host his party. What a good boy you are.
Felanius Kootea
Happy birthday Papa Cole!
Swishalicious
Happy birthday, Father of Cole!
JGabriel
Happy Birthday, Father Cole!
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geg6
A very happy birthday to Pere Cole. And many more!
dan
Take away his Medicare.
TaMara (BHF)
@13 Halteclere: Wow, commenting from labor and delivery, now that’s some dedication. Hope we’ll get to see pictures. May your day be blessed and as easy as it can be.
Also, too: Happy Birthday Senior Cole – may Ginny and Guesly stay off the furniture in celebration.
donnah
Happy Birthday to your dad, John. My dad will turn 80 in October and it seems shocking to me. In my mind, he’s always locked in his mid-sixties and will never get older. I know that’s irrational, but that’s how it feels. He doesn’t seem old to me.
Have a great party!
Ann Marie
Best wishes to your father! He is fortunate in his family.
LGRooney
c u n d gulag, #7: Wouldn’t that be, literally, ‘Many summers’ since many years would be ‘Mnogo let?’ Or is that some drevnorusskaya construct, let v. god, of which I am unaware?
In any event…
Anyone else have the feeling that Clarence Thomas is laughing hysterically through all of this deficit talk since we all seem to have forgotten the depth of his corruption?
jeffreyw
Happy Birthday Mr Cole.
Let us give Thanks…Ramen
LGRooney
Oh, I forgot the seemingly obligatory
ass kissingbirthday wishing for the blogmaster’s father.Happy birthday! You’re still a pup, mine will hit 83 in November.
Brachiator
I admire David Cay Johnston’s apology for his erroneous story on Rupert Murdoch’s federal taxes,
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2011/07/david-cay.html
Brachiator
And Happy Birthday, Mr Cole
gogol's wife
#30: It is a phrase from Old Church Slavonic. But modern Russian also has a plural “leta” meaning years, and the genitive plural of year, “god,” is “let.”
scav
Happy Birthday to Old King Cole, that merry old soul.
Linda Featheringill
halteclere #13
M
Wonderful! A long and happy life!
HRA
Happy Birthday to Mr. Cole and all who celebrate.
LGRooney
#35, ‘let’ is itself the genitive plural of ‘god’ so ‘leta’ would be the plural form of the OCS word ‘let’ which came to mean only summer in early-modern Russian by adding the neuter suffix -o.
gogol's wife
#39: I think we’re saying the same thing. The OCS word for year has survived in modern Russian but only in the plural (in certain meanings) and in the genitive plural of “god.” And the word for summer is related. Or something like that!
LGRooney
If you’re saying that лета is the plural of summer, then, yes, we are saying the same thing. ;-)
gogol's wife
#41, yes it is, but there are also current expressions where leta is a plural of year. I’m leaving for a trip so don’t have time to specify!
schrodinger's cat
@jeffreyw We can has Homer? How is our kitteh?
jeffreyw
@schrodinger’s cat: Homer is fine, no recent pics.. Seems there is a thing called cat acne that causes black spots on the chin, he was showing that, as were the other two. Seems stainless food/water bowls are called for, as plastic harbors the acne germs. Ordered.
TaMara (BHF)
JeffreyW: Also, tea tree oil rubbed on the acne makes it go away pretty quickly and alleviates any infection. Just cleared up a nasty bout of of it with one of mine. And I have ceramic dishes, so no idea how or why he got such a bad case of it.
Tsulagi
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!
Zum Geburtstag liebe alter Furz
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!
Just kidding, Happy Birthday! to your Dad. And may his next 70 be even better.
Paul in KY
Betadine is also a great antiseptic (for cats or people). It’s that orange stuff they swab all over you before/after an operation.
Cris (without an H)
I can’t wait to find out how many toy weasels August J. Pollak receives.
harlana
Very best to your dad on his birthday! It’s a good thing (bad thing?) he’s attached, I hear that Sarah is a real cougar. :)
AliceBlue
Many happy returns of the day to your dad. Hope the party is a ton o’ fun!
Valdivia
Happy birthday to John’s Dad!
Halteclere
Baby Margaret (Maggie) and mom are doing well. Maggie was born at 3:36pm, weighing 7lbs 5oz.
But then tonight I spent over two hours getting our 2-year old to go to sleep. I’ve been the one to bathe him, read to him, and tuck him in for the past year, but tonight he decided he must have his mommy. Fun, fun.