Thanks to everyone who has sent me birthday wishes today--and especially to Dr. Weevil, who pointed out to me that I share a birthday with Donald Rumsfeld, who is seventy. I didn't know about this until the good Doc mentioned it. I also didn't know I shared it with O.J. Simpson, who is 55. (I had to find that one out myself.)

Imagine if we all got together for a birthday party--O.J. would be clowning around with the knife and comparing the cake to "a certain person," Rummy would be over in the corner with some Delta guys arranging his own little hunt for "the real killer," and I would be trying to get everyone to sit down and be quiet so I could tell the telemarketing guy to quit calling at suppertime, and O.J. would get all nervous and think I was calling 911 and get all up in my face. I hate it when he does that. Then Sue Lizano's mom would come in and smack the crap out of him and tell him to get his #$%^(@) out of the house.

Yep, it would be quite the party.

Anyway, many thanks again, and a reminder that the free ice cream cones will be 27% smaller tomorrow, due to my having to shuffle large stacks of paper around and look the part of an officiously self-important bumblecrat. Wheeeee!
posted by Terry at 4:52:00 PM