I love how you consider your birthday to be a "Global Issue."

I got this package in the mail the other day -- I could already be a millionaire!  But now I feel sorry for you, so I will send it your way.  You may already be a millionaire!

aaah, graham

Do you really only consider monetary measures of wealth?

Do you accept cheques that bounce?  It is the thought that counts.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

TL

Do you take airmiles in lieu? happy birthday.

happy belated, graham.

hope you had a good day

i have this awesome coupon for 10 bucks of the purchase of your next sea king helicopter.  its all yours, my friend!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

happy birthday graeme *raises a wondertini*

Isn't $10 about all a seaking is worth these days?

It's sad to see the lack of focus and gravity in these posts.

I found a turnip you can have.  I'll stick a bow on it and send it your way.

Many happy returns and a great year ahead, Graeme!

Happy birthday to graeme (and pleased to meet you as well).

The everyone birthday is an all celebration, is it not?

graeme , here it is ! 50.00 off at Mark's WearHouse ( You only have to spend 100.00 of your own money.

Happy Birthday and many more - I'll throw in my Canadian Tire money!!!!!!

You can have my only-slightly-used REALD 3D-glasses pair.

I got them when I went to see the hit movie "Up."

They're a collectors item.

Or at least they will be.

Someday.

Well Aquatarius made a try. But it's hard to think of a use for 3D glasses when there are no 3D movies to look at.

Hey Graeme, I just had my birthday, and one of the nice things tucked in a card for me was a ticket with a code on it so I can enter a contest and win $50000 from Home Depot.  I could send you that. 

Happy happy birthday

come on, its a sea king helicopter.  lack of gravity is practically mandatory for those things.

Birthstone - good idea, but skip the middleman. Send me the 500000. it's the same postage.

Graeme - would you like my birthday letter from Greenvillage entitling me to $10 off my next purchase of $30 or more of garden plants? 

Seriously, I've marked your birthday on my 2010 calendar so I'll be first to acknowledge it (virtually) that day.  Happy belated birthday. 

ps   You've indicated before that you and I are from the same decade.  Haven't you noticed that most invitations for celebrations for people our age have a little note:  No Gifts Please.  We're supposed to have accumulated enough to last us out.  How about I make a donation to the food bank and send them my $10 off letter?

What about G-Force? Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

There are others coming soon.

seeler - don't try to make me feel guilty. I want gifts, and blatantly, boorishly expensive ones.

graeme, I think this is the wrong crowd you're hanging with.

obviously. They have no sense of obligation to one's fellow man.

I don't know how I missed this momentous event.  Where was the front page story on the Globe and Mail?  The lead story on the National?  What is this world coming to when important historical events are lost and forgotten?  A sad commentary on where this world is going.  I am appalled.

Since no gift could ever be adequate compensation for such an oversight, I will take the next year to come up with something suitable for such an ostentatious day....

LB - what were we talking about again

i can't wait for cloudy with a chance of meatballs.  we kept our 3d glasses from up too!

i wouldn't pass up the glasses graeme.

Now Graeme- you send me my birthday present, you know the one you FORGOT, and then I'll think of sending you one.  I mean, geez, did you even bother with a card??

I'm picturing you sitting in your room, with little tape squares outlining the spots on your floor where you think all the presents will sit.  And I bet you have imagined that some are in blue shiny paper with big yellow bows, and some are flatter, elegant green with red ribbons, and some might even be wrapped in gold glittery cellophane...  There is even a card that says, "Many Happy Returns, old chum!  Do stop by when next in London!  love, Lilibet"

LOL!  You wondercafinators are bringing a smile to my face!

Happy Birthday Graeme!  Here's a million dollar smile for you

Graeme.....I went to buy you a lovely bottle of scotch in MKE, but...as it was a liquid couldn't bring it through the gate....then I thought of a coffee..and actually bought it from Alterra..which makes great coffee...but it was getting cold..so i  drank it..

Today I may consider buying you an ice cream cone.

I can only imagine your frustration at the nation, nay, the planet, ignoring this momentous occassion.

In fairness, considering the average efficiency of Canada Post, can you be so certain that gifts are not imminent?

Hah! And people said this was not a global issue. Just look. 35 impassioned (if hopelessly inadequate) responses.

I agree with Kappa this is an outrage that mere monetary gifts can not appease.  I think we all should lobby the government of the land to make August 27 a national holiday - what greater gift could we give, not just to Graeme, but the nation as a whole.

Every year, across this great land of ours, men, women and children would remember Graeme and thank him for another much needed summer holiday - although now that I think about this perhaps we should lobby for the true Canadian holiday tradition and make it the first Monday closest to August 27 and ensure a summer long weekend.

I can see it now, special editions of beer - the Graeme 27 pack.  Is there a greater honour in this country, I think not!

LB - off to the petition site

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.
Kylie Minogue
 

the graeme......wow...what a great idea, lb

shouldn't we just lobby "the Beer store" ....oh wait, that is just an ontario thing

I don't want to be thanked. My native modesty forbids that. What I want is to be in a position to thank. I want to humble myself.

next year i'll bake you a humble pie :)

Happy Birthday!

My good wishes are priceless.

and the beat goes on. 36 responses. I don't think I could get more if I asked in the religious section whether Mary was built.

Not built - "made"

A Jar of Nothing Gift

 

HAPPY NOTHING DAY

god will get you. twice.

i wonder how many folks will just log on to let graeme know that they aren't going to send him a gift or wish him a belated birthday?

well, there you have it and, effectively, the end of western civilization.

Now this is just sad.

Pitiful really....

Oh and Happy belated Birthday! :)

Happy Birthday Graeme,

I had a b'day on the 26th.  I did get a few presents : not enough but, such is life.  I once lived in a house, where coincidentally, our birthdays fell on Aug 26, 27, 28 - we fought a lot.  We had to break up the band . . .

Hah! Here I am, the shell of a man I was on my birthday (August 27), just returned from five days in the cardiac ward.

and what do I find waiting for me? Gifts? No. Not even cheap ones.

Can you imagine how expensive you gifts will have to be now to begin to make up?

wait..graeme....

i am thinkin' you are serious re the cardiac ward.

here's hoping you are recovering well from whatever you were there for

graeme - I add my good wishes to your recovery from the cardiac ward.  I hope that it was just a scare and that you are back with your family, and us, to enjoy many many more birthdays.  Next year I'll send a donation to the Heart & Stroke fund in your name.  Happy belated birthday!   Get Well!   Keep Well!  God Bless!

ah no.............. Hope all is well. You really know how to make one feel guilty.

hiis other thread covers the cardiac ward/chest pain stuff - yes, we're glad he's still with us.

Hey - how about a McDonald's Happy Meal. for a present? At least its marginally better than hospital food. 

There is nothing that is only marginally better than hospital food. Today's lunch was grilled cheese sandwich. By none of the five sense could I identify anything on the plate that resembled either bread or cheese.

graeme