April 13, 2005
A Celebration!
Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuu!
Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuu!
Happy Birthday, dear TheM’steriousKaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuu!
And now, as per the tradition in my family, The Birthday Song sung in Portuguese:
Parabéns para você
Nesta data querida,
Muitas felicidades
Muitos anos de vida.
And the next version, sung to my sister in Thailand by exotic Thai ladies in sequined dresses and wearing long gold nails—only they left out the most important line, a fact which amused my family so much that it, too, became a birthday tradition.
Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuu!
Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuu!
(Pause)
Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuu!
And the newest tradition, the Portuguese Birthday Song As Sung By TMK, who doesn’t speak a lick of Portuguese. The great thing about this version is you can sing any nonsense words you want, the more ridiculous the better, although as a rule the first two words are always “badda bing,” the closest TMK can get to "Parabens," and the song is liberally sprinkled with "bings" and "bangs" and "booms."
Badda bing bang blah blah
Blah blah bing bang la-la!
Badda blah blah bing bang boom!
La-di-dah bing bang blah!
Happy mumlebmumble-eth Birthday, Snookums!
And, now, proof that at Ferals we talk about much more important things than just knitting:
No posting on Friday, Dear Readers. Next rendezvous on Monday!
TMK's version in Portugese cracked me up. Too damn funny.
Happy Birthday, TMK!! May you get wood and lots of it.(CT, just leave it be.) Preferrably, Walnut Wood. With Marmot and Guinea Pig-on-a-stick.
Posted by: Stalker Angie on April 13, 2005 09:38 AMalles gutes zum deine geburtstag, TMK:)!!!
happy birthday tmk
Oh, and everyone, please please please eat the rind. SHould a cheesemaker go through so much work to have the a very important part of the taste thrown away?
skittles
devin
Happy Birthday, dear TMK! Please pass the brie rind with a small wedge of marmot.
Posted by: Susie on April 13, 2005 10:06 AMSqueee squueeeee squeeeeeee, TMK!
RE: the Brie? I ask: What would a marmot do? Go ye therefore and do so.
Happy birthday, TMK!
Posted by: Jessica on April 13, 2005 10:22 AMOne should eat the rind if they don't think it tastes like feet. I think it tastes like feet. I stick to the softy, squishy innards. :-)
Posted by: RK on April 13, 2005 10:23 AMHappiest of birthdays TMK !
I'm pulling out my European credentials,i.e. being one,and saying that one definately eats the rind - unless you really don't want to ! ;-]
Posted by: Emma on April 13, 2005 10:26 AMHappy happy TMK!
May the best of what happened to you this past year be the worst of what happens to you in the next.
And MANY MANY MORE!
Posted by: anj on April 13, 2005 11:13 AMHappy Birthday, TMK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully some music playing is in your future.
Can you EAT the rind? Who knew?
Mary
Posted by: Mary B on April 13, 2005 11:13 AMWhen I read your poll title the first time I thought it was "Ferals Bride Quiz."
Happy Birthday TMK!
Posted by: Kristi on April 13, 2005 12:34 PMS dnem rozhdeniia, TMK!
Definitely eat the rind. Most definitely! Slap that sucker on a piece of crusty bread, drizzle some fig jam over the top and--BLISS!
Posted by: Kristen on April 13, 2005 12:35 PMThanks to everyone for the birthday wishes!
And a note about Brie...the next time Ryan and I have a knitting party, be prepared to be served baked Brie rind on one plate, and the yummy, squishy Brie innards on a separate plate! Oh...and marmot jerky! ;-)
TMK
Posted by: The Mysterious K on April 13, 2005 03:29 PMNow that TMK has "outed" us, I suppose we should declare ourselves staunchly on the side of the no-rind eaters. Rebekkah (RK) is right--Brie rind tastes like feet. In fact, after much discussion about how right-on Rebekkah's comment was, TMK and I decided that the brie rind tastes not only like feet but like licking the surface of a flip-flop that someone with athlete's foot has been wearing for a long time on a really, hot summer day.
Posted by: Ryan on April 13, 2005 03:44 PMHappy birthday TMK! Love your birthday song vocabulary!
Posted by: Sheila on April 13, 2005 04:06 PMBleah! That makes even Velveeta sound palatable.
Posted by: Susie on April 13, 2005 07:08 PMHappy, happy birthday TMK!
Here's hoping for a rindless celebration
in your honor!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TMK!
Here's to passing the ice cream birthday cake with too many tealights melting holes in the icing to you!
And no rind. Blech. Smelly WET flip flop bottoms.
Posted by: Sara* on April 13, 2005 09:01 PMIt's your birthday TMK. You can eat whatever part of the brie that you wish. However, as one who was in on the beginning of this issue, I say eating the rind adds to the experience, especially if the brie is a really good cheese, and not those innocuous imports made for American tastes.
So, many happy returns.
June on Camano
!Feliz Cumpleaños a TMK!
I hope you have a grand celebration and that Ryan allows you to eat the rind off the brie if you so choose. If you don't choose, I hope there is Tofu Chocolate Pie in your future! Yum!
!Feliz Cumpleaños a TMK!
Posted by: Rebecca on April 14, 2005 09:35 AMTMK, a very happy birthday. Eat NO rind on your birthday, or ever again, if you don't want to. Due to the vivid visuals of the comments, just eating brie again will be a choker for me for a while...
Posted by: joan on April 14, 2005 11:07 AMWell,
Sometimes you feel like a rind.
Sometimes marmot.
Posted by: rie on April 14, 2005 06:59 PMhappy bday, tmk :-)
we used to call marmots whistle pigs when i lived in colorado.
Happy Birthday a tad bit late, TMK! Hope it was fabulous, brie rind or not.
Posted by: Nathania on April 15, 2005 07:43 AMSapo verde a ti
Sapo verde a ti
Sapo verde a ti i i
Sapo verde a ti
a little late TMK!
(that's the Mexican version of the English words according to my husband. Very good for employees singing in restaurants.)(I couldn't resist)
Back to the lurking space I go...
Posted by: lurking Gwen on April 15, 2005 08:07 AMSigh. I'm forever late. Disclaimer: The lateness of this birthday wish should not be confused with lack of enthusiasm for same.
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: stephanie on April 17, 2005 07:51 AM