Comments on: Birthday meme

By: JT

JT — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:15:49 +0000

September 11
First I had to look up “meme” to see what it meant. I’m still not sure.

EVENTS
1906 Mahatma Gandhi launches non-violence movement, Satyagraha

1973 President Salvador Allende of Chile is murdered in a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet and supported by you-know-who; Chile turns from a democracy into a tyranny

2001 When I show my passport to immigration officials they tend to say, “Ah, you were born on 9/11, no one’s going to forget YOUR birthday!”

BIRTHDAYS
3 BC Jesus of Nazareth (according to American archeologist Ernest Martin)

1885 D.H. Lawrence, my once-favourite novelist

A NOTABLE TRANSITION
1987 Death of Peter Tosh

HOLIDAYS ETC.
New Year’s Day according to the Coptic and Ethiopian calendars. Light and renewal.

FRIENDS
I wouldn’t dare.

(Is all this auspicious or what?)

By: geoffrey philp

geoffrey philp — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:51:04 +0000

Georgia, glad to have provided some amusement for you.
Caribbean Wiki, hmmmmmmm

By: Vernon

Vernon — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:04:50 +0000

Damn that button! That s/b “producing daily newscasts”

By: Vernon

Vernon — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:04:14 +0000

I started one Georgia but honestly producing a daily newscasts is blog enough for me. I fear if I actually had time to do a blog my vitriolic nature would give me away to the reader and might peg me as a more negative person than I actually am. I will live vicariously through your blog and Jeremy Taylor’s .

By: Georgia

Georgia — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:54:28 +0000

Should have known you were a Sagittarian, Vernon!

This also reminds me that you don’t have a blog…. or at least one that I know of.

By: Vernon

Vernon — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:40:11 +0000

Dec 20.
1996 – NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X. ( oh sure there were wars and things like that ..but I picked the important event to lead).
69 – Vespasian, a former general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of emperor.
1192 – Richard the Lion-Heart was captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the crusade.

Birthdays…slim pickings.
1927 – Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea
1957 – Billy Bragg, English singer and songwriter

Transition ( aka dey dead)
1996 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (b. 1934)

R.C. Saints – Saint Dominic of Silos, O Clavis, Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne

Friends? What are those???