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Re: Please welcome . . .

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Saturday, December 13, 2003, 18:13
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On Saturday, December 13, 2003, at 12:27 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:53:59PM -0500, Phillip Driscoll wrote: >>>>> Connor Sebastian Reed >>>>> Born 2002-12-11 08:24 UTC >>>>> 8lbs11oz/3.95kg 22in/56cm >>>>> >>>>> Needless to say, I'll probably be unusually silent for a while. :) >>>> >>>> >>>> Congratulations on his first birthday! :-) > > Whups. Typo on my part. He was born on 2003-12-11, not 2002-12-11. > That is, yesterday. :)
The typo was missed by both Padraic & me! Since on Friday, December 12, 2003, at 08:57 PM, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:"
> --- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote: > >>> Congratulations on his first birthday! :-) >> >> Or is it his zeroth birthday? :-) > > Strictly speaking, there is no "first" (and > Heaven preserve us from "zeroth"!); it's his ONLY > birthday.
I know. Too late for preservation from 'zeroth'; it's been around for decades. You can't be a computer scientist or you'd have got(ten) used to it yonks ago.
> All the others are just commemorations.
I had sort of figured out that's why the French say: "Joyeux anniversaire!" ..and the Welsh say: "Pen-blwydd hapus!" Neither are appropriate for young Connor Sebastian till about this time next year. In the meantime I merely say to CS "Croeso!" Ray =============================================== http://home.freeuk.com/ray.brown ray.brown@freeuk.com (home) raymond.brown@kingston-college.ac.uk (work) ===============================================

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