Re: Please welcome . . .
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| 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
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