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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Thank you for remembering, especially as I've been so long absent. I just PM'd SkidMarks to mention that I took a year off to have a baby, but I'm sure she's able to look after herself from now on, so I'll be able to post more often. Especially once I get back to work tomorrow, as this is one of the few message boards which escapes the attention of our firewall.
Just a reminder to anyone fairly new to the Fforum that all you need to do to be added to the birthday list is send me a pm or put a message in this thread, and I will add your details to the list.
If you are shy about your age, either give a general guide or even leave the year off completely.
My alma mater, Macquarie University used to have a "Conception Day" celebration - nine months before the Uni was officially opened. Nobody really remembered the Opening Day (which made Conception Day just about anytime that we wanted it) unless they wanted to count backwards from Conception Day (and if they took the time to do that they'd probably find that someone else had claimed the day anyhow; this happened to my knowledge in 1973 when Tea-Towel Recovery Day took the front page and news about Opening Day appeared just below the weather map on p.57 of the Murrumbigee Irrigator Daily).
Celebrating an occasion marked by a certain - what should one call it? euphoria? -
has always seemed to me to be a more fitting celebration than for a day marked by stainless steel stirrups, tongs and injunctions to 'breath in,don't breath out'.