I wanted to make sure I initiated the Happy Birthday to OSC Thread, and since there's no guarantee I would've made it on the 24th (by the time I'm functional, most of you in the USA are up) - especially with people here who live far too close to the IDL - I thought I'd make it a little earlier.
Mr Card, I want to wish you a very happy birthday in ten days' advance (because God knows what could happen by and/or on the 24th). Better safe then dreadfully apologetic. Call me 'EarlyBird', call me 'The ApogeeMinded Eccentricity', I just wanted to be the first to wish the Ace of Hearts (the Card) a birthday - and the earliest at that! I did make it first, right...?
I decided I'd write this on the bigger forum...
Yours, JH
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
*Bump...?*
Does nobody care about The Card? Three days left, my time.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Try putting it on the other side. He might notice it then. Either way, Happy Birthday Mr. Card!
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
(it means just what you think it does -- Happy Birthday)
And thanks again for giving us such a fun place to play. Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Ashley:
:pirate:
Posted by Hamson (Member # 7808) on :
His birthday is on the day I start school. I wonder if he has anything to do with it starting so early now... *suspicious look*
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Just go with the cards you've been dealt.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
If this is his Birthday Thread - at least he'll check it out. No?
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
It's his party and he'll check if he wants to check if he wants to check if he wants to!
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Dunno, it's a bit Annie Wilkes...
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Yeah, if I were Mr. Card, and it was my birthday, I'd be wanting to spend it alone in front of a computer, pathetically hoping that some Hatrack geeks would remember my birthday.
Nah, no way, he's far too cool for that!
(so I probably just guaranteed that if he IS spending his birthday alone in front of the computer, pathetically hoping that some Hatrack geeks are remembering his birthday, he will be too embarrassed to post here and admit it. Sorry.)
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
But... But I started this ten days before! I deliberately did it for him. To show him I remembered all along and on the first chance I had I would post it.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
*pat pat* Its ok JH, it would be worse if he noticed it and disapproved of you.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
But... But... Why would he do so? Why would he di... dis... di... disap... Oh, I cant even say that dreadful word - why would he you-know-what of me or of my post? It's a Happy-Birthday-Wish!
-ing all over again.
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
Cool. Happy Birthday Scott
JH - Yeah, move it to the otehr side. Looks like that's the place he plays.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Jon,
SNAP OUT OF IT!
That is all.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
lol
Early for Mr. Card!
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
Only Admins and Mods can move it.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
How do you know his birthday? Oh, and Happy Birthday.
Posted by OlavMah (Member # 756) on :
Just email him and TELL him where it is. (Happy Birthday, Scott.)
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Oh, it's on the 24th... See you tomorrow!
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Happy birthday today or tomorrow!
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
Happy Birthday!
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Happy birthday OSC!
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
[Gus Gus voice]H-h-h-happy buthday![/Gus Gus voice] Tomorrow.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Yeah, august birthdays, OSC!
Happy early birthday!
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Happy Birthday, OSC!!
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
How does it feel to get one of those calendars that lists famous people born on your birthday...
...and you see yourself listed?
Happy Birthday!
Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
Happy birthay may you live forever.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Happiest of Birthdays to you!
Posted by Sister Annie (Member # 8480) on :
Happy birthday, Uncle O!
I made you a cake!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
She didn't really make it. She just linked to it.
But it is probably just as tasty. Posted by Sister Annie (Member # 8480) on :
I did too!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Actually, knowing Annie, she probably has made a cake that looks just like that.
And deep fried it.
Happy birthday, Scott. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sister Annie: I did too!
My apologies, then. Looks lovely. Do you think Mr. Card would share it with the rest of us?
Posted by Sister Annie (Member # 8480) on :
That's up to him.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Happy Birthday, Uncle Orson! Posted by accio (Member # 3040) on :
Happy Birthday ! Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
Feliz Anniversario, Tio Orson! Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Hey, Happy Birthday, Memsahib Dude Sir!
Posted by Λαβύρινθος (Member # 8534) on :
Once more, happy birthday, sir. This is the REAL Happy Birthday Thread, initiated by me, and this is just a linking thread. Please note I also helped improve sales of your books in Israel (I told my mother to give advice buying the "Enderverse" books). Since I started this thread and I promoted your sales in Israel, and since you're in a good (?) mood on this day, will you be coming to Israel for another tour?
Please?
Well... Thank you anyway, sir, Jonathan Howard
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
Feliz Aniversário, OSC!
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
Happy Birthday OSC!
Posted by DarkKnight (Member # 7536) on :
Happy Birthday, Mr. Card!!
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Happy Birthday, OSC! Posted by Crotalus (Member # 7339) on :
happy birthday.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Add one more Happy Birthday to the list!
Posted by Λαβύρινθος (Member # 8534) on :
Why isn't he here or on the other thread? Seems surprising.
Oh, well, only half a day is over, Scottcard time. I'm still biting lips, clutching hands and having tranquilisers injected into me.
Kidding! I just want a Card's acknowledgement of this or the other thread. I wasted 10 days of my life getting a virtual nervous breakdown, and I don't want to be brought into hospital at this rate.
JH
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
We're glad you were born. I wouldn't have met half my friends if you hadn't been. Happy birthday, Mr. Card!
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
Happy birthday, OSC! You're, what, twenty-nine now?
Posted by Brian J. Hill (Member # 5346) on :
Happy Birthday OSC! Thank you so much for writing so much, and for hosting Hatrack. It really means a lot to us ratraquenhos.
"For he's a jolly good fellow, For he's a jolly good fellow, For he's a jolly good felloooooow, Which nobody can deny"
I always liked that song.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: We're glad you were born. I wouldn't have met half my friends if you hadn't been. Happy birthday, Mr. Card!
Heck, I wouldn't have met my wife.
Happy birthday!
Posted by Gryphonesse (Member # 6651) on :
animal friendly version:
Hippo bird deer two ewes hippo bird deer two ewes, hippo bird deer, deeeer EWE, hippo bird deer two ewes
every day on this side of the dirt is a good one. Be sure to celebrate!
Posted by Amanecer (Member # 4068) on :
Happy Birthday! May this year bring you great joy!
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
Happy Birthday!
Posted by Λαβύρινθος (Member # 8534) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jon Boy:
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: We're glad you were born. I wouldn't have met half my friends if you hadn't been. Happy birthday, Mr. Card!
Heck, I wouldn't have met my wife.
I wouldn't have met you! Though, on second thought...
Your Apprentice
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Jonathan Howard, I presume? I loved the movie about you; you know, the one with Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie.
Posted by Λαβύρινθος (Member # 8534) on :
quote: I loved the movie about you
Never saw it. Check your e-mail.
Happy Birthday to the Ace of Hearts once more.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Bunny , I told you he'd be too embarrassed to admit to sitting alone in front of his computer checking the forums instead of going out on his birthday. Or else, he really is having a grand time celebrating with his family, and not sitting alone in front of his computer. Which is a good thing, no?
(And just in case you DO read this, Happy Birthday, Mr. Card )
Posted by Starr R (Member # 8361) on :
Happy Birthday, Mr. Card! Thank you for all the hours of happy reading that you've given us.
May you get something you've always wanted, and something you didn't expect!
Posted by Aeroth (Member # 6269) on :
Happy birthday, Mr. Card!
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Well, happy day! Many more! *smile*
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
It's midnight here on the East Coast. I think he missed our birthday thread.
Happy Belated Birthday!
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
Thanks for all your kind thoughts, folks.
I'm just happy not to be dead yet.
Meanwhile, as for Israel, I went because I was invited to a convention. I didn't do any signings outside the convention ... I imagine security at such a thing would be a nightmare anyway.
I hope to come back to Israel someday; but as for your recommending my books to others, I had hoped that activity would be its own reward <grin>.
Posted by Choobak (Member # 7083) on :
Joyeux anniversaire, Orson ! I hope you'll write more and more story which make me dreams.
Posted by Λαβύρινθος (Member # 8534) on :
quote: I hope to come back to Israel someday; but as for your recommending my books to others, I had hoped that activity would be its own reward <grin>.
Oh, it definitely was. I was trying to bribe you emotionally into visiting us here once more. I was reading your books ever since 2000 or 2001, and I missed you in 2003.
I feel so foolish, but I'll use my mother-developed NUS trick - Nag Until Submission. I apologise in advance.
You're not dead, Mr Card, and I personally won't let you die until you write more books than Paradise Lost has words in it. Mind you, I'll give you a call when I'm next (and first) in the States, if I ever get your number.
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(because God knows what could happen by and/or on the 24th). Better safe then dreadfully apologetic. Call me 'EarlyBird', call me 'The ApogeeMinded Eccentricity', I just wanted to be the first to wish the Ace of Hearts (the Card) a birthday - and the earliest at that! I did make it first, right...?![[Group Hug]](graemlins/grouphug.gif)
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