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sammee42

Birthday Wikipedia Meme

Apr 07, 2006 07:38

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year ( Read more... )

birthday wikipedia meme

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eltonroo April 7 2006, 13:55:19 UTC

Hi Sammee.
"Horkheimer" would have been a good name for my dog.

I am glad you like Ringo. Elton once wrote a song for Ringo to perform called "Snookeroo". It was a song with texts.
:)

inmemoriam April 7 2006, 14:05:00 UTC

that is hilarious

sammee42 April 10 2006, 23:08:35 UTC

Your man is so silly!! He must keep you laughing non-stop :)

sammee42 April 10 2006, 23:08:09 UTC

Doug, you are hysterical!!!! ;)

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parrot_knight April 7 2006, 14:33:37 UTC

Good for Thomas Howard! If you look at Wikipedia you will see that his birth year has changed since you posted the meme...

Thomas Howard sammee42 April 10 2006, 19:25:16 UTC

Thanks for the info! Do you know his correct birth year?

Re: Thomas Howard parrot_knight April 10 2006, 19:41:49 UTC

1585, I think - that's what the Complete Peerage and the ODNB give.

Re: Thomas Howard sammee42 April 10 2006, 20:00:14 UTC

yeah, well, so it was one year off. that's not TOO bad, unless of course you're an academic like me!! so thanks. for some reason I don't have access to the online version of the ODNB, and we all know what the print version is like!! madness!!

allysaundre April 7 2006, 16:08:21 UTC

I've notived you use the European dating system (7th July). A remnant from your Oxford days?

Sharing a birthday with Mahler beats sharing one with Bathory hands down. I'm jealous. Though I think it'd be less of a conversation piece.

sammee42 April 10 2006, 19:21:10 UTC

Nah, it's not so much of a conversational piece as a bragging right -- I guess! lol.

I just prefer to have the date before the month, mostly because I am an anglophile and also because I like to be different from other Americans. It is also the system of the US military, so its not like no one uses it over here.

allysaundre April 10 2006, 21:08:41 UTC

It's used by the American military? That's rather surprising. I prefer the Japanese system myself as it makes intuitive sense to place it in the order of year-month-date, as both animals and computers go from the most generic concepts to the most specific when categorising things. We're naturally top-down categorisers, as far as I'm aware. Plus, like sharing a birthday with Elizabeth Bathory, it becomes a conversation piece. :)

rebcamuse April 10 2006, 03:38:39 UTC

Ooh...I'd much rather share with Mahler than Bellini.Blah.

I actually remember Samantha Smith! And we got Katya (in exchange I believe). I was friends with a girl whose mom was integral to that diplomatic exchange.

Horkheimer IS a great name.:-)

sammee42 April 10 2006, 19:23:41 UTC

That's very interesting! People used to ask my mother if I was named after Samantha Smith, since I was born on the day that she flew to the USSR. My mother seems to think that after Samantha Smith died, it was popular to name your daughter after her, but I never meet many Samanthas who are close to my age. The name has been in the top ten for many years, but usually I meet Samanthas who are under ten!