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(...) Actually we count aniversaries of our birthday. You really only have one nbirthday, and it's not your "first" birthday... (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) we're (...) A good clarification, Frank. I guess by "first one" up above I actually meant the day of your birth, which I guess in common parlance would called your "0th" birthday. I'm feeling feisty today. Chris (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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This thread is a pedant's dream. Somebody pinch me. (...) not sure what an nbirthday is... I agree that most folks only have one birthday, and ALL folks only have one "actual" birthday. However, there exists a class of people that have more than one (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message (...) Why?.. Selçuk (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) So that the celebration of the aniversary of their birthday doesn't get lost in the shuffle surrounding the celebration of the aniversary of the nominal birthday of a certain individual who was born some 2000 years ago. A more pragmatic reason (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Nope- I got a double whammy- I was born on Jan 6th, then my brother came along two years later on the 19th. So sometimes presents that were for both christmas and the birthday, sometimes b-day presents that were for both of us, and - slightly (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I feel your pain every December 28th;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks for the reminder that 70% of the world is non-Christian. Sometimes it's easy to forget. ;) Happy Ramadan coming up, Selçuk. best, Lindsay --- Lindsay Frederick Braun (Mr) Department of History Rutgers, the State University of New (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:3847779B.88F0A8...msu.edu... (...) Thanks,..:-) Actually, I'm not so much a Muslim, although I'm supposed to be so. I educated to be one, but beginning from the teenage times, it started (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Selçuk " wrote: <snip> (...) Well I can explain this one somewhat for you, especially since my birthday is Dec 20th.. I still celebrate it, though sometimes I think I should move it to another month.. Some of the main reasons: You don't get a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Mookie <Mookie1@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message > (...) Thanks for the well written explanation Tamy. I've also received the emailed version..:-) Regards, Selçuk (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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