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It hardly seems possible, but there it is.
That must mean it’s also D. Potter’s 60th birthday.
Jon Singer is ageless! But happy birthday, regardless. Hope there is cake and great rejoicing.
Jon Singer and D Potter are one day older than the People's Republic of China?
I suddenly feel a strange birthday solidarity with them--being as I am, by some measures, one day younger than the Cuban revolution.
Felicitations to them both; it has been my great pleasure to spend minor amounts of time in their company.
Well, gee! I haven't even got the cards in the mail yet to the Chinese. Happy birthday, all 1,330,100,002 of you! Especially you two.
Happy birthday, Jon and D!
Jon! I always remember you fondly. Thanks for the loan for the floor and for indulging my alien ways. Have a very happy birthday today and for many years to come!
Happy Birthday, Jon. Many returns of the day.
In honor of the inimitable Mr. Singer, I'm drinking my evening tipple from the tea bowl he gave me when we met in Baltimore a few years back. And feeling much better about joining the 60-and-over club in a few months' time...
Patrick @ 2...
I'm one year younger than The Day The Earth Stood Still. My wife is the same age as NASA, while her middle sister was born literally while John Glenn was going up on his historical flight. (And did I ever mention that my marriage is 2 days older than Challenger's disastrous flight?)
Happy Birthday, Jon, from a former denizen of the Avocado Pit.
I'm exactly as old as the Australian dollar.
Happy Birthday, Jon!
Neith, if I may ask, which Avocado Pitling are you?
And I'm exactly as old as ... myself.
Well, that's something anyway.
Happies, Jon and D!
Happy birthday to you both!
Oh, my.
Happy now belated birthday to Jon and D.!
I guess it's true. Everyone knows Jon! Nifty. Why doesn't he have a Wikipedia entry yet?
I've like Dee and Jon for most of the thirty five years I've been in fandom. Which is something else I have in common with most of fandom.
Happy Birthday to Jon Singer, D. Potter, my partner, and my young cousin! An excellent group to share such an exalted day.
Gefeliciteerd aan jullie verjaardag, en lang zal jullie leven!
Happy Birthday Jon, and bazillions more!
Judith #19:
Everyone knows Jon, so he doesn't NEED a Wikipedia entry.
I remember when he was 59 just like it was yesterday.
Happy belated birthdays to Jon and D. (if a total stranger may add greetings to D!)
In emulation of Pat Kight, and in honor of Jon Singer, I'm sipping my morning Assam from the Singer bowl hand-sold to me by Jo Walton in Elise Matthesen's booth at -- I always forget which, Noreascon or Boskone. :-)
I share a birthday with Bolivia, but Bolivia's a lot older.
OTOH, I was born during the 1968 Republican National Convention. Maybe that's why I find Nixon so compelling a fictional character.
Futurama did make Nixon up, right?
Many happy returns to Jon and D.!
So, if we put Jon Singer and Kevin Bacon in a room together, would the Universe implode?
Jacque, if the Universe can support Erdos-Bacon numbers, it can survive that. Besides, that's a very small set. The number of people who've been to a con with Jon Singer, or been to a con with someone who've been to a con with Jon Singer, etc. is a very rapidly expanding number, somewhat like an Ackerman function...
Kevin Bacon says that Jon Singer says "Hi!".
Kip@24,
And here I thought he didn't look a day over...nevermind.
Happy Birthday Jon! I am drinking tea in a made-cup from Japan, contemplating glazes, and remembering when the auction news came in Montreal.
Happy birthday, Jon and D!! How long have I known you guys? Um -- never mind. Only 5 years until Medicare! Woot!
Happy birthday, Jon! (When you have a few minutes, we need to continue our discussion about funky particles.)
Well, happy birthday, John and D!
Happy Birthday both! It's comforting to know that people 10 years older than me are still so young.
Happy Birthday Jon & D! I don't use the bowl Jon gave me for tea -- it holds my political buttons and sits on the table in the foyer.
Happy birthday to the Technocrat of the Breakfast Table.
And happy birthday to D. Potter, who I've never met but always heard of.
Happy birthday, Jon, and thanks for returning my magazine!
Neith #13: I second Teresa #15, which Pitling? Or at least, which cat was yours?
Happy Birthday to Jon, and to Isaac Bonewits, who also turns 60 today.
The number of people who've been to a con with Jon Singer, or been to a con with someone who've been to a con with Jon Singer, etc. is a very rapidly expanding number, somewhat like an Ackerman function...
I myself have been to a con with Ackerman!
Bill Higgins @ 42... I myself have been to a con with Ackerman!
I haven't, alas, but I have been to a con with someone who did. (By the way, it was wonderful to see Ackerman featured in TCM's memorial film of those who passed away in 2008.)
Bill Higgins: I was babysat, sort of, by Forry (and Bob Clampett). One of the benefits of being young.
Happy birthday to these fine (and stimulating, and friendly, the few times I've interacted 1:1 with them) people, Jon & D., who are young enough to be my children (and almost grandchildren, technically, give or take a couple of years and not-all-that-unusual early puberty).
Terry Karney #44:
Baby-sat by Bob Clampett? Is that the same Bob Clampett who was a Looney-Tunes director?
I am having visions of needing to make sure a kid is kept safe from falling anvils, TNT, Acme roller skates, animals wielding hammers, etc.
#46: I have this picture in my head of Clampett trying to get young master Terry to wear a propeller beanie.
Eric Nelson: Yes that Bob Clampett, of Beanie and Cecil fame.
Congrats to Jon and Dee, and amazingly I will always be three months older than the pair of you.
Roz Kaveney:Congrats to Jon and Dee, and amazingly I will always be three months older than the pair of you.
Wow... I didn't know we had anyone more than 120 years old here.
:)
Thank you! (I've been blushing for a week.)
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