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And in the next 3 days... 9 of my friends have birthdays. So when this happens it gets me to thinking what was nine months ago (well nine and some change; I just for get how much change to add). I came up with New years. I used to think November was the B-day month (for those of you wondering it is 9 months from Valentines Day).

Just a thought for those of you who have B-days in the next few days, and in November.

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I think I once read that September has the most births. Of course, my birthday is in July. As for those November birthdays, we all know whose birthday is most important in November.

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mujason wrote: As for those November birthdays, we all know whose birthday is most important in November.
Yes, mine.

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September puts it around christmas....

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Silly Matt, although your November birthday is nice, the most important November birthday actually belongs to

:wub: MELISSA! :wub:

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Dang it, why won't the font size feature work!?

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we all know that i have the best birthday...which oddly enough doubles as JFK's worst day...

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You have to close the tag

since I'm guessing you don't know how to.

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For the record, I tried clicking Close all Tags and it didn't work. Maybe the emoticons interfered or something.

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Okay, I fooled with it some more and the tag finally closed. Hooray!

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I looked at my friends' birthdays and I have four friends who share a birthday with me and that fact has nothing to do with why we're friends.

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As far as I'm aware I can only claim William Blake and Paul Shaffer.

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My famous birthday sharers, straight from Wikipedia:

1166 - Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
1605 - Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
1763 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)
1801 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
1843 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1849 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1865 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
1869 - Booth Tarkington, American author (d. 1946)
1872 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American author, folklorist (d. 1957)
1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian minister, social worker, and politician (d. 1942)
1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (d. 1949)
1878 - Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
1884 - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
1887 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
1892 - William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
1904 - J. R. D. Tata, Indian pioneer aviator and entrepreneur (d. 1993)
1905 - Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1905 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1905 - Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935)
1906 - Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
1907 - Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
1913 - Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
1914 - Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian.
1916 - Charlie Christian, American jazz guitar virtuoso (d. 1942)
1918 - Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968)
1920 - Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974)
1924 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1925 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
1925 - Ted Lindsay, professional ice hockey player
1927 - Harry Mulisch, Dutch author
1929 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
1930 - Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
1932 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator from Kansas
1933 - Lou Albano, Wrestling manager
1935 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
1936 - Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
1937 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1938 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born television journalist (d. 2005)
1941 - David Warner, Canadian actor
1942 - Tony Sirico, American actor
1943 - David Taylor, English snooker player
1951 - Dan Driessen, baseball player
1953 - Ken Burns, American producer and director
1953 - Geddy Lee, Canadian musician(Rush)
1957 - Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
1955 - Dave Stevens, Illustrator
1959 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
1959 - Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
1959 - Dave LaPoint, baseball player
1962 - Scott Steiner, US professional wrestler
1965 - Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1965 - Luis Alicea, Baseball player
1966 - Martina McBride, American singer
1972 - Wil Wheaton, American actor
1973 - Stephen Dorff, American actor
1973 - Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1975 - Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
1976 - Josh Radnor, American actor
1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
1979 - Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
1980 - Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
1980 - Rachel Miner, American actress
1981 - Fernando Alonso, Spanish race car driver
1982 - Allison Mack, American actress

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I don't know what is more shocking

You have four friends... or they have the same bday as you.

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I'm at 107 total friends on Facebook; unfortunately, none of them are actually really good friends.

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when you say "actually really good friends" do you mean to say "actual people"???

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allison mack is 24? egad. stupid smallville. of course, tom welling is like...30-something...and michael rosenbaum is older than that...but, yeah, of course i believe the characters are all 19.

i hate smallville.

peter cushing's birthday is the same day as mine. he was in star wars, so that was a big deal to me at some point in my life, lol.

i don't think i share a birthday with any friends, but 2 of my friends' moms' birthdays are the day before, and i have a lot of friends born 2 days after mine...
*shrug.*

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I share my July 4 1988 Birthday from two other guys in my class born in the same hospital, a girl born a year later. A deceased priest also had the July 4 birthday, and there was one other kid in my class born on that day too.. He's a bit of a juvenile delinquent. One kid who left McAuley from my was born on July 3, and one girl was born on the 5th.

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Holy.

Living.

Crap.



At least I'm a Leo.

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I just created a facebook profile and was wondering if theres been a group for Academic Team been created on there, and if so what is it?

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Well Wash U, Truamn and UMR all have a group. But yeah we should make a group for the message board.

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Well, there's already a group that lists this site as its link...

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i love facebook.
and friend details.
when other people generate them, not me.
and they're stories (true or otherwise), not just the NO DUH stuff like, "bob is your friend. you went to school together."
mmhmm.

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Well, there's already a group that lists this site as its link...
I had to check which one. hahahah

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The most common month for birthdays is actually August, if anyone was curious.

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DeckardCain wrote: The most common month for birthdays is actually August, if anyone was curious.
When the weather turns... you gotta keep warm somehow!

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Clark, I'm cold!
...
ok, yeah, sorry, i'm just not feelin' it.
mmm....off to pack for FALL BREAK, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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LibertyMarie wrote: mmm....off to pack for FALL BREAK, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
You people with your fall breaks... do you get all of Thanksgiving week off?

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LibertyMarie wrote: Clark, I'm cold!
Put on a jacket.

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I have Thursday-Friday off this week--although three of my four classes tomorrow, my latest ones, are canceled, yesss--and Wed-Fri off for Thanksgiving.

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Well we get the same number of days off... but I get to go home Friday the 17th instead of Tuesday the 21st









:P

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cool cool

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i want to go home today! not fair, marie....

i have a geography test tomorrow morning, then english until 2.50.... then i have to make a little detour to freaking columbia on the way home.... so i won't get back till like 10.00 or so thursday night....










:(

BUT! friday! plaza trip extraordinaire! ohhh boy. i'm thinking we could head out about noon or so? maybe earlier, if we wanted to eat down there, although i dunno....

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Yeah, we don't get a fall break, but our last day of finals is April 27th.

Last Laugh = NWMSU

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the joys of the Trimester system

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mmmm plaza

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dirtybird06 wrote: Yeah, we don't get a fall break, but our last day of finals is April 27th.

Last Laugh = NWMSU
May Graduation = Cinco de Mayo

Last Laugh: Inebriated Truman grads.
(Note: I plan to stay sober, on account of my insisting the family go to Pear Tree instead of El Vaquero for graduation, and that I shouldn't even be saying this out loud on a HS board. Oh, frak.)

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hmm...cinco de mayo last year i was in columbia, with a bunch of umr bois...what's up with that??

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L-Town Expatriate wrote:
dirtybird06 wrote: Yeah, we don't get a fall break, but our last day of finals is April 27th.

Last Laugh = NWMSU
May Graduation = Cinco de Mayo

Last Laugh: Inebriated Truman grads.
(Note: I plan to stay sober, on account of my insisting the family go to Pear Tree instead of El Vaquero for graduation, and that I shouldn't even be saying this out loud on a HS board. Oh, frak.)
Yeah, see, I don't think the fact that it's Cinco de Mayo means that more people will be drunk during ceremony than normal. Those folks'll get drunk regardless of the day.

Regardless, I reallllly wanna see you drunk Kyle. That would like, highlight my Truman experience.

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So would this:
Image

OK, I didn't have InDesign on me at the time I made this, so uh... yeah, that's why it looks like crap.

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I was looking around facebook and learned that an elementary school classmate of mine died two days ago...

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Halo 3 Pics
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