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Posted by zardoz on Saturday, December 9, 2017 6:02 PM

Mookie

She's not quite that old - but I got tired of explaining each year that I came 2 years after Pearl Harbor.  Still old, but not quite infamy.  Actually not much remarkable about 1943 except it keeps a space between 42 and 44.  

 

I was just kidding; you know--a little levity.

Although if you could really levitiate....

 

"More time behind means less time ahead, but at least the total stays the same."

 

It seems like only yesterday when we were calling today tomorrow.

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Posted by Mookie on Saturday, December 9, 2017 9:59 AM

Thank you, Randy.  I think of you often and wish you only the best.

Jen

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Posted by Randy Stahl on Saturday, December 9, 2017 9:13 AM

Happy birthday Jen

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Posted by samfp1943 on Saturday, December 9, 2017 7:35 AM

Mookie

She's not quite that old - but I got tired of explaining each year that I came 2 years after Pearl Harbor.  Still old, but not quite infamy.  Actually not much remarkable about 1943 except it keeps a space between 42 and 44.  

 

Mookie(Jen)  I think I feel some of your pain.Sigh

I was born on the day the Allies invaded Sicily. Aches and pains? You betcha,but I still can get around and fortunately; I feel somewhat better than a some of my contemporaries. I think age has a relative meaning to the individual. WE can still look forward to what the new day is bringing us....Even if, the first train of the day is at 0345. Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin

 

 


 

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Posted by Mookie on Saturday, December 9, 2017 12:53 AM

She's not quite that old - but I got tired of explaining each year that I came 2 years after Pearl Harbor.  Still old, but not quite infamy.  Actually not much remarkable about 1943 except it keeps a space between 42 and 44.  

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Posted by zardoz on Friday, December 8, 2017 8:45 PM

I didn't realize she was that old (her birthday IS the reason Roosevelt gave that little speech, isn't it?). A date which will live in infamy, indeed!

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Posted by Mookie on Friday, December 8, 2017 6:47 PM

Overmod
Murphy is not the only one to get the digits off a little bit...

  TMI!

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Friday, December 8, 2017 6:42 PM

Overmod

 

 
Murphy Siding
Mookie
Murphy Siding

you're not old enough...

.... or smart enough to get the joke... Sigh

 

Murphy is not the only one to get the digits off a little bit...

MC: that's more like Jonesy than Murphy!

 

 

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, December 8, 2017 6:04 PM

Murphy Siding
Mookie
Murphy Siding

you're not old enough...

.... or smart enough to get the joke... Sigh

Murphy is not the only one to get the digits off a little bit...

MC: that's more like Jonesy than Murphy!

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Posted by mudchicken on Friday, December 8, 2017 12:51 AM

A cat looks for dry ground in Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Run Murphy Run!

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, December 7, 2017 5:00 PM

Semper Vaporo
 
Murphy Siding
Mookie
Murphy Siding
Your name is spelled 837-5309? Weird. Must be that new math or something.

you're not old enough...

.... or smart enough to get the joke...Sigh

 

 

I struggled to figure it out, too... but the girl in the song of that title ("867-5309") was named "Jenny" and that is a nickname for our dear "Mookie" in the real world.

 

Happy Birthday, dear Mookie!  And Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and many, many more days of joy and peace and happyness.

 

Oh, I got the Jenny part. I guess I should just be content with the idea that I'm not old enough.

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, December 7, 2017 4:26 PM

Google just the phone number.  Lots of fun information on it.  

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Posted by rrnut282 on Thursday, December 7, 2017 3:36 PM

I was confused there, as I remember 867-5309 and now Semper confirmed the cobwebs weren't obscurring my brain functions.  

Anyway, Alles gute zum Geburtstag, or something like that. 

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Thursday, December 7, 2017 3:08 PM

Murphy Siding
Mookie
Murphy Siding
Your name is spelled 837-5309? Weird. Must be that new math or something.

you're not old enough...

.... or smart enough to get the joke...Sigh

I struggled to figure it out, too... but the girl in the song of that title ("867-5309") was named "Jenny" and that is a nickname for our dear "Mookie" in the real world.

 

Happy Birthday, dear Mookie!  And Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and many, many more days of joy and peace and happyness.

Semper Vaporo

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, December 7, 2017 3:03 PM

Mookie
 
Murphy Siding
Your name is spelled 837-5309? Weird. Must be that new math or something.

 

you're not old enough...

 

 

.... or smart enough to get the joke...Sigh

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, December 7, 2017 3:02 PM

   

To all my fellow December birthday babies: Happy Birthday Cakeand Merry Christmas.Gift I hope you don't mind that I was going to give you a combination birthday/Christmas present but I ran out of money this close to Christmas. You know how it goes. Mom always did like you better. That’s why she didn’t have you in December.Mischief

 

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, December 7, 2017 2:59 PM

Murphy Siding
Your name is spelled 837-5309? Weird. Must be that new math or something.

you're not old enough...

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, December 7, 2017 2:56 PM

Mookie

I just left my e-mail and my dentist and my dermatologist each sent me a bd card.

And if you believe in coincidences - they just played 867-5309 on my favorite oldies station.  (Song even spells the name right, Murphy!)

Day just getting better and better.  

Thanx for wishes

 

Your name is spelled 837-5309? Weird. Must be that new math or something.Confused

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, December 7, 2017 2:55 PM

Happy Birthday Fred. Mischief

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, December 7, 2017 2:53 PM

Having Birthdays beats the alternative!

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, December 7, 2017 2:00 PM

I just left my e-mail and my dentist and my dermatologist each sent me a bd card.

And if you believe in coincidences - they just played 867-5309 on my favorite oldies station.  (Song even spells the name right, Murphy!)

Day just getting better and better.  

Thanx for wishes

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Posted by samfp1943 on Thursday, December 7, 2017 1:53 PM

tree68

No, but I'm sure I'll remember it now!

Happy Natal Day, Madam La Mook!

 

 

Pearl Harbor, and Ms. Mookie's Birthday! Happy B-Day

             Now forever bound, in my mind, along with the Date; My Mother-in-Law got straffed on the parade ground at Scofield Barracks, as she and her shift of nurses walked to work on that Sunday morn.  Whistling

            

 

 


 

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, December 7, 2017 12:53 PM

No, but I'm sure I'll remember it now!

Happy Natal Day, Madam La Mook!

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, December 7, 2017 12:50 PM

Happy Birthday.   And I did observe Pearl Harbor Day in my own special way.

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Posted by diningcar on Thursday, December 7, 2017 12:33 PM

Perhaps - old enough to know better but too young to resist???

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Did anyone realize
Posted by edblysard on Thursday, December 7, 2017 12:19 PM

today is the Mookie's birthday?

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