Happy Birthday fhunter!

[tugon (imported)]

Happy Birthday fhunter. I hope you have a great day today or with the time difference whatever day it is for you. I enjoy your posts and your insights. I look forward to more posts from you as well as many more birthdays.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Happy Birthday my friend, I wish you the most happiest of days, with dinner and all.

River

[nullorchis (imported)]

May the coming year be the best ever for you. Hopefully you are nearing your personal EA goals. I only wish I had such awareness and ability to manage my sexuality at a young age; take advantage of every opportunity.

I have visited St. Petersburgh once, a long time ago. It was so very different and interesting. Much of America is so bland and boring compared to the history and architecture in St. Petersburgh.

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!! --FLO--

[transward (imported)]

To one of the most interesting and thoughtful posters here at EA, have a very happy birthday. I enjoy your posts very much.

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[gandalf (imported)]

Happy birthday fhunter. May all your desires come your way.

[moi621 (imported)]

To one of the most interesting and thoughtful posters here at EA, have a very happy birthday. I enjoy your posts very much.

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YES to that!

We appreciate our foreigners and do our best to help them believe we believe they are our equals.

We can't all be American after all.

YOU know how much your uploads and participation is really appreciated.

Wish you the happiest of Birthdays. Well maybe the second happiest so you will have something to look forward to.

Moi

[kristoff]

YES to that!

We appreciate our foreigners and do our best to help them believe we believe they are our equals.

I suspect a good many of us are foreigners on this International board. Hell I know I am. Ancestors from Ireland to fight with Napolean, married French, son Move to Sweden. Eventually my father, and a Norwegian national produced this mutt. I'd say international, not American.

[kristoff]

Now back to the topic at hand. I wish you a happy birthday, and hopefully in the coming year you will find the answers you have been seeking here. Please continue to share with us, I look forward to it.

Kristoff

[erikboy (imported)]

С Днем Рождения!

[kizahakan (imported)]

Happy Birthday Neighbour

[Danya (imported)]

Belated birthday wishes for much happiness and many more to come.

[Peter47-NL (imported)]

Happy Birthday dear fhunter! I like your posts on EA, your quest for ..... :balsmilie

[fhunter]

First - thank you all for you all for you wishes and congratulations.

As for the birthday - the day started with.. birthday surprise, monitor on my computer slipped into coma, and stopped reacting on anything, just blinking it's power led. Opened it up, cleaned, and without seeing anything visibly damaged, I reassembled it back. It turned on, only to slip back to the same state after some time. So I was in mostly read-only mode for the time being (laptop is not the most comfortable thing to type on).

As for the dinner and all - it was, but... I am not a big fan of celebrating birthday at home, my relationship with family is currently far from perfect (sad smile). With friends - it would be next week, it is hard to gather them - they work, so it is an exercise in planning.

Ok. some comments.

Moi, your's wish reminded me of one saying: "optimist believes that we live in the best of all worlds, pessimist is afraid that this is true..."

Nullorchis, you have probably seen only historical center of St. Petersburg, other parts can be quite different.

Once more, thank you all

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

OMG the Red Nun is a foreigner. I'm shocked truly shocked.

Happy Birthday fhunter.

Do something fun. I know, invade Chechyna

[A-1 (imported)]

Fhunter,

Happy B-Day!

...you reminded me...

An optimist says the glass is half full.

A pessimist says the glass is half empty.

An engineer says that the container is too large.

(...and things like don't launch the Space Shuttle in freezing temperatures...)

...so there you go. Practicality at it's very, very best.

UNAPRECIATED!

[nullorchis (imported)]

fhunter, et. al.

Everytime I wake up, it is a birthday.

You can celebrate whatever you want, whenever you want.

Don't let society or customs bog you down.

nullorchis

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

WOW! Happy Birthday! How old are you now?

[A-1 (imported)]

WOW! Happy Birthday! How old are you now?

Do da name Methuselah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah) ring a bell?



...the only one older River tells me is MacWolfie... is that right?

[fhunter]

A-1, I am not that old It is just 27...

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Do da name Methuselah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah) ring a bell?



...the only one older River tells me is MacWolfie... is that right?

It's a humbug I tell ya, a humbug.

[A-1 (imported)]

A-1, I am not that old It is just 27...

Sorry, I meant nullorchis.

On the other hand, if he was Rip VanWinkle, he'd not yet be old enough to drive...

[devi (imported)]

Haven't been able to be here for awhile but I have to wish you a belated happy birthday. Oh yes, anyone with descendents from within the continental United States from before the fifteenth century is considered a foreigner too... So happy birthday from another foreigner herself.

[moi621 (imported)]

See fhunter, just as I told you in our PM's

We = US do try our very best to make Them feel

as though They are as good as US.

Forgive the P.C., they have no sense of humor.

And, I truly loved your response to me.

Please visit off topic forums more regularly and give us a view from Petrograd.

Like which current revolution do you like the best?

Syria, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, etc.

Who better to judge revolutions then a citizen of St. Petersberg?

Thanks for being here and beware of what luminances in the dark.

Moi

Speaking of Petrograd, a series on The Art of Russia (2009) reviewed how Peter laid the foundation but, Elizabeth decorated. Elizabeth is usually overlooked in America as Russian history flashes from Peter to Catherine.

I generally do not like, "the arts" but I do recommend this series to everyone. Held my interest.

"The Art of Russia" 2009

1) Out of the Forest, icon art to Peter the Great. Some stuff dated 6-9 thousand years old.

2) "Roads to Revolution" the Russian version of Impressionists called, the Wanderers. From feudalism to revolution art.

3) "Smashing the Mould", The 20th century, the revolutions constructivism style to what art pieces wealthy Russians are investing today.

[transward (imported)]

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Peter laid the foundation but, Elizabeth decorated. Elizabeth is usually overlooked in America as Russian history flashes from Peter to Catherine.

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A couple of historical footnotes regarding Elizabeth. She was mad for balls, and some of her favorites were transvestite balls, where all dressed as the opposite sex. She and her ladies thought they looked dashing dressed up as Royal Guardsmen, and she loved to tease her bearded admirals and generals forced into petticoats and corsets.

Also history's most famous transvestite, the Chevalier de Eon, was sent by Louis XV to Russia to Elizabeth's court disguised as a young girl to spy there. Supposedly he became a Lady-in-Waiting to Elizabeth.

And it was Elizabeth that was the will that kept the alliance between France, Austria and Russia together to block Frederick the Great's Prussian advances in Eastern Europe during the Seven Years War, so she was overlooked only in comparison to the brilliance of Catherine.

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