# Bad bad bad "You say it's Yer birthday

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 23, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554 "2023-03-23T18:48:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 19\
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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/1 "2023-03-23T18:48:24Z")

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🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you!  
Happy birthday to ???  
Happy birthday to you​:notes:🎵🎶🎶!

oopsie! Don’t arrest me song police. I may be a double felon, I tore the tags from my mattress, too!

Not ‘your’ birthday. ‘Yer’ birthday.

Who would you tell Happy birthday to, if you could??

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/2 "2023-03-23T18:56:06Z")

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@Beckdawrek

Actually, I’d give BACK my last birthday. I turned 70 in December. I demand a recount!

~VOW

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/3 "2023-03-23T21:48:56Z")

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70? Wow!  
I like it.  
I wish you a belated birthday.

Look at @Cecil_Adams. He’s 900yo.  
You’re still a young’un!!

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**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/4 "2023-03-23T22:06:22Z")

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It actually is my birthday. See, there’s a little cake icon next to my username. How’d you know?

I’m 43. That means I’m not the answer to life, the universe, and everything anymore.

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/5 "2023-03-23T23:04:30Z")

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Ah…you too!!

Have a good one!!

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**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/6 "2023-03-23T23:13:02Z")

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Happy bday WildaBeast!

And to little grandtoast who is 11 today.

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/7 "2023-03-24T02:22:54Z")

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Happy Birthday WildaBeast!

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/8 "2023-03-24T02:29:44Z")

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Today is the 70th birthday of Yvette Marie Stevens. You know her better as Chaka Khan. This is the first song I remember hearing her sing. _Tell Me Something Good_ written by Stevie Wonder. I think I have this 45 somewhere.

Rufus & Chaka Khan

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DcU6ekboOCk/hqdefault.jpg "The Midnight Special More 1974 17 Rufus & Chaka Khan Tell Me Something Good") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcU6ekboOCk)

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/9 "2023-03-24T02:33:53Z")

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Happy birthday, WildaBeast!

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/10 "2023-03-24T03:12:05Z")

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The Beatles version was playing every time I ripped through the Gunbarrel chair line.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/11 "2023-03-24T03:17:37Z")

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It’s Akira Kurosawa’s birthday, but he’s dead now, so…

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**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/12 "2023-03-24T04:36:12Z")

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So I don’t have to get him a present this year?

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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/13 "2023-03-24T06:01:12Z")

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> [@VOW](#):
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> I turned 70 in December. I demand a recount!

My 73rd was Tuesday. When my nephew wished a HB I said, “Eh. After 73 of them it gets old.”

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/14 "2023-03-24T11:13:12Z")

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HB, Kenobi!

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/15 "2023-03-24T13:49:44Z")

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Have a great day, friend!!!

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/16 "2023-03-24T13:57:39Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Ah…you too!!
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> Have a good one!!

Me three! The Nineties were half a lifetime ago now.

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/17 "2023-03-24T14:22:24Z")

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Happy birthday!

I hope it’s a good one!☺

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/18 "2023-03-24T14:25:16Z")

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Thank you all, and happy birthday to Lumpy!

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-you-say-its-yer-birthday/981554/19 "2023-03-25T05:57:18Z")

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Happy Birthday kenobi!
