# Happy 99th Bloomsday, everyone! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290 "2003-06-16T20:27:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290/1 "2003-06-16T20:27:24Z")
Maybe I’ll get around to reading the book before the centennial. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290/2 "2003-06-16T20:40:38Z")
Holy Molly, I forgot! Er, moley. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290/3 "2003-06-16T20:46:46Z")
Hooray! I thought I was the only person who remembered! > [@](#): > > Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungridled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: > > - _Introibo ad altare Dei_. > [@](#): > > and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. OK, I’m going to have to go reread some of my favorite sections now. Glad you mentioned this, **h.sapiens**! ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290/4 "2003-06-16T20:57:07Z")
Dammit. “Ungirdled.” ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290/5 "2003-06-16T21:14:11Z")
“And in the castle there was set a board that was made of birchwood of Finlandy. And on this board was set a flaming mirror wrought by magic on which were shewn strange symbols that were a marvel to behold, telling tales of foreign land beyond the high seas. And before the mirror was lain a mysterious log engraved with like symbols on which anon the learned knight Tusculan entwined his fingers like angry snakes which was a marvel to behold. And he anon full privily stroked a wondrous symbol and lo! the mirror cloudeth with smoke and symbols anew present therein. And the childe Tusculan sang praise to our liege Lord’s Day of Bloom and raised and voided his glass filled with mead from Franken Land. Thanked be Almighty God.” ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290/6 "2003-06-16T21:21:17Z")
I think you, Aitch, c’est pien; Aye taut-eyed bee th’onliest loneliest memorialiszt this blumen dei. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290/7 "2003-06-16T22:03:22Z")
I’ve never read _Ulysses_, but I feel the need to make some sort of pun or something. You ask if I’ve read it? No I said No I haven’t No. ---
**Author:** ![Peg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peg)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290/8 "2003-06-16T22:34:24Z")
Not sure about kidney for breakfast, but someday I will make it to Dublin for Bloomsday… hey, maybe next year would be a good year to start (Er, maybe not). Classic response to “One of these days I will make it to the Bloomsday celebrations where a bunch of people retrace the steps of Bloom in Dublin.”: “Orlando!?” ---
**Author:** ![AnnaLivia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@AnnaLivia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnnaLivia)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290/9 "2003-06-16T22:59:45Z")
Bloo-hoo-hoo-hooms Day is much too short. I didn’t even get in my cheese sandwich, let alone my kidney. AL ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290/10 "2003-06-17T03:14:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Peg \* > \*\*Classic response to “One of these days I will make it to the Bloomsday celebrations where a bunch of people retrace the steps of Bloom in Dublin.”: > > “Orlando!?” \*\* “No, no, no–_Leopold_ Bloom!” Oh yeah–I _loved_ **The Producers**!" ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-99th-bloomsday-everyone/182290/11 "2003-06-17T03:17:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AnnaLivia \* > \*\*Bloo-hoo-hoo-hooms Day is much too short. I didn’t even get in my cheese sandwich, let alone my kidney. \*\* I settled for the glass of burgundy. (Okay, it was merlot. It’s still red.) But you have the bestest name for today!