# Happy Anniversary, Shayna and Spiny Norman! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575 "2003-05-26T14:35:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/1 "2003-05-26T14:35:33Z")
Well, the first mile has clicked by on the ol’ odometer. The Paper Anniversary. Your first year together. Congratulations! 🙂 [sub]Oh… and Happy Birthday, **Shayna**! 🙂 [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/2 "2003-05-26T15:37:13Z")
Aww, the First Inter-Continental Doper Marriage[sup]\*[/sup], how sweet. Congratulations, you two crazy kids! [sup]\*[/sup] The first one I am aware of. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/3 "2003-05-26T15:37:22Z")
**HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!** Love and all my continuing best wishes for a long and glorious life together. AND my love AND Happy Birthday **Shayna!** And huggles. [sub]huggles Shayna several times while she can[/sub] 😃 I love you BOTH!!! Cheri ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/4 "2003-05-26T16:29:32Z")
'Grats, cats. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/5 "2003-05-26T17:54:29Z")
Happy anniversary! Thinking of your story always makes me smile. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/6 "2003-05-26T19:32:28Z")
Print this thread out and consider it your paper gift. All the very best to you both. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/7 "2003-05-26T19:43:56Z")
**Happy Anniverary!!** Wow, it seems like only a year ago that y’all were getting married. Time sure flies. Congratulations. And **Happy Birthday, Jill!!** Hope y’all have a great day and year and life. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/8 "2003-05-26T22:06:41Z")
Happy Anniversary you two lovebirds! Ric and Kathy ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/9 "2003-05-26T23:26:30Z")
Happy Anniversary Spiny Norman and Shayna! I can’t believe it’s a year already. Wow. Give each other a big Texas sized hug for me. Lots of love, Bren ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/10 "2003-05-27T17:08:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Aww, the First Inter-Continental Doper Marriage\* There was **Montfort** and **Anniz**. 😉 **Spiny Norman** : I think you should remove the Trivial Pursuit question that asks what country _Hamlet_ is set in. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/11 "2003-05-27T20:52:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rico \* > \*\*Happy Anniversary you two lovebirds! > > Ric and Kathy \*\* and Happy Birthday Jill 😃 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/12 "2003-05-27T21:29:54Z")
OK, the first Westward-bound-trip-to-settle-down-in-another-country-after-an-Inter-Continetal-Doper-Wedding. How’s that? Congrats again, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/13 "2003-05-27T22:17:36Z")
Congrats, you two. It sure was nice to meet you both at the LA fest the year before last! ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/14 "2003-05-28T10:45:11Z")
- especially **Mr. L.A.** for starting the thread (and for giving us that cool paper lamp as a present), **Scotti** for coming all the way to LA to celebrate and to **Ric & ca\_dolphin** for driving down to see us. I, too, sometimes have a hard time believing that a full year has gone by. Then I look at what we’ve accomplished in the last year - wrestling with movers, plannning a wedding, tackling immigration authorities, finding a job - to say nothing of how we’ve figured out how to merge two lives into one with surprising ease. And then I can’t believe that we’ve managed to do all that in only a year. As amazing as it has been (and it has been amazing!), I sure hope we’re up for a slightly more tranquil year #2. Thanks again, to everyone who posted. And big thanks to my sweet **Shayna** who’s managed to put up with my collections of bad habits and mismatched dinnerware for an entire year. I love you, Sweetie. ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/15 "2003-05-28T10:48:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\ ***Spiny Norman** : I think you should remove the Trivial Pursuit question that asks what country _Hamlet_ is set in. 😛 \*\* Yeah, **right**. You guys have baseball questions coming out the wazoo, but the one question that gives me a slight edge needs to be removed ? Over my dead body! ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/16 "2003-05-28T11:27:21Z")
Wow, almost missed this. Congratulations from someone who’s got a good twenty years on ya. Ain’t marriage grand? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/17 "2003-05-28T12:01:29Z")
Happpy Annniversary! Your friend, Dan ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-anniversary-shayna-and-spiny-norman/177575/18 "2003-05-29T02:54:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spiny Norman \* > \*\*Yeah, **right**. \ the one question that gives me a slight edge needs to be removed ? Over my dead body! \*\* The **ONE** question that gives you a **SLIGHT** edge? That loud noise is me laughing hysterically in your general direction. 😃