# Happy Doper Milestones thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442 "2012-10-11T18:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/209 "2015-08-16T14:48:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > It’s my 25th wedding anniversary! > > On this day in 1990, on a very hot summer day in Vermont, my true love and I were married in her hometown’s little Episcopal church, surrounded by family and friends. We’d met five years earlier on a college semester abroad in London, and almost immediately felt the attraction. And now a quarter century has passed - hard to believe! My wife and I have had our ups and downs, of course, but we are and have been so very blessed - we have our good health, three fine sons, a dopey dog, an ornery cat, a nice house and so many other good things in our lives. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I got married tonight. Congrats to both. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/210 "2015-08-16T15:33:23Z")
Thanks! > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I got married tonight. Congratulations! May you have a long and happy marriage. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/211 "2015-08-16T15:40:25Z")
Hey, Congrats youse guys! ---
**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:** [August 16, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/212 "2015-08-16T19:25:35Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Congratulations! > [@faithfool](#): > > That’s awesome! Many happy trails to you guys. > [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Congrats! And nice understated post. 🙂 > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Congrats to both. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Congratulations! May you have a long and happy marriage. > [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Hey, Congrats youse guys! Thanks for noticing me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/213 "2015-08-16T21:59:58Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I got married tonight. Congratulations!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/214 "2015-08-17T04:06:37Z")
Congratulations! Would you like share any details? Did Tonka and Creamsicle participate? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/215 "2015-08-17T14:10:29Z")
Wahooooo!!! A long and deliriously happy life. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/216 "2015-08-17T15:32:18Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > Congratulations! Would you like share any details? Did Tonka and Creamsicle participate? And pictures. Gotta have pictures. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/217 "2015-08-17T17:16:25Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > Congratulations! Would you like share any details? Did Tonka and Creamsicle participate? Details? OK… There’s this girl, right? And we got _married!_ Seriously, let me see… We’ve known each other since high school. She lived across the street and two doors down from me. She got married, got divorced, joined the Army and flew Black Hawks in Iraq during the Gulf War, a couple more marriages, a couple more divorces… But she visited my dad whenever she was in town, and I visited her dad whenever I was in town. Lost touch for a while, until she sent me a letter after my dad died. I guess a year later I helped her out when her dad died. Just as I moved to Washington, she moved from Washington to Tennessee. She came back to the West Coast to get her nurse’s training and moved in with me December 2010 and finished her BSN. So. It was a small wedding. Me, The Bride, an officiant, The Bride’s former boss, her former coworker (who still works for that boss) and her husband, and my boss. There’s this [little park thingy](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Blaine,+WA/@48.9950075,-122.7519709,66m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x5485c1359fb984e7:0x6ddc7f512f77d8cc!6m1!1e1) that looks like it’s set up with a stage and a sunken viewing area in Blaine. You can see [the marina and Drayton Harbor](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Blaine,+WA/@48.9914102,-122.752343,1061m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x5485c1359fb984e7:0x6ddc7f512f77d8cc!6m1!1e1) from there. (Fortunately the tide was in, so it’s prettier than the Google picture.) We gathered in the ‘stage’ area and had a generic ceremony. (She’s Christian, and I’m Heathen.) Photos were taken (with the sun in my eyes, dammit!) and then we went across the street to the steak house for some really excellent bacon-wrapped filet mignon. Funny thing about her ring that I may as well share. We were engaged for a few months in 2004. My mom was dying at the time, and she gave me her wedding ring (from her second husband) to give to The Wife. Anyway a couple of months ago, when we decided to get married, I mentioned that my mom said the ring cost $13,000. The Wife-To-Be had to have it re-sized and the two rings made into one, and I asked her to have it appraised so I could put it on the insurance. She chided me when she got the ring back that she had to pay $360 for everything. She brought back two copies of the appraisal, and we read them together. She read out loud. She read the weight (1.13 ct.), the description, etc. When she got to the appraised value she read ‘“Appraise value ten thou…” _Ten thousand, six hundred dollars?_’ See, when I said my mom said it cost $13,000, she thought I said thirteen _hundred_. She had no idea it was a five-figure ring. (Incidentally, the jeweler told me that diamonds were going through the roof in the '80s, so that’s why the current appraised value is lower than the purchase price was.) The Wife loves the ring (for itself, not the price), and jokes ‘And it didn’t cost you a penny!’ I retort, ‘Nope. It only cost _my mother’s **life!** _’ "p > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > And pictures. Gotta have pictures. Someone took some photos with The Wife’s smartphone, the officiant took some photos, and my boss took some. I’ll post one/some when I get them. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/218 "2015-08-17T20:24:17Z")
Thanks! Congrats to you both. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/219 "2015-08-29T12:14:29Z")
Congratulations Johnny LA. I don’t get here all that often anymore but I assume your lovely lady is not that lodger you had a few years back. Anyway, good luck to both of you and we wish you all the best. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/220 "2015-08-29T15:28:46Z")
Quite so. Still waiting on those pics, though… ---
**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:** [August 29, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/221 "2015-08-29T15:57:13Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Congratulations Johnny LA. I don’t get here all that often anymore but I assume your lovely lady is not that lodger you had a few years back. She is. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Quite so. Still waiting on those pics, though… I don’t have any! The officiant, Wifey’s friend, and my boss took pics. No one’s sent me any! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/222 "2015-08-30T04:01:39Z")
Ask politely, then demand. You’re the groom, gol-durnit! ---
**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:** [August 31, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/223 "2015-08-31T15:53:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ask politely, then demand. You’re the groom, gol-durnit! There are two strategies for arguing with a woman. Neither one works. EDIT: Whoops! I was still thinking of the bow tie. . ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/224 "2015-09-01T13:28:17Z")
Happy birthday to **Zoid, Cervaise, Spoons** … and me! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/225 "2015-09-01T13:42:46Z")
Backatcha, **Elendil’s Heir**! Hope you and **Zoid** and **Cervaise** have great birthdays today! ---
**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:** [September 1, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/226 "2015-09-01T14:23:07Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Happy birthday to **Zoid, Cervaise, Spoons** … and me! Happy birthday to (collective) you! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/227 "2015-09-01T15:41:16Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Happy birthday to (collective) you! To quote the venerable Sam Malone, "Ditto. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442/228 "2015-09-01T18:12:30Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > To quote the venerable Sam Malone, "Ditto. > 🙂 Pretty sure that’s Sam Wheat from Ghost. Sam Malone was that one from Cheers, wasn’t he? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-doper-milestones-thread/637442.md?page=12)