# I've got a new birthday share-er-with!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-birthday-share-er-with/456052>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 10, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-birthday-share-er-with/456052 "2008-07-10T22:50:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-birthday-share-er-with/456052/1 "2008-07-10T22:50:55Z")

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After celebrating many more birthdays than I care to count, and reading all those “If You Were Born Today…” and “Upcoming Birthdays” on Entertainment Tonight, I thought I had a pretty good handle on which celebrities I share a birthday with. Yeah, yeah…Jake LaMotta, Arlo Guthrie, Eunice Shriver. A pretty weak assortment.

(and I’ve even started losing people…David Brinkley, Arthur Ashe).

So imagine my surprise when NPR’s Morning Edition this morning said that today was the birthday of…

Jessica Simpson!

Woo hoo!

Could be worse…could’ve been \*Ashlee \*Simpson. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-birthday-share-er-with/456052/2 "2008-07-10T23:00:22Z")

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I’m guessing you have _extremely_ clear skin, then. 😉

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**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-birthday-share-er-with/456052/3 "2008-07-10T23:02:24Z")

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Happy birthday, **jsc1953**!!

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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-birthday-share-er-with/456052/4 "2008-07-10T23:36:21Z")

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MoodIndigo – thanks! You’re the 5th person to wish me HB today, and the first one not in my immediate family.

Asimovian… uh… huh?

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-birthday-share-er-with/456052/5 "2008-07-10T23:59:24Z")

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[QUOTE=jsc1953]  
MoodIndigo – thanks! You’re the 5th person to wish me HB today, and the first one not in my immediate family.

Asimovian… uh… huh?  
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Sorry…the only thing I see Jessica Simpson in these days are long commercials for some skin care product where she shows how pimply she used to look before she started using the product. But I wouldn’t want you to lose two minutes of your life, particularly on your birthday, having to watch [that](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2V5EK0azgA). 🙂

Happy Birthday!

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**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-birthday-share-er-with/456052/6 "2008-07-11T03:16:22Z")

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Happy Birthday, **jsc1953**!

It’s also my daughter’s birthday.