# Merry Birthday and a Happy Christmas! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-birthday-and-a-happy-christmas/86362 "2001-10-09T16:58:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cyrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Cyrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyrin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-birthday-and-a-happy-christmas/86362/21 "2001-10-10T18:42:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Grace \* > \*\*Sure. You can have mine. How do you feel about celebrating your birthday on February 22nd? To be completely fair, I think you should also take my age too. You’ll be 33. \*\* Deal! but don’t get confused, you’re still 33, this isn’t a trade! If you want though I can just slap you 33 times, it will be just like if you had been born on Christmas! _Kidding_ 🆒 Violence is not the answer… but it sure feels good! ---
**Author:** ![Pandora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@Pandora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandora)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-birthday-and-a-happy-christmas/86362/22 "2001-10-10T20:23:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Çyrin \* > Anyone feel like giving me their Birthday? > Please!?!? ☹ \*\* You can have mine… I don’t use it anyway… But I don’t think December 22 is really going to help you much. _hugs_ -Pandora ---
**Author:** ![Cyrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Cyrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyrin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-birthday-and-a-happy-christmas/86362/23 "2001-10-10T20:49:36Z")
**Pandora** , Thanks for the hugs! Maybe I should just move to Vietnam and celebrate my birthday on July 1st with the rest of the country! On second thought… maybe it’s not as bad as it could be… ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-birthday-and-a-happy-christmas/86362/24 "2001-10-10T20:59:37Z")
is Dec 27 close enough? ---
**Author:** ![AquaPura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AquaPura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AquaPura)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-birthday-and-a-happy-christmas/86362/25 "2001-10-10T21:26:00Z")
My Birthday is December 28th. Bleah… right between Christmas and New Years. My relitive’s frequently try the here is your Christmas/Birthday present and I hate getting Christmas wrapping paper on a birthday present. _sigh_ Though one of my friends who was short on cash one year did the same thing, but he made up for it by calling it a “Harry Birmis” present. ---
**Author:** ![idoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/94ad74/32.png) [@idoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idoya)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-birthday-and-a-happy-christmas/86362/26 "2001-10-10T21:37:02Z")
I don’t know if you will consider me a “Doper” since I very rarely post, as you can see, but I also was born on Christmas. Yes, I agree, that it isn’t the best birthday to have. The one thing that has always bothered me is that I get birthday presents wrapped in Christmas paper. Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful to receive any gift, but it seems like if you are going to go out of your way to purchase me a separate birthday gift it isn’t much further to use the appropriate paper. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-birthday-and-a-happy-christmas/86362.md?page=1)