Time to celebrate Straight Dope August birthdays! :)

August 11th here - thanks for the thread F_X!

Happy birthday wishes to one and all, no plans as yet, apart from turning 38 in a riot of drunkeness, or something like that.

August 26th will be my 23rd.

I’ll be celebrating alone as my entire family have decided to go on holiday that week.

Guess i’ll have to Celebrate at LonDope the weekend before instead. :slight_smile:

Lucky you. I shall be celebrating mine the weekend after, probably with my colleagues…

I know all of you people are probably older than me, but my birthday is August 28th, so STOP STEALING MY BIRTHDAY!!

:smiley:

8-28 for me too.

Oohh… We could start the 28/8 birthday club.

Our parents must have been rather bored round Christmas time :wink:

Disco. I’ll be spending most of today working through an unusually large amount of tedious data entry, but I had enough fun last night to make up for how bad this day is gonna suck. I was born 8/04/76, but from now on if anyone asks I am 23. Thanks.

DaLovin’ Dj

Thanks for the thread, F_X!

I turn 21 on August 30! Whee!

Unfortunately, I still can’t drink. Damn meds.

The familia y mi will be up in the Sacramento area moving my sister into her dorm at Sac State, and I get to see caves on the way! (Caves are a special treat for amateur geologists.) I wanted to do Lassen Volcanic National Park, but alas, we won’t have enough time.

So, in the 8/30 club… Monstre, IDemandBeer, RandMcnally, bubba jr, and moi. Have I got everyone?

How about a support group to discuss those years when our birthday was the first day of school? Man, that sucked.

Awwww…shucks. You’re just saying nice things because you know I need the vote of confidence over turning 30! :eek:

Mere hours left to enjoy my twenties. For some reason I feel like I should do something extremely stupid.

thanks, Flamsterette_X!!

I will be on the 2nd day of my honeymoon, having gotten married on the 17th.

Best birthday present I’ve ever gotten!! :smiley: :smiley:

I turned 26 on Aug. 3. Spent it eating, drinking, and swimming in Lake Michigan.

Actually, you should strike bubba jr from that club. He specifically said:

The reason you thought he was born on the 30[sup]th[/sup] was probably that he was making a sympathy response in regards to Rand Mcnally’s over feeling old. :slight_smile:

School starts that early in the States sometimes?! Wow… my experience in the BC school system is that it always started in September. (no, I wasn’t in any wacky year-round schools or anything like that) Sure, sometimes it started in early September (like Sept. 2)… but always after the Labor Day weekend.

Hmm… for some reason, I thought your birthday was the last day of August. :o Guess I’d better change it on my master list to the 18[sup]th[/sup].

You ate, drank, and swam in Lake Michigan? My goodness, how’d you manage that?! :stuck_out_tongue:

Seriously though, I’m glad you had a great birthday! (and that goes for everyone else here in the thread)
And to all the people thanking me for the thread… aw shucks, it’s not a problem. :slight_smile: You’re very welcome.

F_X

OK mine is the 11th. I’ll be a whopping 38. OMG I’m old.

Don’t have any real plans. I just make sure that I don’t go to any restaurants near my birthday; I HATE that crap they do (No, I don’t want to wear some sombrero and dance).

At my work, you have to bring in something (like cake or cookies) for everyone at work.

So here’s some cake for you too.
MMMMMM CHOCOLATE.
The Surb

Ditto. . . and (damn it) ditto.

Hey, F_X, yourself – and thanks for the thread.

As for the location, I figured it was more concise than “The Come Get Your Parents And Take Them Home Because They Can’t Figure Out How To Vote State” :smiley:

21st here and I’m sure I won’t be doing anything. Pretty sad when you know you’re not going to be doing anything this far in advance, huh?

I’ll bet. Over here school had already started, and more often than not, I had to be at school :frowning:

And for those BritDopers who are going to chime in and say that school started in September, not in Lancashire, we had strange holidays :slight_smile:

Monstre, you’re so right. Much more concise. :smiley:

Angua, if school started THAT early in England… I think I’m glad I didn’t live there! :smiley:

F_X

Add me to the August 19’rs!

Not only do I share a b-day with B. Clinton, Blackeyes and AllShookDown, but with techchick68 too???

Aren’t I a lucky bastard!

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