# Today's my birthday **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-my-birthday/750831 "2016-04-01T13:54:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dinna\_Fash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@Dinna\_Fash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinna_Fash)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-my-birthday/750831/1 "2016-04-01T13:54:36Z")
No, really, today’s my birthday. Always has been. My email is filled with both “Happy Birthday” coupon codes and April Fool’s jokes from lists I subscribe to. I had a “wait, what?” moment on this one: "Happy Birthday! Here’s 15% off. April Fool’s! (We know it’s not really your birthday) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-my-birthday/750831/2 "2016-04-01T14:13:16Z")
Happy Birthday! I wonder how being an April Fool baby compares to being a Christmas baby. Lots of gag gifts? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-my-birthday/750831/3 "2016-04-01T15:01:33Z")
Happy birthday! [You’re not the only one.](http://www.famousbirthdays.com/april1.html) And today is exactly 6 months from my own birthday, and my husband’s. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-my-birthday/750831/4 "2016-04-01T15:50:36Z")
Happy Birthday indeed! This was also my dad’s birthday. He was a singularly unattractive baby (he improved a lot later) and when, as was the custom then, he was brought to my grandmother after being cleaned up and swaddled, she thought it was the nurse playing a joke and demanded her ‘real’ baby, instead of the ugly one they brought her! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-my-birthday/750831/5 "2016-04-01T15:53:45Z")
One of my coworkers too. Happy birthday 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-my-birthday/750831/6 "2016-04-01T16:21:15Z")
Happy B-day. It’s our 23rd anniversary, so we also get a lot of hur-de-hur comments. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-my-birthday/750831/7 "2016-04-01T17:14:21Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zM5j9Bs5OLo/hqdefault.jpg "The Young ones - Neil - Its my Birthday") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM5j9Bs5OLo) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dinna\_Fash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@Dinna\_Fash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinna_Fash)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-my-birthday/750831/8 "2016-04-01T17:33:07Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Happy Birthday! I wonder how being an April Fool baby compares to being a Christmas baby. Lots of gag gifts? For some reason, as a child, I absolutely hated that my birthday is on April Fool’s, so my brothers were forbidden by my parents to give me gag gifts. As I have grown up, and apparently developed a sense of humor, I love it. Now I wish more people would give me gag gifts - go figure :roll eyes: My son was born the day after Christmas, and I’ll take April Fool’s Day over that any time. ---
**Author:** ![Dinna\_Fash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@Dinna\_Fash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinna_Fash)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-my-birthday/750831/9 "2016-04-01T17:34:27Z")
And thanks for the birthday wishes 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-my-birthday/750831/10 "2016-04-01T17:48:50Z")
So you only have a birthday once every 4 years? What’s that like? Oh, wait, that’s for birthdays on some other weird day -ummmmm, Groundhog Day, maybe.