
By Holly the Assistant
As you can probably infer, there will be no meme post today: Sarah has gone with family and friends to celebrate having triumphed over her enemies (mainly pneumonia, bronchitis, high altitude, city sewer backups, and stress, but not excluding a leaking washing machine hose and an oven) for another year of life.
Wish the party well, please, and if you must food fight with cake in the comments, I expect YOU to clean it up. Especially the fan housing! And please don’t allow the kitties any sugar: they’re quite hyper enough, thank you!
Wait, they left the cats, a fan, and cake, all together, unsupervised?
Oh, my goodness me…
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Cue the video of the chimp with the AK-47…😆
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Worse, one of the cats is Indy, who lacks only mastery of the #2 Philips screwdriver to become a destructor.
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http://ace.mu.nu/archives/cat%20christmas%20coming%20soon.jpg
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Nope. There’s still Fluffy. And the sea serpent in the minion pool. And the aardvark.
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c4c
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The kitties can’t have sugar, but what about Fluffy?
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Ohhh, that would be so, sooo much worse. You think cats are a problem, you don’t even want to THINK about a dragon on a sugar high! :-D
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Why? When this puppy goes on a sugar high, I just curl up and take a long deep nap … Now, I mean. Back when naps weren’t an option? Oh, dear, my. Never mind. Hide the cake from the dragon.
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The Reader believes that there is no prohibition on giving Fluffy sugar. Whether you survive the experience is another question. The Reader will watch from a safe distance (measured in miles).
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I think that’s fair warning.
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Caution
Fluffy likes Creme Brulée!
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That is deeply unsurprising.
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The aardvark has provided bonbons for Fluffy on many occasion and not gotten so much as singed.
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The aardvark is rumored to have a dimensional shifting device. He drops off the sugar for Fluffy and instantly goes elsewhere.
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Now you’ve done it.
The dimensional shifting device is for shifting in the BBQ ingredients. And just for that, the aardvark is going to keep shifting you in until you watch him deliver bonbons and sit down by the BBQ fire to enjoy it.
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The Reader wishes you a happy birthday, Sarah. He wishes you well to continue to feed his habit for many years.
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Fluffy’s fine with sugar. He’s even careful to caramelize it without damaging anything.
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Happy Birthday, Dear Hostess!
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Holly, do you have a link to your online work?
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If you’re asking about if I am taking more clients as an assistant, no, not at this time.
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Happy Birthday Sarah. Have a good day/weekend.
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c4c (think I clicked on “send more comments”?)
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Happy birthday, Sarah! Enjoy!
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Hippo birdie two ewes. Hippo birdie two ewes. Hippo birdie deer ewes. Hippo birdie two ewes!
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Your post was -not- showing when I made my post.
I have been using this gag for about 50 years. It’s something of a family tradition. I have only once seen it used outside my family. In 50 years.
Are we kin?
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Many happy returns!
And you heard what the assistant said. Foooood fiiiiiiiight!
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Food fight? You wanna food fight??
Beans or no beans in chili. Sugar or no sugar in cornbread. That’s how you get a food fight!
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Chili without beans is not chili. Cornbread with sugar is corn cake. QED. :-P
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Truth!
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She actually said “food fight with the cake”.
A worthier opponent I cannot conceive.
Oh, and btw, happy birthday Sarah!
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Happy birthday, Space Princess! And be sure to not be good.😉
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Happy Birthday, Sarah!
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Here’s to surviving another year, if only to spite the bastards! :-D
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Happy Solar Revolution day! May you have many more.
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{ALL CLAP}: Happy, happy birthday…
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Happy Birthday, Sarah! We put the fan housing disassembly tools in a kitty proof container, though Indy was rubbing his paws together when he saw that.
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Worse, two of Indy’s younger siblings, the Wolf and Quicksilver (Yes, Pam, these names ARE your fault/credit/something, their human is a fan) live at our house, and the Wolf will definitely be assisting/interfering with disassembly tools. The Wolf also looks over my shoulder when I’m working on the computer: blog posts, moderation, discord, and X . . . I’m afraid he may be literate . . . Celia did you teach him to read?
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Yay! Have fun! ;)
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Happy Birthday Sarah!
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Lá breithe sona duit!
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Four Hippopotamus.
Two pair of Parakeet.
A Buck.
Seven sheep.
….
Hippo Birdie Two Ewe!
Hippo Birdie Two Ewe!
Hippo Birdie Deer Ewe!
Hippo Birdie Two Ewe!
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Winning!
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Many happy returns of the day!
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Happy Birthday, Sarah.
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And just so you’ll have something to groan about, one of the most clever bilingual puns I’ve seen in a while:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-1.43.17%E2%80%AFAM.png
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Happy birthday, you young punk!
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The Memes will come out
tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
that tomorrow
there’ll be memes!
In the meanwhile,
HIPY PAPY BETHETHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY
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You sing that song, you. Gotta wear the dress.
It’s in the rules.
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Little Black Dress Are Us!
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/eea3b1805ec6d89f6922cb91148f122c
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Party on Sarah.
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Happy natal anniversary, Sarah! Call if you need bail money.
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https://youtu.be/kXI6CdTVJ-0
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Happy Birthday!
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Ooh, ooh! I know one:
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Get drunk and get plastered,
You grouchy old (person of dubious ancestry),
Happy birthday to YOU!
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Happy birthday to my favorite male Mormon author with a great…
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…set of antlers?
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Conversation as the senior Huns and Hoydens watch Sarah and family leave for the Birthday Bash:
”No meme?”
”No meme.”
”No meme today. Meme tomorrow.”
”???”
”What? There’s always a meme tomorrow! Look, somebody’s got to have some damn perspective around here! Meme! Sooner or later, MEME!”
(Stolen with absolutely no apologies to the writers and actors of ‘Babylon 5’)
Happy birthday Sarah!
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Love it
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Happy Birthday, Sarah! May you enjoy many more!
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Space Princess, Princes, ladies, gentlemen, dragons of all colors, bovines of all gentleness, and other friends as might be in attendance:
In lieu of memes, please allow me to direct your attention to an archived discussion between MIT alumni concerning the difficulties of extracting domestic canines from within an elk carcass. Have a drink of water in another room and then come and have a seat. Ready? Begin:
https://web.mit.edu/munch/Public/humor/elk
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This one has been up on the late Jerry Pournelle’s website for 17 years.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/dogsinelk.html
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Neat! Thanks.
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(or possibly a discussion on Usenet archived at MIT as it is all headed, “Recent thread in rec.pet.”)
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Happy Birthday, Sarah!
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Happy Birthday Sarah! Please to continue revolving around the Sun! (Hic!) What is this marvelous stuff I found hidden in the corner. (Hic!)
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*Throws confetti* Happy Birthday!
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Many happy returns of the day!
The blue mice and pink elephants promised to behave. Then they noticed the aardvark has tricked them into the magical promise-enforcing circle, so they will.
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Happy Birthday Sarah, may the next year be awesome for you!
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