Mar 09 2013

Today is my birthday. WHERE ARE MY PRESENTS?

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by PZ Myers

(via Laughing Squid)

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catwhisperer

9 March 2013 at 7:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Birthday!

I’ve umm… volunteered my horse for an acupuncture demo in your honour. I’m determined to not imagine any benefits of the treatment and my honest opinion on the benefits (or lack thereof)

Does that count as a present?
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ChasCPeterson

9 March 2013 at 7:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That poor animal. Is that its radula protruding from its siphon? That’s gotta hurt.
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kieran

9 March 2013 at 7:42 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

How many “f”‘s in present…that’s right there’s no f’in present. Happy birthday
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Beatrice

9 March 2013 at 7:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy birthday, PZ!
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carlie

9 March 2013 at 7:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PZ!!!!
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Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls

9 March 2013 at 7:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Grog cake being transportered your way.
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nigelTheBold, also Avo

9 March 2013 at 7:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Birthday to the best Evil Overlord ever.

Okay. Maybe not ever. But definitely the best Evil Overlord on Pharyngula. Or at least among the top two.
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Nick Gotts (formerly KG)

9 March 2013 at 7:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Many happy returns! Despite your own prediction of your limited lifespan, I hope still to be commenting on your blog when we’re both nonagenarians. Assuming there’s still such a thing as a “blog” of course.
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Parrowing

9 March 2013 at 7:57 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy happy birthday, PZ.
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toro

9 March 2013 at 7:58 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Daze, prof! Will you allow Stephen Fry’s esteemed colleague “Dr. House” to sing for you this classic song about things you’re liable to read in the bible?
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janiceintoronto

9 March 2013 at 8:22 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Your presents have been hidden by the Birthday Octopus. She loves to watch people look high and low for their gifts. Check under your pillow for starters…
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theophontes (坏蛋)

9 March 2013 at 8:22 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

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Zeno

9 March 2013 at 8:24 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

May you have many sinuously coiled returns of the day!
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mrianabrinson

9 March 2013 at 8:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy birthday PZ!

How about some sea stars? I know they aren’t octopi, but I think they are cute. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish

I can even get you a pic of a woman to go with the sea stars:
http://abclic.deviantart.com/art/Sea-Star-Lagoon-277116768

I know. It’s not the real thing, but I thought you might at least like the pic.
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jaytheostrich

9 March 2013 at 8:44 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Look at this way, PZ, we’re one year closer to the invention of immortality technology!
In the meantime, happy birthday!
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chigau (just call me chigau)

9 March 2013 at 8:46 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Bithday, PZ.
I didn’t get you anything but good wishes.
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michaeld

9 March 2013 at 9:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy birthday PZ.
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=8)-DX

9 March 2013 at 9:36 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

What? I’ve been reading this for years and I’ve only just realised you share a birthday with me? 9th March? Well Happy birthday us! (With a party hat).
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Lynna, OM

9 March 2013 at 10:08 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Here ya go, PZ. I’m sending you a look at a photo my brother took just a couple of weeks ago in Zion National Park.

“Birthday Card” link.

This is proof that even though mormons named Zion in honor of their whacko religion, and then proceeded to name every high point, stream etc. after characters and places in their mythology, the scenery doesn’t care. Geology doesn’t care. Seasons don’t care. They fucking refuse to be downgraded by association with a cult.

The rocks stand with you, PZ.
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lamaria

9 March 2013 at 10:12 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

So cute! Can´t help but squeal adoringly. Would sigh a “happy birthday, Mister PeeZee” but my microphone is broken.
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Akira MacKenzie

9 March 2013 at 10:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Birthday!
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IslandBrewer

9 March 2013 at 10:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

What, you already got cookies from Miri!
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jackiepaper

9 March 2013 at 10:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yesterday was my birthday! However, I have decided to extend the revelry all weekend. W00t! W00t!

Happy birthday, PZ!
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Rey Fox

9 March 2013 at 10:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy birthday, I’ll see if I can find a little plastic diver guy for you.
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michaellatiolais

9 March 2013 at 10:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy birthday, PZ! I give you a video with people chasing cephalopods around at night.
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ChasCPeterson

9 March 2013 at 10:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I can even get you a pic of a woman to go with the sea stars

you haven’t been paying much attention, have you?

(plus, I’m pretty sure that PZ could figure out how to find pictures of pretty ladies on the internet hisself if he wanted to.)
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Wes F.

9 March 2013 at 11:16 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happiest of birthdays, P-Zed!

WF
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opposablethumbs

9 March 2013 at 11:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Birthday, PZ! It’s my birthday today too, and I’m very happy to share it with you. Also I just ate a seafood birthday treat, which is as close as I’m going to get to anything tentacular today (unless I manage to involve some seafood in supper tonight as well :-D ).

Here’s wishing you a thoroughly tentacular and most squidly day!
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erikthebassist

9 March 2013 at 11:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, you share common morphological traits with a monkey, and share an ancestor with one too….
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badandfierce

9 March 2013 at 12:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It’s also Rio the river otter’s birthday! Leaving aside the disappointing fact that she doesn’t have tentacles even though she lives in an aquarium (there’s an octopus around the corner, though), she’s still healthy at an age that her wild compatriots aren’t known to ever reach, is living a happy, healthy life under the care of a dozen trainers and specialists, and is expanding our knowledge of her species and ecosystem every day. While she adorably cavorts with dog toys stuffed with fish heads.
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antaresrichard

9 March 2013 at 1:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Decloaking just long enough to wish you a very Happy Birthday, PZ!
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brazenlucidity

9 March 2013 at 1:17 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You made another trip around Sol? Congrats!
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cag

9 March 2013 at 1:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Birthday, PZ. I’m sending you the useful parts of the bible. It is the least I can do.
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Susannah

9 March 2013 at 1:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

As we say, in Spanglish, Apio verde, PZ!

(After all, you’re vegetarian now, aren’t you?)
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newfie

9 March 2013 at 2:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Birthday, PZ.
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Xanthë, chronic tuck

9 March 2013 at 3:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy birthday, PZ, and I hope you and Mary (and however many of the spawn are around) enjoy it.
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birgerjohansson

9 March 2013 at 4:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

If you are not happy about your gifts, Rat from the comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” has many suggestions for what to do. He keeps trying to publish those suggestions in the form of children’s tales, but due to the extreme violence he has had no luck so far.
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DLC

9 March 2013 at 5:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Congratulations and a plate of fried calamari.
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MG Myers

9 March 2013 at 7:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy birthday, PZ!!!
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didgen

9 March 2013 at 8:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy, Happy Birthday!
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Angela Freeman

9 March 2013 at 8:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy B-Day! Enjoy it!
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Dana Hunter

9 March 2013 at 9:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Gotcher presents right here, m’overlord.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/09/i-got-you-a-wooden-octopus-and-some-beatles-for-your-birthday/

Haz a happee!
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theoreticalgrrrl

9 March 2013 at 9:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Birthday!
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Hekuni Cat, MQG

9 March 2013 at 11:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Birthday, PZ!
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Taslima Nasreen

10 March 2013 at 7:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Birthday, my Lord.
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Michael Tucker

10 March 2013 at 10:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Happy Birthday PZ. Love your blog. Enjoy your day.
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blf

11 March 2013 at 4:40 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The mildly deranged penguin just searched her pockets, and found (besides the usual assortment of dust bunnies, broken pens, spare hand grenades, several copies of The Grauniad from the last several decades, a broken watch, what looks like the remains of a sushi meal she mislaid several years ago, half a drumkit, several Margaritas, and other odds and sods) the rind from some, sadly now unidentifiable, cheese. She’s managed to scrap most of mold off (those hand grenades came in handy) — except for the bit which kept fighting back — and asks it that’s Ok?

She’ll post it as soon as see can find a sturdy-enough steel barrel it can’t chew its way out of…