Saturday
...there is a party celebrating a half century (not out), at Samizdata HQ tonight.
The company was delightful...
...the booze plentiful...
...the gifts were exceedingly creative
Lovely ladies, a full bar and some intelligent conversation- sounds like heaven.
I'm insanely jealous.
Posted by Tman at June 14, 2008 11:13 PM
there is a party celebrating a half century (not out)
So who's been in the closet for fifth years? ;-)
(Not that there's anything wrong with that....)
Posted by Ted Schuerzinger at June 15, 2008 02:26 AM
Happy birthday, Hippo! K and I are hitting the Grand Havana Room in Beverly Hills tonight - there will definitely be a toast to you (and a cigar smoked by him in your honor).
Posted by Jackie Danicki at June 15, 2008 03:02 AM
When I first saw that hippo, I thought you folks had done something unspeakable to a live cat....
Posted by Ted Schuerzinger at June 15, 2008 03:15 AM
A half century? But you don't look a day over 49! :-B
J/K Happy birthday.
Posted by Sunfish at June 15, 2008 08:09 AM
I thought the hippo with the bottle of bourbon in its mouth was pure class! Very nice evening.
Happy birthday mate.
Posted by Johnathan Pearce at June 15, 2008 10:41 AM
Happy Birthday! Fifty is a good age, people keep telling me...
Posted by Ian Grey at June 15, 2008 11:14 AM
Tsk Tsk
What these youngsters will get up to.
Wimps the lot of them!
Happy birthday Perry.
Now we know his nickname folks!
Posted by RAB at June 15, 2008 07:49 PM
Now we know his age...Gemini are known for their baby faces, and this one is no different:-)
Posted by Alisa at June 15, 2008 09:42 PM
Happy Birthday, Perry
I've been reading your blog regularly - doesn't seem that long ago that we were fagging in Leamington House.
Best wishes,
Patrick (Paddy)
Posted by Patrick De Salvo at June 16, 2008 11:16 AM
I've been reading your blog regularly - doesn't seem that long ago that we were fagging in Leamington House.
Note to American readers, that doesn't mean what you think it does :-D
Posted by Albion at June 16, 2008 12:12 PM
50. An excellent vintage. I can enjoy it for a little longer and then I will have to begin admitting to being 'in my fifth decade'. See, if you want to 'delay' a year, then use the ordinal rather than the cardinal ranges. That way, you can still say you are in your forth decade.
Of course, doing that is nothing more than a chronological comb-over and is about as easy to recognize. I guess just enjoy the round number. It is easy to remember when people ask. And around this age that begins to matter. After all, losing your memory is the second sign of old age. At the moment, I have forgotten the first sign. :-)
Also, celebrating birthdays is like voting in Chicago elections. Party early and party often. But it looks like you've got that part well under way.
Posted by Midwesterner at June 16, 2008 01:59 PM
Happy Birthday! I noticed the women in the forefront of the first picture has a fork and knife... but.... I don't see anything on her plate. What is she cutting exactly? haha.
All the best!
Posted by D.C. at June 16, 2008 03:58 PM
When I first saw that hippo, I thought you folks had done something unspeakable to a live cat....
Haha, same...
All the best, Perry!
Posted by James Waterton at June 19, 2008 12:27 PM
