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Birthday Greeting
Happy Birthday to You
Challenge: Birthday Greetings and Happy Birthday to You Edward Lear, our most constant patron, points out that it is all well and good to have birthdays that end with zeros or even with fives, however, few birthdays come so easily packaged. He suggests that a plethora of limericks should be wrought for the 80% of birthday celebrations and birthday toasts which are required for a goodly collection. And, in fact, "Goodie, " as in "Goodie Edwards" was a venerated nickname for women in Colonial Times, which tickles us, but I digress. Well, our Kathleen believes in giving the customer what she requires, and accordingly, "Birthdays: Odd Yrs" has come about. "Years" is not spelled out, for it would not fit nicely upon the navigation bar of Here-Be-Limerick-Poems (Molly's Pub Website). There may be, perhaps, a distressing similarity in the doggerel therein, for "thirty" so nicely fits with the same meter served by "twenty," and "forty" similarly preserves the rhythm where "thirty" might go (etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, to quote Yul Brenner).
Seventy rather threw a sabot in the works, from whence comes the term, "sabotage," but we digress yet again. Those were tardy in coming, but
the 70th birthday shipment (ages 70-79) has at long arrived
and we shall now have to revoke the holding pattern previously extended to those of you who were sixty-nine.
21st BirthdayYou're adult now, and want to have fun
The years have flown by, twenty-one
Is a milestone, but note
That your judgment's inchoate,
Remember you're still underdone. Twenty-twoOur birthday girl(guy) is twenty-two
A great opportunity you
Won't want to miss
So join us in this,
Party for our motley crew. Twenty-threeOur birthday girl(boy) is twenty-three
We were hoping that you would be free
To climb in your car
And come just as you are
For a casual party soiree.
We shall start with the twenties, and soon add the thirties, up through the sixties, wherein those in their seventies shall have to wait for service, since those years are more troublesome, and the difficult patron is always served last, isn't he? Then we shall pick up with the eighties and so forth until we have left only few patrons in want of feting. Surely, as so many now exercise regularly and take anti-oxidants, we shall eventually come to one hundred if we do not find ourselves all birthdayed out so to speak.
In the meantime, we consider special requests for a birthday greeting.
Twenty-fourOur birthday girl(boy) is twenty-four
But anyway, who's keeping score?
It's a chance for a shindig
So come take a spin and pig
Out on gourmet food galore. A Birthday Greeting for Twenty-sixOur birthday girl(boy) is twenty-six
So let's all get together and mix
Oh, the fat we will chew
With a good wine or brew
And the doldrums that we'll eighty-six!
More: Birthday Greetings and Happy Birthday to You
Twenty-sevenSuch an odd year, that strange twenty-seven
Is still good excuse for some leaven
Of fun for the taking
So join us in making
The neighbors believe we're stone-deaf then. Twenty-eightOur birthday girl(guy/boy) is twenty-eight
That's cause enough to celebrate
So come to our house
And help the guy(girl) grouse
About "The Big 0" on her(his) plate. And so on: Birthday Greetings and Happy Birthday to You
Twenty-nineThe day you become twenty-nine
Enjoy it! You're marking the time
When you'll wake up thirty
Those round numbers hurt, we
Advise you to note the time-line. Variation: Twenty-nineThose birthdays which end in a nine
Are hard ones, so join us this time
To honor our hero
Next year's ends in zero
She'll(he'll) be under the covers, supine.
We have rather run out of the twenties and of course that means the
thirties
have become inevitable, but as you go receive our blessing, and a
Happy Birthday to You from all of Us Here!
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