Thursday - February 25, 2016
I didn’t know
I had to read the post below to learn that today is Turtler’s birthday.
Happy Birthday Turtler !!!
I didn’t have time to bake you a cake, not even a digital one. So here’s a chocolate turtle(r) with a candle. Make a wish!
Poor little fella looks a tad impaled. Oh well. At least this one didn’t melt when I lit the candle!
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Monday - May 04, 2015
Another Senior Moment
Oh Bad Drew. Bad Bad Drew.
He forgot that it was Peiper’s birthday today.
Egad.
You know what’s even worse?
Peiper forgot too!!
Happy Birthday chumleigh.
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Friday - January 02, 2015
Happy Belated Birthday Rich K
Ok, it’s a day late. Not that we’re ignoring him, it’s just that we didn’t know. And no, I don’t always read all the comments every day.
So what can I do? It’s not like he put his b-day in his member profile or anything like that. [cough cough]
Right then. The old buzzard admits to being 59, so to help keep him off his rocker (where he seems to be usually) but to provide some stability, we’re sending him a really great birthday tip.
Party on, birthday dude!
Maybe we should get him something to help him feel a bit younger.
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Monday - November 11, 2013
in a post friend drew said, quote. “ I can live without a bit of satisfaction “
WELL OF COURSE YOU CAN.
BUT .....
Guilt seems to be keeping me company lately and I totally forgot and failed to send a card. So I’ll do it here.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DREW
with thanks to: http://www.icondrawer.com
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Tuesday - May 14, 2013
Drat, I Missed It By This Much
For the last few years he’s been on PC-free vacation in Palm Springs about this time, so it slipped my mind that last week I ought to have done a post for
Yeah, that looks like about enough candles. Best suited for outdoor birthday parties, or at least ones in rooms with very high ceilings.
Now, what should we send him? Nothing that has to be smuggled in, so that rules out a brace of 1911s and all the red haired beauties on this blog. And new motorcars are simply beyond one’s budget. Something available online over there. New dust bins! Extra large tips!! No, that’s lame. Badgers! No. Those don’t ship well at all. Sock clips! No. Lederhosen! Come on old sod, get real. Think, Drew, think!
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Sunday - November 11, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DREW
Now ain’t she pretty? Is that eye candy er what? And how many friends you got give you a bridge for your birthday? I ask you.
If you ever visit this place and go there, just tell em that I gave it to you when they question the toll you might set up. LOL!
THE IRON BRIDGE AT TELFORD was built by Abraham Darby over the river Severn. It was the first arch bridge in the world to be made out of cast iron, a material which was previously far too expensive to use for large structures. However, a new blast furnace nearby lowered the cost and so encouraged local engineers and architects to solve a long-standing problem of a crossing over the river.
In the early eighteenth century, the only way to cross the Severn Gorge was by ferry. However, the industries that were growing in the area of Coalbrookdale and Broseley needed a more reliable crossing.
In 1773, Thomas Farnolls Pritchard wrote to a local ironmaster, John Wilkinson of Broseley, to suggest building a bridge out of cast iron. By 1775, Pritchard had finalised the plans, but he died in December 1777, only a month after work had begun.
Abraham Darby III, who was the grandson of the first foundry owner and an ironmaster working at Coalbrookdale in the gorge, was commissioned to cast and build the bridge. The iron for the new bridge was cast at his foundry.
Shares were issued to raise the £3,200 required, and Darby agreed to fund any excess. Although it had been predicted that 300 tons of iron would be needed (costing £7 a ton), in the end 379 tons were used, costing Darby and his company nearly £3,000. There would be many other costs to bear (masonry abutments, assembly, etc.), so that the project was far more expensive than first envisaged. Darby bore most of the cost overrun, and was in debt for the rest of his life.
Being the first of its sort, the construction had no precedent; the method chosen to create the structure was therefore based on carpentry. Each member of the frame was cast separately, and fastenings followed those used in woodworking, such as the mortise and tenon and blind dovetail joints, adapted as necessary to the different properties of cast iron. Bolts were used to fasten the half-ribs together at the crown of the arch. Very large parts were needed to create a structure to span 100 feet rising to 60 feet above the river. The largest parts were the half-ribs, each about 70 ft long and weighing 5.25 tons. The bridge comprises more than 800 castings of 12 basic types.
The bridge was raised in the summer of 1779, and it was opened on New Year’s Day 1781.
Erm .... Drew. I am having second thoughts about something. You may NOT want to tell anyone that I actually gave you this bridge should you ever make it over here. You know, it might cause some bad feelings what with another foreigner buying or receiving another bit of their history. We’ll just keep it between us. Okay? Be our secret, you’ll know it’s yours, but nobody else will. Be safer that way. (coughs)
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Thursday - November 11, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DREW … HAPPY BIRTHDAY DREW … another year older and deeper in tech.
Yeah well, the important posts have to wait. First thing here I have to let everyone know it’s Drew’s birthday although you’d never guess by the headline.
I’m so subtle about these things.
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO DREWWWWWWWWWW. HAAAAPY BIRTHDAYYYYYYYY TOOO YOUUUUUUUUU.
“this is my cake and I know you want it, but you can’t have it, cause I ain’t gonna give you none, no,no. Ain’t gonna give you none.”
(from, None of my jelly roll, Lizzie Miles and Sharkey’s Knights of Dixieland)
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