xkcd

by **singing about potatoes** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:49 pm UTC

Me was born on August 20th. Shit went DOWN on August 20th.
1) The battle of Yarmuk, which nobody's ever heard of, but I actually had BEFORE I found out it was my birthday.
2) Foundation of Hungary as a sovereign state.
3) The 1812 overture's debut performance.
4) Leon Trotsky got SERVED by a guy with an ice axe. In Mexico.
5) Viking I was launched.
6) Voyager II was launched.
7) The Soviet Union officially collapsed (this was actually on the day I was born)

H.P. Lovecraft was born.
9) Gandhi was born.
10) 3 popes died. Obviously not the same day.
11) I was born.
Okay, so, we can obviously deduce 2 things from the above:
1) I SERVE Communism.
2) I SERVE Catholicism.
Thank you.

by **LE4dGOLEM** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:14 pm UTC

singing about potatoes wrote: H.P. Lovecraft was born.

Again with the appropriate placing of number eight!

Click link. Receive my face. · by **bbctol** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:39 pm UTC

October Eighth, eight minutes before midnight. Eight plus an infitesimal time amount would have made me born on my mom's birthday and my parents' anniversary.
Oh well. At least I can see ghosts, according to some book I read.

by **Silverbolt** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:54 pm UTC

The second day of the tenth month of the one thousand nine hundred eighty seventh year of the Anno Domini Era of the Gregorian calendar.

I find phpBB's lack of a birthday function disturbing.

+1 post.

by **singing about potatoes** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:06 pm UTC

LE4dGOLEM wrote:
singing about potatoes wrote: H.P. Lovecraft was born.

Again with the appropriate placing of number eight!

Sorry, it was deliberate this time...

by **parkaboy** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:15 pm UTC

march 24th

by **Babbler** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:19 am UTC

September 30, 1987. The latest date for register the Quebec school system is/was September 30, so I was a year younger than my peer in primary and secondary school.

by **Grincement** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:46 pm UTC

Babbler wrote:September 30, 1987. The latest date for register the Quebec school system is/was September 30, so I was a year younger than my peer in primary and secondary school.

Which would you prefer? Just my aunt is expecting and as she has to have a c-section she can choose to have a baby either the last day of august or the first day of september.

by **LE4dGOLEM** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:16 pm UTC

Squeak wrote:
Babbler wrote:September 30, 1987. The latest date for register the Quebec school system is/was September 30, so I was a year younger than my peer in primary and secondary school.

Which would you prefer? Just my aunt is expecting and as she has to have a c-section she can choose to have a baby either the last day of august or the first day of september.

Oldest in year is ALWAYS BETTER THAN youngest in year. Always.

by **singing about potatoes** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:36 pm UTC

LE4dGOLEM wrote:
Squeak wrote:
Babbler wrote:September 30, 1987. The latest date for register the Quebec school system is/was September 30, so I was a year younger than my peer in primary and secondary school.

Which would you prefer? Just my aunt is expecting and as she has to have a c-section she can choose to have a baby either the last day of august or the first day of september.

Oldest in year is ALWAYS BETTER THAN youngest in year. Always.

That's true as far as the child's happiness goes, as far as I can tell. I was one of the youngest in my year as well, and VERY unhappy.

by **hermaj** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:51 pm UTC

My friend Yamicles was the youngest in our grade by quite a significant amount, seeing as he'd skipped a grade and all, and he was very happy. (To give you an idea, I'm in second year university and he's not 18 yet.) It depends on the personality of the kid and their friends and the school, I guess.

Anyway I'm in December which is quite happily in the middle. I do not understand at all why we have our cutoffs in June-July, which is totally the middle of the scholastic year over here.

by **Vandole** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:30 pm UTC

hermaj wrote:(...I'm in second year university and he's not 18 yet.)

I have a friend like that. He's 14 right now, in grade 11. He'll get his G1 (equivalent to a learner's permit, I believe) after a couple months in university (Unless he decides to do a victory lap, which seems likely considering he is in no way prepared for uni)

He's only skipped one grade, but his birthday is in the middle of December, so he seems younger.

I know a girl who was born straddling new years. I can't remember if she was born before or after midnight, though I'm thinking she said the labour began in December and ended in January's.

by **Toeofdoom** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:29 am UTC

Yeah, ill be 17 until october cause i skipped a grade, one of my friends until september. Not as young as some of the others mentioned, but still a little wierd.

by **singing about potatoes** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:59 am UTC

Toeofdoom wrote:Yeah, ill be 17 until october cause i skipped a grade, one of my friends until september. Not as young as some of the others mentioned, but still a little wierd.

I won't be applicable for a driver's license (at 16) until 2 months after I start uni. Summer semester (only have to take it once, thank god) starts in June, birthday in August. I won't be able to vote (18) until my junior year. I won't be able to drink until I have a master's degree (or two, if I decide to go for a second instead of a job or Ph.D, which I might).

by **VannA** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:50 am UTC

Gordon wrote:VannA - July 2nd

Fixed.

by **Owijad** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:22 am UTC

singing about potatoes wrote:
Toeofdoom wrote:Yeah, ill be 17 until october cause i skipped a grade, one of my friends until september. Not as young as some of the others mentioned, but still a little wierd.
I won't be applicable for a driver's license (at 16) until 2 months after I start uni. Summer semester (only have to take it once, thank god) starts in June, birthday in August. I won't be able to vote (18) until my junior year. I won't be able to drink until I have a master's degree (or two, if I decide to go for a second instead of a job or Ph.D, which I might).

What school are you going to? I'm likely heading to http://www.simons-rock.edu/, although a year later than you.

by **singing about potatoes** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:25 am UTC

Owijad wrote:
singing about potatoes wrote:
Toeofdoom wrote:Yeah, ill be 17 until october cause i skipped a grade, one of my friends until september. Not as young as some of the others mentioned, but still a little wierd.
I won't be applicable for a driver's license (at 16) until 2 months after I start uni. Summer semester (only have to take it once, thank god) starts in June, birthday in August. I won't be able to vote (18) until my junior year. I won't be able to drink until I have a master's degree (or two, if I decide to go for a second instead of a job or Ph.D, which I might).

What school are you going to? I'm likely heading to http://www.simons-rock.edu/, although a year later than you.

I thought about Simon's Rock, but they're a bit too hard-core (and large) for me, and I don't like the transfer program. I'm going to hit up the CSULA early entrance program.

by **Owijad** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:34 am UTC

Large and hardcore? O.o

I can see my standards differ drastically from yours

(although makes sense not to go to school on the other side of the continent if you have something just as good at home...)

by **singing about potatoes** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:39 am UTC

Owijad wrote:Large and hardcore? O.o

I can see my standards differ drastically from yours

(although makes sense not to go to school on the other side of the continent if you have something just as good at home...)

What I meant by "hardcore" is "they take themselves far too seriously". I CANNOT handle people who take themselves seriously. That's why I prefer small communities as well.

And honestly, the only geographic consideration was that there are WAY too many bugs on the east coast. When I move, I'm moving either to some small pacific island, to Australia (so I'm a hypocrite, oh well), or to Europe. No east coast. Me bug magnet.

by **hermaj** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:45 am UTC

Why are you a hypocrite? Australia is a pretty awesome place to move to. Anyway mosquitos are pretty easily taken care of, a well-timed slap and then they are just a smear on your palm, it is pretty easy to win.

I do not know what other bugs you are thinking of, seeing as over here sometimes bugs aren't bugs, sometimes they are even lobsters. And lobsters are tasty creatures.

Yeah. Come to Australia. I think that was the point of this. (Except now I am craving seafood.)

by **singing about potatoes** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:52 am UTC

hermaj wrote:Why are you a hypocrite? Australia is a pretty awesome place to move to. Anyway mosquitos are pretty easily taken care of, a well-timed slap and then they are just a smear on your palm, it is pretty easy to win.

I'm a hypocrite because while the east coast has bugs, Australia WINS in "poisonous creatures per square meter".

by **hermaj** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:00 am UTC

Oh, they're alright little animals, really. I'm not dead yet, and the only way I've even been injured (indirectly) because of an animal, the animal in question was an innocent little tortoise.

by **lanicita** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:59 am UTC

parkaboy wrote:march 24th

Heyyyy, one day before me!

by **damienthebloody** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:47 am UTC

i was right in the middle of my year age-wise in australia, but i moved to america for year 12, and the way the age cut-offs and school years work meant i was comfortably the youngest in the grade, as were my little brother and sister...was kind of odd, but didn't make too much difference.

by **Toeofdoom** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:51 am UTC

singing about potatoes wrote:
hermaj wrote:Why are you a hypocrite? Australia is a pretty awesome place to move to. Anyway mosquitos are pretty easily taken care of, a well-timed slap and then they are just a smear on your palm, it is pretty easy to win.
I'm a hypocrite because while the east coast has bugs, Australia WINS in "poisonous creatures per square meter".

hehehe. Seriously, the poisonous creatures thing is about as crazily exaggerated as the call to ban DHMO. You know about that right?

by **hermaj** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:12 am UTC

I totally forgot to mention but singing with potatoes inspired me. I share a birthday with Bob Hawke! This should mean something to Australian people.

by **Toeofdoom** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:17 am UTC

Since when did australian schools teach anything about political history here?

by **hermaj** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:23 am UTC

We were taught about Whitlam.

by **German Sausage** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:39 am UTC

yeah, but by our 'left-biased' teachers who got a free friggen education thanks to him, rather than the curriculum itself.
barton? barton the simpsons??

by **parkaboy** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:52 pm UTC

singing about potatoes wrote:
hermaj wrote:Why are you a hypocrite? Australia is a pretty awesome place to move to. Anyway mosquitos are pretty easily taken care of, a well-timed slap and then they are just a smear on your palm, it is pretty easy to win.
I'm a hypocrite because while the east coast has bugs, Australia WINS in "poisonous creatures per square meter".

venomous. venom = animal poison = botanical.

sorry i had it beaten into me a few years ago.

by **singing about potatoes** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:55 pm UTC

parkaboy wrote:
singing about potatoes wrote:
hermaj wrote:Why are you a hypocrite? Australia is a pretty awesome place to move to. Anyway mosquitos are pretty easily taken care of, a well-timed slap and then they are just a smear on your palm, it is pretty easy to win.
I'm a hypocrite because while the east coast has bugs, Australia WINS in "poisonous creatures per square meter".

venomous. venom = animal poison = botanical.

sorry i had it beaten into me a few years ago.

I ought to know that. Sorry.

by **damienthebloody** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:34 am UTC

i share a birthday with the king of thailand, the most beloved monarch in the world!

by **lanicita** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:59 am UTC

Well, I share one with Sir Elton John. AND Aretha Franklin. So there.

by **Gordon** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:25 am UTC

Mr. T is born on my birthday, I pity the foo who don't respect that. Also whats her name.. Lindsay Lohan, but that's less impressive.

by **lanicita** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:36 am UTC

Gordon wrote:Also whats her name.. Lindsay Lohan, but that's less impressive.

I'd say that's negative points.

by **Vandole** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:00 am UTC

I share a birthday with John De Lorean and Kim Dae Jung, a South Korean former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Also a member each of ACDC and Pink Floyd.

by **Coruscate** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:56 pm UTC

12th January, been and gone, thank god.

I was 16 when I started uni btw, not that it means anything much, I'm 22 now and still haven't left heh

by **Roffle** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:55 pm UTC

I was born on the fourth of Juli. Dunno if anything happened on that date. Yup. Don't like Tom Cruise, though.

... What? Uni at 16? How the hell, are you some kind of genious?

by **Traisenau** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:34 pm UTC

September 17th, 1990.

Only interesting thing that happened was that The first Linux Kernel was released to the interblag when I turned 1

by **spacermase** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:27 am UTC

...Actually, as it happens....mine is today!

Huzzah for turning 20!

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