It's Allies birthday and all of us here at Trooper York want to wish her a happy and a healthy birthday.
Allie is a new addition to our little gang and her insights and stories are welcomed and much appreciated.
Happy birthday comrade.
Michaleen Flynn: No patty-fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times. Hold on to your hats
Nostrovia, Allie. I'll have a shot of vodka and face Moscow as I drink.
ReplyDeleteNice graphic, Troop!
ReplyDeleteHerzlichen glückwunsch* Allie. Everyone deserves a HBD wish. Now did you bring Kuchen?
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*Note the concept of "happy" expressed as "luck"
Za vas, tovarisch Allie!
ReplyDeleteThe kuchen and borscht were consumed by the plumber, he likes my cooking :) I gave him the last of the Kuchen for the road, he was a very busy plumber yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI'm even wearing my Commie red dress for the occasion.
ReplyDeleteA toast: Okay, too long, Vodka for all!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday Allie!
Happy Birthday you big Commie.
ReplyDeleteCommie tits.
I get Castro, Stalin, Marx & Mao but why Jim Cramer?
ReplyDeleteIs it some sort of OWS joke?
That guy might be Tito.
ReplyDeleteCome on, people, know your commies - that's Stalin, Castro, Lenin, Mao and Marx, all here to toast their spiritual daughter and celebrant of the 100+ million innocents they slaughtered in the 20th century. L'chaim!
ReplyDeleteHey..what about Ho Chi Minh and Kim Jong Il!
ReplyDeleteI think I finally get it.
ReplyDeleteSads. Major sads.
I respect a man who kills good, real good.
ReplyDeleteI prefer Groucho Marx and John Lennon to the two pictured above.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Communist song
ReplyDelete@Allie: Thank God you didn't link John Lenin's "Imagine"
ReplyDeleteBut I'm surprised you didn't go for this. At least it's not atheistic commonism.
Me as a a little Communist child, cute as a button.
ReplyDeleteMany happy returns of the day.
ReplyDeletePoor Friedrich Engels. Slaved away at hard labor to support Marx's family while Marx screwed the maid and missed his deadlines by about 20 years. Yet Marx gets the glory and Engels is nothing more than Castro's beard.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, happy birthday to the Ninotchka of the Brooklyn Soviet.
Thankyou, Danke, Spasiba dear comrades!
ReplyDeleteWhat about Pol Pot?
ReplyDeleteWell, since the blog moves so fast and I missed the opportunity to respond earlier on the "Don't be haters" thread, I have to say that I do consider both Trooper and Allie to be friends. I have corresponded with both online and off, and the decency shines through with each, as Trooper says. No one agrees 100% of the time (even Allie and I don't - so much for communist camaraderie), but I already got to wish Allie a happy birthday and hope she and the rest of you all have many more.
ReplyDeleteI guess the only point I missed earlier is that when you interact with someone personally - even just online, that means more than with someone you don't share that with. Whatever some bigshot editor or politician, with whom you don't correspond, is up to with their acts and their opinions and their shenanigans, I guess I take it for granted that your opinion of them shouldn't matter as much. What you think of the people you really get to interact with is more meaningful.
I only say this because my Blogger account went dead for a few months a while back, and I never would have reactivated it had it not been for some reflective references to me that Chickie had written while I was in cyber-purgatory. He gets all the credit and the blame for my resuscitation! So yes, it was hard to try to figure out what's the best way to proceed with the raucous disputations we had, especially in The Wild Wisconsin Blog! I honestly found the time away from on-line to be rejuvenating and therapeutic, and hesitated for quite some time at the thought of coming back around.
But come back around I did, and Trooper's here like always, and doing well, thankfully enough, and it got me to finding my way to Allie, which I am very grateful for, and ultimately getting the two of them to play their music together delightfully with the rest of the blog buddies. It wasn't smooth sailing at first but I'm glad to see that the tide has turned! (If that even makes sense to say. I originally came up with some even stranger phrase that Theo would have probably smacked me for saying!)
So I guess it's interesting to see how things work out. These are the twists and turns on the road of life that make it all worthwhile and worth thinking about, and not about who said what about some famous bigshot that none of us really know, and never really will know, and who probably wouldn't care much about any of us back anyway.
Well, most of you know how wordy I can get - so I won't apologize for this. But hopefully it describes the moment well. Cheers! - Both to those of you whom I've offended and to those of you who always knew enough to never expect any better anyway. Lol.
Hey. Where's the cake?
ReplyDeleteWell said Ritmo.
ReplyDeleteThanks EBL.
ReplyDeleteBut hey, where'd everyone go, BTW? Was my fly unzipped? New network season premiere of something? Was it, unbeknownst to us, one of those kind of, you know, "parties"?
The photo is pretty cool.
Thanks Ritmo, you know that means a lot to me.
ReplyDeleteYeay. Back at ya - ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou know we love you Ritmo.
ReplyDeleteJust keep commenting here.
But also just realize that I don't pay by the word. Just sayn'
Has MamaM left us.
ReplyDeleteI love her to death.
tits.
Happy Birthday, Allie! May you have many more.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday Ms Allie
ReplyDeleteSlainte, and wishing you good craic all your life.
ReplyDeleteEBL got an Instalanche! Ha!
ReplyDeleteAnd Ritmo, I really enjoyed what you had to say here. We haven't had much back and forth, but we share mutual friends. One of them being chickenlittle (Bruce). He's a great guy, and you characterized him well. He really reads comments and gets a feel for the person behind the opinions whether he agrees with them or not. Which is so great because as I think I read in your comment, the topics we talk about online are trivial.
Thanks dear Allen, Roger and Tank, I really needed that craic, ran out a while ago.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to EBL on that Instalaunch!
One person's triviality is another person's passion. Grating cheese, for example.
ReplyDelete@Nick
ReplyDeleteYeah. I could have articulated that better. ;-)
Whatever some bigshot editor or politician, with whom you don't correspond, is up to with their acts and their opinions and their shenanigans, I guess I take it for granted that your opinion of them shouldn't matter as much.
ReplyDeleteNotice he doesn't say "bigshot blogger" -- instead he says of "editor" which I take to mean Tina Brown. Is that crystal clear enough for you? And by "blogger," I'm not refering to the woman who shall not be named.
@Darcy: Thanks for the kind words.
You're welcome, Bruce.
ReplyDeleteI think it's probably that I missed a whole lot (blonde), so I'm backing out of this, red-faced. :)
Darcy, I think Chickie is a good guy, too. I've liked him, and commenting with him, and don't wish him any ill. And like all of us, he's entitled to opinions that not everyone would agree with or share. But that doesn't mean I have to think he's always right. On this, I happen to think he's wrong, which is fine. But he seems to have suddenly worked me into a political crusade for reasons that I just don't understand (None of this having to do with a certain blogger, BTW). Again, I'm doing my best not to take that personally, even though he seems to take my own, impersonal opinions about things having nothing to do with him, personally. So by now I'm more worried for his sake, if anything.
ReplyDeleteI mean, I could have said "writer". Sullivan is the "editor" of his own blog. And "crystal clear enough" for whom? Why follow up one's own presumption of someone else's thoughts (which was, actually, wrong) with a declaration of crystal clarity? How does that make any sense, exactly?
But it shouldn't matter. Chickie has decided that I'm standing in the way of some sort of political crusade he's picked, and, oh well. I just don't know how I'm supposed to ameliorate that.
Anyway, thanks for moderating and thanks for seeing where my intentions are on this. I know we haven't had a lot of opportunity to interact more positively over the years, but I like the element and the good will you bring along and just haven't spoken up about that lately more out of sheepishness than anything else (at points I'd wanted to but wasn't sure how you'd take it). I'm not trying to butter you up. That's not how I am. But I mean what I say and I just appreciate your speaking up for the similar understanding that I'm not out to ruin a good thing for anyone else, either. Nor am I out to throw any "fast ones" on someone, as he seems to accuse me of. Yes, sometimes I say things in more rhetorically, er, "colorful" or fun ways, from time to time - or rush head-on with provisional opinions that I refine later with the benefit of more hindsight. I'm not perfect.
But that doesn't mean I hide what I mean to say or worse, don't mean it at all. Just because I'm wordy doesn't mean I'm scrutinizing over word choice and obsessing over how I could trip someone up over the extraneous details of an idea. It means the opposite, actually.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
I think a little bit of trust would be a good thing.
(I was hesitant at writing all this, but it's the truth. If anyone wants to disbelieve it, then, I'm pretty much done explaining by now. I know who I am and what I think and if someone else doesn't, then maybe it's not me that they're having the issue with).
Being careful not to upset a friend here, I don't think it ever hurts to try to explain or patch things up, Ritmo.
ReplyDeleteI hope you two do.
And thanks for the kind words.