Today is my birthday...here I thought all

[madmom]

the hoopla on google and else where was for me but it seems today is also the birthday of someone named Charles Dickens.
My bad

[Bossy Monkey]

1. More gruel!

Happy birthday!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Charles Dickens is LUCKY to share it with you!

I hope you're having a wonderful birthday, full of love, presents and cake!

[LynneSin]

3. Well left you a gift

It's a hearty gift for your big day

[siligut]

4. Happy Birthday!

Hope you have a great one

[ohiosmith]

5. Happy Birthday madmom.

[HappyMe]

6. Happy Birthday!

I hope the gruel cake your loved ones are preparing is delish!

[geardaddy]

7. Happy Birthday MM

It's my g/f's birthday, too.

[madmom]

8. Thanks all, so far it's been a pretty good day!

[progressoid]

9. ...

[bigwillq]

10. Happy Birthday!

[handmade34]

11. perfect day for a B-day!

[Mojorabbit]

12. Happy Birthday! I hope you have a day to remember. nt

[TuxedoKat]

13. Haha!

Well, if you have to share a birthday with someone famous, he's a pretty good person to share one with. Happy Birthday!

[pokerfan]

14. Happy birthday!

Other birthdays:

1804 – John Deere, American manufacturer
1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author
1873 – Thomas Andrews, British shipbuilder (RMS Titanic)
1885 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate
1932 – Gay Talese, American author
1956 – Emo Philips, American comedian
1960 – Robert Smigel, American actor and comedian
1960 – James Spader, American actor

Writer's Almanac (Garrison Keillor) for today:

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind-loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.

"The Old Age of Nostalgia" by Mark Strand, from Almost Invisible. © Alfred A. Knopf, 2012

It's the birthday ofSinclair Lewis (books by this author), born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota (1885), author ofMain Street (1920)andBabbitt (1922), and the first American to (...more)

It's the birthday of another writer from the prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder (books by this author), born just north of Pepin, Wisconsin (1867), author of the wildly popula (...more)

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/writers_almanac/2012/02/twa_20120207_64.mp3

[one_voice]

15. Happy Birthday...

hope your day was great!

[graywarrior]

16. Happy Birthday!

[MiddleFingerMom]

17. Damn his eyes!! If it weren't for that beslubbering rump-fed dewberry. today WOULD be all about you.

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Make the best of it, anyway!!!
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A very happy birthday to you!!!
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[madmom]

18. Thanks everyone, these posts are great lol, oh and

thanks for the hearts too, it really made my day special. DUers are the greatest!

[oleander hawkmoth]

19. Is this

your way of reminding me to go make that cake?

[madmom]

20. If I have to remind you........

[oleander hawkmoth]

21. Pfft.

You're the one who was gonna get cake batter I couldn't even lick off my fingers! >: C

[nolabear]

22. And Laura Ingalls Wilder!

Happy Birthday Madmom and Halfpint!

[pacalo]

23. I'm only about 11 hours late, but hope your birthday was a nice one!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

24. Well, I can only say one thing!

[mrs_p]

25. and Laura Ingalls Wilder

Happy birthday!

[elleng]

26. Happy Birthday!

Me and Rosa Parks, Feb. 4!

[femmocrat]

27. Happy Birthday, madmom!

[Luciferous]

28. Happy Birthday!

[safeinOhio]

29. Congrads, now you can legally go to the bar.

[Phentex]

30. Happy Birthday!

a little late!

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