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Awww, just what I wanted!

Yeah, it’s my birthday. So? What you gonna make of it, huh?

Anyway, some of you got together and got me a most excellent birthday present, exactly the thing I wanted: credit with no effort on my part. You made charitable donations to exactly the kinds of organizations I support!

Perfect! Thanks everyone!

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Comments

  1. magistramarla says

    Hey, Hey – It looks like I’m the first to say it!
    Happy Birthday, PZ – and many, many more!

  4. chigau (dodged a bullet) says

    I already said “Happy Birthday” on another thread so for practice:
    誕生日おめでとうございます！

  12. I'm_not says

    Free thought blogs has become so anti free thought, so the opposite of what I hoped it would be I won’t be coming back. I’m not talking about this story, just in general. You really need to look at what you’re doing.

  15. chigau (dodged a bullet) says

    PZ
    You are … just … so … naughty!!!
    All that suppression …
    jeeez

  16. Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls says

    Free thought blogs has become so anti free thought, so the opposite of what I hoped it would be I won’t be coming back.

    Usually when somebody says this, it means they’re a liberturd, and we don’t agree with their idiotic and unevidenced opinions. In their mind, free thought means we all agree sycophantically with them, rather than thinking for ourselves…

  17. Cassandra Caligaria (Cipher), OM says

    Free thought blogs has become so anti free thought, so the opposite of what I hoped it would be I won’t be coming back. I’m not talking about this story, just in general. You really need to look at what you’re doing.

    Best present ever!
    Yaaaaaaaaaaay!
    Happy birthday, PZ.

  18. Katrina says

    Many happy returns of the day, PZ. Hopefully, I’ll make it across the Sound the next time you feel inclined to visit Seattle.

  20. says

    I’m_not:

    Free thought blogs has become so anti free thought, so the opposite of what I hoped it would be I won’t be coming back. I’m not talking about this story, just in general. You really need to look at what you’re doing.

    Oh, did poor widdle snuggle-wuggims think “free thought” meant, “thinking without reference to reality?”

    If so, Snuggle-Wuggims, you’re in for a bit of a reality-check kind of shock.

  21. says

    My, but you are merely a child! I know, because in your blog profile photo your beard barely reaches the top of your (if you’ll forgive the expression) Adam’s apple, and has no dried food stuck in it…
    Happy birthday, PZ, don’t worry, you’ll get there someday!

  23. Aquaria says

    Happy birthday, PZ!

    I just turned the big 5-0 myself. Back in the 70s, when we were stupid and young, did you ever think we’d become middle aged?

    Well, I didn’t become middle-aged, only someone who happens to be 50. I remember people who were 50 or so in 1978, and they were a bunch of old stick-in-the-muds. They told me I’d be like them when I grew up, I’d outgrow being a liberal and an atheist and liking music and art and baseball.

    Ha! Showed them!

  24. chigau (I don't like that bullet thing) says

    “Ha! Showed them!”
    bwaahhaaahaahaahar snort kaff kafff
    We shurr did sonny … uh girly uh whatever
    is there more beer?

  30. Xavier Ninnis says

    De-lurking to say happy birthday, along with wishes that you celebrate many more.
    This evening I, along the two foul felines, will be feasting on calamari in honor of the event! ;)

  31. aster says

    Oh, it was your birthday? I missed it. T.T

    Well, happy birthday, you! Here’s hoping you have lots more in you.

  32. melior says

    Happy Birthday!

    I donated to Libro Traficante today — they smuggle banned books into primitive fundagelical backwaters of America. And they look like the kind of worthy group where a little bit of help would go a long way.
    I figured you’d approve.

  33. madtom1999 says

    You could be a little less shrill and confrontationist and celebrate your actual conception date to avoid upsetting any fundies!

  34. Ray, rude-ass yankee says

    Happy Birthday, PZ!
    Dang. I missed the memo about your present. Better late and all that eh?

  35. Gnumann says

    I’m not fully integrated into the peoples republic and all that, but I’m happy to hang along in the back holding coat-tails and all that.

    So, a little something has gone from my wallet and into Planned Parenthood. Happy Birthday PZ!

  36. catnip67 says

    Perhaps I’m_not thought free thought meant free of thought.

    Happy birthday PZ. I’m donating to FIRIS. An organization whose aims are to end government sponsored special religious instruction in Victorian state schools.

  37. says

    Herzlichen Glückwunsch aus dem finsteren Ruhrpott für den Kollegen Myers! Möge er die bigotten Christenmenschen noch auf viele Jahre enervieren! :)

    Apart from that, keep up your good work, dear professor of biology and general senex venerabilis.

    Cheers,

    Nele

  38. kieran says

    Happy birthday, I made a cake, then I realised I would have to send the cake. At this point I didn’t have a box big enough to fit the cake in. I cut off a few slices, to fit in the box, then I tried it and it was lovely cake. So i had a few more slices… you can see where this story is going.

  39. Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre says

    Also de-lurking to say Happy Birthday, PZ! Buon Compleanno!

  40. 'Tis Himself, OM says

    I just turned the big 5-0 myself. Back in the 70s, when we were stupid and young, did you ever think we’d become middle aged?

    Every morning I look in the mirror and wonder “who’s this old goat who took over my body?”

    I didn’t know about the PZ birthday gift, so I’ve just now sent some money to Médecins Sans Frontières.

  44. multicellular says

    And a Happy Birthday to you sir.

    Somehow your birthday wish traveled back in time two days where I received a pre-cognitive message to donate to Planned Parenthood and The Secular Coalition America (the message must have been garbled due to some sort of temporal inverse square law thing). That or I was just pissed off by what Rick Perry and his Rethuglican goons are doing to the women of Texas. Either way, a challenge to all FB Texans – let’s make Texas the biggest Planned Parenthood donor state.

  45. says

    Happy birthday! I have made a donation to Canadian branch of Doctors without Borders.

    That’s a great idea and I am going to request a similar present for my birthday :)

  47. Ray, rude-ass yankee says

    In case I wasn’t clear @34 Planned Parenthood benefited from your birthday, in Virginia they need all the help they can get.

  49. DLC says

    A belated birthday greetings and wishes of many additional ones for you.

    or also known as
    Happy Birthday!

  52. Stacy says

    Why CFI Los Angeles? Haven’t we been good to you hear in DC??

    Ha! Melody–’cause I hang out and volunteer here, that’s why!

    Also, they need money for the Top Secret laser-based Super Weapon with which we plan to take over the world oops. They need money to help with event costs. Yeah that’s it.