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From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 12:44:17 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ba
  <1992Dec24.071851.13647@netcom.com> <16093@auspex-gw.auspex.com>

>In article <1992Dec24.071851.13647@netcom.com> obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Bri
e
>n) writes:
>>Under the subject: Re: Directions to Fogg's (Was Re: Beer . . . hic!)
>>
>|bobk@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Bob Kelley) writes:
			------------

Gosh. I hope this isnt the Bob Kelley  I went to school with... I still havent
returned his EE112 lab notebook. ;-)

>It said that "everyone goes to PJ's on Wednesdays".  Sounds to me like an 
>invitation for ba.singles for HumpdayBoink at PJ's.

	Aww. that leaves us SF folks out. Anybody for hanging out
at the Marina Safeway's produce section on Wednesday nights? ;-)
>
>John "Bob" Fereira, who has a bit of Irish in 'im
>
>-- 
>+==========================================================================+
>| John Fereira        | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
>| johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
>+==========================================================================+

PS: Speaking of clubs: : For those San Fran bound club-hopping fiends, there 
is a pretty cool nightclub review in the SF Comical (i mean chronicle) either 
last Tuesday or last Wednesday. It's basically saying the small neighborhood 
clubs are taking over the night scene and the big night club complexes in SoMa 
are really losing their charm (ooh. big night club complex. I wonder what Freud
would say about that). It mentioned names like Johnny Love's, Babylon (all
on the same block surrounded by broadway, polk, van ness, vallejo), Paragon
(too wonderbread for me [ooops. did I make a racist remark? sorry... <grin>]),
Cafe du Nord (now there is a cool rainbow place!), and much to my surprise,
Mick's on Van Ness & Union. I think I wrote about Johnny Love's and Babylon
long ago in this group... as for Micks: it was supposed to be the NEXT
hot spot, competing with Babylon and Johnny Love's,  except on its opening 
night their speaker system blew, and they had problem with sound insolation
and their neighbors upstairs (noise level). That was a couple of months ago
and it has not recovered from that opening night, yet, although gradually it's 
being resurrected. The chron article hinted that it would be the 'next' spot
to watch... we'll have to see if it can recover... [I hope it stays small
and neighborhoodsy, so I can walk a block and half to hang out there] But 
anyways, for those interested, the article has some good info. [Three stars,
Club-Fu, Tien-Fu, academy award nomination for du nord owner for saying, "but
when the suburbanites start to hang out at your place, that's the kiss of
death." No breasts, 2 dead clubs, half pint of infected blood, Daid Haid says 
check it out.]

---
/bruce	- "your friendly neighborhood club watcher"
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: obrien@netcom.com (Oh!   It's ... YOU)
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 09:58:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.201238.10569@netcom.com> lemay@netcom.com (Laura Lemay) writes:
>In article <16093@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>
>> |How many Bobs are there on ba.singles, anyway?  
>> 
>> not nearly as many as there are Laura's.
>
>
>Tsk tsk tsk, John.  Thats a *soc*.singles in-joke, and such an
>old one, too.
>
>
>-- 
>*********************************************************
>Laura Lemay                              lemay@netcom.com
>writer of trifles in shadows and blood
>*********************************************************
>

Thanks for reminding me of *why* I gave up on soc.singles, amply
illustrated by all the posts which followed this one and escalated
quickly into some kind of hormone fight between Ed & Desiree,
none of which contributed anything toward promoting singles activities
in the bay area.  But then, neither does *this* message...

	Bob "up to -here-" O'Bob
--
From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Gerg's a wimp, but Kaiser's a Doberman...
Date: 3 Jan 93 00:03:02 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'

In article <1993Jan2.001445.3101@netcom.com> gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>>gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>>>
>>>Oh, were you out there on the sidewalk?  I didn't know that, or I'd have
>>>let Kaiser out to play.  Kaiser's like that old Life cereal commercial:
>>>
>>>	"He's a doberman.  He hates EVERYthing!"
>>
>>Hah!  Dobies are sweet dogs - if you know how to handle them.  Besides, most
>>animals love me...they usually have better taste than their "masters".  hehehe

>Perhaps you taste better than their masters do.

Perhaps so.  My last SO certainly thought so.  :)
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                    erc@apple.com                   801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: alexm@wet.UUCP (Alex Melnick)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Turning 30!!
Summary: Movie recommendation.
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:29:28 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

For my 30th birthday, I rented the movie "30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia."
It's a Dudley Moore movie from the 60's which parodies this whole "I've got
to get my act together by the time I turn 30" notion.  A lot of the
atmosphere is pretty dated (and datedly sexist--it's the "swinging 60's",
with lots of pretty "birds" in miniskirts and all that kind of thing), but
it's still funny.  If you like dated British humor (especially if you liked
"Bedazzled") and are worrying about an arbitrary birthday, I'd recommend it
as a good way to help regain some perspective.

Then again, I could be wrong.
--Alex (alexm@wet.uucp)

"Ah, but I was so much older then./I'm younger than that now."
	--Bob Dylan, "My Back Pages"
From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Gerg's a wimp, but Kaiser's a Doberman...
Date: 29 Dec 92 22:02:53 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>>>
>>>Well, this is going to be a bang-up weekend!  Gee, I'm going to have netters
>>>around me all weekend! :)  How fun!!  I will be glad to finally meet the
>>>mysterious "Greg"... :)
>>>
>>Mysterious?!?  Yeah, sure.  "I am the terror that posts in the night..."
>>
>Well, folks, I didn't get to meet this guy, 'cause he wimped out on me.
>Wouldn't even poke his nose out his front door to wave.  What a guy...  :)
>

Oh, were you out there on the sidewalk?  I didn't know that, or I'd have
let Kaiser out to play.  Kaiser's like that old Life cereal commercial:

	"He's a doberman.  He hates EVERYthing!"

:)

>
>Next time, dude... :)
>

(whistle) Here Kaiser!  Down boy!  Wanna meet a new friend?...heh heh..:)

  -Gerg
-- 
:):):):):):):):):):) Greg Andrews   gerg@netcom.com :):):):):):):):):):)
ObGuindon:  The Carp Diet.  You place Ed Carp in your refrigerator
            and he takes away your appetite.
:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
From: HF.HLA@forsythe.stanford.edu (Lisa A. Haupt)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Duck and Jive (was Re: Pre-Sex Contract )
Date: 22 Dec 1992 13:59:40 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

In article <1992Dec22.012822.9395@netcom.com>,
desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:




>
>        Chickeybabe, the only time I would wear a bridle is if it's
>been requested as part of adult games -- and sorry I don't think you're
>my type.
>
>
>Hi ho!
>
>Desiree
>
>>Just remember....if you keep your mouth shut, the flies won't get in!

the seahag
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: 30 Dec 92 18:58:57 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <75989@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.005948.9972@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
|
|>>  Are you jealous? :)
|
|>	Nope.  Just too old and too tired to watch a local version of
|>alt.romance.chat rear its ugly head in ba.singles.  If you wanna bbsy-type
|>chatting, hang out in arc or on a bbs.  (And please, lose the mutant
|>smileys.)
|
|And apparantly too old to have a sense of humor, too.

The old "no sense of humor" arguement again.  Sorry, it doesn't wash.

Carp writes..
>>>  Must be because I didn't kiss you at the
>>>Boink.  Well, rest assured, I'll get around to you at the next one, OK?  I'll
>>>do my best to knock your socks off, too... :) :)

and then later writes...
>Oh, I wouldn't *dream* of trying to kiss you, Des.

See any contradiction here?

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira        | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
| johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
+==========================================================================+
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: 30 Dec 92 04:33:30 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <75989@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>
>Oh, I wouldn't *dream* of trying to kiss you, Des.  And if you think you can

Yes you would!  You just said so in a previous post.

>threaten or intimidate me by telling me to wear a cup, think again.  If you,
>by some miracle, connect with any part of my body in a manner that would
>threaten bodily injury, rest assured that I would (not intentionally) break
>something very vital - perhaps your arm.  Then, after defending myself
>against your vicious physical assault, I would be more than happy to put the
>cuffs on you myself and haul you down to the local jail.  I would magistrate
>you myself ... with pleasure.
>
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
It's a joke, right?  I mean you can't be stupid enough to post
something like this in public, can you?
From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: 31 Dec 92 20:39:07 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'

In article <1992Dec31.043616.29175@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
>In article <1992Dec31.031338.21615@netcom.com> tyger@netcom.com (Kristen Kohlbecker) writes:
>
>>Desiree is always hostile...you get used to it after a while...
>
>	Nope.  Not always.  Just sometimes.  Only when a twit shows up.
>It's my job.  My mission.  My karmanic destiny.
>
>	It's *fun*...

Well, as a my roshi once told me, "Very often, what makes you angry to see in
others is very often what you see in yourself."  I suppose your karma is
to put up with me in ba.singles, Des.  I suggest you sit back and enjoy
it, instead of kicking against your destiny.  It will make it much easier
on you, karmically speaking...

"Breathe deeply, and relax completely.  You are at peace with yourself, the
world, and everyone in it..."
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                    erc@apple.com                   801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: aldridge@netcom.com (Jacquelyn Aldridge)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Needing help greeting 30!!
Date: 29 Dec 92 02:45:58 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

joselyn@clio.asd.sgi.com (Trish Joselyn) writes:


>Hi, I've been reading this net for a few months and have never needed the
>support you all obviously have for each other in a crisis.  Is there any
>chance as a new poster, that I could get some advice getting over this
>hump?  I'm having a hard time turning 30.  Not *so* much from me, mostly
>from family, i.e., I'm not married, I'm childless, {it's okay mom!!!} and
>I'm very independent of men.  Any friendly advice would be most welcome!!!

>Trish Joselyn

	Hmmm.. don't have any ideas about how to deal with family. Thirty
for me was great. For some  reason that was the age I had pegged as being
really "grown-up". 
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:05:34 GMT

In article <72627@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
>>How many have Irish family names?
>>Does *anyone* care?
>
>	Well, I am proud of my own heritage but on St. Patrick's day,
>to celebrate it with folks who are from the Emerald Isle, the motherland and
>inspiration of one of the world's greatest writers (Joyce), I spell my name 
>Bruce O'Ng. :-)

You turn into an Irish Korean?!
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Virtual anniversary: 1 day and counting
From: barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Duck and Jive (was Re: Pre-Sex Contract )
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:49:30 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: QQQCLC

In article <1h4pmgINNgc9@morrow.stanford.edu> HF.HLA@forsythe.stanford.edu (Lisa A. Haupt) writes:
>Desiree,
>
>I am sorry to say that I am in any way
>remotely associated with someone of your caliber.

	Desiree's caliber is an M16's - small diameter, high muzzle
velocity. You are a pea shooter. What association are you talking about,
unless you're volunteering yourself for target practise?

						Kayembee
From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Steel Tipped Tampons
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 11:38:38 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ba
  <16100@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Dec29.061559.22022@netcom.com>

>In article <16100@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes
:
>>In article <1992Dec28.221358.2101@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) wri
t
>es:
>>>In article <tching.2@water.ca.gov> tching@water.ca.gov (Tracy Ching) writes:
>>|>In article <1992Dec24.073404.14965@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) 
w
>rites:
>>|>
>>|>>>How many Bobs are there on ba.singles, anyway?  
>>|>
>>|>>Probably too many.  But you  gotta admit, that 'Bob' is quick and easy to 
>>|>>spell.
>>|>
>>|>    'Lee' is quicker and easier.  Sorry about that Bob.
>>|
>>|Not true.  Lee has two vowels.  Bob has only one.
>>|The Bobs win again.
>>
>>I agree. Even dyslexics can spell Bob.
>>
>but it does seem a bit difficult to attribute quotes to the appropriate Bob.
>of course, without that I'd have nothing to say here...
>
>	Bob "boB'O boB" O'Brien
>--

	Hmmm. I think I will vote for "Bob" again because some church-of-
subgenius-slacker-from-Austin-Texas just whispered to me, "But Bob is our
Hope."

----
/bruce - Salle Gaveau, 45 Rue la Boetie - Paris 8eme (Metro MIROMESNIL)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:54:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan1.195434.13437@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
>In article <76040@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes in
>response to Oleg's post:
>
>>Oh, my GOD!!!  Is it *really* Oleg "smouldering dark eyes" Kiselev??  My, my,
>>my ... as I live and breathe...  I thought you had died or been fired or
>
>	Wow!  The first suckup post of the New Year...
>
OK  Here we go already!  I have a proposal.  Since the last few
controversial subjects have brought a lot of new posters out of
the lurking woodwork, I think it's time to have the first boink 
of 1993.  It might be fun to watch everybody show up and slug it 
out up close and personal.....
It's time to meet the new people and attach names to faces.

Let's get back to basics!!!  How about....

	Chicks 'n Dudes - Boink '93
>
I like it.  It's a good sexist title.
How about January 16th - Saturday night.  I'll call Harry's Hofbrau
in Mt. View.  They let groups use the back room for free.
While I do that, let's get the comments rolling.....


From: bobk@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Bob Kelley)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:05:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Directions to Fogg's (Was Re: Beer . . . hic!)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
Newsgroups: ba.singles

New to the net, but I'll be there unless there's an interesting C-Span
conference on media coverage of the Kenyan economy or something of 
equal or lesser worth.


Xref: sparky ba.singles:2780 soc.singles:34571 soc.men:21622 soc.women:21789 alt.flame:17260
From: kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy)
Newsgroups: ba.singles,soc.singles,soc.men,soc.women,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Duck and Jive (was Re: Pre-Sex Contract )
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:59:42 GMT
Organization: Chrysler Financial Corp., Southfield, MI

In article <1992Dec20.140247.22947@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
>
>I think you've left out a rather significant part of the whole equation. It's
>called "child support", right?  That's because there's a kid involved! All I've
>heard you say is that the man is getting screwed right now, and we need to stop
>that.  OK, so how are you going to do that?  If you stop enforcing child support
>laws, you get stuck with two choices. Either the tax payers pay, or the kid
>starves. 

Third alternative: make the woman pay for her unilateral decision. Duh.

>Now I have no doubt that there are abuses on both sides of the Mom-Dad fence
>with respect to child support. Nevertheless, the intent of these laws is to
>ensure that the kid gets his meals paid for, etc. 

That may be their _intent_, but I suspect that the current laws are 
encouraging the production of illegitimate children, and therefore RAISING, 
rather than lowering, the chances of children starving, etc. If so, then the 
reforms being proposed can be justified not only on the grounds that the
_status quo_ is blatantly unfair to men, from the standpoint of established 
principles of legal liability, but on economic grounds as well.

								- Kevin
From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 12:49:56 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ba
  <16093@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Dec29.201238.10569@netcom.com>
  <1992Dec30.095803.25140@netcom.com>

>>
>
>Thanks for reminding me of *why* I gave up on soc.singles, amply
>illustrated by all the posts which followed this one and escalated
>quickly into some kind of hormone fight between Ed & Desiree,
>none of which contributed anything toward promoting singles activities
>in the bay area.  But then, neither does *this* message...
>
>	Bob "up to -here-" O'Bob
>--

	I thought this was the fun thread until I came upon the hostile
stuff between the parties you mentioned. Sigh. I hope people take this
shit less seriously, and have fun with it instead. After all, they are just
words, words, words...

----
/bruce
		Polonius: 	"What do you read, my lord?"
		Hamlet:		"Words, words, words."
From: joselyn@clio.asd.sgi.com (Trish Joselyn)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Needing help greeting 30!!
Date: 28 Dec 92 23:45:53 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.


Hi, I've been reading this net for a few months and have never needed the
support you all obviously have for each other in a crisis.  Is there any
chance as a new poster, that I could get some advice getting over this
hump?  I'm having a hard time turning 30.  Not *so* much from me, mostly
from family, i.e., I'm not married, I'm childless, {it's okay mom!!!} and
I'm very independent of men.  Any friendly advice would be most welcome!!!

Trish Joselyn
Advanced Graphics Division
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
Mountain View, CA 94040
From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: The TygerBoink Committee would like to thank you
Date: 28 Dec 92 15:43:23 GMT
Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'

In article <2450050@hpsad.sad.hp.com> sam@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Vicky Hansen) writes:

>Ed, I'm counting on you in January.

January?  Err, is something happening that I don't know about yet????
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                    erc@apple.com                   801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Needing help greeting 30!!
Date: 1 Jan 93 20:41:31 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:

>To the ad world, the "singles" life means having
>a partner.  SO.  You are never by ourself - the sole goal is to attract a
>member of the opposite sex.  The idea of being totally alone, by yourself, and
>not *wanting* a partner is abhorant to them, because that would mean that you
>don't *want* anything.  If you have no wants and no needs, they can't sell
>you anything.  

I can see where if the ad world promoted the idea that it was great to live
alone, they would sell more goods, not fewer. When a lot of people began
living in nuclear families, more products could be sold, because each 
household had to have certain things, and in a nuclear family, there were 
fewer people per household. (No one seemed to figure out that a group of
households could get together and share a single vacuum cleaner.)

Well, if a singles lifestyle were promoted, even more vacuum cleaners, &c,
could be sold. I can see it now -- "You know, I thought living alone meant
I wouldn't have to worry about things like cleaning. But because I live
alone, that means I entertain a lot. A family can forgive a dirty rug, but
friends might not. So I use Dust Detonator... Dust Detonator, because a
single person has to take good care of her friends."

--
Stef                            Carpe diem (fish for ten cents)
stef@apple.com                                  --Usenet Oracle
From: henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Turning 30!!
Date: 31 Dec 92 05:34:21 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <Dec.30.17.12.38.1992.21683@net.bio.net> charleen@net.bio.net (Charleen Bunjiovianna) writes:
>In article <1992Dec31.005123.20741@odin.corp.sgi.com> joselyn@clio.asd.sgi.com (Trish Joselyn) writes:
>>
>>What I will probably do is continue to enjoy my life, save when/where I
>>can.  Looking for Mr. Right is fun so I won't stop doing that.  Well,
>>enough complaining.  I am going to be 30 next week and there's nothing I
>>can do about it.  
>
>Sure there is.  It's just that living is so much more attractive an
>option.
>
>30's a number, not a sentence.
>
>Charleen

Hear, Hear!

Trish, and all of you who are turning 30 - and the rest of you, too -

May you celebrate many multiples of 30 birthdays!

-- Henry Polard, | It is a far, far better thing to have a 30th birthday
   Boy Old Coot  | than not to get to have a 30th birthday.