Party pooper LJ!

[wiseheart]

Well, folks, it seems that LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But I still have most of the comments in my inbox, and will re-post the original entry and list the available comments with the simple mentioning of the names, if it's all right with you. If not, tell me, and I'll delete yours.

We won't allow LJ to crash our party!

Original post

Hi folks! *waves*

Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.

So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!

You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.

Cheers!

Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.

Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.

NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

rcfinch in the Dragon Thread:

The last dragon I saw was Fafner in a performance of Wagner's Siegfried.
His front looked like an old-fashioned steam train. For some reason this
was cute, though I doubt Wagner meant it to be that way. I was sorry when
he died.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Me, mocking about the unsympathetic nature of Wagner's heroes.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

rcfinch, answering to the above

Me (OT):
Considering how utterly unliekable Wagner's so-called heroes are, I'm not
> surprised that you preferred the dragon.

> Besides, a dragon resembling a steam train is Tolkien canon, right?
> Remember Bilbo's birthday party and Gandalf's fireworks?

Their reply was:

Wasn´t it an express train in Tolkien´s case? I doubt they still ran on
steam when he wrote LotR. On the other hand, it's a nice thought if the
stage designer of Wagner's Ring wanted to make a nod at Tolkien. The two
ring stories have been compared often enough. I actually wrote a book
about it, which was published last June.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

wiseheart:
You have? *is impressed* You're probably right about the express train,
although when I was a child steam trains still went between Hungary and
Romania, so the time alone wouldn't count so much, as while I might be as
old as dirt, I'm still considerably younger than the Professor. *g*