Birthday Waits Not for Sweet Inspiration!

May and June birthday cards for work. I had fun.

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X,

Did you know that the word “birthday” comes from an ancient Viking word for hockey puck? It’s true. Several hundred years ago, before fire but long after synthesized plastics, Vikings celebrated great victories by playing hockey.

Apparently you could only eat dinner after scoring a goal, and when you did everyone would shout, “Happy Birthday!”

It caught on, and the world’s never been the same.

I hope that your variety of Viking tradition is every bit as earth-shattering as it was back then.

Dan

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X,

It’s a little known fact that when someone is as good a student as you are, birthdays count for double. So instead of just getting one year older, you’re actually gonna be TWO years older.

But you’re not just a good student, you’re a really good student, and really good student birthdays count for five.

And pretty frequently you’re an amazing student – which are worth twenty.

Occasionally you border on spectacular, and spectacular student birthdays are the same as fifty normal birthdays.

Happy Birthday, buddy. You’re a LOT older than me…

Dan

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X,

So, I was looking for fun things to get you on your birthday. I checked out a fun rumor, listened to a fun song, rode a fun horse, read a fun book, pealed a fun potato, and lived in a fun house. But nothing was quite fun enough until I found the Fungus. I know what you’re thinking, ‘cause I thought it to – is the Fungus anything like the fun bus?

It’s not.

Does the Fungus make a fun fuss?

It doesn’t.

So I shredded the Fungus, turned it into fun paper, and constructed this fun card. Because you should have the very funnest of birthdays.

Dan

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X,

A birthday haiku:

Science agrees that

Luca is older than the

Ninja bug assumes.

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X,

So I was planning on giving you a special karate belt for your birthday. Maybe the daring duckling or outrageous ostrich belt. I browsed the various shades of blue balloon, yellow yak, and red radish belts.

I even briefly considered the purple, polka-dotted, pleasantly plump platypus belt!

But I couldn’t. You’re just too advanced.

Dan