Happy Bloomsday to all

[bottomofthehill]

And to all a good morning

[6000eliot]

1. It's also my birthday.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Happy Birthday, my dear 6000eliot!

I hope you have a wonderful day, full of love, presents and cake!

:hug:

[6000eliot]

4. Thank you, Peggy!

No presents, but there may be cake in my future. ;) :hug:

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Happy Birthday!!! Have a wonderful day!

A little parade in your honor: :D

:toast::party::woohoo::applause::bounce::toast::party::woohoo::applause::bounce::toast::party::woohoo::applause::bounce::toast::party::woohoo::applause::bounce::kick::kick::kick::hi::yourock:

[6000eliot]

12. Thank you for the wonderful gift, Rhiannon!

:hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

13. It's the least I could do, you deserve all the best!

Here's hoping that you had a wonderful day! :toast: :hi:

[tishaLA]

2. yes I said yes I will yes!

[Ken Burch]

9. "I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls..."

Well yeah, but it was late in the evening and I'd had SEVERAL whiskeys by then.

[hfojvt]

6. Is this supposed to honor Berk Breathed?

WTF is a bloomsday?

[Ken Burch]

8. Obviously, you've never read James Joyce.

It's a famous day in one of his most famous novels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday

[hfojvt]

10. "excuse me for living, but I never read it"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnMNnpuUtpM

It doesn't appear that it was actually in the book, only something concocted by aficionados.

It's lucky I ever read anything again after being tortured by Hemingway.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Here's how to celebrate Bloomsday in NYC.

http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2011/jun/14/bloomsday-celebrations/

[xchrom]

11. Yes! Nt

[Matariki]

14. !! - you too.

That's one of my favorite books. Want to hear a funny story about the copy I own? One summer I was in the basement at my parents house perusing a shelf of my their books, hoping to find something to read. All the books they had were utter garbage - spy novels and cheesy romances. But tucked between the Erich Segal and 'political thriller' paperbacks was a hardbound copy of Ulysses. Perplexed and excited to find that book in my parents 'library' (omg, we have something in common?!?), I ran upstairs with it and demanded to know why they had that book and if they'd read it. Turns out they bought it in the 50's to take on their honeymoon because they'd heard it was 'racy'!!! To this day I get a huge kick out of thinking about them trying to read it to each other on their honeymoon for quasi pornographic reasons. :rofl: