July 2004
Happy Birthday
from All Over
Happy Birthday to Isabelle. Happy birthday also to Rachel and Jasmine and Mia, and to all beings with July birthdays.
The sunflower animation above was created by Clare Puskarczyk.
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Contents
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Some Rhyming Links
Here's some simple rhyming links that I found fun and/or useful:
Or you could do some searches with your favorite search engine. (Currently Google is my favorite.) Some of my searches were on:
- Burma shave
- children rhymes
- dictionary rhyming
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Who's Who
artists: A number of the people who sent messages are artists including
- Amy, dancer
- Belinda, dancer
- Clare, graphic artist
- Don, novelist
- Kelly
- Linda
- Margaret, dancer
- Mia, writer of novellas
- Miron, photographer
- Sabra, musician
Probably some others, too.
background color: The background color of birthday messages says something about the sender of the message. The background color indicates
- if turquoise, a fictional character.
- if blue, a flesh & blood female.
- if green, a flesh & blood male.
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perl mongers: The following people have been seen in the Perl Mongers' world.
- Arden
- George
- Ken
- Marsee
- Mike
- Ronnie
- Siamak
Marsee is not literally a Perl Monger. But she is Queen of O'Reilly user groups and everyone else above belongs to at least one such group.
woolley family: Grandpa George has two sisters and a brother. So one can think in terms of four branches of that Woolley Family. The four branches are represented here as follows
- the Marion branch by Marion Mattingly, Marion-Cait .
- the Herb branch by Bethany, Sabra.
- the Diane branch by Kathleen.
- the George branch by Grandpa George, Mommy, Nana Jane, Uncle Jonathan.
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Corrections
If I've transmogrified your contribution in some way, let me know. I may well have mangled your message, name or where you are from. I may even have given you the wrong color background for your gender.
One way to let me know is to email me at george in the domain metaart.org.
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Happy Birthday from:
alisu | amy | angelica | anna | arden
babe | belinda | bethany | blue
cathy | clare | connie | cookie
grandpa george | nana jane | uncle jonathan
kathleen | kelly | ken | linda | luv
margaret | marion m | marion-cait | marsee
mela | mia | mike | miron | mommy
roarshock | ronnie | sabra | siamak
Isabelle, Isabelle,
sos tan alegre
como un cascabel.
Que los cumplas feliz,
y sigas tan bonita
como una florecita.
-- Alisu [Schoua-Glusberg] (Chicago, Illinois)
Happy Birthday, Isabella.
-- Amy [Aldrich], a loving friend of G'pa George
(Oakland, California)
Isabelita eres una bebita muy Linda de Mama y Papa
Eres un sueño hecho realidad
Como un arco iris ilumina el hogar
Con tu inocencia y dulzura
Eres una estrellita.
-- Angelica (Costa Rica)
Being who you are
is better than par
... by far.
-- Anna
(on guitar from the Stars)
Happy Birthday!
-- Arden Schaeffer
(Oakland, California; Oakland.pm)
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Uhp Uhp an awheigh,
ear cumz uh boottreeful bookay,
ivory deigh.
-- BaBE Oruhkul
(firefly play, somewhere in the milky way)
Isaboon licks the spoon.
Isabilly is a silly.
Isabelle is swell!
Happy Birthday, Isabelle!
-- Belinda [Ricklefs]
(Oakland, California)
Isabelle,
happy birthday wishes
sent with kisses and kisses.
-- Bethany [Wallace]
(San Diego, California)
In June, Pooh traveled by kangaroo and canoe
by night and by day, all the way
to the blue moon lagoon.
-- Blue Octagon Gallery
(the web)
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Another Birthday already, Dear Isabelle?
How old are you now? -- Do tell.
Amazing how you grow when time does fly
We are excited to mark this event each July!
We wish you the best in the year ahead.
Happy, happy Birthday!
-- The Liebowitz' - Cathy, Adam, Avi and Jacob
(Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Happy Birthday to you!
-- Clare Puskarczyk (Oakland, California)
Click on the happy birthday message above.
Also see the animation in left column.
Hola Isa:
Desde la cantina de Connie
te deseamos un feliz cumpleaños
en compañía de todos tus
amigos guapa y esperamos
pronto vengas a visitarnos
y puedas probar todas nuestras
delicias mexicanas ...
Cuidate y mucha suerte
vuelva pronto "guapa" :)
-- Connie
(Connie's Cantina, Oakland, California)
Mommy, mommy, get off the phone.
Make me buy ... an ice cream cone.
-- Cookie Monster Secret Admirer
(Brooklyn, New York)
My Isa is seven, a very fine age,
says Grandpa George, who loves you so.
You'll start another year, turn another page,
We'll be smiling, while we watch you grow...
Happy Birthday, Isabelle!
--Don [McKenzie]
(Fair Oaks, California; near Sacramento)
Where you wear what you wear,
I don't care.
When you win what you win,
that's no sin.
-- Eugene El Terrible
(the web)
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You are a light, a delight,
a most pleasing sight.
-- Grandpa George
(Oakland, California; Oakland.pm, Camelot.pm)
Also see two new stories: Anna's Birthday
& Anna Picking Apples.
Happy Birthday. Hope its heaven for a seven year old.
-- Nana Jane
(Evanston, Illinois)
Happy Birthday, Isabelle.
-- Uncle Jonathan (Oakland, California)
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Flubbles of bubbles flurp all about
For your festival flurry enjoy it out!
-- Kathleen Romero
(Oakland, California)
Happy Birthday
sweet girl
♥
Love
-- Kelly (Mimosa restaurant, Oakland, California)
If it's 4 and a 3
or a 5 plus a 2
if it adds up to 7
it's happy birthday to you.
-- Ken Chow (Walnut Creek, California; Oakland.pm)
Also see another poem by Ken.
Isabelle, Isabelle, a name so sweet,
Isabelle, Isabelle, will we meet???
Isabelle, Isabelle, you are a STAR!
Isabelle, Isabell, wonder who you are?
love from
-- birdgirl [Linda Nicoleto]
(California, Hawaii, and many places)
Isa is a pearl of a girl.
-- Luv
(from Mars and the Stars)
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Isa isa belle belle belle,
is a is a land land land
margaret lives in wonderland
and wonders how is isa isa belle belle belle?
-- Margaret [Batiuchok]
(Manhattan, New York, New York)
Also see a picture of & a longer poem by Margaret.
Isabelle
Happy birthday to you
I hope you visit a zoo
Eat some cake
And have fun too
-- Marion [Mattingly]
(Bethesda, Maryland)
See poem Little Isa.
-- Marion-Cait (Washington DC)
Happy seventh birthday Isabelle, I hope you have a great year.
-- Marsee [Henon], your Grandpa George's friend at O'Reilly
(Sebastopol, California)
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Florecilla silvestre
que habitas en dos mundos
eres ...
el sol encandeciente del dia
y la estrella destellante de la noche,
la lluvia refrescadora del desierto
y la tierra fertil del universo.
Maria Carmela Ball [mela]
(New York, New York)
A birthday star in the moonlight swings
"Hooray for Isabelle!" it sings
Close your eyes to see what it brings
A pair of silver birthday wings
-- Grandpa George's friend Mia Stageberg
(San Francisco, California)
Best wishes on your birthday Isabelle
from your Granddad's friend
in the middle of the Nevada desert
-- Mike Lewis
(Las Vegas, Nevada;
Perl Monk,
Oakland.pm, LasVegas.pm)
A short birthday message for Isabelle.
Briefly, mirth, for a miss age 7, (who's such a belle),
needs be Dr. Seuss, not Dr. Phil.
-- MM [Miron Murcury]
(Oakland, California)
See poem for Isabelle.
-- Mommy (Brooklyn, New York)
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For best rapport,
roar more.
-- Roarshock (Brooklyn, New York)
Del pais con muchas playas, bosques y volcanes
a ti Isabelle, te deseamos muchas felicidades
-- Ronnie [Alfaro] ( Alajuela, Costa Rica;
Perl Monk,
CostaRica.pm, Camelot.pm)
It's your Birthday ...
Have a great day!
Play, Isa, play!!
"Yip, yip" hooray!!!
-- Sabra, and Ron
(San Diego, California; Isaland Fever)
[The poem is part of an online card Sabra & Ron
sent to Isa.]
Happy Birthday to you
I went down to the zoo
I saw a big happy bunny foo foo
and it looked just like you :-)
--from Siamak Hooshidar [I think, by his wife, Beth]
(Marin County, California; Oakland.pm)
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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