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Post by photax on Oct 17, 2010 5:31:18 GMT -5
I wish you a happy Birthday and another great year in your life !  MIK |
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Oct 17, 2010 8:39:58 GMT -5
A very Happy Birthday old chum, many more in the future too.
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Post by mickeyobe on Oct 17, 2010 9:31:20 GMT -5
PeterW, Best wishes for a very happy birthday.  Mickey |
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Post by Randy on Oct 17, 2010 10:00:31 GMT -5
Oh Boy! Happy Birthday Peter! Mine's tomorrow.
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Post by nikonbob on Oct 17, 2010 12:09:03 GMT -5
PeterW
Hope you are having a very happy birthday and wishing you many more.
Bob
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Post by SidW on Oct 17, 2010 12:13:19 GMT -5
Very best wishes, Peter. Go easy when you blow out the candles.
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Post by Rachel on Oct 17, 2010 13:58:28 GMT -5
Hope that you have had a super birthday Peter.
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Post by mickeyobe on Oct 17, 2010 14:40:15 GMT -5
casualcollector,
Happy Birthday.
Mickey
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Post by PeterW on Oct 17, 2010 19:09:37 GMT -5
Rachel, Mickey, Randy, Sid, Curt, Bob, Mik et al:
Many thanks for the birthday wishes. I'm quite overwhelmed.
I've had a very good birthday with the family. Quiet, but most enjoyable. We went out this evening for a long, enjoyable family meal to a Chinese restaurant that serves authentic Chinese food, not the "Anglicised" stuff sold by most Chinese take-aways.
I got the usual stack of cards, several books, and DVDs including a present I shall treasure, the complete box set of one of my all-time favourite TV series, Inspector Morse.
As Today magazine wrote: "You don't watch Morse, you live it".
The series stars the late John Thaw as Morse - nearing retirement, bachelor with a complete disregard of normal working hours and procedures, academic, unorthodox, lover of crosswords with obtuse clues, lover of classical music and classic Jaguars who solves cases partly by brilliant deduction and partly by intuition and character judgement.
He's backed by Lewis (Kevin Whately), a down-to-earth Lancashire-born Detective Sergeant, not as brilliant as Morse but nobody's fool who is also a quiet but astute judge of character whose strong points are traditional police work, the patient sifting through pages of statements looking for misleading half-truths and analysing evidence looking for patterns that link them all, and whose favourite down-to-earth meal is eggs and chips.
It's a love-hate relationship. The two often get frustrated with each other, and sometimes Lewis comes up with a pattern of evidence that forces Morse to revise his intuitive solution which he is sure is correct. But Morse would hate to work with a different Detective Sergeant, and Lewis would resign rather than work permanently with a different Inspector.
I've been given the complete box set of thirty three episodes, nearly sixty hours of viewing, including about a dozen episodes I missed when they were on TV.
If I go missing for a day or two from time to time I'll be "living Morse".
It's turned midnight here, so Happy Birthday, Randy. Make it a memorable one.
Thanks again, all.
PeterW
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Post by daveh on Oct 18, 2010 3:16:03 GMT -5
Peter,
I was away at the weekend. I had a quick glance at the forum when I got back but didn't get round to posting on any thread. I now wish you a belated "happy birthday". I am am glad you had a good day and the full Morse set is well worth watching set: you will have your fill of Morse. As for me I'm full of remorse for not giving my best wishes on the day itself.
Dave.
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Post by herron on Oct 18, 2010 16:58:54 GMT -5
oh my ... I'm late again. My grandmother used to complain that Grandpa would be late to his own funeral. Guess I inherited some of that, after all. Hope it was happy. Peter: Perhaps, if you're done "living Morse" you saw my other belated birthday reply. I don't have Dave's excuse ... I'm just late again, as usual. Glad you had a good day. ;D |
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