celebrate a whistle maker's birthday!

Whistle
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it might be nice to know some birthdays of different whistle makers,
and celebrate with your favourite maker :party:

(it’s nice to be nice :slight_smile: )

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Well, is it self aggrandizement to post to this thread? :wink: My birthday is Friday, though. I plan to celebrate by taking a class that evening on how to help kids in the local juvenile detention center. You all are welcome to join me, but I don’t think that they’ll have any cake :slight_smile:

Thanks for thinking of us (me) lixnaw,
Erik

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I was hesitant to post in this thread, since we still haven’t settled the dispute over my not being allowed in the Whistlesmiths’ Den of the Frequent Posters’ Lounge.

However, my birthday is Wednesday, November 5.

Happy Birthday, Erik!

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Cool, Jerry! Happy birthday to you, too. I’m not allowed in the den either, but the view is better from the pergola anyway :wink: Maybe if we paid our dues on time, they’d let us in.

Erik

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hi jerry, for me you more then qualify!!

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Hi Jerry, I’m afraid I’ll never make the frequent posters lounge, but eh?, I’d never want to join a club that would have me as a member. Are you sure you want to join the whistle-smiths?
I share a birthdate with Hitler, does anyone else have a similar brush with fame? Syn.

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Mine is November 29th.

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Well, I’m not one of the well known whistle makers… but I am one of them! :stuck_out_tongue:
My birthday is May 12th, which is shared by George Carlin… which might explain my somewhat twisted sense of humor! :laughing:

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Well Happy Birthday Eric. And my hats off to all you whistle smiths. I consider myself a very lucky man to be aquainted with such a fine and distinguished group of craftsmen.

Peace and long life to you all

Tom

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Happy Birthday Erik and Jerry!

Mine is 6/27-- 1950, if you can imagine :astonished:

I share the date with two truly great individuals: Helen Keller and Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo !

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My birthday is April 21, shared with:

Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (Jane Eyre)
John Muir, mountaineer and naturalist, founder of Sierra Club
Queen Elizabeth II
Christine Wojcikowski, shares this birthday, gave the Queen a rose on her golden jubilee
Announced that water discovered in the Orion Nebula - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980421.html
A ton of politicians share my birthday - http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-apr-21.html

And finally, the winner!
(borrowed from a Wicca website)
April 21
Birthday of Rome. On this day, an annual festival called the Palilia (Feast of Pales) was celebrated in ancient Rome to honor the pastoral goddess Pales. In the country, special purification rites were performed to keep the sheep disease-free. Shepherds, followed by their flock, would traditionally leap through bonfires. In the city of Rome, the festival was celebrated with wine and merriment.

serpent

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Happy Birthday to you all! Gary, you share a birthday with my hero, George Carlin! (Especially the section on things you’ll never hear anyone say).

Regards,

PhilO

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My birthday is in February, shared with two other wonderful people.








My daughter Norma




and




Bill Stine.

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I share a birthday with Emily Dickinson, but I’ll let you figure out when that was…

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..mine is January 7th… :smiley: ..

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Wow…! Didn’t know we had this many makers on the Board.

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And they all seem to have birthdays. The odds of that occuring naturally must be phenominal.

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You mean . . . they’re not found under a cabbage? :astonished: :astonished: :astonished:

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sorry eric, i just found out you’re a whislte maker aswell. and one proud enough to have sound samples on his www :thumbsup:

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Thanks, lixnaw :slight_smile: I had a lot of fun recording them. Actually, that was a couple years ago now. I should think about updating them; my two year old is no longer two! And maybe I’ll get to upgrade my sound recording equipment :slight_smile:

Erik