Happy “Eventually 50th” Dale!
Early congrats, Dale! With the right frame of mind, it only gets better and better…
I turned 50 5 yrs ago and in several ways my life truly began around then. About 7 months prior to that, I met Charlene who totally changed my life. For my 50th birthday she conspired with Glenn Schultz and bought me the lathe that I make whistles on! Like I say, better and better…
Belated happy fiftieth Dale.
Last weekend for the third time in three years, I was stopped at the Milwaukee Irish Fest wearing my fading C&F T-shirt, and asked if I was Dale. Up till now I haven’t known how to take that question. Now that I realize you are 16 years my junior, I guess I should take it as a compliment; or face the reality that your fans are very poor judges of appearances. Life just gets grander.
That’s too funny! I knew that Weeks and I shared the same birthday (see Weeks? Despite your GOP leanings, there really is something very cool about you…anyone who shares my birthday can’t help but be cool 
), but I didn’t know that your son did as well, Missy. How cool is that? But I won’t be 50 or 15 this coming March 5th. I’ll be…ahem…36 .
Oh, and thank you for the heads up, Dale. I’m sure I can come up with something good in the next 6 1/2 months to get you for your present.
Fifty, you say Dale, next year be it? Well that number was so long ago, I’m having trouble remembering what happen on that day for me. The last nine years have been interesting, got married, got divorced, got a flute and haven’t divorced it yet. Started my own lancscape/sculpture design business, working in and with stone only..no plants need apply 
And at the end of this September I will begin my last year in the 50’s, it’s been interesting the last nine!
Thanks for giving us a a timeline towards your fiftieth, will have come up with something either appropriate or inapproriate…hmmmmm
MarkB
Actually, Noah’s great grandmother ALSO was born on March 5th. The year Noah was born (and no one knew we had that picked out as a name), someone in the family sent Sadie a birthday card that had a picture of Noah’s Ark on it! She lived until she was 87 years young.
That’s very funny. It pleases me that people are looking for me in Milwaukee.
Dale
How lovely to wake up on a beautiful Sunday morning to find a marriage proposal! I’m afraid though, Doug, that you really wouldn’t like me much. I’m strong-willed, opinionated, and tactless–and those are my good traits! But whether you and I could hobble off into the sunset together in perfect harmony is beside the point, because, you see, I’m afraid I’ve got the hots for Bloomfield. 
Your friend, Susan
I think you might actually have a market for some of those “Where’s Waldo” type books, Dale. You can have your own line of “Where’s the Undisputed King” books. I’d buy them. You’d just have to figure out what quirky thing you’d wear…Waldo has those red and white striped shirts. Maybe a viking hat or something.
Trust her on this. I can’t even talk to him without dodging bullets.
If you kiss-up enough, you might make it.
I believe that John Dillinger once also uttered those words . . . when he was hiding out in Kansas City.
Will O’Ban
I believe that John Dillinger also once uttered those words as well. Seems like it had something to do with a lady wearing a red dress . . .
Will O’Ban
Oh, tsk tsk…If you’re referring to that silly ol’ locker episode, I was just kidding. You can talk to him all you want, but don’t bat your eyes, swish your hips, smile that vampy smile…and don’t get up on that piano again!
Susan
…eerrrmmm…
…you didn’t have a second-choice present in mind, did you, Dale?
I know that this thread is supposed to be about Dale’s upcoming 50th birthday and not about John Dillinger. I’m really not trying to redirect this thread, Dale. Seriously . . .
But now that I think of it . . . I don’t believe that John Dillinger had a 50th birthday. Hmmmmm . . .
Oh, btw, Happy Soon To Be 50th, Dale.
Will O’Ban
All the great ones are born in March, after all…
I did not know that. Yes, we are wonderful. We share a birthday with Heitor Villa-Lobos the great Brazilian composer. He loved kids, too. A photo of him, COMPOSING, shows him in his living room with kids, a tv on and a big fat cigar stickin’ out of his craw with a score sheet on his lap. Now that’s livin!
Beware the Imps of March…