Happy Birthday to Us

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1. almostgotit says

   November 19, 2008 at 2:00 pm

   Okay, I already said happy birthday like a million times but this photo is killing me (hack, hack, hack) so with what last breath I have, I’ll say it again.

   You know — (**tangent alert**) — one thing I have noticed about all you Catholics is this tendency to smoke cigarettes. They make great props to wave around while propounding on some obscure point of theology, I guess… 🙂

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2. angelmeg says

   November 19, 2008 at 6:39 pm

   Not all Catholics smoke. In fact I can promise you that my blog is a totally smoke-free zone.

   mrangelmeg and I live in a county which has a very restrictive smoking ban for eating establishments. It always bothers us when we leave our county and eat in other places where there are actual smoking sections. Yuck!

   Oh, Happy Birthday guys. Keep up the good work.

   You keep writing and I will keep reading.

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3. Ashley says

   November 20, 2008 at 6:43 am

   it's only been four years?!

   congrats & happy birthday, anyway!

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4. The Ironic Catholic says

   November 20, 2008 at 1:16 pm

   Happy Birthday…
   Children are dying…
   People are starving…
   It’s your birthday…
   (ommmmmmmmmm)

   (We sing that in the Catholic Worker community I belong to. Think simple minor chant. Dark sense of humor there, yah.)

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5. almostgotit says

   November 20, 2008 at 1:38 pm

   I had an English teacher in high school that serenaded us thus:

   Happy Birthday.
   Happy Birthday.
   Gloom and misery fill the air
   People dying everywhere
   Happy Birthday.

   (he also told the girls — we should have sued, but didn’t know to back then — “I would give you a birthday kiss, but then the rest of your life would be an anti-climax.”)

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6. Rufus McCain says

   November 20, 2008 at 7:05 pm

   I have an image in my head of my favorite priest, Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP, standing outside of Blessed Sacrament in Seattle, dressed in his Dominican habit, having a smoke before mass.

   Maybe it’s a smells-and-bells thing. Maybe the nicotene helps the mind negotiate some the sharp corners of Catholic theology.

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