HAPPY BIRTHDAY

[TheDukester]

I wonder if anyone at the HLP cares enough to have By-By mention the birthday at the forums? Or if Anderjacket cares enough to mention it on his blog or Twatter page? Of course, that would require any of those people to think about someone other than themselves for a few seconds.

Hey, Byron Merritt's spies! It's Frank Herbert's birthday!

Hey, Kevin! You've just been reminded, via Twitter, that it's Frank Herbert's birthday!

(and I'll bet they still don't even mention it ...)

[Serkanner]

I wonder if anyone at the HLP cares enough to have By-By mention the birthday at the forums? Or if Anderjacket cares enough to mention it on his blog or Twatter page? Of course, that would require any of those people to think about someone other than themselves for a few seconds.

Hey, Byron Merritt's spies! It's Frank Herbert's birthday!

Hey, Kevin! You've just been reminded, via Twitter, that it's Frank Herbert's birthday!

(and I'll bet they still don't even mention it ...)

The man has no shame:

[TheDukester]

And it only took him four hours to post after being told about it. Good job, Anderjacket!

What a terrible, awful, horrible excuse for a human being he is.

Oh, well: it's his fate to be completely forgotten once he's done hike-writing. We know it, his fans know it, and, best of all, he knows it. He won't even be a footnote to a footnote.

[Omphalos]

You guys should have reminded him in a week. Not today.

[SandChigger]

Yeah, maybe.

Byron finally got the word, probably from KJA?

He would've been 89 years old today. Happy birthday, I say, into the Great Void.

Um, by "the Great Void", does him mean the one between BoBo's ears (GREAT echo effects!) or the one where he spends most of his time, up KJA's ass?

Later in the same thread he posted this:

Mentioned today on The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio:

"It's the birthday of science fiction writer Frank Herbert, (books by this author) born in Tacoma, Washington (1920). He got an assignment from the magazine California Living to write about a project that the government was sponsoring in Oregon to slow the spreading of the sand dunes on the coast. He went to Oregon to research, and he became so fascinated with the project that he ended up collecting far more material than he could ever fit into his piece. He wrote an article called "They Stopped the Moving Sands," which California Living never published. But Herbert couldn't stop thinking about the ecological implications of the growing sand dunes. He spent six more years researching and envisioning what would happen if the situation on the Oregon Coast was magnified to the scale of an entire planet. The result was his novel Dune (1965), considered one of the best science fiction novels ever written."

And ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION of BoBo & The Hack!

[TheDukester]

I like the "six years researching" part, too. It makes TheKJA's "I can hike anything out in four weeks" method seem even more absurd than it already is.

[SandChigger]

Living forever in the shadow of a greater writer (and from all accounts, a greater man) ... there's something BoBo can teach KJA about!

[Freakzilla]

You guys should have reminded him in a week. Not today.

Next year...

[DuneFishUK]

You guys should have reminded him in a week. Not today.

Next year...

Next year "Happy Birthday FH - he would have been 88 this year"

50p says it'll turn up on TheTwat

[Nekhrun]

Mentioned today on The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio:

"It's the birthday of science fiction writer Frank Herbert, (books by this author) born in Tacoma, Washington (1920). He got an assignment from the magazine California Living to write about a project that the government was sponsoring in Oregon to slow the spreading of the sand dunes on the coast. He went to Oregon to research, and he became so fascinated with the project that he ended up collecting far more material than he could ever fit into his piece. He wrote an article called "They Stopped the Moving Sands," which California Living never published. But Herbert couldn't stop thinking about the ecological implications of the growing sand dunes. He spent six more years researching and envisioning what would happen if the situation on the Oregon Coast was magnified to the scale of an entire planet. The result was his novel Dune (1965), considered one of the best science fiction novels ever written."

And ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION of BoBo & The Hack!

I'm sure that really burns his ass. He's probably had some people send a few emails letting them know that the saga continues!

[SandChigger]

That would be just like him, wouldn't it?

[chanilover]

Happy birthday Spicelon!

[Tleszer]

Happy birthday, blue-eyed robot!

[Eyes High]

Happy birthday. The drinks are on you.

[A Thing of Eternity]

Happy b-day!

[Seraphan]

Happy Birthfay dude!

[SandChigger]

Happy BD.




(Also to Skibum yesterday or the day before ... front page listed it, but wasn't sure if it was true or not....)

[Mandy]

!

Happy birthday!

[chanilover]

Happy birthday Seraphan. 23 today!

[A Thing of Eternity]

Haaaaaaaaaaaappy B-day!

[Tleszer]

Happy Birthday!

[Seraphan]

Thanks guys, i hope to be able to keep coming here for many years to come.
Drinks on me, folks

[A Thing of Eternity]

Wait, 23? I thought one of your resolutions was to graduate highschool? Well, I guess if those are both correct, then yes, that is a good resolution!

[Freakzilla]

Better late than never!

[Seraphan]

Wait, 23? I thought one of your resolutions was to graduate highschool? Well, I guess if those are both correct, then yes, that is a good resolution!

Oh trust me, life is different over here. It's really not unusual for a guy my age to not have completed high school.