Birthday Bleatings: The Birthday Thread: 12th November

Dr. M · Post by **Dr. M** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 10:50 am 0

Many Happy returns Demrek wherever you are

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 1:06 am 0

Felice compleanno bleatings to ...

WalterMÃŸ

PS ... and to my big brother, Graham, who is 60 today (the old git!)

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 1:38 am 0

Elizian wrote:Felice compleanno bleatings to WalterMÃŸ

Erm... OK...

Hippo Birdy, WalterMÃŸ!

PFVA · Post by **PFVA** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 1:41 am 0

Happy fluffy B-Day.
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Dr. M · Post by **Dr. M** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:32 am 0

Many happy returns, mate

eb · Post by eb » Fri Mar 21, 2003 11:01 am 0

Happy Birthday WalterMÃŸ.

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 11:06 am 0

moobaa wrote:
Elizian wrote:Felice compleanno bleatings to WalterMÃŸ
Erm... OK...

Well felice is Italian for "happy" and compleanno is Italian for birthday, so I took a wild stab in the dark .... I am keen to be corrected if there is a colloquial Italian expression for "Happy Birthday". I also harbour a lingering suspicion that WalterMÃŸ - there are clues there - may be of Germanic origin, so if anyone can offer the German for Happy Birthday, I would, likewise, be grateful.

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 11:56 am 0

Happy Birthday WalteMB!

ekendrick · Post by **ekendrick** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 12:23 pm 0

WalteMB - Alles Gute zum Geburtstag
as they say in Switzerland

WalterMß · Post by **WalterMß** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 12:33 pm 0

Oh, thanx thanx to everybody, indeed!

It's warmed up my heart today.

Elizian wrote:I am keen to be corrected if there is a colloquial Italian expression for "Happy Birthday". I also harbour a lingering suspicion that WalterMÃŸ - there are clues there - may be of Germanic origin, so if anyone can offer the German for Happy Birthday, I would, likewise, be grateful.

Thanks Elizian, I forgot about this Birthday post, and was pleasantly pleased to read about greetings directly to me!

Felice compleanno is most correct indeed, although we italians always use "good" adjective instead of "happy" (also for Xmas, anniversaries, Easter, etc., etc.), so the most used idiom is Buon compleanno.

And no, I have no german origin at all: I'm 100% pure Italian. My parents simply liked the name Walter very much (and not the rarely-used italian counterpart name, which is Gualtiero), so they gave it to me.
My father too, bears Walter as "unofficial" name: I mean, his identity card reports a different name, but his friends always call him Walter too.
The last thing to say about my name is that, although it is not italian, everybody here pronounces the italian way, which sounds *very* completely different.

Anyway... 21st of March ticks the beginning of spring, the gamma-point of Sun relative to Earth; the life-and-death cycle of nature which always reharses. And, as far as I know, it's also late Ayrton Senna's birth date.

Unfortunately, this year is a bit less fortunate: at first because I'll always remember that it's the day after the US attack on Iraq... too bad.
Secondly, because I'm 25 today... and I feel about biologically downclimb.

btw: If any of you is in Rome tomorrow night (saturday 22nd of march), and wants to attend to my birthday party which is gonna be held at a friend of mine's, please p.m. to me so we can arrange for their coming: alcohol, fun and... a bit of retrochallenging too!

Ahchay · Post by **Ahchay** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 2:23 pm 0

WalterMÃŸ wrote:btw: If any of you is in Rome tomorrow night (saturday 22nd of march), and wants to attend to my birthday party which is gonna be held at a friend of mine's, please p.m. to me so we can arrange for their coming: alcohol, fun and... a bit of retrochallenging too!

Damn. That is tempting

My wife would kill me though - another time maybe?

Happy Birthday Walter!

Cheers
Chris

Ely · Post by **Ely** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 2:44 pm 0

Sounds like a quality party Walter

Have a good time

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 2:53 pm 0

WalterMÃŸ wrote:Felice compleanno is most correct indeed, although we italians always use "good" adjective instead of "happy" (also for Xmas, anniversaries, Easter, etc., etc.), so the most used idiom is Buon compleanno.

Excellent, many thanks. Learn one new thing every day

WalterMÃŸ wrote:And no, I have no german origin at all: I'm 100% pure Italian. My parents simply liked the name Walter very much (and not the rarely-used italian counterpart name, which is Gualtiero), so they gave it to me.

I couldn't place Walter as an Italian name and with the German letter ÃŸ, I thought it a fair assumption - To assume makes an ass of u and me

(Well, me anyway

)

WalterMÃŸ wrote:btw: If any of you is in Rome tomorrow night (saturday 22nd of march), and wants to attend to my birthday party which is gonna be held at a friend of mine's, please p.m. to me so we can arrange for their coming: alcohol, fun and... a bit of retrochallenging too!

Thanks for the invitation. As nice an idea as it is, I have to be in Leeds (Oh Joy!) on Sunday. BTW, re: retrochallenge, I take imitation as the sincerest form of flattery and I just love the funkadelic heading on matteo's high score post

shobet_mawr · Post by **shobet_mawr** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 3:54 pm 0

Happy birthday

Dvorak · Post by **Dvorak** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:10 pm 0

Buon compleanno, then, Walter!

Und alles Gute!

Talking about names...this 'ÃŸ' in MÃŸ....any secret about that?