Annual Happy Birthday Mr Mathowie thread October 10, 2004 1:47 AM Subscribe
Here for your commenting pleasure, is the Annual Happy Birthday Mr Mathowie thread. Happy Birthday, #1!
All of us here on #mefi chipped in to get you a little something:
We hope you like it.
posted by moift at 1:55 AM on October 10, 2004
We hope you like it.
posted by moift at 1:55 AM on October 10, 2004
Again, in honor of Matt's birthday, Konolia promises NOT to sing the Russian Happy Birthday Song.
posted by konolia at 4:22 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by konolia at 4:22 AM on October 10, 2004
in lieu of konolia, hail to the chief - happy birthday, Matt!
posted by madamjujujive at 5:47 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by madamjujujive at 5:47 AM on October 10, 2004
Another year already? Time to roll out the excuses...
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:35 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:35 AM on October 10, 2004
We got you this cake. It's very very good. Wish you were here to eat this piece I cut. Well. I guess we shouldn't let it go to waste....
posted by mmahaffie at 7:24 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by mmahaffie at 7:24 AM on October 10, 2004
Hapy Birthday Matt. Birthdays are always a good time to take stock in your life and see what you have accomplished and where you want to go next. Without a doubt, MeFi is something that will always live as a major contribution to the internet as a whole. For that alone, bravo and thanks for all the shoes....
posted by jonah at 7:37 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by jonah at 7:37 AM on October 10, 2004
Happy Birthday, Matt. Many happy returns.
posted by timeistight at 8:10 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by timeistight at 8:10 AM on October 10, 2004
Happy Birthday, #1.
(I am not a number...I am a free woman...)
posted by Sidhedevil at 8:20 AM on October 10, 2004
(I am not a number...I am a free woman...)
posted by Sidhedevil at 8:20 AM on October 10, 2004
its teh bday! Happy Birthday!
posted by 4easypayments at 8:37 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by 4easypayments at 8:37 AM on October 10, 2004
Happy Birthday Matt! I got you this port of MetaFilter that doesn't crash all the time!
It's here somewhere.
Um.
OK, have these socks instead.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 8:57 AM on October 10, 2004
It's here somewhere.
Um.
OK, have these socks instead.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 8:57 AM on October 10, 2004
HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY!!!
(Very happy birthday with love from Krrrlson.)
posted by Krrrlson at 9:34 AM on October 10, 2004
(Very happy birthday with love from Krrrlson.)
posted by Krrrlson at 9:34 AM on October 10, 2004
They say it's your birthday. It's my birthday too, yeah. (Really. It is.) Happy birthday to you!
posted by raysmj at 9:53 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by raysmj at 9:53 AM on October 10, 2004
Happy birthday, Matt! Congrats on still not being dead yet!
posted by cortex at 9:57 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by cortex at 9:57 AM on October 10, 2004
Hoppy Birthday, Matt! Spend it away from us ;) enjoying your life.
posted by ifjuly at 10:04 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by ifjuly at 10:04 AM on October 10, 2004
Happy Mostly Irellevent Calendar Landmark to you, Your Excellentness. Like a Chicago Cubs fan at the end of baseball season, it's an appropriate time to tell yourself "Well, maybe NEXT year at this time, my team will make me proud."
I always wanted to write that on an office Birthday Card, but I never had enough room... that's what I love about those internets.
posted by wendell at 10:46 AM on October 10, 2004
I always wanted to write that on an office Birthday Card, but I never had enough room... that's what I love about those internets.
posted by wendell at 10:46 AM on October 10, 2004
Bonne anniversaire!
posted by cyrusdogstar at 10:55 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by cyrusdogstar at 10:55 AM on October 10, 2004
At the risk of ultimate redundancy: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT!
posted by biscotti at 11:05 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by biscotti at 11:05 AM on October 10, 2004
Thanks! And it actually is my 32nd birthday, so that comic was kinda freaky on first read.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:12 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:12 AM on October 10, 2004
i was just about to wish you a happy birthday when my Jrun failed to connect to the server!
posted by quonsar at 11:12 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by quonsar at 11:12 AM on October 10, 2004
Happy Birthday Matt.
posted by eyeballkid at 11:29 AM on October 10, 2004
posted by eyeballkid at 11:29 AM on October 10, 2004
Thirty-two.
I remember thirty-two.
...
OK, I don't.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 11:56 AM on October 10, 2004
I remember thirty-two.
...
OK, I don't.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 11:56 AM on October 10, 2004
MetaFilter: my cheap-ass internet friends.
Happy Birthday, Matt!
posted by yhbc at 12:36 PM on October 10, 2004
Happy Birthday, Matt!
posted by yhbc at 12:36 PM on October 10, 2004
In your honor, I will make a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. Mmm Mmm good, just like Metafilter. Thanks so much Matt. You're awesome.
posted by sadie01221975 at 12:45 PM on October 10, 2004
posted by sadie01221975 at 12:45 PM on October 10, 2004
Happy birthday Mathowie
Also the birthday of David Lee Roth and my mother, libras all.
posted by Tenuki at 2:08 PM on October 10, 2004
Also the birthday of David Lee Roth and my mother, libras all.
posted by Tenuki at 2:08 PM on October 10, 2004
Ha den äran på födelsedagen!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 2:56 PM on October 10, 2004
posted by soundofsuburbia at 2:56 PM on October 10, 2004
Happy Bday Matt...you're the reason I've wasted so much time on these here internets.
Happy Bday raysmj, I won't hold you responsible...but that Matt guy? He's just an information pusher in a shiny blue style sheet...
(I kid, I kid...thanks, I'll be here all week...try the veal.)
posted by dejah420 at 3:09 PM on October 10, 2004
Happy Bday raysmj, I won't hold you responsible...but that Matt guy? He's just an information pusher in a shiny blue style sheet...
(I kid, I kid...thanks, I'll be here all week...try the veal.)
posted by dejah420 at 3:09 PM on October 10, 2004
happy birthday big man !
posted by sgt.serenity at 3:13 PM on October 10, 2004
posted by sgt.serenity at 3:13 PM on October 10, 2004
a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing
Oh man, that was my one birthday wish this year. I'd never seen or heard of red velvet cakes until a southern friend had one as her wedding cake. They look amazing, even if it's just red food coloring combined with white cake from a box mix.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:34 PM on October 10, 2004
Oh man, that was my one birthday wish this year. I'd never seen or heard of red velvet cakes until a southern friend had one as her wedding cake. They look amazing, even if it's just red food coloring combined with white cake from a box mix.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:34 PM on October 10, 2004
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(hippo, birdie, two ewes)posted by andrew cooke at 5:03 PM on October 10, 2004
Happy birthday Matt. Here is to another year of knowing you are important to lots of strange and unusually debonair people.
posted by Keyser Soze at 5:53 PM on October 10, 2004
posted by Keyser Soze at 5:53 PM on October 10, 2004
quonsar's erect nipples aside, happy birthday matt.
posted by FunkyHelix at 6:01 PM on October 10, 2004
posted by FunkyHelix at 6:01 PM on October 10, 2004
you go, number one.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 6:20 PM on October 10, 2004
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 6:20 PM on October 10, 2004
andrew, that was my all time favorite card as a kid.
Auguri Matt!
posted by CunningLinguist at 6:22 PM on October 10, 2004
Auguri Matt!
posted by CunningLinguist at 6:22 PM on October 10, 2004
Naimbag a kasangay!
posted by languagehat at 6:30 PM on October 10, 2004
posted by languagehat at 6:30 PM on October 10, 2004
May your 32nd year be joyous. Happy birthday and many happy returns! :D
posted by Lynsey at 7:54 PM on October 10, 2004
posted by Lynsey at 7:54 PM on October 10, 2004
I found that comic! Woohoo!
Congratulations, Mr. Haughey, and many more.
posted by kindall at 9:13 PM on October 10, 2004
Congratulations, Mr. Haughey, and many more.
posted by kindall at 9:13 PM on October 10, 2004
kindall, how did you get the right age?
Have you been going through matt's trash again?
posted by Salmonberry at 10:03 PM on October 10, 2004
Have you been going through matt's trash again?
posted by Salmonberry at 10:03 PM on October 10, 2004
Ah, so once again we celebrate the anniversary of your successful escape from the womb! May your body deteriorate at an unusually slow pace in the years to come!
posted by Galvatron at 10:47 PM on October 10, 2004
posted by Galvatron at 10:47 PM on October 10, 2004
Felicitations, Matt! May you never feel as old and wobbly as I do today!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:56 PM on October 10, 2004
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:56 PM on October 10, 2004
Happy birthday, Matt!
posted by Zosia Blue at 11:11 PM on October 10, 2004
posted by Zosia Blue at 11:11 PM on October 10, 2004
Salmonberry: My Google-fu is unstoppable. ;)
No, really, it was just a coincidence.
posted by kindall at 11:12 PM on October 10, 2004
No, really, it was just a coincidence.
posted by kindall at 11:12 PM on October 10, 2004
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I keed. Birthday props to Tenuki's mother (tell her I said hi), the mighty DLR, raysmj, and to you.
Oh, and Matt. Happy birthday, big fella.
You doing anything wild(ish) for your 32nd?
posted by chicobangs at 6:44 AM on October 11, 2004
I keed. Birthday props to Tenuki's mother (tell her I said hi), the mighty DLR, raysmj, and to you.
Oh, and Matt. Happy birthday, big fella.
You doing anything wild(ish) for your 32nd?
posted by chicobangs at 6:44 AM on October 11, 2004
Matt, I would send you a red velvet cake but I don't have the bandwidth.
Instead, my red velvet cake recipe:
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon salt (omit if you used salted butter!)
2-1/2 cups flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup buttermilk (If you can't find buttermilk, make your own sour milk by combining 1 tablespoon white vinegar with 1 cup milk and letting it stand at room temperature for 15 minutes. But it's better with the buttermilk.)
2 tablespoons red food coloring (or a whole one of those little vials)
1 tablespoon white vinegar
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and lightly flour two 9-inch round cake pans. Cream butter and sugar together; add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla to mixture.
Combine flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, cocoa and baking powder in another bowl; add a little at a time to the butter/sugar/egg/vanilla mixture, alternating it with the buttermilk; be careful not to overbeat.
Dissolve the baking soda in vinegar; try not to get lost in reminiscences of 3rd grade "volcano" science projects. Pour the red food coloring into the baking soda mixture and stir gently. Fold the bloody, fizzy mixture very, very carefully into the batter. Stir the whole thing together very, very gently until it is combined.
Pour the batter gently into your prepared baking pans and bake about 30 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched with finger. Cool in pans on wire rack for five minutes. Remove from pans and cool completely before frosting.
The key a delicious velvety texture is to handle everything gently! Especially once the baking powder is in.
posted by Sidhedevil at 1:55 PM on October 11, 2004
Instead, my red velvet cake recipe:
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon salt (omit if you used salted butter!)
2-1/2 cups flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup buttermilk (If you can't find buttermilk, make your own sour milk by combining 1 tablespoon white vinegar with 1 cup milk and letting it stand at room temperature for 15 minutes. But it's better with the buttermilk.)
2 tablespoons red food coloring (or a whole one of those little vials)
1 tablespoon white vinegar
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and lightly flour two 9-inch round cake pans. Cream butter and sugar together; add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla to mixture.
Combine flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, cocoa and baking powder in another bowl; add a little at a time to the butter/sugar/egg/vanilla mixture, alternating it with the buttermilk; be careful not to overbeat.
Dissolve the baking soda in vinegar; try not to get lost in reminiscences of 3rd grade "volcano" science projects. Pour the red food coloring into the baking soda mixture and stir gently. Fold the bloody, fizzy mixture very, very carefully into the batter. Stir the whole thing together very, very gently until it is combined.
Pour the batter gently into your prepared baking pans and bake about 30 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched with finger. Cool in pans on wire rack for five minutes. Remove from pans and cool completely before frosting.
The key a delicious velvety texture is to handle everything gently! Especially once the baking powder is in.
posted by Sidhedevil at 1:55 PM on October 11, 2004
Later than the dickens, but happy birthday nonetheless. :)
posted by livii at 11:17 AM on October 12, 2004
posted by livii at 11:17 AM on October 12, 2004
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posted by Salmonberry at 1:48 AM on October 10, 2004