For Those Who Died Today... Happy Deathday! - Page 14 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Hakon · 09-25-2009, 01:32 PM

Happy deathday.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 09-25-2009, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Eönwë

Wow... 9. Makes me feel like even more of a newbie than usual.

Yeah really. Two years seems like only a fraction of childhood compared to nine! Wow!
Happy Belated Deathday to you, HI!

Durelin · 11-11-2009, 09:27 PM

Oh wow, my 7th was almost a month ago.

*group hug*!

satansaloser2005 · 11-11-2009, 11:07 PM

Oh noes, I missed mine. It was on the 5th. I was gonna have worms and dirt cake and everything.

Also, congratulations on the anniversary of your death, Durelin.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 11-12-2009, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Durelin

Oh wow, my 7th was almost a month ago.

*group hug*!

Whoops, oh my!

Quote:

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

Oh noes, I missed mine. It was on the 5th. I was gonna have worms and dirt cake and everything.

Ah, but don't be too sad. Pehaps next time.

Belated wishes to ye both

HerenIstarion · 11-12-2009, 10:54 AM

huggers +2

Thinlómien · 11-12-2009, 02:43 PM

Belated congrats, Durelin and Sally

Legate of Amon Lanc · 11-17-2009, 09:17 AM

And I just discovered today that I have also missed my deathday, which was like, what, two days ago. How typical, and I am surely not alone in this one: I was well aware of it some days ago, then again reminded of it by this thread, and then when it actually happened, completely left it out...

Eönwë · 11-21-2009, 04:10 PM

Well, Happy (very belated) Deathday, Legate.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 11-23-2009, 07:04 AM

Thanks, Eönwë

Eönwë · 12-05-2009, 03:30 PM

I remembered a few days ago and then I suddenly forgot it again.

My second deathday was yesterday. Woo!

Formendacil · 12-05-2009, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Eönwë

I remembered a few days ago and then I suddenly forgot it again.

My second deathday was yesterday. Woo!

You've got to be kidding! You've only been here two years? And a day?

Blimey!

Well, congratulations, then, on solidifying your spot in that time.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 12-05-2009, 05:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eönwë

I remembered a few days ago and then I suddenly forgot it again.

My second deathday was yesterday. Woo!

Well I could return the wishes and wish you a belated happy deathday too

But hey, two years is a long time... I remember when I... uh. And here I thought how "young" I am here, but at the same time that I am already quite "old" here... well, for example thinking that it seems to me like yesterday when you joined, Eönwë. And hey - it was yesterday - only a few years ago already

But in any case, you have made yourself quite "home" here... good to have you dead

Eönwë · 12-05-2009, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Formendacil

You've got to be kidding! You've only been here two years? And a day?

I am but a mere hatchling.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

good to have you dead

Thank you.

(or is it

)

Hakon · 12-05-2009, 07:50 PM

Happy deathday Eonwe. Where have you been on skype these past few weeks?

Legate of Amon Lanc · 12-15-2009, 09:34 AM

I think it's the time to wish a happy deathday to Lommy...

Eönwë · 12-15-2009, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

I think it's the time to wish a happy deathday to Lommy...

Yes it is. I would like to wish you a very happy deathday Lommy, and I hope that you will have many more among us here on the Barrow-Downs.

Pitchwife · 12-15-2009, 05:14 PM

What they said - happy deathday and many happy returns, Lommy!

The Might · 12-15-2009, 06:50 PM

Happy Deathday, Thinlómien!
May your Penguishness forever haunt these halls!

Hakon · 12-15-2009, 08:19 PM

Happy deathday Lommie. I have decided to start spelling Lommie this new way just to be different since I am getting bored lately. Once again Happy Deathday.

Loslote · 12-15-2009, 08:25 PM

Happy death-day, Lommy!

Valier · 12-16-2009, 11:04 AM

Ah it looks like I missed my own deathday again...

Ah well happy belated deathday to me!!
I can't believe I've been here for that long

wow gooooooooo me!!!

Thinlómien · 12-18-2009, 06:11 AM

Thanks everybody.

I feel slightly old now, though - I've been here now for five years, and that's more or less one fourth of my life.

It's so weird to think I was a silly teenager few months short of 15 when I joined, and now I'm still almost as silly and a few months short of 20 which starts with the number 2 and is thus unavoidably "adult" age... (Not meaning 20 is very grown up, but you can't really pull the "I'm a kid" card anymore, and besides, it's not anything "-teen" anymore. I'm going to be happy about that.

)

Belated congrats to you, Val. *hugs*

Eönwë · 12-21-2009, 05:54 PM

I've just had a thought that currently, with the age of the 'Downs as it is, if you multiply the number of years you've been on here by 9, you get your 'Downs age equivalent in human years.

Hakon · 12-21-2009, 09:26 PM

You just want to be able to say you are 18. Where as I am barely 9 according to that.

Inziladun · 12-21-2009, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eönwë

I've just had a thought that currently, with the age of the 'Downs as it is, if you multiply the number of years you've been on here by 9, you get your 'Downs age equivalent in human years.

So I'm 81? I don't feel like it....

Hakon · 12-21-2009, 09:34 PM

I feel more like 45 then I do 9 or my real age of 15.

Eönwë · 12-22-2009, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hakon

You just want to be able to say you are 18.

Well obviously the true "Coming of Age" varies for each 'Downer, and is when you get a personal title, but I think now I'm maybe starting to lose a little of my newbie "not-properly-rotten-yet"ness. Just a little, mind you.

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Originally Posted by Inziladun

So I'm 81? I don't feel like it....

Well you are one of the "venerated elders" from the "Early Days" of the 'Downs, even though you haven't been around all that time. Anyway, Wights are like Numenoreans at their peak, so even though you may look old in normal human years, you've barely started your 'Downs career.

Hakon · 12-22-2009, 05:21 PM

Wait so how do you get those personal titles? I know the admins and I think mods too give them to you but what do you have to do to get them?

Eonwe, as I stated before I feel more like 45 then I do 9 or 15 or the 18 I will be in 2011 on this site.

Estelyn Telcontar · 12-23-2009, 03:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hakon

Wait so how do you get those personal titles?

Here's a brief information: Barrow-Downs FAQ thread

Practically speaking: Once a year or so, The Barrow-Wight chooses a list of members who receive a personal title. The requirements:

1) A minimum of 500 posts
2) Positive contribution to the forum

Several factors contribute to this, including recommendations by moderators and administrators, and reputation status. If you are chosen, you will receive a PM and can then choose an appropriate title.

Laurinquë · 12-23-2009, 04:09 AM

Happy deathday Lommy and Eönwë! It appears that I have once more forgot my very own deathday until a few days after the fact. 13 December people! It just so happens that late December is the busiest time of the year for me with school and such; though it is still no excuse for forgetting the day you died. Maybe this is because I had such an uninteresting death though, who knows.

Eönwë · 12-23-2009, 09:35 AM

Happy Deathday Lauri!

Also, liking the avvie colour tweak.

Laurinquë · 12-28-2009, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eönwë

Happy Deathday Lauri!

Also, liking the avvie colour tweak.

Thank you! I'm not a prolific Downer but thanks all the same. You'll probably notice I changed my avvie again, perhaps I should have left it up for the 12 days of Christmas.

Loslote · 12-28-2009, 10:30 PM

Happy deathday, Lauri!

Lush · 12-29-2009, 07:00 PM

I have been around here for 8 years now, people. What in the Hades!

Nogrod · 12-29-2009, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lush

I have been around here for 8 years now, people.

So only eternity minus 8 years left! Wait... eternity minus eight years is... eternity.

Thinlómien · 12-30-2009, 01:44 PM

Congrats, Lauri and Lush.

Pitchwife · 01-02-2010, 04:20 PM

Belated congratulations to Lauri, Lush and Eönwë!
And I just noticed - I've been dead for a year and five days now. Feels much longer...

Formendacil · 01-06-2010, 07:33 PM

As I believe I mentioned in my DeathDay post last year, January 6th is the Solemnity of the Epiphany on the calendar of my religion--albeit in my jurisdiction and others we moved it to Sunday this year as most--and it also happens to be the solemn anniversary of a personal epiphany--the day I joined the Barrow-downs in 2005, at the tender age of not-quite-18.

Given that, only just 2 days ago, I was at the biggest Barrow-downer gathering of all time, and had what I can genuinely call the best, and craziest, holiday of my life--not to mention the only real New Year's Party I would ever say I attended--given all that, I am considering my DeathDay a rather significant event in my life... and as the fallout from Bostonmoot (but more on that in the appropriate thread) begins to slowly get sorted and filed, I think it's only going to become more apparent how much of an impact this site has made on my life.

So I thank you all once again, on this annual celebration, for the wonderful presence you have all been--and are--in my life.

Glirdan · 01-06-2010, 07:43 PM

Happy Deathday Formy!! I miss you all so much already and will agree with you on just how much of an impact this site has made on me. I think, if we all leave a gathering like that with tearful or sorrowful goodbyes, we have all been touched by this site and by the amazing people who are a part of it.

And so I would like to say again, Happy Deathday Formendacil! It was a pleasure and an honor to have spent all of last week leading up to your Deathday with you!!

09-25-2009, 01:32 PM	#521
Hakon Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Twilight Zone Posts: 736	Happy deathday. __________________ Medicine for the soul. ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

11-11-2009, 11:07 PM	#524
satansaloser2005 The Sweetest Spoiler Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: from beneath you it giggles incessantly Posts: 5,789	Oh noes, I missed mine. It was on the 5th. I was gonna have worms and dirt cake and everything. Also, congratulations on the anniversary of your death, Durelin. __________________ "My heart always cowers behind the defense of my wit." Friendship is two pals munching on a well-cooked face together. Fenris bookworm.

11-12-2009, 10:54 AM	#526
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	huggers +2 __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

11-12-2009, 02:43 PM	#527
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Belated congrats, Durelin and Sally __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

11-17-2009, 09:17 AM	#528
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	And I just discovered today that I have also missed my deathday, which was like, what, two days ago. How typical, and I am surely not alone in this one: I was well aware of it some days ago, then again reminded of it by this thread, and then when it actually happened, completely left it out... __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

11-11-2009, 09:27 PM	#523
Durelin Estelo dagnir, Melo ring Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,063	Oh wow, my 7th was almost a month ago. group hug!

11-21-2009, 04:10 PM	#529
Eönwë Flame Imperishable Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 3,928	Well, Happy (very belated) Deathday, Legate. __________________ Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place

11-23-2009, 07:04 AM	#530
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Thanks, Eönwë __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

12-05-2009, 03:30 PM	#531
Eönwë Flame Imperishable Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 3,928	I remembered a few days ago and then I suddenly forgot it again. My second deathday was yesterday. Woo! __________________ Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place

12-05-2009, 07:50 PM	#535
Hakon Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Twilight Zone Posts: 736	Happy deathday Eonwe. Where have you been on skype these past few weeks? __________________ Medicine for the soul. ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

12-15-2009, 09:34 AM	#536
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	I think it's the time to wish a happy deathday to Lommy... __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

12-15-2009, 05:14 PM	#538
Pitchwife Wight of the Old Forest Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall Posts: 3,329	What they said - happy deathday and many happy returns, Lommy! __________________ Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI

12-15-2009, 06:50 PM	#539
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	Happy Deathday, Thinlómien! May your Penguishness forever haunt these halls! __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

12-15-2009, 08:19 PM	#540
Hakon Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Twilight Zone Posts: 736	Happy deathday Lommie. I have decided to start spelling Lommie this new way just to be different since I am getting bored lately. Once again Happy Deathday. __________________ Medicine for the soul. ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

12-15-2009, 08:25 PM	#541
Loslote The Werewolf's Companion Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Moon Posts: 3,021	Happy death-day, Lommy! __________________ I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Double Fenris

12-16-2009, 11:04 AM	#542
Valier Twisted Taleswapper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: somewhere between sanity and insanity Posts: 1,706	Ah it looks like I missed my own deathday again... Ah well happy belated deathday to me!! I can't believe I've been here for that long wow gooooooooo me!!! __________________ grand return?........

12-18-2009, 06:11 AM	#543
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Thanks everybody. I feel slightly old now, though - I've been here now for five years, and that's more or less one fourth of my life. It's so weird to think I was a silly teenager few months short of 15 when I joined, and now I'm still almost as silly and a few months short of 20 which starts with the number 2 and is thus unavoidably "adult" age... (Not meaning 20 is very grown up, but you can't really pull the "I'm a kid" card anymore, and besides, it's not anything "-teen" anymore. I'm going to be happy about that. ) Belated congrats to you, Val. hugs __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

12-21-2009, 05:54 PM	#544
Eönwë Flame Imperishable Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 3,928	I've just had a thought that currently, with the age of the 'Downs as it is, if you multiply the number of years you've been on here by 9, you get your 'Downs age equivalent in human years. __________________ Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place

12-21-2009, 09:26 PM	#545
Hakon Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Twilight Zone Posts: 736	You just want to be able to say you are 18. Where as I am barely 9 according to that. __________________ Medicine for the soul. ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

12-21-2009, 09:34 PM	#547
Hakon Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Twilight Zone Posts: 736	I feel more like 45 then I do 9 or my real age of 15. __________________ Medicine for the soul. ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

12-22-2009, 05:21 PM	#549
Hakon Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Twilight Zone Posts: 736	Wait so how do you get those personal titles? I know the admins and I think mods too give them to you but what do you have to do to get them? Eonwe, as I stated before I feel more like 45 then I do 9 or 15 or the 18 I will be in 2011 on this site. __________________ Medicine for the soul. ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

12-23-2009, 04:09 AM	#551
Laurinquë Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 347	Oh dear . . . Happy deathday Lommy and Eönwë! It appears that I have once more forgot my very own deathday until a few days after the fact. 13 December people! It just so happens that late December is the busiest time of the year for me with school and such; though it is still no excuse for forgetting the day you died. Maybe this is because I had such an uninteresting death though, who knows.

12-23-2009, 09:35 AM	#552
Eönwë Flame Imperishable Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 3,928	Happy Deathday Lauri! Also, liking the avvie colour tweak. __________________ Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place

12-28-2009, 10:30 PM	#554
Loslote The Werewolf's Companion Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Moon Posts: 3,021	Happy deathday, Lauri! __________________ I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Double Fenris

12-29-2009, 07:00 PM	#555
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	I have been around here for 8 years now, people. What in the Hades! __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

12-30-2009, 01:44 PM	#557
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Congrats, Lauri and Lush. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

01-02-2010, 04:20 PM	#558
Pitchwife Wight of the Old Forest Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall Posts: 3,329	Belated congratulations to Lauri, Lush and Eönwë! And I just noticed - I've been dead for a year and five days now. Feels much longer... __________________ Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI

01-06-2010, 07:33 PM	#559
Formendacil Dead Serious Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers. Posts: 3,328	As I believe I mentioned in my DeathDay post last year, January 6th is the Solemnity of the Epiphany on the calendar of my religion--albeit in my jurisdiction and others we moved it to Sunday this year as most--and it also happens to be the solemn anniversary of a personal epiphany--the day I joined the Barrow-downs in 2005, at the tender age of not-quite-18. Given that, only just 2 days ago, I was at the biggest Barrow-downer gathering of all time, and had what I can genuinely call the best, and craziest, holiday of my life--not to mention the only real New Year's Party I would ever say I attended--given all that, I am considering my DeathDay a rather significant event in my life... and as the fallout from Bostonmoot (but more on that in the appropriate thread) begins to slowly get sorted and filed, I think it's only going to become more apparent how much of an impact this site has made on my life. So I thank you all once again, on this annual celebration, for the wonderful presence you have all been--and are--in my life. __________________ I prefer history, true or feigned.

01-06-2010, 07:43 PM	#560
Glirdan Energetic Essence Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Where Lark Nor Eagle Ever Flew Posts: 3,285	Happy Deathday Formy!! I miss you all so much already and will agree with you on just how much of an impact this site has made on me. I think, if we all leave a gathering like that with tearful or sorrowful goodbyes, we have all been touched by this site and by the amazing people who are a part of it. And so I would like to say again, Happy Deathday Formendacil! It was a pleasure and an honor to have spent all of last week leading up to your Deathday with you!! __________________ *I'm going to buy you a kitty, I'm going to let you fall in love with the kitty, and one cold, winter night, I'm going to steal into your house and punch you in the face!* Fenris Wolf