Happy Birthday to Beth Parker

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Wish that green-thumbed shovel-bearing queen of pudding a delightful, a spectacular, yes, even a happy birthday!

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Birthday! May your roses always bloom and your aphids wither at the very sight of you!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link

happy birthday beth!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the thread where we find out what Beth Parker looks like (hint) :)

Happy birthday!

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy birthday!

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

haffy birfday beff!

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link

happiest birthday beth:)

― estela (estela), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Many happy returns of the day, Beth!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy birthday!

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

happy birthday, beth! no stopping your car in the middle of the road to eat birthday cake, now ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy birthday to the funny and multi-talented Beth yay!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Birthday, Beth! If only I was young enough to be adopted. I'd move and beg for adoption. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Birthday, Beth!

― youn (youn), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy birthday, Beth Parker! You're funny.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy birthday to you, Beth!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

have a fabulous birthday!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

happy the birthday, beth!!

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

You guys are the best!!!!!!!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I think this thread proves that you in fact are the best Beth. You are witty and weird and wonderful and a bunch of other w words.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Birthday, Beth!

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

beth you are so lovely! have a wonderful birthday!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy birthday, Beth! That it may be the greatest of days for you.

― Gerard (Gerard), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

You are witty and weird and wonderful and a bunch of other w words.

But not Working! As you may have noticed!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Wastrel!

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Birthday, Beth! What are you guys doing for your birthday?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I should probably bring you some pudding.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Not doing anything! Cowering in my home! After all, it's July on the Vineyard. The boys are coming for dinner. I think I'll be sipping pepto-bismol, alas. An alimentary ailment.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw, that's sad. On the other hand, SOMEONE has to pay for your sins. It might as well be you. I am Maria-less and kid-less for four days. Gonna try and clean the house. I hope to see you at the book sale tomorrow. I will buy you one ancient gardening book for your birthday.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Birthday to you!

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

BOOK SALE TOMORROW!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!
I wish all you guys could come! It's the best! A school gym totally packed with dirt-cheap books. Fourth day of the sale everything's free!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Many Happy Returns Beth!

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Beth, you are a joy on ILx. Hope this is the best birthday yet! xxx

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Raise a glass of pudding all and toast to our most amusing poster, Beth!

Best Wishes, Wiggy.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

happy birthday!

― patita (patita), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

happy birthday, cousin!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

The birthday (50!) so far: worked very briefly, returned to to wipe Donald off the Canfield scoreboard FOREVER (6379), went to beach, defying road-association bylaws by swimming in MY BIRTHDAY SUIT. Nobody was there but us. Read. Fell asleep. Returned home, started small bonfire. Just dragged a fallen hickory limb out of the woods and will section it with my dull pruning saw. Or shame one of the boys into doing it. On a clear liquid diet became of tummy woes, but last I checked, wine was clear. A glass awaits.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

The birthday (50!) so far: worked very briefly, returned to to wipe Donald off the Canfield scoreboard FOREVER (6379!), went to beach, defying road-association bylaws by swimming in MY BIRTHDAY SUIT. Nobody was there but us. Read. Fell asleep. Returned home, started small bonfire. Just dragged a fallen hickory limb out of the woods and will section it with my dull pruning saw. Or shame one of the boys into doing it. On a clear liquid diet became of tummy woes, but last I checked, wine was clear. A glass awaits.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I really really want to get you a t-shirt that says 50 And Fabulous! on it. Better yet, a sweater! Would you wear it? What if I knitted it myself?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'M 16
GIVE MY THE KEYS
GIVE MY THE CREDIT CARDS
AND GET OUT OF MY WAY

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

ME, i mean

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Dear Skinnydipping Beth: Happy Birthday and hope you located the Andrea Doria.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 28 July 2006 01:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Beth Parker! I missed your birthday yesterday. Hope it was happy, and you got truckloads of loot.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 28 July 2006 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Birthday Beth!Sorry I missed it. Let's have a big party together next year! xxoo Alison

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you everybody for all the cheer! Now that it's the day after, I keep catching myself thinking that 50's over and now I'm 51.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm only seven-and-a-half years away from the big five-o. Scary.

But belated happy birthday B; our paths don't cross much here on ILx, but good to have you around.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh, Marcello, we must be very close to the same age. (b. Nov '63)

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

You're two months ahead of me.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Darn, I was hoping we were born the same day so I could claim we're twins and sponge money off of you.

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

feliz cumpleanos beth!

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I forgot to buy you a gardening book! You should have reminded me. What a madhouse, huh? I spent 50 buxx!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

So did I! It must have been a fifty-buck day. I grabbed all the good gardening books as soon as I walked in. Also all the little golden guides. Donald came later and only bought three books before the heat caused him to flee. Why design a school gymnasium with no ventilation? Jeezy peezy. We'll go back on everything-free Monday..

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Happy Birthday, Beth!!! We will come over later and sing you the birthday song in Dutch!The Pudding Queen. The Queen of Rocks. The Queen of Clothing Optional Beaches. All Hail Beth, the Queen!

― Maria :D, Friday, 27 July 2007 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Hurray to Beth Parker, artist fantastische!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 July 2007 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link

HOORAY! Feliz Cumpleanos most fabulous gardening lady!

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 July 2007 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Happy Birthday to the grande dame of ILX!

― kv_nol, Friday, 27 July 2007 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Happy Birthday you!

Here are some yellow stones for your collection...
http://www.healingcrystals.com/images/yellow_jasper_tumbled.jpg

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 27 July 2007 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link

happy birthday ms. parker

― hstencil, Friday, 27 July 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Beth Parker,
perk bather
(the "brr" peak),
kept her bar;
bet her park.
'k, be pert, RAH!

Happy birthday woohoo!

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 27 July 2007 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link

Bon Anniversaire!

― Surmounter, Friday, 27 July 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link

happy birthday/gelukkige verjaardag!

― nathalie, Friday, 27 July 2007 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Awww I love all you guys! And tonight after I've started drinking wine out of the birdbath I shall return to the computer and get all maudlin!!!!!

― Beth Parker, Friday, 27 July 2007 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Happy Birthday to the Queen! I hope your subjects bring you many nice things today.

― aimurchie, Friday, 27 July 2007 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link

BETH GOOD EVERYONE ELSE BAD

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 27 July 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Happy Birthday Beth! Here's another yellow stone!

http://i10.tinypic.com/6c5ft60.jpg

― StanM, Friday, 27 July 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link

(oh come on tinypic, don't die now)

― StanM, Friday, 27 July 2007 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Happy Birthday Beth :)

― onimo, Friday, 27 July 2007 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Wishing you the happiest of birthdays, Beth! I hope your day is fab.

Because I like Wallace & Gromit so much, I thought I'd try and find a picture of a W&G birthday cake for you. What I found instead though was this abberation, purportedly made by a professional bakery known for always having appallingly bad character cakes in their shop's window display :

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/33219_54c6d567a4.jpg

I love how Wallace doesn't look anything like he's supposed to. Plus his arm has fallen off. And Gromit's newspaper seems to have been written in blood.

I hope you like it too!

― C J, Friday, 27 July 2007 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link

HAPPY BETHDAY TO YOU!!!!! And many lush and fabulous returns of the day!

― Jaq, Friday, 27 July 2007 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link

(CJ, that is rather terrifying! Wallace has left his dentures out and stuffed his cheeks w/ cotton to play the Godfather)

― Jaq, Friday, 27 July 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Harpy Birthday, Beth! Will see you later for cake & ale!

― scott seward, Friday, 27 July 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Have a wonderful time, Beth!

― Mark C, Friday, 27 July 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link

hb, b!

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link

happy birthday! a celebratory robot drawing, perchance?

― Just got offed, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link

happy birthday awesome beth parker yaaay!!

― rrrobyn, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Happy birthday Beth! I wouldn't break radio silence for just anyone!

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Hurrah the most excellent gardener. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link

happy birfday!

― kingfish, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link

A la poétesse la plus éxquise d'ILX, je souhaite le plus joyeux des anniversaires.

― Michael White, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.take2max.com/images/gumdropcake.jpg

Happy, happy birthday Beth! Hope it's a fantastic day. xxx

― luna, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link

a happy big bucket full of shiny beach stones for you!

― patita, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Happy birthday, Beth, you surefire cure for the mulligrubs! You tower over us all like a friendly giant of good countenance.

― Aimless, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh for happy birthday's sake!

― Casuistry, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link

i like beth's pointillist drawerings

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 27 July 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Thank you all! I am working my way through all the piles of birthday potluck food! Have to keep eating! Drinking! Applying insect repellent!

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 28 July 2007 00:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Happiest of birthdays to you, Beth, wonderful aesthete, kind person & poster of my all-time favorite thread, "My Secret Vise."

― Abbott, Saturday, 28 July 2007 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link

Aha! So that's where Abbott developed her crush on Beth.

― Aimless, Saturday, 28 July 2007 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Happy Birthday, Beth!

― youn, Saturday, 28 July 2007 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Happy birthday! Check it!

― Keith, Saturday, 28 July 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link

that was fun, beth. i am stuffed. so much food! donald is the saint of the grill. the boys had fun too.

― scott seward, Saturday, 28 July 2007 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link

as did I (Maria posting from Scott's thing so as to not disrupt the music -- Prints -- get this album)

― scott seward, Saturday, 28 July 2007 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Beth, have you been drinking wine out of the bird bath?

― Ms Misery, Saturday, 28 July 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link

did bob project any images on the side of your house? (maria here)

― scott seward, Saturday, 28 July 2007 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Happy Birthday. Your posts are among the tops of tops. The stones make me want to paint even more.

― Andi Mags, Saturday, 28 July 2007 04:08 (sixteen years ago) link

We had to go back inside because of the vicious insects.
Best birthday ever. Work tomorrow, so off to bed.
GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY!!!!!!!

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 28 July 2007 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm wishing you a belated birthday, Beth! You rock - and so does your thread with all the beautiful rocks. :)

― Sara R-C, Sunday, 29 July 2007 05:18 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm also wishing you a belated happy birthday, Beth. I was away and couldn't post before. I'm sorry the vicious insects drove you to an early end to your party.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 29 July 2007 08:07 (sixteen years ago) link

tits. missed this. many belated happy returns.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 30 July 2007 08:17 (sixteen years ago) link

Thank you! The birthday festivities continue, because—get this—we got so wrapped-up in the party that we FORGOT ABOUT THE BIRTHDAY CAKE.
It was supposed to be taken out of the freezer an hour before eating, but it was bedtime by the time we remembered it. So we have to have another party! It's a fabulous cake with four layers of different kinds of chocolate and mousse. A chef we know makes them as a side-line. I ordered a giant one for my husband's 50th and covered it with raspberries. Num num num.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 30 July 2007 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Okay, that is completely awesome.

― Sara R-C, Monday, 30 July 2007 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh no, damn having no internet at home. HAPPY HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY BETH!! Glad you had a fabulous par-tay.

― Hard like armour, Monday, 30 July 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link

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