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Monday, 22 February 2010

..and you smell like one too.


When I was growing up we all used to sing this song to each other on our birthdays:

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
You look like a monkey
And you smell like one too.

We used to laugh and laugh as if it was the funniest thing in the world.

You can cyber-sing it to me today, if you like.
'Cos I still think it's funny.

15 comments:

  1. Jinksy22.2.10

    Here's our variation:-

    Happy Birthday To You
    Squashed tomato and stew,
    I saw a fat monkey
    and I thought it was you!

    Many Happy Returns! xxx

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  2. Yorkshire Pudding22.2.10

    Over here in the motherland it is still Sunday 21st so it isn't yet your birthday even though you imagine it is so I will wish you happy birthday for tomorrow which is your today....The motherland version, at least in East Yorkshire, ended with "You smell like a monkey/ Go back to the zoo!"

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  3. Sistertex22.2.10

    Huge birthday hugs to you!!!! I hope you enjoyed your day!

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  4. Daphne22.2.10

    Our version was "You look like a monkey - go back to the zoo!"
    But a very Happy Birthday to you anyway!

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  5. Kate22.2.10

    Thank you for your versions! I've had a lovely day and have come home to the most beautiful bunch of flowers I can ever remember getting among other things!

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  6. unique FONT22.2.10

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  7. rhymeswithplague23.2.10

    How very American of you to have the same birthday as George Washington!

    Our version used "stink" instead of "smell"...

    Verification word is "hetripti" which looks not like a monkey but as though it could be a real place somewhere in NZ.

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  8. Judy23.2.10

    Happy birthday to you...and many more. Just did the plain version here. Where are all the candles?

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  9. Kate23.2.10

    Robert, Hetripti is just the other side of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which is just the other side of Porangahau, in Hawkes Bay.

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  10. rhymeswithplague23.2.10

    And they say Welsh is complicated....

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  11. rhymeswithplague23.2.10

    February 22nd is also the birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Ted Kennedy. What company you find yourself in!

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  12. Kate23.2.10

    Judy, I accidentally ate all the other candles. I should have stopped at one glass of the Merlot.

    Robert, you may bask in the shine of my reflected glory.

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  13. bARE-eYED sUN24.2.10

    not really,right?

    not really smell like a . . .

    never mind. ;-)

    a belated very, very happy birthday to you, may you have many, many more.

    ..
    .ero

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  14. Sam24.2.10

    A belated happy birthday Katherine. I hope you spent a little time at Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu for your birthday, sounds like a swell place!

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  15. Beau24.2.10

    Oh Happy Birthday! We used to sing the same words (and I to my son!), what a small world. BTW, I loved seeing your sunset pictures at Pilot Bay from a couple weeks ago... I can only dream :) (Thanks for coming by too!)

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