So the birthday twins have their big day today.
If you have a favorite story about Omnes or a favorite verse from Subaru Diane, share it here. Or anything else you want to share, of course!
This is the internet and there’s an image for everything, so I searched for “subaru scales of justice”. This came up, so I figure what the hell, it works as well as anything.
We’ve been with you guys for all sorts of life changes, and will hopefully be with you guys for many more, including some big changes for the better in the coming year.
Happy Birthday to both of you! ?
WaterGirl
If you want to link to that conversation with Omnes where you talked about some obscure thing, there’s a good chance that you will find it if you search for that word in Search this website above.
The search plugin we have been using appeared to be a likely culprits in the 502 errors we have seen a couple of times in the past month, so over the weekend we upgraded to the latest version that can better handle large sites.
Feel free to try it out. Try not to break the new birthday toy, okay? :-)
WaterGirl
Oh, and in honor of the birthdays, feel free to donate to Doug’s candidates in the thread just below this one.
John Revolta
Happy Birthdays ya jackals ya.
Omnes Omnibus
Thanks, I think.
Soprano2
Happy birthday, and hopes for many more!
Yutsano
Hap Days of Births! Or something like that.
Mary G
Too many great comments from botha youse to choose just one, but it’s an honor to hang with you. Balloon Juice keeps me (relatively) sane in this time of plague and you’re a big part of it. Happy Birthday and may you have many more. ???
laura
Happy birthday to two tippy top commenters and Many Happy Returns of the day. A refrigerated slice of coconut tres leches cake will be consumed con gusto in your collective honor.
SiubhanDuinne
Thanks, and have a happy, OO! Do you like the new nym NotMax and Satby bestowed upon you?
Martin
Happy birthday OO and SD!
Spare some good thoughts for my friends fighting the Apple Fire here in CA. Their homes are under the evacuation order and they’re on the front lines fighting this. A previous address of mine is also under the evacuation order.
This is a really challenging area to fight a fire. It’s a pass between a pair of
11′11,000 foot mountains so it gets a wild wind tunnel effect with even mild winds. The terrain is steep, there aren’t many roads, and if it’s not windy, the smoke settles into this pass choking visibility, so you’re fucked either way.This is not their first rodeo, they fought the Silver fire there back in 2015, but this is already larger than the Silver Fire grew to be.
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WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Would you prefer your real nym in the title? That can be arranged, if you like.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: NOOOO! It was a typo and I was hoping Omnes wouldn’t see it and I could just wish him Happy Birthday again ?
dmsilev
@Martin:
‘Come to California. We have big mountains here.’
Ken
Congratulations! What’s it like sharing a birthday with John Landis and Martin Sheen?
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: You’re welcome! (probably)
Major Major Major Major
Well happy birthday, you two!
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Why do both of our ‘nym misspellings involve transportation? I am a minibus and you a Japanese car. ‘Tis a puzzlement.
WaterGirl
@satby: If only you knew someone who could go back and fix it.
Villago Delenda Est
For the Birthday kids
Dorothy A. Winsor
I like the pic of SiubhanDiunne in mid parachute jump. Respect!
Villago Delenda Est
@dmsilev: I’ve been to the highest point in Frorida. Being from the Left Coast, I was less than impressed.
Amir Khalid
Fun fact: Subaru is the Japanese name for the Pleiades, and the badge on a Subaru depicts the Seven Sisters. And, um, omnibus is a now-obsolete word for a conveyance of public transportation.
Martin
@dmsilev: LOL. How’d I manage to fuck that up.
Ok, back to work it is then.
Josie
Happy Birthday to the two of you and hopefully many happier birthdays to come.
frosty
@Omnes Omnibus: A puzzlement indeed, but I’m going to roll* with it for this thread.
Happy Birthday Subaru and O’minibus!!
* Unintentional transportation pun at no extra charge
WaterGirl
@Martin: What was it supposed to be?
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
Happy Birthday you two! And many more.
BGinCHI
True Story: I once gave OO several million dollars in startup money for a tech venture, and all I got in return was a dongle.
Anyway, happy birthday, young buck.
dmsilev
@Villago Delenda Est: When I lived in Chicago, I was greatly amused to learn that someone had built an artificial hill just for winter sledding purposes, since the natural topography was so …two dimensional.
Martin
@WaterGirl: 11,000′. They’re decently large mountains.
WaterGirl
@BGinCHI: And no birthday wishes for SD?
Josie
@Josie:
ETA: Forgot to add this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDT12zAWDuM
BGinCHI
@WaterGirl: Her loan application is still under consideration.
Benw
Happie birthdaes!
WaterGirl
@BGinCHI: I must protest, sir! Loan or no loan, she still deserves birthday wishes. :-)
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl: No, I’ve come to feel quite affectionate towards the Subaru Diane variant. But thanks for the offer!
BGinCHI
@WaterGirl: OK, Happy Birthday Subaru Diane.
May you some day offer a higher ROI than OO.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: And yet the full Latin phrase has a different meaning. I don’t think we need to go into origin stories when I am typing on my phone. Suffice it to say that my ‘nym does not involve public transport at all.
dexwood
Happy birthday you two. Thanks for making a great place even better.
Yutsano
@Villago Delenda Est: So: a story from my first experience in Florida.
A bunch of us band kids from all over the West Coast are trying to fumble our way through a slightly sketchy area of Miami. We get to some store (I don’t remember what kind it was) and we ask directions to the nearest convenience store.
“Well you just go over the hill then turn left.”
We all blink in confusion as we see nothing resembling a hill. So we ask what hill he’s talking about.
“Oh that hill right over there.” He says without any direction.
We ask one more time because again we see nothing resembling a “hill”.
He points to the right and says, “It’s right over there you stupid kids!”
Over on the right is a rise maybe 10 feet high.
We all look at each other, say “thank you”, and move on. Then laugh as we pretend to “struggle” up the hill.
And that’s my big Florida story.
James E Powell
Happy Birthday to you both and many happy returns.
geg6
Happiest of days to Omnes and Subaru Diane!
geg6
@Yutsano:
Heh. When my sister lived in Florida, we used to laugh at what they called “hills.” And since it was the highest spot for miles around, we called the Palm City Bridge “Mount Palm City.”
WaterGirl
Omnes, I forgot to mention that you hold the BJ record for most comments being nominated to become rotating tags.
It must be time for you to say something pithy again.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus:
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne:
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: IIRC it was a very nice dongle with racing stripes.
On a completely unrelated note, does anyone want a ride in my Riva Aquarama? Lake Como is very pretty at this time of year.
satby
@WaterGirl: ???
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Christ, I am the Peter O’Toole of Balloon Juice.
zhena gogolia
Happy Birthday to two of my favorites!
Anotherlurker
Happy Birthday Omnes and Subaru Diane! Indulge yourselves right and have a great day.
Brachiator
Happy birthdays!
geg6
@Omnes Omnibus:
I always thought that was Martin.
satby
@satby: Too late, either ironically or by just copying, now several people have used that mistake.
I’m REALLY SORRY Omnes.
Omnes Omnibus
@satby: You’re on my list. But don’t get too worried, it’s a big list and you are nowhere near the top. Okay, Saturday?
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s something most people only aspire to.
Miss Bianca
Happy birthday, O2 and SD!
Two of my all-time favorite commenters from way, way back. I may have been lurking, but I also was laughing!
Hope you have some properly-socially-distanced revelry on your natal anniversary!
Omnes Omnibus
@geg6: Nah, he’s our Pacino.
Ruckus
@Villago Delenda Est:
I was told that the highest point in FL was a freeway overpass…..
Having been there numerous times and spent an inordinate amount of time there for never living there, I’m inclined to believe this.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: Laughing, eh? With or at?
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: I do!
Wait a minute……
MarkPainter
It’s my birthday too, although there is only one of me.
Elizabelle
Happy Quarantine Birthday, jackals SD and OO.
May you and we all be free roaming the country this time next year. Safely.
raven
@BGinCHI: Did you know Chatham Murray?
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: Well…laughing *at* your various jibes, japes, and jests means…I am laughing *with* you…I think?
Oh, great O2, now you’ve got me flashing back to the dinner table conversations of my extreme youth, with my entire family calling me “Sarah Bernhardt” because of my – in their view – overly dramatic take on any given situation. Then, when I got upset about *that*, they’d always fall back on, “We’re laughing WITH you, not AT you!” to which my tearful cri de coeur would be some variation on, “I’M NOT LAUGHING!!”
Good times, good times.
raven
Happy Birthday!
Sister Golden Bear
Happy Birthday to you both!
Haroldo
Happy Birthday, those with the heralded Most Favored Commenter Status.
These are the manifestations of your (partial) names I first learned of as a sprout. (The glorious pictures cannot be shown, alas.)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148985.All_Aces
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cars-of-a-lifetime/cars-of-a-lifetime-1979-subaru-fe-it-can-finally-be-told-and-shown/
Uncle Cosmo
@Amir Khalid: Omnibus was also the name of a US commercial but educational TV series (1952-61). Great show for curious & precocious kids (or adults for that matter) but a loss leader for the networks that aired it.
IIRC the theme was from Mussorgsky’s “Pictures At An Exhibition” (which he used as a bridge between the individual compositions representing the paintings). (I was one of those kids.)
KSinMA
Very happy birthdays!!!
J R in WV
When we lived in Key West, the famed Solaris Hill, highest point on the island, was then 19′ above sea level. Now probably more like 15′? Right beside the grave yard where the pirates are buried or entombed.
Happy birthday you guys!! Subaru Diane is probably the only commentor I have never gone off on at 3 am…
?BillinGlendaleCA
Happy B-day to Omnes and Subaru Diane.
WaterGirl
@MarkPainter: Happy Birthday to you, MarkPainter!
WaterGirl
@J R in WV: I must have missed it when it was my turn! Or perhaps I am privileged to be in the company of the esteemed Subaru Diane.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus:
The car company is named for a star cluster, the Pleiades which the Japanese call Subaru.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: Mt. San Gorgonio and Mt. San Jacinto are both around 11,000′ tall.
HinTN
@BGinCHI: Nobody said the dongle wasn’t valuable.
BGinCHI
@raven: Nope. Don’t think so.
Ben Cisco
Massively late to the thread, but wanted to get my Happy Happys in.
Happy Birthday, Subaru Diane (makes me giggle every time) and OO!
The Lodger
@Adam L Silverman: Would the ice cream be Haäpy Birfdäsz?
dww44
@MarkPainter: Happy Birthday to you and to OO and SD, the birthday twins. Guess you make it triplets.
prostratedragon
Happy Birthday!
Schmendrick
There’s a whisper of love on the wind
I can hear it above all the din
An echo of mirth
And joy for the birth
Of Omnes and SiubhanDuinne.
—- Happy Birthday to the Jackal Triplets. Sorry Mark — I couldn’t squeeze your name in and maintain the “artistic integrity” of the limerick. It took me along time, but I finally found a way to build a “rhyme” for SiubhanDuine (at least it rhymes with the way I pronounce it!). And Omnes, we are not laughing AT you, we are laughing ABOUT you.
Avalune
Happy day!
TomatoQueen
Happy Birbday to you both!
SFAW
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
For real? I always wondered why they had (what appeared to be) six stars in their logo. Although I have to wonder which of the sisters got the boot.
SFAW
Happy Birthday to the BJ Gemini! And many, many more!
But I have a question: is that picture supposed to be Subaru Diane? Isn’t her hair darker? Or is it Omnes doing the cosplay thing? [Albeit without his cheesehead.]
SWMBO
Happy Birthday! May you get all the wonderful things you wish for yourself.