Happy Birthday Betty White, of diminutive height, you still shine bright
Happy Birthday Zooey Deschanel, your kookiness is pretty swell
Happy Birthday Jim Carey, bit too loud, bit too lairy
Happy Birthday Andy Kaufman, really dead or an elaborate plan? (Hang on, Jim Carey played you and it’s his birthday too, seems odd but it is true)
Happy Birthday Michelle Obama, for giving me a visa after all the drama
Happy Birthday David Caruso, have you ever thought of a ginger fro?
Happy birthday Susannah Hoffs, your eternal flame will never go off (out doesn’t rhyme)
And to end this list finally, a Happy Birthday…to ME!
londonsurvival 
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014This was my 250th post. And if you divide that by 5 and minus 12 you get my age. Weird huh.
aFrankAngle
/ January 17, 2014Happy Birthday, Joe! Just so happens I saw this today about one of the notables above. http://tinyurl.com/qbcubpp …. and here’s a treat to go along with it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zzGQJHZ0Qk
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014Thanks! Will check these out when not at work (though I’m not getting much done today)
aFrankAngle
/ January 17, 2014You will enjoy!
Doggy's Style
/ January 17, 2014You share your birthday with Betty White?
I don’t share mine with any celebrity, but with a couple of serial killers, I think so.
Well, happy birthday.
I gotta post my favorite “Happy Birthday” video ever.
Feel free to delete the comment, no offense will be taken.
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014Serial killers…so lucky!
I’ll have to check the vid when back at home nursing my hangover 🙂
El Guapo
/ January 17, 2014Another year came and went. I’ve enjoyed reading posts with your humor, quite bent.
And for the next year, why, just let it rip. (Will the US recover from your long-plotted trip?)
With congratulations, joy and mirth, Happy Anniversary!!!! on the date of your birth.
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014That was awesome! I take my hat off to you, that beats my feeble rhyming attempts.
(See, I couldn’t even make a reply rhyme)
We’ll wait til Pouringmyartout awakens, he’s pretty good at the rhymes.
El Guapo
/ January 17, 2014Rhyme-off!!!
Happy birthday, Joe. Hope every day of your year is better than the one before.
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014Thank you so much, I think. I’ll celebrate with a drink
That was a lame one
She's a Maineiac
/ January 17, 2014Aw, damn. I wish I shared mine with my idol Betty White. Happy birthday to you, Joe! Don’t worry about getting older, the great thing is your mind goes and you just don’t give a shit anymore.
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014Constipation is a side effect??
😀
Thanks!
gingerfightback
/ January 17, 2014Many happy returns Joe!
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014Cheers GFB!
ElenaW
/ January 17, 2014Happy Birthday Joe! I’m new to your blog but so far so good ;)! I’m looking forward to reading you as often as I possibly can (hope you are ok with that;)! P.S. I’m not very famous as of just yet but F.YI. my Bday is on the 14th of July (The Bastille day) and for this occasion they have the most beautiful fireworks display in Paris! ;0)x x x
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014Thank you for stopping by with birthday wishes! I only have to share my birthday with some assorted celebes, you have to share yours with a national holiday, you win!
I don’t post as often these days so it’s easy to keep up, though most of what I post is absolute nonsense!
I see my old friend The Hobbler was on your About page. She is absent for too long….maybe she will see this and come and drop by 🙂
ElenaW
/ January 17, 2014Your old friend The Talented Wonderful Hobbler ;0) (who clearly is being very busy with her fascinating life right now 😉 was the the one who introduced your blog to me. For that I’m eternally grateful as you are really not so bad at all 😉 Kidding of course, I think you are great! And I hope your Birthday celebrations will continue away from the PC screen. As today has been really beautiful sunny day in London! Feels almost like it’s spring already! So as far as I’m concerned, your Birthday is when Spring can be sensed in the winter air for the first time! Enjoy! ;0)
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014Oh, you’re a Londoner. There are few of us on WordPress. I will celebrate well, it’s my last weekend in Camden Town as I bought a flat miles away.
ElenaW
/ January 17, 2014Why? Did you not like it in Camden? How long did you live there? And where will you be moving? And once again, WHY? 😉 as moving could be such a dramatic process (which I have no doubt will be very well managed by you! ;0)
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014I LOVE Camden, I’ve been here 5 years renting but I am buying a property now and it’s too expensive in Camden to buy.
ElenaW
/ January 17, 2014So where would you be going, Joe?
joehoover
/ January 20, 2014muswell hill
ElenaW
/ January 17, 2014Ok, that’s me being way too inquisitive (I’m afraid very inappropriately so;0/ My apologies for that. I’m sure it will all work out great where ever you might be moving! As you are taking your fantastic personality with you! So all the very Best on the new location, Joe ;0) x x x
pouringmyartout
/ January 17, 2014omg… you look like Brad freekin’ Pitt in the picture… now I really can’t wait to meet you…
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014After he has been beaten up in Fight Club
pouringmyartout
/ January 17, 2014Not at all…
joehoover
/ January 17, 2014I’ll take the compliment, I was feeling down this week, not for my age but this damn house buying malarky. Anyway, gonna drink my blues away!
pouringmyartout
/ January 17, 2014Okay…
Main Street Musings Blog
/ January 17, 2014Happy birthday to the Hoove–He’s got the humor, he’s got the groove! 🙂
joehoover
/ January 20, 2014Everyone is better at this rhyming gig than me!
Tom Merriman
/ January 17, 2014Happy Birthday, Joe!
joehoover
/ January 20, 2014Many thanks!
Anonymous
/ January 18, 2014Hi Joe! Just stopped by via Benze’s blog to wish you a Happy Birthday! Cheers! Hope your day was awesome!
And you share your day with a lot of great people you listed here. Love Betty White!
Ron
/ January 18, 2014Oppps…I clicked the post comment button before I filled in the log in info.
joehoover
/ January 20, 2014Thanks! She is the best!
Mooselicker
/ January 18, 2014This makes me wish it was your birthday every day. Looking good for your 250/5 – 12 years old.
Red
/ January 18, 2014Hope you had a beautiful birthday!
joehoover
/ January 20, 2014I did, many thanks!
benzeknees
/ January 18, 2014Happy, happy birthday Joe – did you see my post? I didn’t know you had done one too until I searched your site for a link.
joehoover
/ January 20, 2014No, will go there now, I was away from a computer all weekend
Many thanks!
Anonymous
/ January 19, 2014Joe Joe you are so cute! First time I have seen your face, well the face on top of your shoulders. Happy birthday buddy. I know I will not see you when you get here to the States but know that I will be thinking of you.
joehoover
/ January 20, 2014It’s a couple of years old, but I’m sure I haven;t aged that much 🙂
life is a bowl of kibble
/ January 19, 2014For some reason my id is not showing up on your blog. Anyway that is me anonymous Life is a bowl of kibble
joehoover
/ January 20, 2014i guess as no-one else calls me Joe Joe 😉
Anonymous
/ January 20, 2014😉
joehoover
/ January 23, 2014Not just anyone!
appletonavenue
/ January 23, 2014Beautiful wishes all! Happy birthday! Hope you had a good one.
joehoover
/ January 23, 2014I did, many thanks!
Dugutigui
/ January 25, 2014Happy Birthday…to you!
Linda Vernon
/ February 18, 2014Happy Birthday Joe! What a great gang of people to share your birthday with! You should invite them all to your party. Except for maybe Jim Carey. I have a feeling he’d steal the limelight away from the rest of you! (And what a great picture of you! You’re even more photogenic than your thumb — but don’t mention I said that to your thumb, huh?)
joehoover
/ February 19, 2014I’m having thumb facemasks made up to give to anyone I meet on my California travels
As long as you don’t shoot people with thumbs for faces over there?
Linda Vernon
/ February 20, 2014LOL! I can’t tell you how long I sat here thinking up an answer for that question! I suppose it’s possible. People are weird here and very rude in some areas!
joehoover
/ February 21, 2014That would be fine, I live in London, rudeness is a way of life.
Linda Vernon
/ February 22, 2014Really? When my son went to England he couldn’t get over how nice everybody was. I don’t think he spent much time in London though.
joehoover
/ February 24, 2014it’s not that bad, we just look miserable but we often open up when prodded. Everyone outside London are so nosey with their good morning’s and how are you’s 😀
Linda Vernon
/ February 24, 2014Ahaha! Well that’s exactly why I want to go. He also said every town has it’s own English Accent. That alone would be fascinating!
joehoover
/ February 25, 2014Yeah sure, I have now idea what some people are saying up north. Except the south east where I am from, it is a normal accent but people try and mimic London accents or cockney, so we call them mockney’s.
Everything from the midlands upwards or to the southwest have very differing accents. South East is the blandest in general, has no character at all. What is the American equivalent of that I wonder?
Linda Vernon
/ February 26, 2014Mockneys! Aha! Now that I think about it we really have lots of different accents too. We have the country western Hillbilly accent. (The country western singer are our version of fake accent mockneys). And then we have the southern accents. And people who live in New York City and New Jersey have accents (some of them do anyway) And then there’s the mid-western accent like in the movie Fargo. I’ve heard people say that California has it’s own accent, but I’ve never been able to hear it. Maybe you’ll be able to hear it when you come.
joehoover
/ February 26, 2014I tend to put on my best English accent when abroad.
Linda Vernon
/ February 26, 2014Well over here we love people with English accents. You guys sound so much smarter than us!
joehoover
/ February 27, 2014I wore my glasses the other day and someone at work had never seen me in them, they thought I looked like a doctor.
English accent and specs when I come to America then
Linda Vernon
/ February 28, 2014Trust me when I say you will be the most popular man in the state of California!
joehoover
/ February 28, 2014I might pretend I am Hugh Grant and see who falls for it
Linda Vernon
/ February 28, 2014Everybody will! Oh and you could also perform a few open heart surgeries to earn some extra vacation spending money. Wait you’ll be in Southern California . . . make that a few face lifts.
joehoover
/ February 28, 2014I’m handy in the kitchen on my Thai cookery course we all tried frantic chopping, people gasped at my quick action. I just need to find a surgery where repeated slashes are a good look
Linda Vernon
/ February 28, 2014Wow! You have so many talents! What about removing an appendix? If you didn’t get it on the first slash you could just explain that the glasses must have the wrong prescription.
joehoover
/ March 3, 2014In Thailand I could probably get away with it
Linda Vernon
/ March 3, 2014Ha ha! I bet you could and make a lot of money in the process. Getting those calf appendixes past customs might be tricky though.
joehoover
/ March 6, 2014A friend of mind thinking about going to California too and wants to do a road trip from San Francisco to San Deigo. I may try and team up with them, I don’t drive so it doesn’t bother me and get to see more. I am meeting him Friday to bang out a plan, I’ll have to tap you for tips. I yet may make those thrift stores 😀
Another blogger, Pouring my art out may be joining my trip too an showing me around. We could turn it into a blogging convention and have guest speakers like professional conventions do. Though I will invite Maude and the Collins sisters and you can bring the drawing lady.
I shouldn’t mock, some people take blogging conventions very seriously….
Linda Vernon
/ March 6, 2014Oh what wonderful news!! Oh you will get to see so much of the state and you don’t have to do any driving so it’s all good! You should come up the coast highway. I’m sure PAMO will know all the best places to take you! I’ll get some good places that you can go to in SF from my son who lives there. Oh you are going to have a great trip!! Hey! maybe we could arrange a mudwrestling match between the Drawing Lady and Maude and the Collins sisters!
joehoover
/ March 7, 2014😀 If my characters haven’t popped their clogs by then!
Linda Vernon
/ March 7, 2014Ahaha! You guys have the best expressions over there!
susielindau
/ March 14, 2014HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE!!!!!!!!!! sorry for the delay… Hope it was WILD!
joehoover
/ March 14, 2014Haha! No worries, I celebrate less and less each year.
I can;t even remember it so it was either great or my old age just made me forget 😉