Today is 10 September, which happens to be the birthday of the Trophy Wife (I won't tell you the birth year because she will give me the evil eye, but I will say that she is much, much younger than I am, as a Trophy Wife must be). It would be very nice if she got home from work tonight and, as she usually does, sits down and checks out the blog to see what horrors and outrages I have perpetrated today, and discovers that a few of you had written her birthday best wishes, instead.
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Posted on: September 10, 2009 1:00 PM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Qwerty | September 10, 2009 1:15 PM
Happy Birthday to the Trophy Wife. I hope PZ has bought you flowers and/or plans to take you out to Morris's finest dining establishment. One wonders if this place serves calamari?
Posted by: Berlzebub | September 10, 2009 1:15 PM
Happy Birthday Mrs. T.W. Myers, and many more to go with the few that you've had so far!
Posted by: PaleGreenPantsWithNobodyInsideThem | September 10, 2009 1:16 PM
Happy Birthday wife of PZ. May all your days be mellow.
Posted by: Vole | September 10, 2009 1:17 PM
Happy birthday from several small mammals in the UK.
Posted by: Davianed | September 10, 2009 1:17 PM
Happy Birthday to the Trophy Wife, and may many more follow!
Posted by: Susan Brassfield Cogan | September 10, 2009 1:18 PM
Happy Birthday! And many, many more. :-)
Posted by: Zeno | September 10, 2009 1:19 PM
Happy birthday to Trophy Wife!
PZ is wise not to spill the beans about her actual age (which must be much, much less than his). Asking for actual age information can only lead to trouble!
Posted by: ScottRS | September 10, 2009 1:21 PM
Happy Birthday, TW. (Also my Devoted Spouse's birthday!)
Posted by: Deiloh
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September 10, 2009 1:21 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Posted by: blueelm | September 10, 2009 1:24 PM
Aww happy birthday! This is also the birthday of a good friend of mine so happy birthdays all around!
Posted by: Steve Green | September 10, 2009 1:24 PM
Happy birthday to Trophy Wife (wish I had one of my own!), and I too hope you enjoy many many more.
Posted by: Iris | September 10, 2009 1:24 PM
Happy bithday! I adore that PZ adores you; it's made me consider aspiring to Trophy Wifedom myself!
Posted by: Cardinal_Shrew | September 10, 2009 1:25 PM
Happy Birthday from Wilmington, NC!
Posted by: Patricia, OM | September 10, 2009 1:26 PM
Happy birthday! I hope PZ got you something sparkly.
Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites
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September 10, 2009 1:26 PM
Happy Birthday, Trophy Wife!
And many happy metazoans!
Posted by: SeanK | September 10, 2009 1:28 PM
Happy Birthday Mrs Myers!
Posted by: Tigerwolf | September 10, 2009 1:29 PM
A Happy Birthday to Lady PZ! And to all, a Happy Monkey!
^..^
Posted by: ChuckP | September 10, 2009 1:30 PM
Happy birthday!
Posted by: Rob Clack | September 10, 2009 1:30 PM
To TW:
Hippy pappy bthuthdth, bthuthda, bthuthdy!
Posted by: Joe Agnost | September 10, 2009 1:30 PM
Happy birthday from sunny Ottawa Valley.... Honest! Canada is warm this time of year!
(Enjoy the PZ foot rub - assuming he's man enough to do so!) ;)
Posted by: KemaTheAtheist | September 10, 2009 1:32 PM
Happy Birthday, Trophy Wife! May Cthulhu shine blessings upon you today by not enslaving the world until tomorrow!
Posted by: Kevin Gallagher | September 10, 2009 1:33 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: strange gods before me | September 10, 2009 1:33 PM
Happy birthday! I made you a cookie.
Posted by: VVarlock | September 10, 2009 1:33 PM
Happiest birthday to what I assume is one of the most forbearing persons in the world (I mean she must be for putting up with us).
Posted by: mgafm | September 10, 2009 1:34 PM
May octopi rain upon you in sticky, boneless, tentacled loveliness.
Posted by: Nerd of Redhead, OM
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September 10, 2009 1:35 PM
Happy Anniversary of your Birth Mary Myers! Thanks for allowing PZ to try to ride herd this group of intellectual cats.
Posted by: Grace | September 10, 2009 1:35 PM
Happy Birthday! Many happy returns and tell PZ to post your gifts.
Posted by: Mike Wagner | September 10, 2009 1:35 PM
Happy B'day Trophy Wife!
May PZ bless you with his noodley appendage.
:P
Posted by: Numenaster
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September 10, 2009 1:36 PM
Congratulations on surviving another rotation about the sun, and for tolerating the Trophy Recipient for another year! We are grateful for your forbearance.
Posted by: nigelTheBold, Minister of Spankings
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September 10, 2009 1:36 PM
Assuming you don't find birthday wishes from complete strangers creepy, please accept my humble wishes for an excellent and pleasurable annual celebration of your existence.
May you continue to be surrounded by those who love you.
Also, may Cthulhu eat you last, and may he wait 'til after the cake.
Posted by: Talen Lee | September 10, 2009 1:37 PM
I was raised in a tightly controlled independent-baptist environment, and therefore, the majority of my adulthood has been spent picking over the philosophical pecadillos that I can use amongst the morass of a mysoginistic worldview. One idea that I did find myself unable to shake is that in the family, each member reflects one another; a daughter speaks of her parents as a husband speaks of his wife.
To stand in the midst of such a dazzling array of reflected glory and to be unmoved, to not feel the need to trumpet or to emphasise speaks greatly for you, Ms Wife Of PZ. It is strange that for a person about whom I know so much, there can be so much to admire.
I wish you a happy birthday, and would that I could convey such things as well as they seem in my head.
Posted by: Nelson M. | September 10, 2009 1:38 PM
Many happy returns, Trophy Wife!
Posted by: Dawn | September 10, 2009 1:39 PM
Happy Birthday to Mary the Trophy Wife (tm). May you enjoy many more birthdays.
Posted by: HenryS
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September 10, 2009 1:41 PM
but I will say that she is much, much younger than I am, as a Trophy Wife must be).
********
PZ is a Chronophile!!!!! My GF also has alphamegamia.
Posted by: Captain Mike | September 10, 2009 1:41 PM
An extra Happy Birthday to Mary Myers. She shares her birthday with famous scientist Stephen Jay Gould, and less significantly, me.
Posted by: Snc735 | September 10, 2009 1:41 PM
Happy birthday PZs Trophy Wife!
Posted by: Dusty | September 10, 2009 1:42 PM
Best wishes and Happy Birthday from Columbus, OH.
Posted by: Lana | September 10, 2009 1:42 PM
Happy Birthday! You must be a saint. Rather, the secular equivalent of one.
Posted by: PennyBright | September 10, 2009 1:43 PM
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Rh1n0 | September 10, 2009 1:43 PM
Happy birthday! Great day to have one (same as mine!)
Posted by: Nathan | September 10, 2009 1:43 PM
Happy Birthday Mrs. TW Myers!!
Posted by: Brock | September 10, 2009 1:44 PM
Happy birth-anniversary to what must be a very patient woman.
And thanks for all the metazoans!
Posted by: llewelly | September 10, 2009 1:45 PM
Happy Birthday. If my voice sounds funny, it is due to a malfunction in the cyber-control mechanism PZ uses to keep us loyal minions in line. Hopefully it work correctly when it is time for us to die on the front lines in the service of His Cause.
Posted by: jojodancingbear | September 10, 2009 1:45 PM
Happy Birthday to the Trophy Wife from Kinston, NC.
Posted by: rrt | September 10, 2009 1:45 PM
Oooohhh, clever one nigelTheBold! Since The Cake Is A Lie, if she is to be eaten after the cake, Mary may not actually be eaten at all! I wonder if he'll fall for it. Well, either way, happy birthday Mary!
Posted by: Celtic_Evolution | September 10, 2009 1:46 PM
Argh! Seein' as it be a mere 9 days to "Talk like a Pirate Day", I'll hoist the rum and wish ye' merry...
A trophy wish for the trophy wife! Enjoy yer booty! Argh!
Posted by: Alan B | September 10, 2009 1:48 PM
Happy Birthday from the country you revolted against (but we forgive you!)
Alan B, U.K.
Posted by: Louis | September 10, 2009 1:50 PM
Happy Birthday Trophy Wife (TM)!
I hope you look forward to PZ performing the acts of a Traditional Male (TM) and by taking over your duties as Trophy Wife (TM).
So lots of PZ wandering about looking pretty in skimpy clothes, draping himself languidly over things and feeding you peeled grapes.....
....I'm sorry, my brain just rebelled at that mental image. Sadly PZ, I only love you for your mind!
Louis
Posted by: Carlie | September 10, 2009 1:50 PM
Happy birthday!!! And thanks for letting the husband spend so much time on the computer corralling us numbskulls.
Posted by: Clemens | September 10, 2009 1:51 PM
Wow, so I will never forget that it's trophy wife's birthday, because it coincides with my father's birthday.
Whatever. Happy Birthday trophy wife!
Posted by: nathan huckabee | September 10, 2009 1:51 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! from the logical side of the Huckabee family.
Posted by: debunk | September 10, 2009 1:53 PM
Happy birthday Mrs. Myers!
Posted by: wisher | September 10, 2009 1:54 PM
Happy birthday Trophy Wife! I hope the weather is lovely today in Morris...(just checked, looks like around the 80s)
Posted by: Spiro Keat | September 10, 2009 1:55 PM
Happy Birthday Trophy Wife.
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | September 10, 2009 1:55 PM
There isn't very much in life
That's better than a trophy wife;
To share your sorrow, share your cheer,
More marvelous each passing year;
To join with you in raising kids
And doing stuff the Church forbids.
So, Happy Birthday! Long, long life!
To PZ's perfect Trophy Wife!
Posted by: Akiko | September 10, 2009 1:56 PM
Happy Birthday to the woman who is extending your life span by keeping your from eating spoiled food from the fridge, to help you remember to get that physical and her amazing sense of smell that can smell a full trash bin, dirty toilet and smelly shower curtain. Women truely are the sustainers of life.
Posted by: Bob O'H | September 10, 2009 1:58 PM
Happy birthday, Mary! Make sure your husband does all the washing up and cleaning today.
(I used to have a trophy grrlfriend, but then I married her)
Posted by: Walton | September 10, 2009 2:02 PM
Happy birthday.
Posted by: IST | September 10, 2009 2:06 PM
Happy Birthday from Raleigh NC
Posted by: Kaddath | September 10, 2009 2:06 PM
Happy Birthday Ms. Myers!
Posted by: Mike | September 10, 2009 2:06 PM
Happy Birthday... I hope that PZ takes you to the wonderful dining establishment known as Bella delightfully located on Atlantic Ave for you birthday diner.
May your next year be better then the last...
M. Stone
UMM Alum
Posted by: Luke | September 10, 2009 2:07 PM
Happy Birthday Trophy Wife :^)
Happy Birthday to Stephen J. Gould also!
Posted by: https://services.mozilla.com/openid/IanWatson
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September 10, 2009 2:07 PM
A very happy birthday to you, Ms. Myers!
Posted by: The Pint | September 10, 2009 2:08 PM
The many blessings of the Nameless Ones be upon you, Mrs. Myers. Have PZ take you out for some tasty fried squid and have a wonderful birthday!
Posted by: BeamStalk | September 10, 2009 2:08 PM
Happy Birthday, oh great Trophy Wife.
Posted by: Newfie | September 10, 2009 2:10 PM
Best of wishes from The Rock, and many happy returns of the day, Mrs. Myers.
Posted by: Pieter B | September 10, 2009 2:11 PM
A traditional Hippo Birdie to TW Myers!
Posted by: daveau | September 10, 2009 2:11 PM
Happy Birthday, Mrs PZ! Thank you for all the lovely Metazoans.
Posted by: Jadehawk, OM | September 10, 2009 2:12 PM
Happy Birthday, and I hope PZ refrained from buying squid-shaped cake :-)
Posted by: Algo2 | September 10, 2009 2:12 PM
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Killua | September 10, 2009 2:13 PM
Happy birthday trophy wife! May you continue to adorn PZ's shelves for many happy years to come ^_^
Posted by: kamaka | September 10, 2009 2:14 PM
What Bob O'H @ 57 said.
Happy, happy, Trophy Wife,
poor thing puts up
with us in her life.
OK, I did my minionly duty. When do we go back to desecration and troll thrashing?
Posted by: Not that Louis | September 10, 2009 2:14 PM
Happy Birthday and, of course, Happy Monkey.
Posted by: Bjorn Watland | September 10, 2009 2:15 PM
Happy Birthday from your Friends at Camp Quest of Minnesota and Minnesota Atheists!
Posted by: AmyD | September 10, 2009 2:16 PM
Happy Birthday to You
You live with a zoo....ologist
Well maybe not quite a zoologist
But he smells like one, ewww
Happy Birthday Mary!
Posted by: Lynna | September 10, 2009 2:16 PM
Hello, Mary,
As a former wife of a man who thought he knew, if not all, at least a lot, I know how much PZ must depend on your support to be all that he can be. The not-so-secret formula for success is often having the best of partners.
To the Pharyngulite hordes, you are almost, but not quite invisible. But we females of the species feel your presence daily.
Lovely Monday Metazoans, by the way.
Happiest B-Day to you, and may all your kids remember too.
Posted by: Orly Taitz | September 10, 2009 2:17 PM
Do we have evidence of the birth of the trophy wife on this day? Was she even born in the US?? Show us the long form, hospital issued birth certificate!!!!
And can you prove that she was not delivered by a stork rather than having been born as a result of the sexual union between her parents? Don't ignore the truth of the stork theory of reproduction ... it's a valid scientific theory!
And she must be much younger than even you claim her to be. I say she is only days old yet you probably measure her age in years! There is no evidence that she is multiple years old! Sure, she can talk, but god created her with the abilityto talk. She was created as is, days ago, fully formed and delivered by a stork in Kenya! Let the truth prevail!
Posted by: alopiasmag
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September 10, 2009 2:17 PM
Feliz Cumpleaños!!!
Posted by: Vollmond | September 10, 2009 2:18 PM
Happy Birthday to Mrs. Myers! I would imagine you're getting sick of seeing PZ around the house lately!
Have a great week!
Posted by: ostranenie | September 10, 2009 2:19 PM
happy b-day, mary "ooh-la-la" myers!
i hope your bf brings you the happiness as he does to us!
祝你生日快樂！
Posted by: Roger Scott | September 10, 2009 2:20 PM
Happy birthday from Australia.
Posted by: dean | September 10, 2009 2:21 PM
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Randy | September 10, 2009 2:22 PM
As usual I am late to the party... but please let me pile on my well wishes to the rest of them. Happy Birthday! You two take care of each other.
Posted by: Martin Daoust | September 10, 2009 2:22 PM
Joyeux anniversaire!
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | September 10, 2009 2:23 PM
Happy B-Day!
Posted by: advertisinglies | September 10, 2009 2:23 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TROPHY WIFE!! PZ obviously loves you very much. You must be a very special person to have the adoration of such a special person. Have a great birthday!
Posted by: a_ray_in_dilbert_space
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September 10, 2009 2:24 PM
Happy Birthday Trophy wife.
Wait a second. My trophy wife is actually older than me (a bit).
When she hit 48, she started writing her age in hexadecimal, so we had another party to celebrate her big 30!
Posted by: Monika | September 10, 2009 2:25 PM
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!
Posted by: Tulse | September 10, 2009 2:26 PM
Have the happiest of birthdays, and many more!
Posted by: Acronym Jim | September 10, 2009 2:27 PM
Patricia OM #17:
Forget sparkly, I hope PZ got you something "sniny." That's much better.
Happy Birthday o' glorious Trophy Wife and may you have many, many more.
Posted by: Dahan | September 10, 2009 2:27 PM
Happy birthday! I hope it's a wonderful year for you!
Posted by: Aetre | September 10, 2009 2:27 PM
Happy birthday! :)
Posted by: SaintStephen | September 10, 2009 2:29 PM
To PZ's Trophy Wife:
Happy Birthday!
(Pssssstttt... don't lose heart... there's still time to trade UP.)
I'll get my coat...
Posted by: Ted Powell | September 10, 2009 2:30 PM
Happy Birthday from Vancouver Canada!
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/funny-pictures-cat-wants-to-eat-cake.jpg
Posted by: ThirtyFiveUp | September 10, 2009 2:30 PM
NOT DIGITAL CUTTLEFISH
Happy birthday to Mary,
Happy birthday to you,
I like the Monday Metazoans,
Happy birthday to you.
Posted by: clsazekiel | September 10, 2009 2:32 PM
Happy Birthday, Trophy Wife! I hope there are many more to come!
Posted by: VenDexter | September 10, 2009 2:33 PM
From the far northern reaches of Alaska, Happy Birthday Trophy Wife!
Posted by: Physicalist | September 10, 2009 2:33 PM
Happy B-day TW, TM.
Posted by: Tony Lloyd | September 10, 2009 2:34 PM
Happy Birthday.
Now PZ cn blog tomorrow on what nice things he did for your birthday.
Posted by: Mus | September 10, 2009 2:35 PM
Happy Birthday!!!!
Posted by: Alex Grigg | September 10, 2009 2:37 PM
Happy Birthday to you! You picked a good month for it as I'll be celebrating my own in a few days, as well.
Posted by: John Marley | September 10, 2009 2:37 PM
For some sufficiently small value of "much, much".
Still, Happy Birthday!
Posted by: maureen brian | September 10, 2009 2:38 PM
Happy Birthday, Mary, from West Yorkshire!
Posted by: Efogoto | September 10, 2009 2:39 PM
Congratulations on completing another lap around the sun!
Posted by: Miguel | September 10, 2009 2:39 PM
Happy birthday to the Trophy Wife, from the pharyngula hordes accross the world!!
Posted by: BdN | September 10, 2009 2:41 PM
Happy Birthday from Eastern Canada!
Posted by: DGKnipfer | September 10, 2009 2:42 PM
A very happy b-day for another successful trip around the sun, to the Trophy Wife.
Posted by: Shadow
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September 10, 2009 2:43 PM
Happy birthday Ms. PZ!
Posted by: Richard Harris | September 10, 2009 2:44 PM
Happy birthday, Mary.
What surprises me is that there isn't any action here on the presents that PZ didn't buy you. Such as a pet croco-duck, or a gold chain with a missing link.
Posted by: bonelessjesus | September 10, 2009 2:45 PM
Happy spirit journey formation anniversary....wait, what?
Posted by: aratina cage
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September 10, 2009 2:46 PM
Happy Birthday! :)
Posted by: Lettuce | September 10, 2009 2:47 PM
Happy birthday, Mary the Trophy Wife!
And many more, too.
Posted by: glassdirigible | September 10, 2009 2:50 PM
Happy birthday! I hope you get to enjoy wearing a silly hat today.
Posted by: Lilo | September 10, 2009 2:55 PM
Happy birthday to you and a merry metazoan you might enjoy as a gift. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80726569/
Posted by: Nicolas Keller | September 10, 2009 2:55 PM
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag !
Munich,Germany
Posted by: B. Scott Andersen | September 10, 2009 2:56 PM
Happy Birthday to the Trophy Wife! May all your best wishes be fulfilled.
-- Scott
Posted by: And State | September 10, 2009 2:57 PM
Who knew that something nice and simple, like wishing someone a happy birthday, could also be fun?
Best wishes, TW
Posted by: MikeM | September 10, 2009 2:58 PM
But how do you KNOW it's HER birthday??!!1!!!
What EVIDENCES do you HAVE for IT?
Posted by: Jyotsana | September 10, 2009 2:59 PM
Happy Birthday!! *zaghareet*
Posted by: andrew | September 10, 2009 3:00 PM
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Pharyngula!
Posted by: JefFlyingV | September 10, 2009 3:00 PM
...if I had known it was you birthday, I'd a baked a cheesecake...
Posted by: Lee Picton | September 10, 2009 3:02 PM
How delightful that you have finally reached the age of 39. As a Trophy Wife, you are now allowed to celebrate all your future birthdays as the 39th. Happy Birthday!
Posted by: BadMA | September 10, 2009 3:03 PM
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Dan Gilbert | September 10, 2009 3:03 PM
Happy birthday, Trophy Wife!
Posted by: Obligatory Trek Geek | September 10, 2009 3:04 PM
Buon compleanno a te,
qoSlIj DatIvjaj,
joyeux anniversaire cher Mary,
Happy birthday to yoooooooooooou!
Posted by: Dan Gilbert
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September 10, 2009 3:05 PM
Happy birthday, Trophy Wife!
Posted by: W. Kevin Vicklund
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September 10, 2009 3:07 PM
Four metazoans for Mary:
hippo birdy two ewes
Posted by: DaveG | September 10, 2009 3:09 PM
For Mrs. Myers and deserving TWs everywhere
http://www.bluemountain.com/display.pd?prodnum=3152178&path=34977
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: speedwell | September 10, 2009 3:10 PM
Happy Birthday! :)
Posted by: TomatoPaste | September 10, 2009 3:10 PM
Bon anniversaire!! Laouen deiz ha bloaz!! Kull sana w'enti tayeba!! Co` latha breith sona dhuibh!!
...
Happy birthday!!
(ok... so I'm a godless heathen liberal French (Breton) / Egyptian living in Scotland... so languages are in the same order!)
Bless!!!
Posted by: Joe Fogey | September 10, 2009 3:11 PM
Many Happy Returns of the day, Mrs Myers. Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Jerry Coyne | September 10, 2009 3:11 PM
Happy birthday, Mary! May you get many presents, and a special award for putting up with The Curmudgeon!
Posted by: ernieball | September 10, 2009 3:14 PM
Happy birthday, mrs. Myers!
Posted by: JosherK | September 10, 2009 3:16 PM
Congrats on another exciting trip around the sun!
May the universe bless you with much joy and many happy experiences in the many years to come!
Posted by: JD | September 10, 2009 3:18 PM
As if you two can't think of anything better than to read a bunch of tautological blog comments. I'm on to you...
Oh yeah, happy B-day Mary!@
Posted by: Kelseigh | September 10, 2009 3:18 PM
Say, wouldn't "Trophy Wife" be a title, rather than a name, same way "Terribly Enlarged" would have been the Wogglebug's title?
Therefore, the happiest of birthdays to you, Mrs. Myers, TW.
Posted by: Rob W | September 10, 2009 3:20 PM
w00t w00t!! Happy Birthday. I have a trophy wife too and they're the best. Thanks for keeping PZ happy and have a wonderful birthday. :D
Posted by: EboTebo | September 10, 2009 3:22 PM
Happy!Happy!Joy!Joy! May you have a wonderful day of birth as well as many, many more! Cheers!
Posted by: Epinephrine | September 10, 2009 3:23 PM
Congrats on circling the sun yet again!
Posted by: Ritchie Annand | September 10, 2009 3:25 PM
Happy birthday, Mary :)
It seems only appropriate that a Trophy Wife (TM) should have MM as the initials.
Thank you very much for letting your hubby play with us so much - not just online, but particularly when he jumps on a plane, or teleports, and shows up to
scareentertain us in person.Please, please tell us what gifts you got from your (über-)nerdy husband.
Posted by: Chemgirl
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September 10, 2009 3:25 PM
Happy birthday, Trophy Wife! May your next lap around the sun be more enjoyable than this one!
And to most of the rest of the population of this thread, including myself, a very merry unbirthday.
Posted by: Helioprogenus | September 10, 2009 3:25 PM
Happy Birthday you poor, poor, long-suffering soul. Hopefully PZ won't decorate your cake with squid pieces and octopus arms. Also, let's all hope there aren't any metazoans left on the doorstep when you get back. If his gifts are subpar, let us know and we'll joust some sense into him.
Posted by: Pete | September 10, 2009 3:26 PM
Happy Birthday Mrs Myers
You share the same birthday as my Dad and he's 60 today...but of course you are decades younger !!!
have a good day
Pete
Posted by: Hugo Rune | September 10, 2009 3:27 PM
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
Wish you all the best for your birthday trophy wife!
Posted by: PTWAL | September 10, 2009 3:28 PM
I can’t believe I’m seeing this on a site with the reputation of Pharyngula. Everyone seems to be such a birtdayist, and I can’t believe that you’re buying this. There just isn’t any logical way to support such a claim. First off there is no evidence for this birthday event: There are no transitional award status wife levels in PZ’s history. Where are the ‘Participation Rosette Wife Birthday’ fossils? Where are the ‘Runner-up plaque Spouse Birthday’ Fossils? If there is a Trophy Wife birthday now it must have been that way since the beginning of time and hence there is no reason to celebrate. Perhaps because of this a surprising number of comtemporary Pharyngulists (#118), like myself, support Intelligent Trophy Wife creation theory.
Now, I haven’t bothered investigating this at all, but I know that history is too short for PZ to be having an annual celebration of anything, let alone a Trophy wife’s birthday. I know this because I have been visiting his site for just under a year and I have not see a single thing, not even a single blog-wall painting, to indicate that there has been a previous celebration! Oh, yeah and something about salt as well.
Additionally, PZ in this post is only using allegory to explain the story of Trophy Wife’s creation and current attachment to PZ. He doesn’t literally mean that it is her birthday today, merely that it happened at some undisclosed time in the past and we should perhaps be grateful for it.
Finally, this post of a Trophy Wife’s Birthday, or the ‘theory’ of Trophy wife birthday, doesn’t answer the important Why questions. Like “Why should be celebrate such a Trophy Wife birthday?” I really would have expected more rigour from the acolytes of the #5 leftist and truth-distorter in the world.
However, since I always like to feel part of the in-crowd I’d like to wish Mrs PZ (aka Trophy wife) a very pleasant and cephalopod-filled Birthday!
Posted by: Gyeong Hwa Pak | September 10, 2009 3:29 PM
Herzliche Glücukwünsche zum Geburtstag zu deine Frau!
Posted by: Lyz | September 10, 2009 3:30 PM
Happy Birthday!!
Posted by: cicely | September 10, 2009 3:31 PM
Happy Birthday, Trophy Wife!
Posted by: jaynie | September 10, 2009 3:31 PM
If it were tomorrow, it'd be better ;) Happy Birthday! Make sure PZ takes even more TLC than usual.
Posted by: jc morrison | September 10, 2009 3:32 PM
happy birthday!
Posted by: ricklend | September 10, 2009 3:34 PM
Wow, all positive, happy blogs today! Nice change.
Posted by: inajeep
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September 10, 2009 3:35 PM
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
You don't know me
Happy Birthday to you.
Any many more.
Posted by: Suzanne | September 10, 2009 3:35 PM
Happy birthday!
Posted by: Tyler L | September 10, 2009 3:36 PM
Happy Birthday Mrs. Myers I hope you have a wonderful day filled with many pictures of PZ on the dinosaur.
Posted by: bcoppola | September 10, 2009 3:38 PM
#146: How very Christian of you. :/
Now, to the TW: there can only be one birthday repast to honor both cephalopods and the FSM: Linguine con Frutti di Mare, with lots of squid & octopi.
Posted by: Clemens | September 10, 2009 3:41 PM
@James
Sometimes I wish I'd believe in a hell so I could be sure people like you would end up there. I guess I just have to be content with the thought that you are wasting your live fantasizing about a fairy in the sky actually caring for you because no one else does.
Posted by: DaveG | September 10, 2009 3:41 PM
And may James get some Anger Management on His next BDay!
Posted by: Sillysighbean | September 10, 2009 3:43 PM
Happy Birthday Mrs M. Many happy and healthy ones in the future. You are a Saint! PZ is very fortunate to have such a supportive wife that endures all the drama he stirs up! There is no way he would be as successful without you in his life.
Posted by: genotypical | September 10, 2009 3:43 PM
Happy Birthday!!! And remember, Trophy Wife status means you are entitled to Trophy-Level presents!
Posted by: NoAstronomer | September 10, 2009 3:45 PM
hippo birdy 2 ewe
Posted by: Roy | September 10, 2009 3:46 PM
Happy Birthday! Thanks for letting come out and play!
Posted by: Tony | September 10, 2009 3:46 PM
Best Wishes on your birthday Mrs. PZ!
Now how about letting the Trophy Wife post an article on this special occasion, hmm? That would rock!
Posted by: Gyeong Hwa Pak | September 10, 2009 3:46 PM
Xian Morals! Believe in my Sadist God or burn in hell while I watch and wank myself over watching you suffer for eternity because you didn't want to be Jejus' cheerleader!
I wonder if he knows that Cubans are still Catholic?
Posted by: K-dub | September 10, 2009 3:47 PM
HBTY
HBTY
HBDTW
HBTY
AMM...
Posted by: Jessie Colt | September 10, 2009 3:47 PM
Happy Birthday, Mrs. M!
Posted by: Pharyngulette | September 10, 2009 3:47 PM
Many happy returns, O Mighty Trophy Wife of Pee Zed!
You appear to make him very happy, he makes us happy... now, if a few hundred well-wishing Pharynuglites can give you a teensy bit of pleasure on your birthday as well, the Great Circle of Do-Gooding* will be complete.
From someone much, much older than you. And, I might add, someone whose husband doesn't -- for some complex reason -- refer to me as a "trophy".
(*Please note that the only reason we're nice is because an angry ghost in the sky has threatened us with eternal torture if we don't behave in a specific way. It could never happen just because we're social creatures who benefit from peace and harmony amongst our group. Oh dear me, no.)
Posted by: N | September 10, 2009 3:47 PM
Happy birthday to the wife of PZ. Make him do something extra special for you.
Posted by: SEF | September 10, 2009 3:49 PM
Mary, Mary, quite age wary,
How does your birthday go?
With "wishing well"s
As PZ tells
His minions all in a row.
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage
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September 10, 2009 3:50 PM
Happy natal day to you,
Happy natal day to you,
Happy day of birth, dear Trophy Wife Myers,
Happy natal day to you!
Posted by: Joel Jacobson | September 10, 2009 3:50 PM
Happy Birthday to the TW!
Coincidence - Also my birthday.... Just came back from a Jane Goodall lecture at the Library of Congress - followed by a nice lunch at a Thai restaurant on Capitol Hill.
I hope your b-day has been as nice.
Joel
Posted by: puseaus | September 10, 2009 3:50 PM
GRATULERER from Scandinavia! I will celebrate with a small glass of something good!
Posted by: phantomreader42 | September 10, 2009 3:51 PM
James, exemplar of Christian Love™ @ #146:
Go die in a fucking fire, asshole. Your cult has sucked all humanity out of you and turned you into a grotesque monstrosity. YOU are the kind of lowlife sum that destroys people's lives by turning them into empty-headed monsters like you, sick bastards without the slightest compassion. The world would be a better place without you in it.
Posted by: Erika | September 10, 2009 3:53 PM
Happy birthday!
Posted by: Chris Bloom | September 10, 2009 3:54 PM
Happy Birthday. It's not so bad though, you're only a day older than you were the day before.
Posted by: Marcie Dietrich | September 10, 2009 3:55 PM
Happy birthday, Mrs. Myers!
Posted by: opiated | September 10, 2009 3:55 PM
Happy Birthday, PZ's Trophy Wife!
Posted by: arcticwolfw | September 10, 2009 3:55 PM
Hyvää syntymäpäivää Turusta
Posted by: William | September 10, 2009 3:59 PM
H.B.T.W.!1
Posted by: Ema | September 10, 2009 3:59 PM
Hap-hap-happy birthday!!! I hope you get lots of presents from the secular birthday angel!
(As a side note, you share the same birthday as my dad.)
Posted by: Alec | September 10, 2009 4:03 PM
cool! It's my birthday as well!
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Paleos | September 10, 2009 4:04 PM
Happy Birthday!
Keep the metazoans coming!
Posted by: Jaynie | September 10, 2009 4:07 PM
that should have been "gives" more TLC...
Posted by: Mariana | September 10, 2009 4:12 PM
Feliz Aniversário!
From Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Posted by: Killua | September 10, 2009 4:15 PM
I just realized, a birthday gift, the Beatles Remastered JUST came out, it'd be an epic gift for anyone of any age anywhere ^_^
*needs to buy rubber soul and revolver tonight*
Posted by: funfly | September 10, 2009 4:16 PM
Happy Birthday to PZ`s trophywife .
Posted by: shonny | September 10, 2009 4:18 PM
Gratulerer med dagen, trofékone!
Posted by: Omar | September 10, 2009 4:18 PM
Feliz cumpleaños!!
Espero que este dia este lleno de hermosas sorpresas.
Posted by: Greg Peterson | September 10, 2009 4:19 PM
I'm pleased to say I've met the Trophy Wife and she is wonderful and an excellent complement to you, PZ...and that can't be easy. So I raise my glass, tip my hat, and extend my warmest wishes for a brash, brazen, bitch'n birthday bash.
Greg
Posted by: Happy Tentacles
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September 10, 2009 4:20 PM
Happy Birthday from the Tentacled Brethren!
Posted by: Zmidponk | September 10, 2009 4:22 PM
Happy Birthday, Mrs. PZ.
As for giving the birth year, do what my mother used to do - give the 'seasonally adjusted' year.
Posted by: Aquaria | September 10, 2009 4:22 PM
Happy birthday Trophy Wife, from San Antonio.
For once, it's raining here, off and on. During the "dry" spells, it feels like a wet blanket is trying to smother me when I'm outdoors.
Posted by: Omar | September 10, 2009 4:23 PM
@phantomreader42 (#173):
Please don't bother to answer to imbeciles. Best way to deal with these guys is to ignore them.
Posted by: Dennis | September 10, 2009 4:23 PM
Hmmm. Warm, squishy and slimy and heathanical! You, Ms. Trophy Spouse, must be special to have caught such a creature. Hope he is evolving in directions that you agree with!
Posted by: NiroZ | September 10, 2009 4:24 PM
I would happily wish this trophy wife a birthday, but I've got this old musty book that says you clearly never existed, and with PZ having no evidence to back up, I call this thing a fallacious lie. We need birth certificates!
Posted by: DLC | September 10, 2009 4:24 PM
Congratulations on another natal anniversary, from a fellow September baby. Best wishes for many happy returns.
Posted by: Cujo359 | September 10, 2009 4:25 PM
Happy Birthday, TW Myers.
Posted by: Flea | September 10, 2009 4:26 PM
Moltes felicitats nena!
Posted by: Lyle | September 10, 2009 4:26 PM
Happy Birthday to Mary Myers! (And also to Jared Diamond, but not to Bill O'Reilly, with whom you share your birthday)
Posted by: Ubi Dubium | September 10, 2009 4:27 PM
(Ahem..Ahem... la la la la la...)
This is your Birthday Song!
It isn't very long!
Posted by: Gwenny
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September 10, 2009 4:29 PM
Happy Birthday . . .nothing left to add.
Posted by: FastLane | September 10, 2009 4:30 PM
Happy b-day to Mrs. PZ. I had the pleasure of meeting you (and PZ) at the FFRF meetup a couple years ago. You seem way too nice to be married to that guy! =P
Many happy returns.
Cuttelfish (@55), it's not my b-day,and that almost brought a tear to my jaded eyes.
Cheers.
Posted by: toomanytribbles | September 10, 2009 4:32 PM
happy birthday, mrs. trophy wife.
Posted by: Kevin Gallagher | September 10, 2009 4:32 PM
@james #146
You choose to post that crap on a page wishing a woman happy birthday? How low can you get? Then again I'm sure pz's wife is intelligent enough to understand that their are always a couple of assholes out there willing to sink one step lower in their 'look at me look at me' lives. I wish I could see your face when you find out there's no God upon death. Priceless.
Posted by: DemetriusOfPharos | September 10, 2009 4:33 PM
As I am extremely late to the party, and most of the good jokes are taken, I will simply say what I came to say in the best way I know how: Klingon.
qoSlIj DatIvjaj
Posted by: Smoggy Batzrubble OM4Jesus | September 10, 2009 4:33 PM
SOME COUPLETS FOR THE TROPHY WIFE
Enjoy your birthday Mrs M.
My gift is in the mail.
I dare not tell you what it is,
Or I’ll go back to jail.
But if you use it twice a day,
Your life will be much better,
For all your cares will float away,
You’ll feel like a jet-setter.
Your children will live long and thrive,
Your husband, he will publish,
That special car you’ve longed to drive,
His royalties will furnish.
So don’t allow some fundy freak,
Your natal day to harm,
Love flows deep in an atheist creek,
And a cracker buys the farm.
------------------------------
Happy Birthday from Smoggy Batzrubble and Floyd Rubber
Missionaries to the Atheists
Posted by: JBlilie | September 10, 2009 4:35 PM
Happy birthday Mrs. Myers! Many, many happy returns! (I hope you make a haul.)
The same birth month as my wife. An excellent (if extremely common one in the midwest) birth month.
When I was a kid, I wondered why amongst my classmates there were so many birthdays in September and October. When I got older and starting figuring, let's see, Septmber subtract 9 months: December. October, subtract 9 months: January. Minnesota. Weeks of below zero °F temps. Not to mention Christmas and New Year's parties. Hmmmm .......
Posted by: Hu | September 10, 2009 4:37 PM
生日快乐, and thanks for all the metazoans!
Posted by: Pastor Tobin Maker | September 10, 2009 4:37 PM
Happy birthday, Mrs Myers.
Although your husband is a godless atheist, and you as his faithful servant are compelled to obey him, please remember that this biblical rule does not apply to husbandly demands that contradict God's law.
I pray that in your private moments between doing the laundry and preparing meals you find time to thank the Lord that He has yet to turn Mr Myers to stone for his transgressions.
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Tobin Maker, D.D
Posted by: fly44d | September 10, 2009 4:40 PM
Happy Birthday Ms Myers from the California Redwoods! May you have a Special and Wonderful day!
Posted by: IaMoL | September 10, 2009 4:41 PM
Happy Birthday and best wishes Mary!
Posted by: Desert Son, OM
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September 10, 2009 4:42 PM
Many wishes for a very happy birthday, Mary Myers!
In the context of Mary's birthday-thread, it strikes me somewhat uncouth to sign as I usually do, so I'll simply say,
Huzzah!
Robert
Posted by: Frederik Rosenkjær | September 10, 2009 4:42 PM
Happy Birthday to the Trophy Wife from Copenhagen, Denmark!
Posted by: Sanction | September 10, 2009 4:43 PM
I'll toast to you tonight in Minneapolis, madame.
Posted by: Bill Brock | September 10, 2009 4:44 PM
@Kevin G #204
Post-mortem Enlightenment is unlikely.
So let's enjoy our birthdays while we can....especially TW!
Posted by: Rebelest | September 10, 2009 4:45 PM
Happy B'day, Mrs. Myers! Thanks for keeping our lovable curmudgeon happy! I know it ain't easy...but what do you get out of it? Do you mind that he calls you the Trophy Wife?
Posted by: jck | September 10, 2009 4:47 PM
Happy Birthday, TW, from another Virgo in Santa Rosa, CA!
Posted by: Richard Harris | September 10, 2009 4:50 PM
Pastor, you as his faithful servant are compelled to obey him, please remember that this biblical rule does not apply to husbandly demands that contradict God's law.
We here've moved on from the 'morality' of goat-herders & their stupid Bronze Age mythology.
Posted by: mudbrush | September 10, 2009 4:52 PM
Happy Birthday and keep those lovely metazoans coming!
Posted by: Bride of Shrek OM | September 10, 2009 4:53 PM
Many happy returns to our Esteemed Overlord's TW.
I'm guessing, amongst all others, the ultimate gift was Smoggy writing poetry for you.
Posted by: DazedNConfuzed | September 10, 2009 4:54 PM
Happy Birthday to you Mrs. Meyers :).
May PZ decide to find time between his book and refuting the inane rantings of the irrational creationist mob to take you somewhere nice, ensure that you get a great meal...
Posted by: R. Schauer | September 10, 2009 4:55 PM
Have a Happy, Happy Birthday, Mary!
And many, many more.
Now, make PZ take you out for dinner somewhere delicious and expensive!
All love to you, Dear.
-Rick
Posted by: robertm | September 10, 2009 4:57 PM
You loooooook like a mon-key...
And you share a common an-ces-tor too! :)
Posted by: Blake Stacey | September 10, 2009 4:58 PM
Happy birthday!
Posted by: MikeM | September 10, 2009 4:58 PM
Either way, the comment at 146, by James (in case PZ deletes it, and I hope he does) is a loser.
If it was a Poe, it was way, way over the top; lose.
If it was sincere, you've proven how twisted some people in that religion are; lose.
Delete it, PZ. Please.
Happy Bday, T-Wife. I gotta say, though, I think I also picked myself a peach.
Posted by: Henry Huber | September 10, 2009 5:03 PM
Happy trip around the sun! Same place next year? Give or take a degree.
Posted by: tmaxPA | September 10, 2009 5:05 PM
Happy Birthday to Ms. Myers, and to Captain Mike, and to the eternal disembodied ghost of Stephan Jay Gould, who watches over us, and all Metazoans on both Mondays and other days, in a non-overlapping magisterium kind of way.
Posted by: Jefrir | September 10, 2009 5:06 PM
С Днём Рождение!
Posted by: BG | September 10, 2009 5:07 PM
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: DazedNConfuzed | September 10, 2009 5:12 PM
@ 164
I doubt he knows the differences between his left and right feet.
Gotta love how an entire political ideology just gets heaped on to a group who has a history of dumping ideology on it's arse too. :D.
Anyway, can't expect those Christians to show common decency or something. After all, isn't their golden rule "Do unto me, and other than that go [censored] yerself?".
Once again Mrs. Meyers, Happy Birthday.
Posted by: Pierre | September 10, 2009 5:14 PM
Joyeux anniversaire madame Epouse-Trophée!
Posted by: MBK | September 10, 2009 5:18 PM
Mary, Mary...Happy, Happy!!
Posted by: Falyne, FCD | September 10, 2009 5:22 PM
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Myers! :-D
Posted by: Dania
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September 10, 2009 5:22 PM
Happy Birthday, Mary!
May you continue to delight us with beautiful metazoans for many, many, many more Mondays to come! :)
Posted by: MadScientist | September 10, 2009 5:26 PM
Happy Birthday!
Zum Geburtstag!
Bon Anniversaire!
Buon Compleanno!
Pardon my screaming in multiple languages.
Posted by: oaksterdam | September 10, 2009 5:27 PM
Happy b-day and thanks for the Monday Metazoans!
Posted by: JackC
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September 10, 2009 5:27 PM
What is all this celebration of an arbitrary position in the rotation of the Earth about the Sun?
oh.... OK... NEVERMIND!!
Happy Birthday, Mary!
And these folks too! - Hey! Dan Castellenata too! Hapy Birthday, Homer!
(Julius III can stick it though)
JC
Posted by: Nā Maka ‘Ā | September 10, 2009 5:30 PM
Hau‘oli Lā Hānau!
Posted by: justpaul | September 10, 2009 5:31 PM
Happy birthday Mrs. Myers from a long-long-time Pharyngula lurker.
Posted by: Yubal
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September 10, 2009 5:34 PM
May the force be with you, Mrs Myers.
Posted by: Stygian Lamprey | September 10, 2009 5:36 PM
Birthday wishes, Ms. Myers, from yet another brazen sinner. May there never be a Sunday morning you don't sleep through!
Posted by: Lily | September 10, 2009 5:37 PM
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Trophy Wife!!
Posted by: Phrogge | September 10, 2009 5:44 PM
יום הולדת שמח Yom Huledet Sameach!
I toadally wish you a hoppy and unfrogettable birthday!
Posted by: Eidolon
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September 10, 2009 5:45 PM
Happy B'day from Jeeezzzuuusss Central - Colorado Springs. Best o' the day to ye lass.
Posted by: Justin N
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September 10, 2009 5:46 PM
Happy Birthday TW. Behind every great man is a great woman, or so my wife keeps telling me.
Posted by: lordshipmayhem
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September 10, 2009 5:47 PM
And now in Japanese: Tanjoubi omedetou gouzaimasu!!
Posted by: Nathan | September 10, 2009 5:48 PM
Happy Birthday Mrs. TW Myers!!
Posted by: Ursa Major | September 10, 2009 5:53 PM
Dear TW,
The best gift I can give you is yo refrain from singing the Happy Birthday Song.
Our Tentacled Overlord, however, has surely given you some exotic bauble which he gift wrapped in a box with unusual geometry.
Posted by: BenW
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September 10, 2009 5:53 PM
Congrats.
She is in good company. 9/11 as everyone knows is Bear Bryant's birthday and the following is mine. ;)
Posted by: Bernardo | September 10, 2009 6:01 PM
Feliz aniversário, Esposa-Troféu!
Best wishes from Belo Horizonte, Brazil!
Posted by: Adam Jarvis | September 10, 2009 6:02 PM
Happy birthday Trophy Wife!
Posted by: Doc Bill | September 10, 2009 6:03 PM
As a most grateful spouse of a Trophy Wife, most grateful indeed that she selected me from the Shelf of Geeks, Monkey knows why, I feel your joy.
Long life and tolerance to TW.
Doc Bill
(I know my TW needs most of the latter.)
Posted by: Janine, Vile Bitch, OM | September 10, 2009 6:05 PM
I guess I am but one of hundreds who will Mary a Happy Birthday. Many thanks for putting up with PZ running this madhouse. And yes, I must provide songs.
The Ramones
The Beatles
Altered Images
For what ever reasons, this band brings to mind the films of Bill Forsyth.
Posted by: bastion of sass | September 10, 2009 6:06 PM
Not sure how a Happy Birthday! from me and the other commenters can help balance out PZ's outrages and horrors. But PZ seems to think it might help, and I'm guessing that you must generally be a really good natured person to put up with all the craziness. So...
Wishing you a most Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Janine, Vile Bitch, OM | September 10, 2009 6:13 PM
Sigh...
The Ramones
Posted by: Arabian Stallion | September 10, 2009 6:14 PM
Happy Birthday Mrs. Myers. :)
Posted by: Ron Sullivan | September 10, 2009 6:14 PM
Happy birthday!
Just for that, I'm sending you a present.
Posted by: Gregory Greenwood | September 10, 2009 6:16 PM
Happy birthday to the Trophy Wife, chosen companion of the beloved Prophet of Cthulhu himself.
May many happy returns and an unlimited supply of cephalopods be yours.
Posted by: Ben | September 10, 2009 6:17 PM
Many happy returns, Ms. Myers!
BTW, PJ. Trophy wives do not need to be much younger than their husbands. I've been married to my trophy wife for 30 years now. She's only a year younger than me, but no one would ever know.
P.S. I call her my "first wife" when she's around, just to keep her on her toes ;)
Posted by: Bruce Breece FCD | September 10, 2009 6:18 PM
Happy Birthday, M.M. and many, many more.
Posted by: Damien Trotter | September 10, 2009 6:19 PM
วันเกิดภรรยายินดีที่ระลึกหรือรางวัล (!)
Posted by: Paul B | September 10, 2009 6:24 PM
Better late than never: Happy Birthday PZ's Trophy Wife! Many happy returns!!
Posted by: Satcomguy | September 10, 2009 6:26 PM
Happy Birthday and best wishes from far-off Stuttgart, Germany!
Posted by: Chloe | September 10, 2009 6:31 PM
Happy birthday, ma'am! I hope you've had a good year and I hope your next one is good as well!
Posted by: Mig | September 10, 2009 6:33 PM
Firstly, Happy Birthday, Mrs Myers, from way down here at the bottom!! (My mother used to receive mail addressed to Mrs [my dad's name][our last name], when did they stop doing that?)
Secondly, I usually try to read through the other comments before posting anything of my own --even with something like this-- but, I got to #28, and I, uh, well... kinda lost my appetite. Contemplating PZ's noodly appendage wasn't really part of my plans today...
Posted by: Steve in MI | September 10, 2009 6:35 PM
Many happy returns of the day!
Posted by: Kathy | September 10, 2009 6:41 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mrs. Myers!!!! And all the best in the coming year. From Calgary, Alberta Canada
Posted by: TheBlackCat | September 10, 2009 6:43 PM
Happy B-day, Mrs. M!
Posted by: Susan | September 10, 2009 6:43 PM
Happy Birthday, Trophy Wife! Thank you for sharing your husband with us, and have a great day and a wonderful year.
Posted by: Irene Delse | September 10, 2009 6:43 PM
Happy Birthday, Ms Myers, and thanks for all the Metazoans! ^_^
Posted by: Katkinkate | September 10, 2009 6:47 PM
Happy Birthday, Mary, from down under.
Posted by: Tracy Walker | September 10, 2009 6:48 PM
Many Happy Returns of the Day, Trophy Wife! I wrote a (bad) poem in your honor:
PZ has minions far and wide, who read his every musing
But he'd be dull, and no fun to read, were it not for the mate of his choosing
She brightens his life, then he spreads the cheer
This poem sucks, but the wish is sincere.
Happy birthday!
Posted by: gwen | September 10, 2009 6:50 PM
Trophy wife,since it's your birthday, I just wanted you to know there's a tremendous amount of respect, admiration and affection for you, no present or money, but a tremendous amount of respect, admiration and affection!! Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Fortunately Anonymous | September 10, 2009 6:50 PM
Happy Birthday to theeee
Partner of Myres Pee-Zee
Getting more sex
Than VenomFangX
She's a wife not Tropheeee
(Hmm. Lucky I didn't rhyme anything with Dembskeee.)
Posted by: Helioprogenus | September 10, 2009 6:51 PM
So we're doing languages now, are we?
Ok, in Armenian then, Bari dtaredarts mrs PZ
Posted by: Bjørn Østman | September 10, 2009 6:54 PM
Happy birthday, TW.
I wonder if you were a toddler when PZ started following you around when he was in third grade?
Posted by: Shawna | September 10, 2009 6:54 PM
Happy birthday, Mrs. Myers!
Posted by: Victor | September 10, 2009 6:54 PM
Happy Birthday Trophy Wife!! I hope to have a trophy wife as great as you one day!
Posted by: Policy Merchant | September 10, 2009 6:58 PM
Happy Birthday
Posted by: Sharmin | September 10, 2009 7:01 PM
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Julie | September 10, 2009 7:04 PM
Happy Birthday Trophy Wife!!
Posted by: Big City | September 10, 2009 7:05 PM
Happy Birthday, Foxy Lady!
Posted by: Kate | September 10, 2009 7:13 PM
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Trophy Wife! :)
Posted by: degustibus | September 10, 2009 7:22 PM
Just what she always wanted, birthday greetings from (mostly anonymous) internet nitwits.
Posted by: RHM | September 10, 2009 7:24 PM
Raising my glass to toast you a very Happy Birthday, Mrs. Myers.
Posted by: Retired Catholic | September 10, 2009 7:24 PM
Happy B-Day, T. W.
Posted by: Chris Booth | September 10, 2009 7:25 PM
Happy Birthday from NYC and Brooklyn!
(Your birthday is two days behind that of Molly Bloom, September 8!)
Posted by: Crux Australis | September 10, 2009 7:25 PM
I really can't be bothered reading through 283 comments to check whether or not I am the first to wish you Happy Birthday from New Zealand, but I hope I am!!
Posted by: Kobra | September 10, 2009 7:26 PM
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Myers! Have a metazoan!
Posted by: Sastra | September 10, 2009 7:38 PM
Happy, happy birthday! Though you may not remember, we have met a few times -- so that I can reassure people that you are very nice, and well-deserving of a happy birthday!
To PZ you are The Trophy Wife, but to us you are the 'Long-Suffering Trophy Wife.'
Posted by: dobbinriddle | September 10, 2009 7:39 PM
Happy Birthday from the Only Swayzee in the World!
Posted by: Martin | September 10, 2009 7:47 PM
Happy Birthday, Trophy Wife!
Posted by: Tzi | September 10, 2009 7:55 PM
Happy Birthday from the crispy state of California.
Posted by: Hank Fox | September 10, 2009 8:03 PM
Sorry, I got here late.
Happy Birthday
and Best Wishes
for Many More
with the Infamous,
Insidious Professor
and the
Myersian
Larval Brood.
-- From Hank Fox and his Yard Fox.
Posted by: kamaka | September 10, 2009 8:30 PM
Hank Fox @ 293
Nice, Hank. Great multicellular organism.
Could use some tentacles, though....
Posted by: ER Doc | September 10, 2009 8:32 PM
Belated happy birthday wishes to the Trophy Wife!
Posted by: bgb808 | September 10, 2009 8:57 PM
Happy Birthday wishes for Trophy Wife, with much aloha from a Honolulu sycophant!
Posted by: Susannah | September 10, 2009 8:57 PM
Here's our traditional family birthday greeting, Mary: Green celery, Mary; green celery.
(That's mangled Spanglish; translate to Spanish, then repeat it quickly, listening in English.)
And I hope PZ broke the bank for the occasion.
Posted by: Revyloution | September 10, 2009 9:01 PM
Happy Birthday and many happy returns,
you poor poor woman. If I were Catholic, I'd nominate you for sainthood for putting up with PZ.
Posted by: zack malson | September 10, 2009 9:02 PM
A very sincere joyful birthday wish goes out to you, Mrs. Myers! Today is my mother's birthday, too. Come to think of it, I know quite a few people born on or around 10 September. Wonder if it has any connection with being exactly nine months after new years eve?
Posted by: Carol K | September 10, 2009 9:02 PM
Happy Birthday from the nation to the north, Canada. I hope it has been a day full of fun and interesting stuff. Oh yes, and really cool prezzies.
Posted by: allkom | September 10, 2009 9:08 PM
Feliz aniversário!!
From São Paulo, Brazil
Posted by: chuckgoecke
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September 10, 2009 9:13 PM
Happy Birthday to you, Happy birthday too you, you live in a zoo, you live in a zoo, with tigers and lions and hairless apes like you(and me).
Posted by: ctenotrish | September 10, 2009 9:32 PM
Happy Birthday to you, Mary!! Best wishes, from a neighbor next door (South Dakota, that is). :)
Posted by: Notagod | September 10, 2009 9:44 PM
A very happy birthday wish to you Mrs. Myers.
Posted by: Marion Delgado | September 10, 2009 9:44 PM
Happy Birthday, Pharyngula Trophy Wife!
(though, if she is a pharyngula, she's young indeed).
Posted by: PoxyHowzes | September 10, 2009 9:53 PM
From P.Z. Myers' heathen hordes
And from his minions merry.
To the (TM) Trophy Wife:
A Happy Birthday — very!
Posted by: Gerald M. Jones | September 10, 2009 9:54 PM
Happy birthday, MZ PZ
and may the laud have mussy on yo sole, for you are married to the most vilest, evilist, dastardly, mean, nasty, christ-kickin', commie pinko faggot-lovin' libral biologist in America.
Hey, he remembered your birthday. He can't be all bad.
Posted by: Coran | September 10, 2009 9:57 PM
Happy Birthday Mary!
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | September 10, 2009 9:58 PM
Happy Birthday, dear Mary!
And many thanks for seeing to it that PZ's tentacles are suitably arranged as he heads to class each day.
Posted by: recovering catholic | September 10, 2009 10:09 PM
Happy birthday from one Mary to another!
Posted by: foxfire | September 10, 2009 10:16 PM
Happy Birthday T.W. Myers! May your day be lovely and may you have many more birthdays to come.
Posted by: hoognu | September 10, 2009 10:19 PM
Warmest wishes for a wonderful birthday. Thank you for sharing PZ with us.
Posted by: Chgo_Liz
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September 10, 2009 10:29 PM
Happy Birthday, Mary! Live long and prosper.
Posted by: F | September 10, 2009 10:36 PM
A very happy birthday to you!
(It seems I'm just under the wire here.)
Posted by: Steve_C | September 10, 2009 11:03 PM
Happy Birthday TW!
Did you get any bacon?
Posted by: Trophy Wife™ | September 10, 2009 11:14 PM
Thanks a lot, everyone, for all the kind birthday wishes! I had a wonderful birthday. And Steve_C, there's always a plentiful supply of bacon at my house!
Posted by: Pygmy Loris | September 10, 2009 11:20 PM
Happy Birthday! Hope you have many more. :)
Posted by: Sphere...Coupler | September 10, 2009 11:54 PM
Woo Hoo, hope it was a good one!
Posted by: Shamarh | September 11, 2009 12:16 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Monado, FCD | September 11, 2009 12:17 AM
Happy birthday, Mary!
I have a mammalian metazoan for you: a pet anteater.
--Monado in Toronto
Posted by: cmflyer | September 11, 2009 12:19 AM
19 minutes late, but Happy Birthday, Mrs. PZ!
Posted by: Frank B | September 11, 2009 12:20 AM
September 10th is my birthday too. So happy birthday to both of us. I am quite willing to let people know my age, I just turned 57. My wife was so kind as to point out that 57 is definitely in the latter part of the 50's. Sigh, it's all down hill from here.
Posted by: "GrrlScientist"
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September 11, 2009 12:32 AM
i feel lucky to have met the kind and gentle mary, and for having stayed with mary and PZ for eight days in their beautiful home in snowy morris minnesota. so i wish you a happy birthday, trophy wife, and please make sure that PZ takes good care of you, as you deserve and as he should do on such an auspicious day as today.
Posted by: Damian | September 11, 2009 12:35 AM
Happy Birthday Mrs Myers!!
We know PZ is a studd so here is my guess!
Ooo, don't you just love it when people are born september 9-15 it means their folks had a good new years party.
Haha, It's my birthday on saturday(12th) :D
All of my friends are having birthdays from the 9-15th too.
Posted by: Pastor Tobin Maker | September 11, 2009 12:55 AM
It seems critics of my earlier birthday message are unaware of the origin of Mrs Myers' exposure as a "trophy wife"
With Cristian Love,
Pastor Tobin Maker, D.D
Posted by: Jim A Pearsonn | September 11, 2009 1:00 AM
I want to wish your wife a very happy birthday PZ, and hope for many more!!!
Cheers!
Jim A Pearson
Delia, Alberta Canada
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck
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September 11, 2009 1:14 AM
Happy Birthday!
Would it surprise you to know that out here on the Wet Coast we are still celebrating with you? Almost two hours left to party!
Posted by: Atheist Chaplain | September 11, 2009 1:40 AM
Happy Happy Joy Joy Trophy wife :-)
And PZ seems to have picked up on the most important rule when women's ages are concerned, it goes like this
"Women have Birthdays, they Don't have ages"
remember that and you can never go wrong :-)
Posted by: T. W. Hall | September 11, 2009 1:48 AM
You are a lucky man. This is my eldest daughter's 14th birthday also.
Posted by: Grant N | September 11, 2009 2:15 AM
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
Do the cephalopods know?
From jelly's bells, to tortoise shells,
Metazoan's steal the show!
But we know, that it's really you!
(who steals the show, that is.)
Enjoy your day. Best wishes from Edmonton.
Posted by: Sphere...Coupler | September 11, 2009 2:20 AM
Oh and because I moronicaly posted at 318 (hope it was a good one!) after TW said "I had a wonderful birthday." at 316, I belatedly offer this ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m44z-223UYE
to mask my posting flaws.
Posted by: Felix | September 11, 2009 2:39 AM
Didn't get here on tme it seems... Hmmm, anyway,
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, liebe Mrs. Myers. Beste Wünsche für viel weitere Jahrzehnte. Sie lebe hoch!
Posted by: Kitty | September 11, 2009 4:34 AM
Penblwdd hapus.
Posted by: Damian | September 11, 2009 4:42 AM
Pastor Tobin Maker,
You sir are hilarious :D
I'm not sure if it's just your ignorence or just the failure of your upbringing to surely believe that such tasks as laundry and meal making are purely the womans duties.
I'm sure PZ makes a mean dinner :P
As for "you as his faithful servant are compelled to obey him"
I'm sure PZ and his wife don't think of loving each other as a servent/husband relationship where she obeys him..
Maybe you're jealous of PZ's trophy wife :O
Posted by: alextangent | September 11, 2009 4:57 AM
Damian @ #335; Pastor Tobin Maker is one of them thar Poe's; his site will give you a clue.
http://baptistsforbrown2008.wordpress.com/
Happy Birthday Trophy Wife!
Posted by: echidna | September 11, 2009 5:07 AM
Yet another "Happy Birthday from Australia!!"
Posted by: Coryat | September 11, 2009 5:08 AM
Happy Birthday : )
Posted by: Dancaban | September 11, 2009 5:26 AM
Happy Bidet! Oh no, wrong blog.
Posted by: eddie | September 11, 2009 5:29 AM
Hap buf Mrs Myers.
Posted by: Thunderbird5 | September 11, 2009 5:34 AM
Have a good one and many more to come.
Mr TB5 excells as a Trophy: carrying bits of shopping home, an uncomplaining draught-excluder, sturdy binbag-holder, rural road junction handbrake-turn specialist. I wouldn't have any other. His contemporaneous knowledge of 70s music is, naturally, a tad deficient but this, I have discovered, is not necessarily a bad thing.
Just have to reminf myself sometimes that his 1984 is my 1975
Posted by: Mark B | September 11, 2009 5:53 AM
Happy Birthday TW.
Posted by: cypressgreen | September 11, 2009 7:36 AM
May your 31st year be your best yet! Happy Birthday!
Posted by: JanSchlegel | September 11, 2009 7:51 AM
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag aus Deutschland!
Posted by: JBlilie | September 11, 2009 8:03 AM
"his faithful servant are compelled to obey him"
Thanks for giving them both a good laugh! (I'm sure.)
Posted by: Evolution SWAT | September 11, 2009 8:13 AM
Happy B-day Trophy Wife! PZ sure is proud of you :)
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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September 11, 2009 9:24 AM
So we're you slow, or is she precocious? You were in the same class, after all.
Happy Birthday, Mary! You have the patience of a sack of saints.
Posted by: Jay H | September 11, 2009 9:35 AM
Happy B-Day T Dub!
Posted by: Foie Gras Connoisseur | September 11, 2009 9:52 AM
Happy Birthday from Japan
Posted by: LocalHero | September 11, 2009 11:45 AM
Happy Birthday and best wishes from Solon, Iowa
Posted by: Humxm | September 11, 2009 12:00 PM
Happy Birthday Mrs. Meyers!
Posted by: Robert Sparling | September 11, 2009 12:05 PM
For a second I thought this was for me. My sister and I were born on the 10th as well. Congrats to your wife.
Posted by: LocalHero
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September 11, 2009 12:07 PM
Happy Birthday and best wishes from Solon, Iowa
Posted by: Annie | September 11, 2009 12:32 PM
Happy Birthday!
Being a trophy wife is so neat - and I love the Monday metazoans.
Best wishes for many more from Newburyport MA
Posted by: lose_the_woo | September 11, 2009 1:58 PM
Happy Birthday to YOU - you sexy thang!!!
Posted by: MattB | September 11, 2009 3:36 PM
Happy Birthday Mrs. Myers!!
Posted by: EvolvedParamecium | September 11, 2009 4:39 PM
Belated Birthday wishes from NZ!! I hope you had a great day.
Posted by: Firebird | September 11, 2009 5:05 PM
And belated Bithday wishes from Denmark too. Hope it was good to get to 24 ;-)
Posted by: 1234 | September 11, 2009 5:40 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Posted by: Radwaste | September 11, 2009 10:14 PM
Dear T.W.:
I know better to ask a woman how old she is.
What do you weigh?
How daunting it must be to marry a man who can describe every one of your biological processes in detail...
... and knows that your beauty is not diminished thereby!
Cheers from SC!
Posted by: ad33sh | September 11, 2009 10:41 PM
Happy Birthday, Mrs. PZ!
Posted by: articulett | September 11, 2009 11:56 PM
Rock on, Trophy Wife!
May you have many more trips around the sun.
Posted by: Robert | September 12, 2009 12:50 AM
I waited so that I could be the last to wish you a very Happy, and belated, Birthday Anniversary.
Posted by: Danno Davis
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September 12, 2009 12:27 PM
Happy birthday, Trophy Wife. May there be many more to follow.
Posted by: favvr.myopenid.com
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September 12, 2009 1:06 PM
Gelukkige verjaardag Mw. Myers!