Happy Birthday Conservative Party.  

May your day be full of enjoying spending cuts and subsequent social unrest :)

Nice pic of Schmeryl Creep, appropriate wishes from EtV & TT, hope you didn't get caught, & do you have plans for franchising the idea?
Many blue returns to you, TCP, may your proles be compliant to oblivion.

needless to say i find hard (as always ;-)) to say anything nice about the conservative party, when all i wanna do is this....
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAZzNR1NVa8

I would like to also say happy birthday.  Maybe the only forum member I have seen in the flesh not once but twice if that was indeed him drinking in The Enterprise.  Exhibits a strange erotic charisma that his online persona can only allude to. 

Thanks – I think – for these birthday greetings (and incitements of Tory hatred):
 
Nico’s cake, served by the tasty babe at the top, was sensationally flavoured; Hoppo really dropped a bomb this time, for funk’s sake (great song, though); Eddy. Tin and Kerry’s political activism will earn them a place in my war cabinet; Vera Higgins is a dangerous creature.
 
In which city (and where precisely) is The Enterprise to which he/she refers; when was/were this/these encounter/s; why was I not approached/was I approached; is it all just a joke; did we exchange bodily fluids, or (much more worryingly) poetry?
   
 
I have a very busy day of work ahead of me, so must pop off; yesterday was spent in meetings at bloody Coventry.
 
Oh moo is me.
 
 
Still, I did get a fantastic present from Dr C/M: she commissioned an artist to make me a tee shirt featuring Robert Wyatt upon a bird – as he appears on the Shleep cover.
 
Will post a picture at some point.
 
 
Thanks again.

Many happy bla-blas to you.  Less to 'her': http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/

Oops I'm late but happy birthday TCP...an apt acronym if ever there was one.

Now I'm VERY late sorry. I never had a messy schedule until spending time looking after kids. Sure I'll get some reward (oh, really, they are the reward?).
 
But still, more importantly, Happy Birthweek Moo.

Thomas


Oops I'm late but happy birthday TCP...an apt acronym if ever there was one.

Many thanks for the birthday greetings from all - and sympathy for the embattled Riverlodge.
 
The following will bore most members senseless (why don't I tag that line to all of my posts, eh?): 
 
As such definitions comprise a significant part of the inanity of my working life (and because everyone enjoys correcting me), ‘TCP’ is not an acronym: it is an initialism. Acronyms – such as ROM and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, in case anyone was wondering) – can be pronounced as a word (so will be made up of consonants and vowels), as opposed to the individual letters of the words from which they are taken.
 
Initialisms – RSPCA, BBC etc – are more common. TCP derives, I believe, from the memorable chemical term ‘trichlorophenylmethyliodosalicyl’, which just happens to feature the letters t, c and p. Thus, whilst not a classic case, it does qualify as an initialism – which is really just a form of abbreviation. More recently, it also denotes Transmission Control Protocol - but I like to think Thomas still thinks back to TCP's application by the plump school matron, for whom he harboured a curious passion.
 
Perhaps, as I do, some sad soul out there finds this (the linguistics, rather than Thomas' school fling) interesting.  
 
  Nevertheless, now I have jettisoned this from my system, I greatly appreciate Thomas’ joke.
 

Belated birthday greetings

Thank you Mooch, a teacher to the last. Even as I clicked 'post message' I was thinking "is acronym the right word to use", and my publish and be damned attitude has, well, damned me. I am a big fan of being linguistically correct so I appreciate your response.

 
Though it may be mere tonic to my own vanity, here I am (on my birthday) sporting my presents, a new hat and custom-made tee shirt (of which I am rather proud).
 
 

nice tee moochoo.
the hat is, of course, "distinctive" and clashes wonderfully with your aubergine / burgundy coloured shirt.
 
[there is no sense of you milking all this birthday acclaim is there?]

riverlodge

[there is no sense of you milking all this birthday acclaim is there?]

Yes.

Strange though that a person can live in Chalk Farm for any period of time and not know of The Enterprise on 2 Haverstock Hill.  Last time I was there I had a prawn fishcake and a pint of Spitfire.  I was quite happy for a while and The Go-Betweens were playing in the background.  Not the band but a disc jockey.