HAH, you're OLD.

October 9, 2007 10:47 PM

Happy Birthday to this dude.

I'm not a stalker. *shrugs* I happen to have mathowie on Twitter and he unwisely, given the result made a reference to turning older. *smirks* So yeah, happy birthday to He Who Gave The Snark A Home.

posted by Phire to MetaFilter-Related at 10:47 PM (69 comments total)

Happy Birthday, Matt. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
posted by homunculus at 10:51 PM on October 9, 2007

Who?
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:58 PM on October 9, 2007

Happy Birthday To You... Happy Birthday To You... Happy Birthday Dear Mathowie...

I'll stop there before I have to pay a royalty to the RIAA or ASCAP or someone.
posted by amyms at 11:00 PM on October 9, 2007 [1 favorite]

Too bad there wasn't a party.
posted by trip and a half at 11:01 PM on October 9, 2007

Happy Birthday, Matt. You are a...

...err, neckbeard and recumbent bicyclist.

Oh, and NERD. :)
posted by loquacious at 11:01 PM on October 9, 2007

Oh hey! Happy birthday to me too! I didn't know I shared a birthday with No. 1. Cool. Let's see... wow. I'm almost half his age, 17 years younger.

I guess that doesn't really help with the whole getting older thing...
posted by MadamM at 11:16 PM on October 9, 2007

Oh OK, I'm giving in to the urge:

You say it's your birthday
It's my birthday too--yeah
They say it's your birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you.
posted by MadamM at 11:17 PM on October 9, 2007

I made you a cake, but jessatex deleteded it.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:20 PM on October 9, 2007 [4 favorites]

We got you what you've always wanted for your birthday -- a Metatalk thread!

We know you'll just end up playing with the box, though.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:25 PM on October 9, 2007 [2 favorites]

:)
posted by miss lynnster at 11:33 PM on October 9, 2007

Nope, not midnight in the Pacifical Time Zone yet. Ten more minutes.

quonsar & I both got older just a few days ago - Matt's in questionable comapny. (Just another un-balanced Libra in the Filter...)
posted by wendell at 11:51 PM on October 9, 2007

Yeah, well, EST is better. cry.
posted by Phire at 11:56 PM on October 9, 2007

Y'know, fuck midnight Pacific Time. Midnight Pacific Time is why I'm not playing Portal yet. Fucking Valve.

Oh..right. Happy Birthday, Matt!
posted by graventy at 12:14 AM on October 10, 2007

Are we there yet?
(checks World Clock)
Happy Birthday!
posted by Wilder at 12:27 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy birthday!
posted by tickingclock at 12:29 AM on October 10, 2007

quonsar & I both got older just a few days ago - Matt's in questionable comapny. (Just another un-balanced Libra in the Filter...)

Well, that explains everything.

There is a cabal.
posted by loquacious at 1:22 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy birthday!

*toots little horn*
posted by brundlefly at 3:05 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy birthday Matt and MadamM!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:07 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy birthday sir. And many more!
posted by Effigy2000 at 3:26 AM on October 10, 2007

What, again? This is getting old.
:-)
posted by madamjujujive at 3:40 AM on October 10, 2007 [1 favorite]

Haughey burr stay.
posted by klausness at 3:50 AM on October 10, 2007

hurf durf buttercream icing eater
posted by iconomy at 4:25 AM on October 10, 2007

¡Feliz cumpleaños, Matt Haughey!
We salute you, esteemed Señor Uno,
Whose pages have brought Ahmed Zaoui,
Mushrooms, The Best of, immuno-
Suppressed assworms, the sights of fair Maui,
Plus amnesia in Alaskan port Juneau.

We've learned of word clouds and turd cows,
"Kami no Michi" on the tenets of Shinto,
The favorites of 56050 (MeFite maus),
And an airborne marque of that gas-guzzling Pinto.
One fact escapes, tho, howe'er long I do browse:
When is the birthday of handsome Zach Quinto?!
posted by rob511 at 4:27 AM on October 10, 2007

As a tribute and token of my esteem for Number One, I will NOT be singing the Russian Happy Birthday Song.
posted by konolia at 4:56 AM on October 10, 2007

It's my birthday too!
seriously. It's my birthday today
posted by nursegracer at 5:09 AM on October 10, 2007

You don't look a day older than however old you were yesterday.
posted by JanetLand at 5:15 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy Birrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrthday!
posted by SassHat at 5:16 AM on October 10, 2007

Is this where I say I just HATE HATE HATE these fucking mysterious birthday threads? If all you are doing is trying to be so cute and pretentious and not tell us whose birthday it is DONT POST THE THREAD AT ALL MUTHAFUCKA!!!!! You think I want to WORK at this shit?!?!

Now, I will now deliberately NOT read the thread to find out whose birthday it is, anyway!!!

So there!
posted by yhbc at 6:01 AM on October 10, 2007

I already knew it was his birthday because facebook told me :) Happy Birthday!
posted by jacalata at 6:23 AM on October 10, 2007

You will always be 1 to me.
posted by Catfry at 6:44 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy Birthday!
posted by sociolibrarian at 6:49 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy Birthday!

I call dibs on the box when Matt's done with it!
posted by tommasz at 6:55 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy Birthday! Expect a visit from Fudgie the Whale.
posted by Evangeline at 7:06 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy Birthday Matt!
posted by typewriter at 7:08 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy Birthday, Matt. I think in honor of this auspicious occasion, for any thread that gets deleted today, to the end of the reasons for deletion should be appended "an to top it all off you FORGOT MY BIRTHDAY AGAIN! YOU DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT ME! I HATE YOU!"
posted by Pastabagel at 7:19 AM on October 10, 2007

So who's gonna bake a cake and put it on a rabbit's head?
posted by brain_drain at 7:37 AM on October 10, 2007

Man.

Whoever noted that all the big MeFi holidays are in October wasn't kidding.

Can we have Elephant Day moved to the 10th? Or is too late?

Obviously, we can't move CAPS LOCK DAY.

CAPS LOCK DAY is implacable, like so many large redwood trees.

CAPS LOCK DAY is the unmovable rock that Jebus created and then couldn't move.

Happy birthday, Sylar!
posted by sparkletone at 7:40 AM on October 10, 2007

HAPPY.
BIRTH.
DAY.
MATT?!

I got you a gift card.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:11 AM on October 10, 2007

[sings breathily, in best Marilyn Monroe style]

Happy Birthday, Mr. Haughey. Happy birthday to you.
posted by orange swan at 8:13 AM on October 10, 2007

Where do we line up for the birthday wedgies?
Happy birthday, Matt!
posted by NationalKato at 8:14 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy birthday - Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday - Happy birthday to you!

Well, it's time to celebrate your birthday, it happens every year
We'll eat a lot of broccoli and drink a lot of beer
You should be good and happy that there's something you can eat
A million people every day are starving in the street

Your daddy's in the gutter with the wretched and the poor
Your mama's in the kitchen with a can of Cycle Four
There's garbage in the water
There's poison in the sky
I guess it won't be long before we're all gonna die

Happy birthday - Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday - Happy birthday to you!

Well, what's the matter little friend, you think this party is the pits
Enjoy it while you can, we'll soon be blown to bits
The monkeys in the pentagon are gonna cook our goose
Their finger's on the button, all they need it an excuse

It doesn't take a military genius to see
We'll all be crispy critters after World War III
There's nowhere you can run to, nowhere you can hide
When they drop the big one, we all get fried

(Come on boys and girls, sing along, ok?)

Happy birthday - Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday - Happy birthday to you

Well there's a punk in the alley and he's looking for a fight
There's an Arab on the corner buying everything in sight
There's a mother in the ghetto with another mouth to feed
Seems that everywhere you look today there's misery and greed

I guess you know the Earth is gonna crash into the sun
But that's no reason why we shouldn't have a little fun
So if you think it's scary, if it's more than you can take
Just blow out the candles and have a piece of cake

Happy birthday - Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday - Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday - Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday - Happy birthday to you!

And a pinch to grow an inch!
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 8:16 AM on October 10, 2007 [2 favorites]

Matt used to look like Ed Helms, back when Ed was 30. Now he looks like Sylar, who is only 30. I don't think Matt is aging at all. So Happy (non-)Birthday, mathowie!
posted by Gary at 8:46 AM on October 10, 2007

What everybody said!
posted by languagehat at 9:39 AM on October 10, 2007

You share a birthday with Thelonious Sphere Monk! 90
posted by hortense at 9:48 AM on October 10, 2007

Well, is he showing up or what?

*Gets up from behind couch, throws pointy hat on the floor in disgust*
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 9:55 AM on October 10, 2007

Wait... Matt was born? I had it on good authority that we was the end result of a twisted science experiment gone horribly wrong. Huh. Well, that's the last time I trust Sci-Fi to do my fact-checking.

Happy non-test-tube falling into a beaker of radioactive biohazardous waste day Birthday.

I'm terrible at math, but doesn't Matt probably share a birthday with something like 150 other MeFites?
posted by quin at 10:22 AM on October 10, 2007

(see above)+1
posted by Toekneesan at 10:36 AM on October 10, 2007

Guys who wear glasses make me horny. H.B.!
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 11:36 AM on October 10, 2007

Happy happy birthday! Hope you are doing something awesome!!
posted by ugf at 11:41 AM on October 10, 2007

Checking #1's flickr feed, it looks like he finally got to go to Iceland. (Nice ice floes pics!) Hope you're having a splendid trip and a nifty natal anniversary, Matt!
posted by Lynsey at 12:02 PM on October 10, 2007

I was thinking of having a large gray dildo made up with "BANHAMMER" stamped on it for Matt's birthday. But, you know, I didn't.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:18 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy birthday, Matt! May your next trip around the sun be half as stressful, just as long, twice as fulfilling, and thrice as joyous. Peace.
posted by carsonb at 12:22 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy Birthday, Matt! I'm one of the unbalanced, too (not until Sunday, though..then I get really freaking old).
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 12:35 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy birthday!!!
posted by IndigoRain at 12:51 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy birthday to Matt! (And to MadamM and nursegracer, and me - I'm another 10/10-er.)
posted by yarrow at 1:24 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy birthday, #1! I hope you're off somewhere celebrating, not reading this.
posted by Elsa at 1:40 PM on October 10, 2007

Iceland Iceland, baby!
posted by klausness at 3:41 PM on October 10, 2007

Cheers mathowie!!!!!!!!!
posted by snsranch at 4:17 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy Birthday Matt!
posted by sueinnyc at 4:32 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy Birthday, Matt!

(I hope your hangover isn't too terrible tomorrow.)
posted by gummi at 4:42 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy Birthday, Mr. Haughey!
posted by jason's_planet at 6:34 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy b-day, bud - take it easy :) If you are in new zealand sometime, let me buy you a beer :D
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 7:48 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy birthday #1!
posted by Quietgal at 7:56 PM on October 10, 2007

happy birthday, matt.
posted by heeeraldo at 8:11 PM on October 10, 2007

Yeah, yeah, happy birthday or whatever.
posted by dg at 8:33 PM on October 10, 2007

.
posted by zardoz at 9:21 PM on October 10, 2007

Oh man, I just can't wait to see him pop in and post:

Happy Birthday, Matt!

And no one would even notice it was him.
posted by bkudria at 11:37 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy birthday, Math Owie!
posted by juv3nal at 3:34 AM on October 11, 2007

Happy Birthday Mr, nice to finally meet you in London too. Legend.
posted by triv at 2:06 PM on October 11, 2007