My Father and Myself.
 

Irony, I'll give you something Ironic, my dad was born on august 11th exactly one month after my own birthday. I love my dad. And now that I'm an adult, I have to deal with being the worst army brat ever. I can't believe it never hit me before. I am "The Army Brat". All this God Smack and Poetry is all just an illusion. Although the God Smack is my best attempt to do the right thing. The Poetry is an illusion of the real me. An Army Brat Born to carry the cross of ugliness. So the way I see it now, is that.. I'm truly free from the devils dominion. Yea we might have to stomp out the remnants, but really I haven't done anything wrong except hope that a "dreaming demention" will be my savior. If anyone has any ideas as to how I should turn form this evil coarse of pretend rules I'd really like to know.

The boy was born on 8/11 also. At 8pm, weighing 8lbs 11oz.

you bitch! my boy was born on 9/11 at 9:11am and weighed 9lb11oz until he was evaporated by irony monsters....

how can your dad be born a month after you, JBK? Are you Greek Gods or something? They had relationships all screwed up like that.

about 25 years apart... I kinda of figured that was a given...

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Actually, my son was born on 9/11...but he was 8 lbs and 10 oz. Oh and he didn't evaporate. I have to find that thread perth started sometime.

Ironically, I was born on 1/7. But Americans write it 7/1.
Thats a whole seven months earlier!

I didn't know that. How is that written in a letter?

When using digits for my date of birth I will write 01/07/72. If asked it (for official purposes) I'll say first of the seventh seventy two.

If I was writing the date at the top of a letter, today I'd write 10 July 2010. Some people would still write 10th July 2010, but that seems to be on the wane. I have to reverse Cellar dates in my head.

Mobile phones give the option to change the format of dates. Oddly enough, the digital clock in this room has the option to switch to 24 hour format, but the date appears in American - it's confused me more than once. It shows 7/10 Sat. Which for us would be October!

I suppose that's olde English style then or original, ya know from way back. It's kinda cool. ;)

Of course we American's had so update and renew. We just can't leave anything well enough alone.

It probably is somewhat discombobulating to see a format that is totally different from the norm.

Sometimes it's actually the American way which is the original.
Things crossed the Atlantic and stayed the same, whereas fashions changed over here. Some "Americanisms" people affect to despise are in fact English words which fell out of favour. Garbage for example, or fall instead of Autumn.

ah

I like like the word autumn and use it instead of fall.

the date thing drives me fucking nuts. Even 10 years in, I have to stop and think. British way is logical -list from smallest unit to largest -or least important to most important. Merkin way is nuts. It's like putting the units column between the tens and the hundreds.

The trouble I have is coming to the Cellar so often. When I go to other forums I automatically start "translating" the dates. Given that the other forums are almost all British, it confuses me all over again.

At least you're fully immersed.
But yeah, it is nuts.

No no no, it's you Brits that are nuts. :lol: