Which it’s Our Birthday, Precious

By lex, on November 9th, 2010

And we are this many:

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Many of yez have jumped the gun, as it were, and congratulated us on our creeping superannuation in divers places. Which we take as a kindness, so we do.

Update: Fireworks for my birthday!

Someone launched a mysterious missile 35 miles off of the California coast last night — just west of Los Angeles and north of Catalina Island. But anyone in the military knows who did it, or what the hell the thing was, they haven’t told me yet.

“Several different offices are looking into it,” says Anthony Roake, a spokesman for Air Force Space Command. “I’m reaching blanks with the folks I’ve talked to.” U.S. Strategic Command and Air Force Global Strike Command sources are similarly stumped. NBC and CBS says they’ve had no luck with the Navy, either.

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