Happy Birthday Anthony

[biggiy05]

Happy birthday Corporal.

Hope you have a good one.

[Darth Marsden]

This brings to mind a scene from Monty Python's Meaning of Life...


SOLDIERS: Look out! [Explosion]
ANTHONY: Okay. Biggiy and Shadowblazer, you take the buggers on the left flank. Darth and I... [Gunshots ring past] ...will go for the gunpost.
SHADOWBLAZER: Right, sir.
BIGGIY: Oh, hang on a tick, sir.
SHADOWBLAZER: Yeah.
BIGGIY: You'll never make it, sir. Let us come with you.
ANTHONY: Do as you're told, man.
BIGGIY: Right-o, skipper. [Explosion] Oh, sir. Sir,... I-- if we-- we don't meet again, sir, I'd just like to say it's been a-- it's been a real privilege fighting alongside you, sir.
ANTHONY: Yes, well,...
SHADOWBLAZER: Yeah.
ANTHONY: ...I think this is... [Explosion] ...hardly the time or place for a good-bye speech, eh? Hah.
BIGGIY: No. No, me and the lads realise this, sir, but, well... we may never meet again, sir, so,... I--
ANTHONY: Yes, all-- all-- all right, Biggiy. Thanks a lot.
BIGGIY: No, eh, just a moment, sir.
SHADOWBLAZER: Duck! [All duck, gunshots fire above]
BIGGIY: You see... me and the lads, we've had a little whip-around, sir. [Explosion] We bought you something, sir.
SHADOWBLAZER: Yeah.
BIGGIY: We bought you this, sir. [Produces a small mantlepiece-sized clock]
ANTHONY:Oh. Well, I-- I don't know what to say. [Explosion] It's a-- it's-- it's a lovely thought. [Another explosion] Thank you. Uh, thank you all,...
SHADOWBLAZER: All right, sir.
ANTHONY: ...but--
DARTH: You're welcome. [Gunshots]
ANTHONY: But I-- I-- I-- I think we'd better get to cover now. [Explosion]
BIGGIY: Hang on a tick, sir. We got something else for you as well, sir.
DARTH: Aah, yeah. [Produces a large clock]
BIGGIY: Sorry it's another clock, sir... only there was a bit of a mix-up. Well, Darth thought he was buying the present, and me and the lads back at camp had already got the other one.
ANTHONY: Well, it's-- it's beautiful. [Bullets wizz past] They're both beautiful. [More bullets. Darth gets clipped in the arm]
DARTH: Augh!
ANTHONY: I-- I think we'd better get to cover now,...
BIGGIY: Oh, sir, and Corp--
ANTHONY: ...and I'll thank you properly later on.
SHADOWBLAZER: Uhh. Yeah.
BIGGIY: Corporal Shadowblazer got this for you as well, sir. He didn't know about the others, sir. [Produces a watch] It's Swiss.
ANTHONY: Oh, well, now, that is thoughtful, Shadowblazer. Good man. [Explosion]
BIGGIY: And there's a card, sir,... from all of us. Sorry about the blood, sir.
ANTHONY: Thank you all.
BIGGIY: Squad... three cheers for Captain Biggs. Hip hip--
SOLDIERS: Hooray!
BIGGIY: Hip hip--
SOLDIERS: Hooray!
BIGGIY: Hip hip-- [Shots flie past, one hits Biggiy in the chest] Oooooh!
SOLDIERS: Hooray!
ANTHONY: Biggiy! Biggiy!
BIGGIY: I-- I'll be all right, sir. Oh, there's just... one other thing, sir. Shadowblazer, give him the cheque.
SHADOWBLAZER: Oh, yeah. Uhh.
BIGGS: Oh, now, this is really going too far.
SHADOWBLAZER: Oh. I don't seem to be able to find it, sir. Uhh, it'll be in-- be in Number Four Trench. I'll go and get it.
ANTHONY: Oh for Christ's sake, forget it, man! [Everything falls silent]
SHADOWBLAZER: ...you shouldn't have said that, sir. [Explosion] You've hurt his feelings now.
BIGGIY: Don't mind me, Shadow. Toffs is all the same. One minute it's all 'please' and 'thank you', and the next, they'll kick you in the teeth!
SHADOWBLAZER: Yeah.
ANTHONY: [Coughs]
DARTH: Let's not give him the cake.
ANTHONY: I don't want any cake.
SHADOWBLAZER: Look. Biggiy cooked it specially for you, you bastard!
DARTH: Yeah, he saved his rations for six weeks, sir.
ANTHONY: Sorry. I didn't mean to be ungrateful.
BIGGIY: I'll be all right. [He's clearly not - he passes out]
DARTH: Biggiy! Dammit, Corporal! Look at him. He worked on that cake like no one else I've ever known. [Explosion] Some nights it was so cold, we could hardly move, but Biggiy'd be out there slicing the lemons, mixing the sugar and the almonds. [Bullets zoom past] I mean, you try trying to get butter to melt at fifteen degrees below zero! There's love in that cake. This man's love... and this man's care... and this m--[More bullets. Darth catches another in the arm. So much for my l33t Half-Life skills] Aghh!
ANTHONY: Oh, my Christ!
SHADOWBLAZER: You bastard.
ANTHONY: All right! [Explosion] We will eat the cake! [Music swells up, clearly a dramatic moment] They're right. It's-- [Bullets again] It's too good a cake not to eat! Get the... plates and knives, Darth.
DARTH: Yes, sir! How many plates?
ANTHONY: Four.
WALTERS: Right-o sir. [Stands up, gets hit in the leg. I'm really not doing well, am I?] Aahh!
ANTHONY: Uh. Hmm... better make that three.
SHADOWBLAZER: Tablecloth, sir?
ANTHONY: Yes, get the tablecloth. [Shadowblazer gets up and is shot] No, no, no, no. I'll-- I'll get the tablecloth and you'd better get the gate-leg table, Darth. [Another explosion]
DARTH: Ohh, I'll try sir. Aahh! And the little mats, sir?
ANTHONY: Yes!
DARTH: Right-o.
ANTHONY: All right, while you're at it, you'd better get a doily!
DARTH: I'll bring two, sir, in case one gets scrumpled.
BIGGS: Yes, good idea!
[More explosions, etc]

If you're still with me, then happy birthday, mate.

[{DSG}DarkRaven]

Happy birthday to he who is probably the bravest guy on the forums.

[Aegix Drakan]

Whoa! Anthony's B-day!

:thumbsup: Have a great one!

[erm2003]

Happy Birthday Anthony!

[Brasel]

Thanks guys. Appreciate it. Thanks for the Monty Python thing, Darth. I haven't seen meaning of life yet, but I'll have to soon.

[ShadowTiger]

*Shares in the birthday joy, and wishes to see the whole thing now. :p * A very happy and wonderful birthday to you good Sir Anthony. Your deeds are known forum-wide, and we are grateful. ^.^

[moocow]

Happy Birthday, Tony :)

[Prrkitty]

Happy birthday sweetheart :) May you and wifey party-hearty :)
<hug>

Blessings and much goodness.

[The_Amaster]

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