Help with speech ideas for my wife's 40th b-day

JK_LivinJK_Livin Posts: 7,365
edited November 2011 in All Encompassing Trip
I'll need to make a brief speech for her so I was just looking for some ideas, jokes. Whatcha got?
Alright, alright, alright!
Tom O.
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
-The Writer
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  • Start w/ something like this: It is widely regarded as one of the most romantic letters ever written. A letter from Sullivan Ballou, to his wife Sarah, during the Civil War. The soldier was killed a week after writing it, ant the First Battle of Bull Run.

    "Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly on with all these chains to the battlefield.

    The memories of the blissful moments I have spent with you come creeping over me, and I feel most gratified to God and to you that I have enjoyed them so long. And hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years, when God willing, we might still have lived and loved together, and seen our sons grow up to honorable manhood around us.

    I have, I know, but few and small claims upon Divine Providence, but something whispers to me -- perhaps it is the wafted prayer of my little Edgar -- that I shall return to my loved ones unharmed. If I do not, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you, and when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name.

    Forgive my many faults, and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless and foolish I have oftentimes been!

    How gladly would I wash out with my tears every little spot upon your happiness, and struggle with all the misfortune of this world, to shield you and my children from harm. But I cannot. I must watch you from the spirit land and hover near you, while you buffet the storms with your precious little freight, and wait with sad patience till we meet to part no more.

    But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night -- amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours -- always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.

    Sarah, do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again."



    Maybe a bit of an overkill for a birthday... Good Luck!
  • rick1zoo2rick1zoo2 Posts: 12,632
    Four score and seven years ago......
  • 29 is such a memorable and important age for a woman...
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  • JK_LivinJK_Livin Posts: 7,365
    Thanks, I think?
    Alright, alright, alright!
    Tom O.
    "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
    -The Writer
  • "Here's a list of things older than my wife"

    "Dirt"

    "Time"

    ".........I'll get back to you on this one".
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