someone special is having a Birthday today and rather than giving the traditional gifts like ties, sweaters, or socks....I thought something odd
Happy Birthday
I wanted to get you something odd for your Birthday
so a trip to a Pacific Island
How are ya-"50"?
with all the crooks and turns
that life dishes out
nobody gets away
without waterfalls in paradise
hula skirts and little squirts
all arrive on time
speaking of odds and paradise
thought I would quote a few:
1) odds you'll date a supermodel
88,000 to 1 (think Marcus Schenkenberg)
2)odds of marrying royalty (if you lived in the U.K)
500-1...in the USA it's a lot higher
3) chances anyone dating is dating a millionaire
only 215-1...not bad eh....not dating?
4) odds of becoming a saint
only 20,000,000 to 1....(I think you're a little closer than that)
5) chances of having a best seller on NY times list
got your attention right?....only 220-1...you can do it
6) odds of becoming president
and you'd do better at it than any I've seen 10,000,000 -1
And there are bad things you may never have to worry about
7) being struck by lightning
87,000 to one...
8)being possessed by Satan 7,000 to 1
unless Iran is right and America is the "Great Satan"
then It's too late...you're already here
9)destruction of the universe
10 to the 100th power to 1
After giving you all these odds
don't you feel better...now?
how about one more odd
the biggest odd of all
"
me"
ok...no kidding
odds of you having a GREAT BIRTHDAY
ALL THE BEST ODDS
Now I see why most people don't live to be even a hundred. It's just too danged much work, jumping that '50' hurdle twice in a single lifetime. Out of all these odds, I think I'll obsess about being struck by lightning. Because it's happened to people nearby and seems like something could really occur (albeit perhaps with the help of a little bit of natural selection, that culler of darwin award candidates). The odds of my dying in a small plane crash, however, have just risen momentously and precipitously. But what a gracious salute this is. Although I only hope myself to see 50 one time this time around (not twice). :)