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Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 2:19 am
by Dustin Stinett
Not only is it the Chief Genii's birthday today (May 16), it's a major milestone birthday: Happy 50th Richard!
Thanks for everything!
Dustin
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 2:56 am
by Mallakite
Happy Birthday Chief, may you live another 50 and more!
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:23 am
by Richard Perrin
Happy Birthday, Genii Chief! Thank you for keeping Genii Magazine alive!
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:32 am
by Glenn Farrington
Moooooo
Happy Birthday Richard!
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 4:57 am
by Gary Kosnitzky
I hope it will be a Happy 50th Birthday Richard!
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 5:39 am
by Matthew Field
Richard has been my best friend in magic, and in life, for more than 20 years. Aside from his amazing achievement with Genii Magazine, he changed the look of magic books (for the better!) single-handedly.
Happy Birthday, Richard. You don't look a day over 49.
Matt Field
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 6:49 am
by thecardman
Happy birthday, Richard! Have a great day, auld yin! :grin:
Best wishes
Peter
:)
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 6:56 am
by amp
Happy Birthday Richard !!
Have a great day !
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 7:06 am
by Joe Pecore
Happy big five-oh!
Take an hour off from working on Genii today, you earned it ;-)
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 7:18 am
by Kevin Connolly
Happy Birthday Richard. May you live another 100 years and that the last post you read be mine. ;)
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 7:47 am
by Frank Dudgeon
Oh, to be 50 again. Happy Birthday young man.
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 8:10 am
by Magic Newswire
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICHARD!
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 8:14 am
by MaxNY
Good for you! You look great, have a terrific day.
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 8:26 am
by Bill Wells
Happy Birthday Richard!!
Was that really you in white tie and tails in the last issue of Genii? I am impressed.
May the next 50 bring even greater success than the first 50.
Bill
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 8:37 am
by Gordolini
Happy Birthday Richard. Perhaps I could buy you a drink when you visit Louisville. Enjoy
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 11:24 am
by Bill McFadden
Many happy returns, RK! "Fitty" ain't so bad; there's a Swedish proverb that says one doesn't accomplish manhood until one has lived 50 years.
As if we needed additional proof that you're a mensch, you tipped a routine from the upcoming Jennings book for a young Forumite the other day. Total class!
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 11:28 am
by JimAlfredson
Happy natal day, Richard. One year closer to the grave. I'll buy you a Slurpee when next we meet. -jim
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 11:57 am
by Jim Maloney
Happy Birthday, Richard!
-Jim
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 12:02 pm
by David Prouty
Happy Birthday Richard ! Brazilian Churrasco (Fogo de Chao) if you ever make it to Houston, my treat !
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 12:08 pm
by John M. Dale
Richard,
Have a Magical Birthday!
JMD
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 1:16 pm
by Bob Farmer
I remember when I was 50 and just getting out of high school. Richard has come along so much quicker.
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 2:46 pm
by Bill Mullins
Richard shares a birthday with:
Henry Fonda (1905)
Studs Terkel (1912)
Woody Herman (1913)
Adriana Caselotti (1916) (and as a Disney fan, I'm sure Richard can tell us her claim to fame . . .)
Liberace (1919)
Harry Carey Jr. (1921)
Billy Martin (1928)
Yvonne Craig (1937)
Pierce Brosnan (1953)
Debra Winger and Olga Korbut (1952)
Tori Spelling (1973)
Adam Grace (1975)
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:11 pm
by mai-ling
Happy Day to you, Richard!
on this day that Theodore Maiman,
demonstrated the world's first laser!!
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:38 pm
by Naphtalia
and also....
The first Academy Awards presented in 1929
Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI in 1770
Annie Get Your Gun opened on Broadway in 1946
Climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest in 1975
Jan & Dean performed "Dead Man's Curve" on American Bandstand in 1964
Happy Birthday.
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:48 pm
by Richard Kaufman
The voice of ... one of the princesses. Cinderella?
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:54 pm
by Mark Phillips
Liberace eh? That clears up a lot of things. :D
Happy Birthday Richard. More shocking than your birthday is the fact that you've been in the DC area close to 20 years now! Hope you have a great day and give your wonderful family a big hug for me.
Mark
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:57 pm
by Bill Mullins
Richard Kaufman wrote:The voice of ... one of the princesses. Cinderella?
Snow White.
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 4:07 pm
by RogueMD
Mazal tov, Richard!
I always hated counting tricks anyways....
Have a great birthday!
Michael
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 4:40 pm
by Richard Kaufman
I'm not big on the Princess thing. :) I'm sure my wife is glad about that.
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 4:46 pm
by castawaydave
Happy Birthday, Richard.
"May you live to be 100,
with one extra year to repent."
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 4:49 pm
by Dick Koornwinder
Hi Richard,
Congratulations with your birthday!! Instead of sending flowers or something else I have decided to renew my subscription on Genii today. I strongly advice all readers of this forum who have not a subscription to do subscribe immediately. There is no other way to please the Kaufman family more. BTW this is my last warning.
Kind regards,
Dick Koornwinder
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 4:52 pm
by JustinRYoung
Happy birthday from the gang at iTricks, Mr. K!
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 4:59 pm
by Jim Martin
When turning 50, one is just beginning to reach the age of reason.
Studs Terkel is 96, Janet Jackson is 42, RK is 50!
Happy 50th Richard - there are lots of numbers out there after that one; may they all be a blast!
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx"
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 5:15 pm
by Michel Andenmatten
Happy birthday from Switzerland, Richard!
Michel
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 6:18 pm
by Jon Racherbaumer
My, oh, my...
We met 36 years ago and I remember saying (after looking at a few of your illustrations): "You should write and illustrate a book...or..hmmmmm...maybe put out a magazine."
Happy birthday to the Head Genie...
Many happy returns...
Onward...
JR
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 6:44 pm
by Steve Bryant
As my daughter said when she turned 8, "You're really old, Dad. I'm still just a single digit."
Happy birthday, despite smarty pants daughters.
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 6:51 pm
by flynn
Birthday Greetings from Arizona!
Flynn
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 7:44 pm
by MaxNY
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down." By T.S. Eliot
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 8:16 pm
by magicalt
Congrats on the BIG 50 Kahuna.
Re: Happy Birthday Richard Kaufman!
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 9:25 pm
by Mark Paulson
Happy Birthday, Richard. Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. I hope you have many, many more!