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Title: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Diane CBPFC on June 23, 2011, 02:53:52 AM

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TgDiddv60EU/TDjMknzk3NI/AAAAAAAAAcM/iE99Xinhu_o/s400/dsc_0210.jpg)

Hope you have a fun birthday on the beach!  8)
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Vulture on June 23, 2011, 08:21:18 AM
At last! You're the proud owner of a Freedom Pass....Happy Birthday, Roger!
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 23, 2011, 09:39:56 AM
Blinkin' flip - is it that time already?  :-\

Be right back...


Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 23, 2011, 10:08:52 AM
Happy Birthday, Roger. Hope the holiday's going well.  8)
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Bilthehut on June 23, 2011, 01:30:23 PM
Happy Birthday Roger (STICK IT TO THE MAN) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaURlRt0fsA#)

Altered Images - Happy Birthday (1981) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40K2S0-5Xo0#)
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 23, 2011, 01:57:21 PM
Ah, Clare Grogan - the real babe in Gregory's Girl!


Happy birthday, old fruit!...


Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Diane CBPFC on June 23, 2011, 04:03:35 PM
Ah, Clare Grogan - the real babe in Gregory's Girl!


Happy birthday, old fruit!...

Is that how Roger dresses to play golf?

(wonderful artwork there Tarqs!)
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: lucy on June 24, 2011, 12:01:29 AM
Happy Birthday Roger, enjoy your holiday cheers! :)
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 24, 2011, 09:14:58 AM

Is that how Roger dresses to play golf?

(wonderful artwork there Tarqs!)


Yes - that's a great caricature, Tranquil. I didn't realise Roger had the Little Bighorn nickname. Perhaps it's just a girl thing.
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 25, 2011, 08:18:05 PM
Many, many thanks everyone---with a special mention to me old mucker, Tarks. The caricature is terrific. I can't believe the time and effort you put into it (I've just found out you were in cahoots with my better half for the references) and it's much appreciated. I will be getting it printed out for a keepsake.
I had a great birthday and a great holiday. Sorry to tell all you UK residents this but I never saw a cloud in the sky all week and the average temperature was 35 degrees. Fortunately, we had a cool pool at the villa and a pubful of cold beer just along the road so I managed to combat the heat. I also managed to find an incredible book for holiday reading and I recommend it without qualification. BLUE HIGHWAYS by William Least Heat-Moon. Written in 1983, it's a non-fiction account of one man's drive around the back roads of America and the people he meets on the way. He has a glorious way with words and, at one stage, describes an old man he sees sitting on a porch in Georgia "shaking his evening paper into obedience". Well worth reading.
Okay, it's back to work tomorrow and, you know what, I don't mind at all.

Okay
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 25, 2011, 11:37:43 PM
My pleasure, Roger (and thanks again to Mrs K!). If you're going to print it out though, you'll need a high resolution image file, around 300 dpi, lossy compression as devised by the Joint Photographic Experts Group downloaded to your hard drive and connected via a universal serial bus cable... tell you what - I'll send you a print (which was the plan in any case).

Sadly, the downside of working entirely digitally these days means there is no original pen-on-paper drawing, but I promise to eat the master file once the print is made, so that it has a uniqueness all of its own. Either that, or I'll burn it onto a disk (don't worry - this is not as hazardous as it sounds) for you, and you can use it for many other purposes after that, including your own personal website, should you ever build one.  :-X

Glad you had cold beer and hot sun. No, really - I am!

And thanks to Diane and Peepsie for the kind comments.
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 26, 2011, 09:55:46 AM
Thanks, Tarks---you had me extremely worried after reading the first few lines of your post.
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Mince on June 26, 2011, 02:37:12 PM
I like how there's a clique on here that know each other's addresses. What about the rest of us? We're hardly likely to burn down visit your home unannounced.
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Diane CBPFC on June 26, 2011, 02:49:18 PM
My pleasure, Roger (and thanks again to Mrs K!). If you're going to print it out though, you'll need a high resolution image file, around 300 dpi, lossy compression as devised by the Joint Photographic Experts Group downloaded to your hard drive and connected via a universal serial bus cable... tell you what - I'll send you a print (which was the plan in any case).

Sadly, the downside of working entirely digitally these days means there is no original pen-on-paper drawing, but I promise to eat the master file once the print is made, so that it has a uniqueness all of its own. Either that, or I'll burn it onto a disk (don't worry - this is not as hazardous as it sounds) for you, and you can use it for many other purposes after that, including your own personal website, should you ever build one.  :-X

Glad you had cold beer and hot sun. No, really - I am!

And thanks to Diane and Peepsie for the kind comments.

Or you could just ask your wife to have it put on a T-shirt for you!
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Mince on June 26, 2011, 02:51:23 PM
Or you could just ask your wife to have it put on a T-shirt for you!

But then shouldn't the caricature have him wearing a t-shirt with the caricature on it?
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 26, 2011, 02:57:17 PM
At sixty, I am now too old to wear t-shirts. Perhaps I'll have it printed on my bib.
Regarding my home adress, Mincey, I'm pretty sure you have it already. I'm hurt that you forgot.
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Vulture on June 26, 2011, 04:24:44 PM
At sixty, I am now too old to wear t-shirts. Perhaps I'll have it printed on my bib.
Regarding my home adress, Mincey, I'm pretty sure you have it already. I'm hurt that you forgot.


I'm older than you and I still wear t-shirts!
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 26, 2011, 04:38:04 PM
Yeah, and when I'm as old as you, Roger, in about twenty years, I fully intend to still be wearing t-shirts, probably with cartoons on them, if I'm still able to draw.
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Rob Baker on June 26, 2011, 05:23:56 PM
Many Happy Returns, Roger - glad you had a great holiday. Was it San Raphael ? 
Brilliant caricature Tarqs!
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Diane CBPFC on June 26, 2011, 05:57:02 PM
At sixty, I am now too old to wear t-shirts. Perhaps I'll have it printed on my bib.
Regarding my home adress, Mincey, I'm pretty sure you have it already. I'm hurt that you forgot.


I'm older than you and I still wear t-shirts!

I don't think Roger was making a fashion/ageism statement - I think he just isn't young enough to get his arms in a T-shirt anymore - 40 years in the cartooning sweatshop will make your muscles atrophy.
I think a bib will look smashing Roger!
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 26, 2011, 06:10:15 PM
At sixty, I am now too old to wear t-shirts. Perhaps I'll have it printed on my bib.
Regarding my home adress, Mincey, I'm pretty sure you have it already. I'm hurt that you forgot.


I'm older than you and I still wear t-shirts!

I don't think Roger was making a fashion/ageism statement - I think he just isn't young enough to get his arms in a T-shirt anymore - 40 years in the cartooning sweatshop will make your muscles atrophy.
I think a bib will look smashing Roger!

There you have it, Vult - if you can still get into your t-shirts, you've obviously not worked hard enough over the years. Says Diane.
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Vulture on June 26, 2011, 08:23:31 PM
Nah, I just get bigger t-shirts when necessary.
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Malc on June 27, 2011, 01:51:24 AM
Welcome back, Roger, and Tarks that is a great bit of work.
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 27, 2011, 12:05:34 PM
Cheers, Malc (and Rob!). I won't pretend it was easy, but I managed to offload the rejects at a live caricature gig the other day.

Mince, not only do I have Roger's address, but I also have his post code logged into my satnav, along with the 4-digit code for the security barrier.  :\
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Bilthehut on June 27, 2011, 01:44:03 PM
What about the drawbridge?
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Joan on June 27, 2011, 02:07:14 PM
Belated Happy Birthday wishes to you, Roger! Glad to hear you had a fab holiday with lots of hot days. We're enduring the winter cold down here in Sydney - about the same temps as Edinburgh right now.

I can't produce as good a drawing as TT, but I can make some little images appear ...

(http://users.tpg.com.au/pdcs01/birthday.gif)   (http://users.tpg.com.au/pdcs01/toastmtni.gif)  (http://users.tpg.com.au/pdcs01/birthdaytoast.gif)

Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Vulture on June 27, 2011, 07:51:39 PM
What about the drawbridge?


I think he decided against a drawbridge when he realised how easy they were to rub out!
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Bilthehut on June 27, 2011, 11:15:40 PM
What about the drawbridge?

I think he decided against a drawbridge when he realised how easy they were to rub out!
Not once he's inked it in.
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Roger Kettle on July 16, 2011, 09:11:19 PM
Ah, Clare Grogan - the real babe in Gregory's Girl!


Happy birthday, old fruit!...
Tarks popped in to see me yesterday with this wonderful caricature all framed up for me. We had a coffee and a chinwag. Changed days. When Tarks and I originally knew each other, 30 odd years ago, we got together for umpteen pints and a chinwag. It was good to see the old bugger.
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Diane CBPFC on July 16, 2011, 09:50:38 PM
 :)
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Bilthehut on July 16, 2011, 11:27:33 PM
Tarks popped in to see me yesterday with this wonderful caricature all framed up for me. We had a coffee and a chinwag. Changed days. When Tarks and I originally knew each other, 30 odd years ago, we got together for umpteen pints and a chinwag. It was good to see the old bugger.

So, coffee makes you see better than umpteen pints, does it?
Title: Re: Happy 60th Birthday Roger!
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on July 17, 2011, 08:56:14 AM
Who can still drink umpteen pints of coffee at our age, Roger? Good to see you too, my friend - time flew!