About ESL Podcast September 25, 2007

Thank you for the well wishes!

Just a quick note to thank all of those who sent me emails and posted comments about the 15th 29th Birthday Cake anniversary of my 29th birthday. I really do appreciate it. When someone wishes you a happy birthday or congratulates you on some happy event, you can respond by saying, “Thank you for the well wishes!”

I was reminded yesterday of a funny version of the traditional Happy Birthday song that we used to sing as children. It goes:

Happy birthday to you!

You belong in a zoo.*

You look like a monkey

And smell like one too!

*zoo = a place where animals are kept for people to look at

Thankfully, no one sang that to me yesterday.

~Jeff

Reader comments (9)

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AliSeptember 26, 2007 at 2:19 am

Happy birthday to you Jeff, wish you all the best!

PS: I’d like to also express my discontent about your site. I am a Persian native and live in Iran, but your site seems likely to be closed to our country. We have to use proxies to browse your site. I hope political atmosphere and canard about our public nation will not affect your trust.

[Please see a response to the P.S. comment in a Sept. 26 blog entry.]

jose sanchezSeptember 26, 2007 at 3:01 am

Hi! from Dallas Tx…My name is Jose …I just want to say !! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!….
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!..

Eduardo ReyesSeptember 26, 2007 at 2:33 pm

Feliz Cumpleanios Jeff,

Again Have a gr8 day!!!

Saludos desde Mexico.

Ehsan HabibiSeptember 28, 2007 at 11:40 pm

Happy birthday to you Jeff, Wish you reach more than 100 years old.
And also thanks for your nice and lovable website and system of English learning.

forgive me if I send on 29th of sep.

Tashakor (Persian Dari) = Thanks

Herat – Afghanistan

hollySeptember 29, 2007 at 4:51 am

‘Wow, what a beautiful and delicious cake!
Jeff !Happy birthday to you! Give you my late but sincere wishes .
Thank you and lucy. I hope you can come to Beijing China and see the 2008 Olympic games!
Also your listeners in China may have a chance to see you,hehe!

shonSeptember 30, 2007 at 8:24 am

Wow! really? Happy birthday!
I just know your real age. hehe.
Thanks your work. It’s good to many others.
God bless you.

MohammedSeptember 30, 2007 at 10:16 am

Happy BD Jeff. Congrats on the new blog. It is a wonderful tool to keep in touch with eslpod’s listeners around the glob.
I’d like to thank you Jeff, Lucy and Adriano Galeno for the great effort you do in eslpod. I like it when Jeff says ” coming to you from the beautiful Los Angeles California” 🙂

Hi Lucy, I want to thank you for the awesome Scripts that you provide us everyday. They’re really rich in the meaning, interesting and beneficial.
Finally, I noticed something when Lucy is talking I don’t know if I’m wrong, are you a shy person?

I wish to see Dr. Lucy one day.

Mohammed
Saudi Arabia

??October 3, 2007 at 7:16 pm

I like this song. I will sing it for my kids. 🙂

cathyApril 23, 2008 at 4:46 pm

The chocolate cake looks delicious.