{"id":3539,"date":"2009-02-01T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2009-02-01T06:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T14:12:00","slug":"5th-annual-birthday-song-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3539","title":{"rendered":"5th Annual Birthday Song Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it\u2019s that time again. Time for the 5th<\/sup> annual Birthday Song Poll. This poll determines the song that the Sheriff<\/a> will sing to you on your birthday. Note that the Sheriff uses LJ as his recordbook, so you only get a song if you have your birth month and year in your LJ profile<\/a> and we\u2019re mutual friends* (so I get reminded of your birthday and you\u2019ll see the post). I have tried my best to note the answers given for previous polls as well behind the cut. If you want to change those answers (or just confirm them), feel free to vote in the poll again this year. Note that if you don’t specify a song, then the Sheriff usually sings his favorite, the Birthday Cake Polka<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Facebook Users:<\/b> I\u2019ll try and get you your song, but until Facebook can do OpenID, you can\u2019t vote in the poll (i.e., you\u2019ll need to create a Livejournal Account<\/a>, which is free, to vote). I encourage you to do so, otherwise you\u2019ll likely get The Birthday Cake Polka<\/i>. If you have both a Facebook and<\/i> a Livejournal, and<\/i> I can correlate the two account names, I\u2019ll try to get the right song to both places (hint: that means leave some connection in the comments; a link to your profile works). You can also leave an anonymous comment, but include your real name so I can tie it to your FB account.<\/p>\n

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The new songs for this year include \u201cBirthday Cake<\/a>\u201d [Cibo Matto], \u201cHappy Birthday Sweet Sixteen<\/a>\u201d [Neil Sedaka], and \u201cThe Pirate Birthday Song<\/a>\u201d [Heather Alexander]. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what was chosen in the past:<\/p>\n

\t <\/p>\n\n\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
A Very Merry Unbirthday<\/a> [Sherman\/Sherman].<\/td>\n    <\/td>\notaku_tetsuko<\/a> barelyproper<\/a>
\n\t\t\t honeywoney<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Birthday<\/a> [The Beatles].<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nnsshere<\/a> jeditigger<\/a>
\n\t\t\t ixixlix<\/a> dimensionm<\/a> cecerose<\/a>
\n\t\t\t graemeperrow<\/a> kyliebeth<\/a> rjlippincott<\/a>
\n\t\t\t stuck_in_ma<\/a>\/ Steve A.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Birthday<\/a> [Sugar Cubes]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nvenedotia<\/a> mommyathome<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Birthday Cake<\/a> [Cibo Matto]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nprofstevie<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Birthday Cake Polka<\/a> [John Rovack, 1952]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nsnippy<\/a> terpsichoros<\/a>
\n\t\t\t ext_101673<\/a> (7\/11)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Birthday Cake Polka (Gluten-Free)<\/a> [John Rovack]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\npradagirl<\/a> gf_guruilla<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Birthday Dirge<\/a> [Trad.]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nusqueba<\/a> whalejudge<\/a>
\n\t\t\t aliza250<\/a> darkfuzzyheart<\/a> sethcohen<\/a>
\n\t\t\t spunkylizard<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Birthday Massacre<\/a> [Birthday Massacre]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Birthday Song<\/a> [Golden Bough]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nklellingson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cut the Cake<\/a> [Tina Liza Jones]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nbarnabas_truman<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Happy Birthday<\/a> [Concrete Blond]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Happy Birthday<\/a> [I’m Getting My Act Together…]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Happy Birthday<\/a> [Stevie Wonder]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nelasticity<\/a> smoochie<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Happy Birthday<\/a> [Weird Al Yankovic].<\/td>\n    <\/td>\ndianec42<\/a> underpope<\/a>
\n\t\t\t dennisthetiger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Happy Birthday<\/a> [Zorba the Greek]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nkaottic97<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Happy Birthday, Ralph<\/a> [Atom and his Package]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen<\/a> [Neil Sedaka]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Happy Birthday To You<\/a> [Hill\/Smith, 1893]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\ncafemusique<\/a> groblek<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Happy Clappy Birthday<\/a> (Gwendolyn)<\/td>\n    <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Happy Happy Birthday Song<\/a> [Arrogant Worms]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\npatgund<\/a> bellwethr<\/a> mortuus<\/a>
\n\t\t\t six_gun_samurai<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hubappuby Bubirthdubay Tubo Yubou<\/a><\/td>\n    <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I’d Rather Be Dead<\/a> [Harry Nilsson]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joyeux anniversaire<\/a><\/td>\n    <\/td>\nzarchasmpgmr<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Las Mañanitas<\/a><\/td>\n    <\/td>\nbdot<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Modern Maturity<\/a> [Tom Paxton]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\ncahwyguy<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Older<\/a> [They Might Be Giants]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\ntalonvaki<\/a> fauxklore<\/a>
\n\t\t\t usqueba<\/a> miss_mimsy<\/a> estherchaya<\/a>
\n\t\t\t cecerose<\/a> dieppe<\/a> ellipticcurve<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other Happy Birthday Song<\/a> [Gardner\/Quinn]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\ngreenscar<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Pirate Birthday Song<\/a> [Heather Alexander]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30\/90<\/a> [Jonathan Larsen, from “tick… tick… Boom!”]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nshutterbug93<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This is your birthday song, it isn’t very long<\/a> [Unknown
\n\t\t\t Artist]<\/td>\n		    <\/td>\ntsgeisel<\/a> jumbach<\/a>
\n\t\t\t larymotrmn<\/a> crash_the_dog<\/a>
\n\t\t\t ailurodragon<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Unhappy Birthday<\/a> [The Smiths]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yom Huledet<\/a> [Batler\/Datz]<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nginamariewade<\/a> divasteph<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Well, it\u2019s that time again. Time for the 5th annual Birthday Song Poll. This poll determines the song that the Sheriff will sing to you on your birthday. Note that the Sheriff uses LJ as his recordbook, so you only get a song if you have your birth month and year in your LJ profile Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-lj-xfer","tag-birthday-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}