Thirty Years of Yoda: A Happy Birthday Thread

[Sexy Celebrity]

http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16655&stc=1&d=1407903080

The creator and admin of MovieForums.com, our master Yoda, turns 30 years old today.

http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16656&stc=1&d=1407903186

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(We can't leave Robin Williams out of the picture even here. He's everywhere right now.)

HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY, YODA!

Won't be too many of these left to have at your age.

[jiraffejustin]

Happy birthday, ya old codger.

[Austruck]

Oh, I am SO going to post some baby pictures in this thread... Hang on...

[Austruck]

Our little Yoda, with his great-grandmother (my paternal grandmother), Fannie Mae Hockenberry Au. This was in September 1984. Yoda was about four weeks old, and this was the first time she met him.
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16660&d=1407904559

[Austruck]

Here's Yoda showing his early love of baseball and sports. He's about four months old here, wearing his grandfather's Mets hat at Christmastime.

http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16661&d=1407904616

[Godoggo]

That's awesome. He has the classic baby "what the .... ?" face going on.

Happy B-Day, Yoda!

[Austruck]

More tomorrow when I am on my main computer with the PICTURES.

You know, the embarrassing ones.
:homealone:
:cage:

[Austruck]

Thanks to SC for showing me how to get those pictures full size easily (without having to throw them onto Photobucket)! Yay!

[rauldc14]

Happy birthday Chris! Glad you could make such a great place on the worldwide web.

[Guaporense]

So he matured as an adult while he was running this forum: from 17 years old (?) to 30. Happy birthday!

[mark f]

HAPPY 30!
http://www.balloonsandweights.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Star-Wars-Yoda-Happy-Birthday-You-Must-Have-18-inch-Mylar-Balloon-0.jpg?fd5ba7
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http://cdn.funcheap.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/yoda-origami1-550x309.jpg

[VFN]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PcR0pnXxL._SY300_.jpg

[Swan]

Happy birthday, geezer.

[christine]

Happy Birthday Chris! Hope you have a wonderful day

Many thanks for all the work you do keeping this site such a great place :)

Aus - that photo with your grandma is gorgeous. You must treasure that one

[Tacitus]

Happy Birthday Chris!

Don't worry, if it gets too embarrassing for you I'll temp ban your mom. ;D

[Loner]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3OwVZKdRRzE/UWyLgMo0UDI/AAAAAAAAGkA/c_9HKQWX3Eg/s1600/2LR_Idendtify_M.jpg

Well you can always take a chance in Carousel.

[The Rodent]

Happy Birthday!!


30, eh?


I remember those days... they were 2 years ago.

[Hit Girl]

Happy Birthday, Yoda!

http://www.happyholidays2014.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Happy-Birthday-to-You-Image-Card-8.jpg

[Kaplan]

Happy 30th Birthday!!!

[the samoan lawyer]

Happy Birthday Yoda

[n3wt]

Happy Birthday to our glorious leader Yoda! Happy Birthday mate! :)

[VFN]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lfViLPwDqng/UGXAbJd39cI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/zuuzObgKkzI/s1600/yoda.jpg

A picture of Yoda participating in his first Little League game. Needless to say they had to remind him of the rules and furnish him with a real bat.

[Swan]

Yoda! You have the same birthday as Hitchcock! I'm jealous.

[TONGO]

Happy birthday Chris. May your next 30 be even smoother.

[Daniel M]

Happy Birthday man :up: A pleasure to have been here for two years, with many thanks to you and all the work you do for the site :)

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

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[Skepsis93]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Here's the worst Yoda cake ever.

http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/images/coolest-yoda-birthday-cake-23-21591620.jpg

(More pics Aus! Really embarrass him. :p)

[seanc]

Happy Birthday Yoda. Great site, super friendly insightful guy. Hard to believe you were that young when you started it. I did not even have an e-mail address at that age. Thanks again for what you do and enjoy your day.

[BlueLion]

Happy birthday Yoda!

[Sedai]

And, it has finally happened...Thirty!! Man, time sure flies. When I first joined the site, Yoda was just a wee little green guy, age 19...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the best site admin on the planet!

[Sleezy]

Happy birthday, Chris! And welcome to the "third decade of life" club. ;)

Also, I'm not sure what I expected to find when I googled "Yoda birthday cake"... but these are equal parts awesome and horrifying.

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[cricket]

Happy Birthday Yoda!

[Miss Vicky]

Happy Birthday!!

[Yasashii]

Happy b-day, man!

[Austruck]

Yoda, the day he was born:
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=5118&d=1124234429
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16666&stc=1&d=1407940593

Yoda, at his first Halloween party (age 2.5 months):
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16667&stc=1&d=1407940764

Yoda, killing some defenseless Cheerios (age 1.5 years):
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16668&stc=1&d=1407940840

Yoda, in one of his earliest known nerd-geek moments:
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16669&stc=1&d=1407940972

Yoda with his loving, caring grandparents at their house in Las Vegas (age 10 years):
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16670&stc=1&d=1407941100

[Holden Pike]

http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16675&stc=1&d=1407941461
Have a great one, Fella!
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[Austruck]

Yoda and me meeting Bermuda Schwartz (Weird Al's drummer) the first time we saw Al live (Aug. 18, 1994, 20 years ago this coming Monday) (age 10):
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16672&stc=1&d=1407941351

Yoda and his brother (and me) meeting Weird Al Yankovic in 1997 (age 13):
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16671&stc=1&d=1407941320

Yoda at the Renaissance Festival, in some new threads (age 12):
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16674&stc=1&d=1407941439

Yoda driving the coolest-looking car he'll probably ever get to drive (age 15):
NOTE: This is about how old he was when he was starting MoFo.
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16673&stc=1&d=1407941402

And of course, Yoda at his own wedding to the Lovely Lady C, nearly 4 years ago (age 26):
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16677&stc=1&d=1407941950

[Yoda]

Thanks everyone. :) It's been a nice birthday already and I might celebrate by actually (gasp) going to a movie. Then, I'm going to go out and get one of these:

http://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/nUEiHmfXynPL--XdVz0jVA/348s.jpg

[Yoda]

So he matured as an adult while he was running this forum: from 17 years old (?) to 30.
Aye, close--when I officially launched the site I was still 15--a month shy of my birthday. So in another year or two I'll have been running it half my life.

He's about four months old here, wearing his grandfather's Mets hat at Christmastime.
Child abuse. Go Pirates.

[Austruck]

Thanks everyone. :) It's been a nice birthday already and I might celebrate by actually (gasp) going to a movie. Then, I'm going to go out and get one of these:

http://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/nUEiHmfXynPL--XdVz0jVA/348s.jpg

Oh, is that the Roethlisburger from the diner??

**envious**

[Yoda]

Yeah. I'm going to the one in Point Breeze, rather than the one we went to, but it's just as good there.

Can't wait. For those of you who don't know this location is a real, metal-twinkie-shaped diner. You can see the inside here (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.446946,-79.894156,3a,75y,89.5h,77.41t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s4-oV0buA1NwdhmIQnn7aVg!2e0!3e2!6m1!1e1).

https://lincolnhighwaynews.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/pa_seb_din2_5567.jpg?w=450&h=349

[WBadger]

Happy birthday Yoda!! :)

[7thson]

Happy B-day exalted green one - this is also one of my daughter's birthdays. I guess cool people are born on this date ;)

[Voigan]

"When 30 years old you are, look as good you will not."
Happy birthday Yoda!

[gbgoodies]

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[Austruck]

Yeah. I'm going to the one in Point Breeze, rather than the one we went to, but it's just as good there.

Oh, we've been to that one too. In fact, that was the FIRST one you took me to, because I was just down the street at the Crown & Covenant office that afternoon. :)

[Austruck]

Happy B-day exalted green one - this is also one of my daughter's birthdays. I guess cool people are born on this date ;)
Your daughter has more than one birthday? ;)

[The Gunslinger45]

Happy Birthday to the best Admin I have ever known!

[Cobpyth]

Happy 30th Birthday, Yoda!!!

[gandalf26]

"When 30 years old you are, look as good you will not."
Happy birthday Yoda!

Nnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! (Vader) beat me to it.


Happy birthday Yoda!!

[Yoda]

In case anyone's curious, my wife got me a graphic novel about the Great Depression (http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Man-Graphic-History-Depression-ebook/dp/B00KPVCG4M/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&keywords=the%20forgotten%20man&linkCode=ur2&qid=1407970316&sr=8-2&tag=movieforums&linkId=XKUODQZRRIR7EFTZ), and this awesome super hoodie:

http://simplyamericandotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/american-giant-hoodie.jpg?w=640

It feels really well-made; heavy, durable. It's a great gift because I buy a cheap hoodies every year or two and by the end they're really worn down. Should get a few years out of this one.

[honeykid]

http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16661&d=1407904616
This is my favourite picture. It looks like he's got a massive fat fluffy belly that someone's pulled his shirt up to expose. The expression just adds to it.
Yoda, the day he was born:
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=16666&stc=1&d=1407940593
This is just a great pic. It's like "AAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH... Everything's new and scary!!!!! I'm gonna punch the first thing that comes near me!!"

http://makeameme.org/media/created/happy-birthday-chris-318q0a.jpg
Happy 30th birthday, Yoda. :)

[Jack1]

Very happy birthday! That diner looks terrific as well.

[mrtylerdurden]

A great admin, even though he may scold me sometimes, I always know it's for the best. Anyway, happy birthday!

[Nostromo87]

Happy Birthday Jedi Master

No more training do you require. Already know you, that which you need

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[Powdered Water]

Happy Birthday, buddy.

[Citizen Rules]

Happy Triple-X...Yoda

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Sorry, it's all I could get you on such short notice.:)

[teeter_g]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd8Vd4DEeeM

Happy Birthday!! :D

[Tacitus]

This is my favourite picture. It looks like he's got a massive fat fluffy belly that someone's pulled his shirt up to expose. The expression just adds to it.

Now that you mention it...

It's baby Hitchcock, innit? :D

[Naisy]

Happy Belated Birthday to the heart of the mofo's.:D

[nebbit]

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