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Happy birthday, Mike!

October 11th, 2008 by Bill Corbett · 99 Comments

It’s Michael J. Nelson’s birthday today, October 11. It’s also the birthday of Daryl Hall, of “and Oates” fame.

But let’s concentrate on Mike for now. Please wish him a happy, bacon-y birthday below.

DarylHall MICHAEL J. NELSON

Happy birthday, Daryl! [EDIT: should be "Mike"]

[EDIT again, sorry:

Mike Nelson
DARYL J. NELSON]

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99 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Sam on Oct 11, 2008 at 11:03 am

    Happy birthday Mike! Have a good one.

  • 2 ZB on Oct 11, 2008 at 11:06 am

    Look at him. So happy and brown and happy to be brown.

    Oh, and happy birthday!

  • 3 RemmieBarrow on Oct 11, 2008 at 11:15 am

    (So happy and brown and happy to be brown.)

    Just like Bacon.

  • 4 OmegaRowsdower on Oct 11, 2008 at 11:17 am

    I’m eating a baconator in celebration,

    Happy B-day

  • 5 Brian O. on Oct 11, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Happy Birfday Mike!

  • 6 Alexandra Lynn on Oct 11, 2008 at 11:20 am

    Happy Birthday!

  • 7 MikeP on Oct 11, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Holland Oats is a nutritional part of this Dutch breakfast.

    Happy birthday, Mike!

  • 8 Veronica on Oct 11, 2008 at 11:35 am

    Libra! You’re part of a ‘balanced’ breakfast… har har..

    I’ll leave comedy to you..

    Happy Birfday!

  • 9 unityofeffect on Oct 11, 2008 at 11:41 am

    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

    Happy Birthday Mike!

  • 10 SHSOBA on Oct 11, 2008 at 11:45 am

    Happy Birthday Mike!!!!!! I hope you have a nice one!!!!

  • 11 CR Tisdale on Oct 11, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    What do you get the man who Riffs everything?

    Happy Birthday, Mike! However old you are today, I swear you don’t look a day over 5 years less than that.

  • 12 Vicky on Oct 11, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    Happy Birthday Mike! :)

  • 13 Racer™ on Oct 11, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    Congratulations Mr Nelson.

    Cheers from Denmark!

  • 14 Rob on Oct 11, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    Happy Birthday, Mike!!!

  • 15 Lucie on Oct 11, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Happy Birthday Mike! :-)

  • 16 MST3Kelly on Oct 11, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    a Viking prince, a noble heart,
    brought sparkling riffs from frozen North, now domiciled in the sun-kissed South
    still spinning, with steadfast chums, the magic of mirth.
    laughter tumbles walls of sadness round the lonely heart; unites both ceo and serf.
    it vanquishes the gloom
    of life’s daily toil.

    humour is the unstoppable force.
    makes nuns blanch; stops the goon in his tracks-
    shatters botox’ed egos;
    exposes the soulless lies
    of ‘art’ gone stinking bad
    upon conference tables in
    cold monoliths.

    laughter, the magic singing sword
    the crackling flame, the sweetest morsel,
    a help to those who darkness haunts. and keeps alight,
    for one more day,
    the precious glow from the human heart upon the third planet, adrift in cold space, tween uncaring stars.

    and so, Mike Nelson, Happy Birthday!
    may you receive the gifts of health, security and joy; for you have given so many a reason to smile, this day.

  • 17 Darth Chimay on Oct 11, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    Question: Where do I send the monkey to deliver the birthday spankings?

    Happy Day of Your Birth! Congratulations on being born!!!

  • 18 Bill Corbett on Oct 11, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    “So happy and brown and happy to be brown.”

    Mike was simply trying to ascertain what brown could do for him.

  • 19 Benjamin on Oct 11, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    Happy birthday Mike!

  • 20 justhesh on Oct 11, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    Happy birthday, Mike! Tell Oates I said “hey”.

  • 21 Queen Shadowrama on Oct 11, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    Dearest Mike,

    If I could survive the 400 degrees that it would take to bake myself into a cake, and also manage to survive the flight to San Diego with little air, and even further manage to break out of the stale as concrete cake upon arrival, just so I could jump out and give you a pile of Baconators and gourmet cat-poop coffee as a gift….well, I would.

    Until then, a simple “Happy Birthday” will have to suffice.

    Happy Birthday!!! :-D

  • 22 Casey on Oct 11, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    I believe that he was not only showing what brown could do for him, but for others who have non-brown eyes… who usually shun away from “being brown.”

    Mike you have opened my eyes. Have a great birthday!

  • 23 Charlie W on Oct 11, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    Mike I’m sending you a birthday card made of bacon written in bacon fat in a bacon envelope. If I don’t eat it first. CRAP! I ate it! No worries Mike I have plenty of bacon and it should be there before my third heart attack!

  • 24 Steven on Oct 11, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 25 Euphoriafish on Oct 11, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    Happy birthday Mike! Hope it was a good day.

    My gift to you is an interesting video of an interesting cake I found on the internet.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xprT2IvwToA

  • 26 Eric Fell on Oct 11, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    Happy birthday, Mike!

  • 27 Bob Ward on Oct 11, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    Happy Birthday Mike! Also: happy birthday tomorrow for your chin!

  • 28 Bob Ward on Oct 11, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    Wow. Very nice. Clap, clap, clap.

  • 29 Walter on Oct 11, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Happy Birthday! Keep on Riffin!

  • 30 Enron Hubbard on Oct 11, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    Dear Mike, (clears throat)

    A Viking prince, a noble heart, brought…huh? WHAT!? Somebody else *already*…

    Well…

    Happy Birthday anyways…

  • 31 MST3Kelly on Oct 11, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    thank you, Bob Ward.
    I sent this to Mr. Nelson last year, but I don’t know if he got it. his work, and that of Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, has given me joy during a difficult year. I’m sure they all work harder than we know at bringing us such funny stuff. thank goodness for the sweet gift of laughter!

  • 32 MST3Kelly on Oct 11, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    Mr. Hubbard: I confess. I peeked in your hard drive.
    the check’s in the mail.

  • 33 Michael Corley on Oct 11, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    To the man who helped me meet my wife (though you never knew it). Happy Birthday!

  • 34 Erik @ RiffTrax on Oct 11, 2008 at 4:15 pm

    Happy birthday, Daryl!

  • 35 RobtheBarbarian on Oct 11, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    There are fireworks going off just over the hill. I kid you not.

  • 36 RVR II on Oct 11, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    Hey! Tell Mike to post his Birfday on the forum calendar so I can create a proper Birfda thread next year!

    Oh yeah, Happy B-day der Mikey!

  • 37 Layla42 on Oct 11, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    Happy Birthday Mike! Here’s to another day that’s hopefully clown-free!

  • 38 RoninFox on Oct 11, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    I tried to make a bacon birthday cake for you…

    You really don’t want any more details than that.

    In fact I wish I could forget them.

    The horror…the horror…

    Anyway, happy birthday.

  • 39 Nerf on Oct 11, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    Happy Oats, Mike!

  • 40 Bob on Oct 11, 2008 at 6:13 pm

    Thanks Mike’s Mom and Dad for, you know, getting to know one another. Without your sacrifice, we’d not have Torgo Pizza Delivery. And without that, what sort of world would it be? I say, horrible.

  • 41 bonnie on Oct 11, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    Happy Birthday! Eat(bacon), Drink(Bacon Martini) and be merry!

  • 42 Heather on Oct 11, 2008 at 7:09 pm

    Happy Birthday, Mike! But remember: the cake is a lie.

  • 43 darkchashy on Oct 11, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    Old, he’s old, he’s old, he creeps, he goes, so old ;)
    Take care Mike, thanks for the funny

  • 44 Tv Miller on Oct 11, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    Looking more like Nicholas Cage every day…happy anniversary of the day you were born!

  • 45 norgavue on Oct 11, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    Happy bertday Michael J Nelson

  • 46 Adam on Oct 11, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    Couple minutes too late, but: happy birthday, Mike.

  • 47 Onil on Oct 11, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    Happy birthday, Mike.

    And for Mr. Hall-Oates, you get this:

    Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ryl
    Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ryl
    Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ryl!

  • 48 Ninjew on Oct 11, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    Mike, in honor of your birthday, I offer you this delicious BACON BIRTHDAY CAKE!

    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/70/220141875_709f4cf51a.jpg?v=0

  • 49 Spookette on Oct 11, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    Well, it’s belated, but happy birthday Mike!

  • 50 AWD! on Oct 11, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    What a coincidence! My birthday was on the 8th!… uh… clearly it was meant to be!!! =D
    Happy Birthday Mr. J. Nelson sir!

  • 51 Rachel on Oct 11, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    Happy birthday!

  • 52 Anthony on Oct 11, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    Still the 11th out there? Happy Birthday, Mike.

    Enjoy a hat. And whiskey. If I knew how, I’d send you a bottle of my favorite whiskey. Everyone needs whiskey on their birthday, damn it.

  • 53 Suzanne on Oct 11, 2008 at 10:09 pm

    I’d say Mike is the whitest brown I’ve ever seen.

  • 54 Chris on Oct 12, 2008 at 12:58 am

    Happy Birthday Daryl! I mean, Mike…

    Yeah… it’s Mike right?

    Daryl?

    No.. no it’s Mike!

    MERRY CHRISTMAS MIKE!

  • 55 Rufus T. on Oct 12, 2008 at 5:09 am

    Merry Belated Birthday Mike. And remember that a dream is a wish your heart makes. Except when you dream about bacon. Your heart wouldn’t do that.

  • 56 Ben on Oct 12, 2008 at 7:29 am

    Wow…same birthday as John Agar…kidding.

  • 57 Queen Shadowrama on Oct 12, 2008 at 7:51 am

    Wow…that actually looks yummy.

  • 58 Thumbelina on Oct 12, 2008 at 8:17 am

    Well, I could have said something yesterday. But that would have been too predictable, so waiting until today was a CONSCIOUS STRATEGICAL DECISION.

    … But Happy Birthday, and I do mean it.

  • 59 RemmieBarrow on Oct 12, 2008 at 9:03 am

    (Looking more like Nicholas Cage every day…)

    Aw man, that’s just not right.

  • 60 R.A. Roth on Oct 12, 2008 at 9:47 am

    Happy Birthday, Mike. I left you a message on your MySpace page, but I should have come here first. The mind is the first thing to go. I know. Mine’s been absent for a few years now. It left a note on the coffee table, “Went out to get smokes, be back soon”, and that was the last I saw of it.

    Randy

  • 61 Enron Hubbard on Oct 12, 2008 at 9:48 am

    “the check’s in the mail”

    The freeze on my Wachovia account until Wells Fargo settles in makes it necessary that you submit payment via money order (which can be cashed anywhere).

    Ken Thompson regrets any inconvenience this may cause.

  • 62 Steve-O on Oct 12, 2008 at 10:02 am

    *Sigh*

    DAYS WITHOUT A MIKE NELSON BIRTHDAY: -3-6-4- 1

  • 63 doggans on Oct 12, 2008 at 10:48 am

    Happy slightly-belated birthday, Sir Nelson! Thank you for all the laughter over the years!

    I’ve been reading “Mind Over Matters” lately and giggling to myself loudly on the subway, much to the extreme discomfort of those around me. So, take heart knowing that you contributed to creeping out some Philadelphians.

  • 64 Chris D. on Oct 12, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    Happy Birthday Mike! May your forehead grow like the mighty oak.

  • 65 MST3Kelly on Oct 12, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    will you accept a case of Turtle Wax and a pallet-load of Gold Bond Powder instead of cash? or, you can have what’s behind the curtain.

  • 66 NavarezElectro on Oct 12, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    Relson? Felson?

    In your honor, I will “give George some more beans.”

    Happy belated B-day and thanks for all the happy.

  • 67 RemmieBarrow on Oct 12, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    OOOOOO…THE CURTAIN, THE CURTAIN!!!

  • 68 ms. chii on Oct 12, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    wooo!!!! mike was hot back in the day. LOL! :D

  • 69 RemmieBarrow on Oct 12, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    A day without clowns is a PERFECT DAY!

  • 70 MST3Kelly on Oct 12, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    Mr. Hubbard, you’ve won:

    a lightbulb, some string, and a picture of Eve Arden!

  • 71 Courtney on Oct 12, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Happy birthday belatedly Mike!! I hope that it was a day filled with family and magic and wonder and sunshine and roses and sparkles and booze, but mostly that last thing.

  • 72 Dames Like Her on Oct 12, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Happy yester-Birthday, Mr. Nelson! I mailed you a Peanut Buster Parfait. Enjoy!

  • 73 Nanobots on Oct 12, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    More like that Matt Damon guy in the Bourne Ultimatium.

    “Bourne”, ‘birthday”, get it?

    Sorry. I’ll go home now.

  • 74 Enron Hubbard on Oct 12, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    (Rips off crudely crafted homemade terrycloth Batman mask )

    I didn’t have much use for the Turtle Wax since the bank repossesed my car to pad Richard Fuld’s Golden Parachute, but, boy, knowing one has a pallet load of Gold Bond Powder is enough to make a fella sleep well at night.

    Thanks for the advice RemmieBarrow!
    Oh well, my Eve Arden picture will have to keep me warm ’til I can afford to pay the electricity bill and try out my snazzy new (I assume it’s new) lightbulb.

    MST3Kelly, you’re all right!

  • 75 Krud on Oct 12, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Happy belated birthday! (Not that your birthday was belated, just that my wishing of it was. Or something.)

    BTW, I was given a message to forward to you on behalf of Father Time. He says, “Very well, Mr. Nelson. You’ve won this round.” Whatever that means. (Seriously though, tell him I’m not your message service, okay?)

  • 76 Natureboy (Ken) on Oct 12, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    Bill, is this a subtle way of saying Mike’s Kiss is on your list?

  • 77 Mr. Slick on Oct 12, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    Happy Birthday Mike! May your cup runith over… with BACON!!!

  • 78 Michaela on Oct 12, 2008 at 7:06 pm

    Have a good one Mike!

    We loves ya!*

    *Almost as much as we love bacon. ;)

  • 79 bullwinkle on Oct 12, 2008 at 7:39 pm

    Hey happy birthday there, Mikeyboy!

  • 80 Dan on Oct 12, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    Happy belated birthday Mike! Think of it this way, you are younger than my parents and don’t have a slightly white beard like Kevin.

  • 81 YoohooRiffer on Oct 12, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    Oh, I hope he still reads this.

    Mike your birthday was in the paper!
    http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i230/felixddr/mjn.jpg

    I live in Winfield, Illinois and that’s scan of my local paper The Daily Herald:
    http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i230/felixddr/daily.jpg

    I think you grew up in Dupage County and I just wanted you to know that we still think of you as a local boy we’re proud of.

    Happy Birthday, Mr. Nelson!

  • 82 Kyle from Maine on Oct 12, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    I am so late with this, but happy birthday anyway!

  • 83 Derek on Oct 13, 2008 at 3:43 am

    Happy belated birthday! Here’s to many more years of unadulterated hilarity.

  • 84 Melman on Oct 13, 2008 at 5:39 am

    Congratulations, you are a year closer to death.

  • 85 Teaser on Oct 13, 2008 at 10:10 am

    Oh Mike ,You’re a rich girl……but it’s gone too far……..But it really doesn’t matter anyway…..So have a happy Birthday

  • 86 Tim S. Turner on Oct 13, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    To celebrate I’m eating a deep-fried pound of bacon covered in a tangy merangue! Happy Birthday!!

  • 87 Phil on Oct 13, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    Happy belated birthday Nelson! May your bacon always be tasty

  • 88 To_Servo_Man on Oct 13, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    I raise my bacon to you, sir.

    Happy birthday, Darryl.

  • 89 Mr. Slick on Oct 14, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    Almost

  • 90 TeeJay on Oct 14, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    Egads! I’m always late on these things.

    Sorry for my tardiness, Mike. Hope you had a superb birthday!!

    You are a blessing to this world. Where would we all be without your creativity and master-riffability?!
    :-)

    Have an awesome birthday week.

  • 91 The Tingler on Oct 15, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    Really?! It’s my birthday too! Excellent!

  • 92 The Tingler on Oct 15, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    And it’s also Sean “Young Indiana Jones” Flanery’s birthday too.

  • 93 Glyn on Oct 15, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    Yay! Another Libra like me only way funnier!
    I’m not allowed to be funny.
    I’m British!!

  • 94 Glyn on Oct 15, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    Oops! Forgot the Happy Birthday part, so Happy Birthday!

  • 95 QuackersnCheese on Oct 16, 2008 at 4:51 am

    wowy wow wow so so sorry I didn’t see this sooner, Mike. Oh well you know what they say better late than never, the best things come to those who wait, and don’t take any wooden nickels. HAPPY EXTREMELY LATE BIRTHDAY WISHES!!!!!

  • 96 Russ Rogers on Oct 16, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Happy Birthday, Mike! But more importantly, have your ever considered John Oates as a Guest Riffer? Think about it, “Mike Nelson and John Oates,” “Mike and Oates!” It’s got a nice, strangely awkward sound to it.

    Seriously, someone needs to find Oates’ number. Just like “Abbott and Costello” or “Martin and Lewis.” Hall was the straight man; Oates was the wacky one.

  • 97 Clambake on Oct 17, 2008 at 9:34 am

    Mike, hope you had a swell birthday.

    p.s. I can’t go for that, nooooo, noooooooooo. No can do.

  • 98 Invader_Quirk on Oct 18, 2008 at 11:38 am

    It’s good to see good old Mike without an enormous bobble-head for once. Happy birthday!

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