FOUR is an obligatory birthday post.
Thousands of years ago, birthdays were considered a time when bad spirits would rise out of the dead and try to bite your head off in an attempt to take back the life that was so long ago granted. It was believed that the only way to keep the bad spirits away was to have friends and family members gather around the individual in question, and that their good wishes and present-giving would keep the bad things in life at bay.
The way a birthday is celebrated varies from location to location, culture to culture, person to person. It is customary to treat people specially on their birthdays, or to have parties thrown in their honor. Most commonly, the person celebrating receives gifts. These gifts are again different from person to person. Some people receive nipple protectors, or hair-bleach, or Do-It-Yourself Bondage Kits, or Hair-B-Gone spray, or the Prince of Tennis Second Season Soundtrack, or AK-47s, or tubs of Tabasco sauce, or many cases of mayo.
Note how this group of "Some People" does not include the Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi, Hijikata Toshirou. Of course, Hijikata does not give a shit that he did not receive any of the typical items in celebration of his "special day"; rather, it is the items that he did receive that cause him trepidation:
LIST OF CRAP HIJIKATA RECEIVED FOR HIS BIRTHDAY
If anyone asks, I'll be in my room banging my head against the the latest issue of Sparkly Diet Girl!Bakaouji.
The way a birthday is celebrated varies from location to location, culture to culture, person to person. It is customary to treat people specially on their birthdays, or to have parties thrown in their honor. Most commonly, the person celebrating receives gifts. These gifts are again different from person to person. Some people receive nipple protectors, or hair-bleach, or Do-It-Yourself Bondage Kits, or Hair-B-Gone spray, or the Prince of Tennis Second Season Soundtrack, or AK-47s, or tubs of Tabasco sauce, or many cases of mayo.
Note how this group of "Some People" does not include the Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi, Hijikata Toshirou. Of course, Hijikata does not give a shit that he did not receive any of the typical items in celebration of his "special day"; rather, it is the items that he did receive that cause him trepidation:
LIST OF CRAP HIJIKATA RECEIVED FOR HIS BIRTHDAY
- 3 Rooms of Fuschia.
- 0 Rolls of Toilet Paper.
- No less than 21 Cases of Whipped Cream, supposedly in payment for a 3-Mile length of leather belt.
- 4 death threats from various subordinates.
- 11 Pipers piping. And a trombone.
- 1 Shinsengumi advisor crashing in his bed.
- 1 Kiheitai.
If anyone asks, I'll be in my room banging my head against the the latest issue of Sparkly Diet Girl!Bakaouji.