A Birthday cake is more than just something good to eat.
At a flamboyant young Englishman'a birthday a giant cake was wheeled into the room on a trolley. Then, as all his friends began to sing 'Happy birtday to you...' the top of the cake burst open and a beautiful girl rose from the icing holding a foaming bottle of champagne.
A Chicago gangster in the twenties did not have such benevolent friends. When the trolley was wheeled in, a man with a machine gun burst out of the cake.
But birtday cakes are not usually so extravagant. Traditionally they are iced and have candles on them - one for every year. However, there comes a time when there is either no room for the candles, or people just prefer not to count them.
'A diplomat', a fomous poet once said. 'is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.'
When it is someone's birthday, children give him the 'bumps'. He is thrown in the air and bumped on the ground, once for every year - and once for 'luck'. And his friends sing their own words to the traditional birtday song:
'Happy Birthday to you,
Squashed tomatoes and stew,
I saw a fat monkey
And I thought it was you!'
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