Occasion HandbookBirthdays 12 examples

Birthday Wishes for a Friend

You have licence here that nobody else has. Use one line of it, then say something true.

Funny

  1. 1 Happy birthday. Another year of you making poor decisions confidently.
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  2. 2 Happy birthday to the person who has seen me at my worst and stayed anyway. Suspicious behaviour.
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  3. 3 Happy birthday. I have known you too long to buy you anything good.
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The true line

  1. 4 Happy birthday. You are the person I ring first and that says everything.
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  2. 5 Twenty years. Thank you for all of them. Happy birthday.
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  3. 6 Happy birthday. I would be a considerably worse person without you.
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For a long-distance friend

  1. 7 Happy birthday. Three countries and it has changed nothing.
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  2. 8 Happy birthday. Overdue a visit and I know it.
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For a newer friend

  1. 9 Happy birthday. Very glad we met.
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  2. 10 Happy birthday! Hope this year is a good one.
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If they are having a hard year

  1. 11 Happy birthday. This year has been rubbish and you have handled it well.
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  2. 12 Happy birthday. Here for all of it, as ever.
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Questions people actually ask

What do you write in a birthday card for a best friend?

Two jokes and one true sentence. Without the true sentence it reads as a joke card; with it, the jokes land.