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Funny 60th birthday wishes.
What to write.

Funny 60th birthday wishes should make them laugh before it makes them feel good. Name the person, land the joke gently, and sign it.

The wishes are sorted by who is writing. Pick your group, use their name, then sign.

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Cutpaper birthday card. Happy birthday.

Sixty. You don't look it, but the knees give it away.

From Aisha

Sixty and still winning every argument. Some things never change.

From Tom

Sixty years of experience and you still fix the printer better than anyone here.

From Maya

Pick a design

  • Dinner together. Table for two, cake for one. The birthday rules.
  • A birthday present. Happy birthday. Open it before the tea cools.
  • A mug. Happy birthday to the one who knows how everyone takes their tea.
  • A party with balloons. Hold a balloon. Hold a friend. Happy birthday.
  • A sun. Happy birthday. Hope the sun comes out.
  • Half a biscuit over a mug of tea, the other half gone in, and the words one, two, three, four. Happy birthday. Try not to go soft.
  • Marker lettering. Happy birthday. I got you a card. "present" is crossed out and "card" written above it.
  • A party hat. Happy birthday. The hat is not optional.
  • A homemade cake with one candle. Happy birthday.
  • A speech bubble. Happy birthday to our favourite person in the group chat. Don't tell the others.

The question

Each writer gets a question.

One at a time, about Sam. They answer in their own words, or write without one.

Who they are to you
  1. Something Sam did this year that you still think about.
  2. Words of Sam's that you have caught yourself using.
  3. A day Sam made better just by turning up.
  4. Something Sam taught you without meaning to.
  5. A small thing about Sam that nobody else would notice.
  6. The story about Sam you tell most.
  1. The moment you knew you had a proper friend in Sam.
  2. Something Sam did that only a friend would.
  3. A thing you still laugh about together.
  4. The time Sam turned up when it mattered.
  5. Something Sam knew about you before you said it.
  1. Something Sam did for the family that went unsaid.
  2. A habit of Sam's that you have caught yourself copying.
  3. A memory of Sam from when you were younger.
  4. Something Sam put up with from you.
  5. Something Sam taught you, mostly by example.
  1. A small thing Sam did that you noticed and never mentioned.
  2. The moment you knew.
  3. Something Sam did this year that made things easier for you.
  4. A thing about Sam you would not change.
  5. Something Sam carried that was yours to carry.
  1. The thing you go to Sam for.
  2. Something you picked up from working beside Sam.
  3. A bad day at work that Sam turned round.
  4. Something a new starter should be told about Sam.
  5. Something Sam did that made the job feel worth doing.

Or write without one.

Funny 60th birthday wishes

Pick your group, use their name, and keep the joke kind.

From a close friend

  • Sixty. You don't look it, but the knees give it away.

  • Happy birthday. Three decades of knowing you and you're still the funniest person in any room.

  • Sixty years old and still the one everyone calls when something goes wrong. Congratulations.

  • You've been my favourite disaster since we met. Happy birthday, old friend.

  • Happy 60th. I'd say you haven't changed a bit, but I was there in the eighties.

From family

  • Happy 60th. We love you, we're proud of you, and we're not telling anyone your age.

  • Sixty candles on the cake and the smoke alarm still works. Happy birthday.

  • To the best sibling I have: sixty looks good on you. Better than it had any right to.

  • Happy birthday. You've been the funniest person at every family dinner for sixty years running.

  • Sixty and still winning every argument. Some things never change.

From the team

  • Happy 60th. The office isn't the same when you're on leave, which tells you everything.

  • Sixty years of experience and you still fix the printer better than anyone here.

  • Happy birthday from all of us. We clubbed together and agreed not to mention the number.

  • To the person who knows where everything is kept: happy 60th. Please never retire.

Funny

  • Sixty is just fifty with ten years of bonus material.

  • Happy birthday. The good news is sixty is the new forty. The bad news is we all know that's not true.

  • Sixty years on this earth and still no idea where you left your keys. Consistency is a virtue.

  • Happy 60th. You've earned the right to be exactly as difficult as you like.

  • Sixty. The age where you stop pretending to like loud restaurants.

Short

  • Happy 60th. Still got it.

  • Sixty. Brilliant. Congratulations.

  • Happy birthday. Worth every year.

  • Sixty looks well on you.

  • Happy 60th. We're all still here.

What to leave out

Don't make the joke about decline. Sixty is not the beginning of the end, and jokes about failing memory or falling apart land differently than you think.

Don't mention specific health complaints, even in passing. They didn't choose the dodgy hip.

A long list of 'you're old' jokes stops being funny by the third one. One good joke beats five weak ones.

Don't compare them to someone else turning sixty. This card is theirs.

One card from everyone

Friends, family, colleagues. One link, and it opens on the birthday.

  1. 01

    Add the birthday date.

    The card opens that morning and not before.

  2. 02

    Share the link.

    Everyone gets one link and writes once, in a browser. No app needed.

  3. 03

    They read it on the day.

    Every wish comes signed with a name. Sixty messages for a sixtieth is not unusual.

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Questions

What's a good funny message for a 60th birthday card?

Name one true thing about them and let the humour come from that. A joke about who they actually are beats a generic dig about getting old.

Is it okay to joke about age in a 60th birthday card?

Yes, if the joke is warm and specific. Avoid anything that sounds like a list of complaints about being sixty.

How much should you write in a funny 60th birthday card?

A short message is enough from any single person. When everyone adds one, the card fills itself.

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