Once you've had 100 birthdays, any returns of the day would figure to arrive with relatively muted celebrations, if they arrive at all, but yes, there are exceptions.
For Pitt icon Herb Douglas, and by the people who love him so dearly, birthday No. 101 was staged with as much necessary hoopla as a Lawrenceville skilled nursing facility would allow.
"A lot of people came in," Herb said when I visited this week, "asking a lot of dumb-ass questions."