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 It’s hard to surprise someone like Ross Perot.  But yesterday, it happened. 

Ebby, along with 1,000 other close friends, colleagues and family members surprised the two-time presidential candidate at Dell Services headquarters in Plano - almost three weeks before his actual 80th birthday on June 27.  Everything was going as planned and right on time for the surprise, until Mr. Perot asked to stop for yogurt on his way back to the office.  Luckily, he put his craving aside for what he thought was an important meeting with Michael Dell.

When he arrived, in addition to seeing Michael Dell (via video), he also found a cafeteria full of birthday well wishers.  Among his gifts, he was presented with a bound book of more than 1,000 birthday wishes from the likes of former President George W. Bush, Barbara Walters, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.  He also received video messages from comedians Dana Carvey and Jay Leno.

Ebby wrote a special song for the event, which she performed with her signature ukulele:

We celebrate a really great gentleman
Whose name all of us know
He never messes with Texas
His name is H. Ross Perot!

In June he’ll be a young 80
He has lots of “get up and go”
His good deeds are mighty weighty
Third verse same as the first and so …

We celebrate our favorite gentleman
Whose courage we do know
Had he been there when it happened
He might have even won the Alamo!

Mr. Perot is known for being quite the prankster, and while he is one of Ebby’s closest friends, she also had another motive for wanting to help plan his birthday surprise  - payback.  Recently, Ebby arrived home to find a 9-foot-tall-naked-lady topiary on her front porch, compliments of her good friend Ross.  The statue now resides in Ebby’s backyard (see below) and after yesterday, it’s pretty safe to say the two living legends are now even. 

To read the full report from yesterday’s birthday bash, check out the article by Cheryl Hall in today’s Dallas Morning News.