Valentine's Day 2009

[DeeDee]

So, what do you have planned for this year?

DeeDee

[indy]

Planned??? I always thought it was a last-minute holiday!:bluv:

[YardDog]

You mean I actually have to put some thought into this holiday? I actually was planning the weekend, now you tell me it is also V.D.? Man, there goes watching the races at Daytona, and now to do something with the wifey poo.

This must be a holiday created by women for women, when is the holiday for men created by men?

[HMC-FMF-PJ]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1711098,00.html
Valentine's Day: Forget it!
By Nancy Gibbs, TIME Magazine, Feb. 07, 2008

[HMC-FMF-PJ]

This must be a holiday created by women for women,

"For this we can thank Esther Howland, an entrepreneurial 1847 Mount Holyoke grad, whose father owned a stationery store and who came up with the idea of mass-producing valentines. The Mother of the Valentine never married but did get very rich, racking up annual sales equivalent to more than $2 million today."

[indy]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1711098,00.html
Valentine's Day: Forget it!
By Nancy Gibbs, TIME Magazine, Feb. 07, 2008

Interesting read, Chief...I particularly like the 'social expression industry' comment...

[TristaC]

*sigh* men and their opinions....valentine's is a special day for women. it makes us feel loved!!!!!

[bacsi68]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3478/3276478315_284e9e3f40.jpg?v=0Here Here I am Valentines Day 1968 on Hill 881S....Let's prepare for this most romantic of all holidays...my Check List:

1. Send a Valentines Day Card to my sweetie back in the WORLD.....no place to buy a card! I can draw one....but by the time it gets off the Hill with FREE in the corner...by the time she recieves it it will probably be the 4th of July.

2. I will put on my Best Clothes....wait, these are the same clothes I have been in for nearly a month now!

3. Get a hair cut and a shave.....no barber and no water to shave with...well maybe she will accept me as a "HIPPEE"

4. Prepare a fine feast by candle light
.....got a P-38 to make a stove and open that can of beef steak, with a side of crackers and cheese? Eating by candle light or the light of the moon at 3,000ft and above the sea of clouds below is no problem,

5. A Valentines Day Kiss.....what no gals on the hill that we know of....and I ain't kissing any Marines...though I truly love em' all.

Well, Valentines Day was just another day with fireworks provided all day and night by the NVA....they were not invited to my party!

My gal did not know what she missed that day in 1968....I will never forget.

"DOC" Dave

[HMC-FMF-PJ]

*sigh* men and their opinions....valentine's is a special day for women. it makes us feel loved!!!!!

The TIME article was written by a woman. Read the article.

"For this we can thank Esther Howland, an entrepreneurial 1847 Mount Holyoke grad, whose father owned a stationery store and who came up with the idea of mass-producing valentines. The Mother of the Valentine never married but did get very rich, racking up annual sales equivalent to more than $2 million today."

"For many of us, though, Valentine's Day only pretends to celebrate what we like about love while actually undermining it. True romance comes unscheduled, unruly, "a madness most discreet," quoth Romeo. ..... Its expression is the very opposite of the fretful, "pre-order now, or be left with drugstore chocolates" connivances that (Valentine's Day) promotes."

There's nothing wrong, of course, with delighting in love and honoring friendship and stopping in the bleak midwinter to tickle the people we love. But it's also a good sign of psychosocial health if the day just saunters by and winks, and you feel no need to pay attention. The minute it feels like a duty, it has lost its purpose. "Love sought is good," Shakespeare observed, "but given unsought is better."


My Opinion: The person who "expects" something for Valentine's Day or becomes upset when the "wrong" gift is given, is the person who is in the wrong and that is the person who is NOT acting out of love.

While I regularly boycott Hallmark Holidays, spur of the moment romantic thoughts are much more important and meaningful. Like stopping to press flowers I picked at Saddam's palace in early 2003. I am pretty sure I am right because she still has that letter and those flowers...

[YardDog]

ROFL at Doc Dave.....nice reflection of 1968!