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Valentines Day is Hallmark's way to sell LOTS of greeting cards....

It may not be a Dick Clark holiday, but its totally commercialized.

happeningfish wrote:I ended up giving him brownies and sexual favours! Best of both worlds!

(Alan - I look like Jen who?)

you took my advice.....sweet!

ausome

You see, the roman emperor Cladius wanted to go to war. So he wanted a kick ass huge army. But all the married men would rather stay home with their wives then go out and get killed. So to counter this, Cladius banned marriage.

St. Valentine was a priest who helped marry people in secret. When he finally got caught and sentanced to death, he spent a lot of time before his execution with the jailers daughter. On the last day of his life he left her a note that ended with the phrase "from your Valentine" which is why we use the "be my valentine" expression. They killed him on Feb 14.

So, really, it's not a hallmark holiday at all.

doug wrote:You see, the roman emperor Cladius wanted to go to war. So he wanted a kick ass huge army. But all the married men would rather stay home with their wives then go out and get killed. So to counter this, Cladius banned marriage.

St. Valentine was a priest who helped marry people in secret. When he finally got caught and sentanced to death, he spent a lot of time before his execution with the jailers daughter. On the last day of his life he left her a note that ended with the phrase "from your Valentine" which is why we use the "be my valentine" expression. They killed him on Feb 14.

So, really, it's not a hallmark holiday at all.

Only YOU would actually take the time to tell me that

it's cause he's full of intesting stuff like that,

like this one time i cut him open and found Clodhoppers! and three Hotwheels cars!!!