(February 10, 2012 at 11:22 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: whateverist, please, I'm alone and naked here, and that will lead me down a primrose path to nowhere good.

Oh but don't I know. Still, what a trip hey? The Dracunculus flower's center stamen-thingy is more than two feet long (but not as big around as me, hah!) Of course it does smell exactly like a dead rat when it blooms so a picture beats the real experience. I generally smell better.

As Passover proves, sometimes the best holidays are built on bullshit.

(February 10, 2012 at 11:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Actually, St Valentine's Day seems to be as phony as everything else associated with xtianity.

Quote:Historian Jack Oruch has made the case that the traditions associated with "Valentine's Day", documented in Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Foules and set in the fictional context of an old tradition, had no such tradition before Chaucer.[20] He argues that the speculative explanation of sentimental customs, posing as historical fact, had their origins among 18th-century antiquaries, notably Alban Butler, the author of Butler's Lives of Saints, and have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars. In the French 14th-century manuscript illumination from a Vies des Saints (illustration above), Saint Valentine, bishop of Terni, oversees the construction of his basilica at Terni; there is no suggestion here yet that the bishop was a patron of lovers

All absolutely true Min... I like to think that the whole "Lovers" thingy is a hark back to the end of winter (but still too early for spring) that was celebrated at Imbolc (?)

For me though..I really don't need an Historical reason to mark the 14th February as something special. Here it is almost the end of the "Fire Season" and the beginning of a time when the temperature is cool enough to 'knoodle' with out breaking into a sweat.

I also read somewhere:

Invert a Valentine's heart,and you get---a vulva.

(February 10, 2012 at 10:34 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Spent 30 years of being single...so now that I am not, I am going to get as much romance as I can!!

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Kichi and I met on the 7th, Valentines day was on the 14th and I told my ex-wife I wanted a divorce and moved out on the 16th.
That was 7 years ago.

How more romantic than that can you get?

(February 11, 2012 at 7:13 am)Zen Badger Wrote:

(February 10, 2012 at 10:34 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Spent 30 years of being single...so now that I am not, I am going to get as much romance as I can!!

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Kichi and I met on the 7th, Valentines day was on the 14th and I told my ex-wife I wanted a divorce and moved out on the 16th.
That was 7 years ago.

How more romantic than that can you get?

You too know eachother?

(February 11, 2012 at 12:06 am)whateverist Wrote: Oh but don't I know. Still, what a trip hey? The Dracunculus flower's center stamen-thingy is more than two feet long (but not as big around as me, hah!) Of course it does smell exactly like a dead rat when it blooms so a picture beats the real experience. I generally smell better.

Yeah, but that didn't stop me from seriously considering getting one. I had an ID sheet filled out and everything in my "consideration" notebook I started.

(February 11, 2012 at 8:01 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: You too know eachother?

Mehmet, you really are the king of obvious.

(February 10, 2012 at 11:22 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: whateverist, please, I'm alone and naked here, and that will lead me down a primrose path to nowhere good.

Why isn't your king pollinating your stigma when you get like this?

Because I'm essentially in the same boat as you, my heart.

Can't you floral types use an intermediary agent for the fertilization?