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valentines day.............
Saturday, February 14, 2004 by kjay528 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
this just struck as kind of wierd but is it ok on this day to wish someone a happy V.D. day my girlfriend slapped me. I guess i deserved it so I will yake her to a great dinner to bring the smile back 
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EventHorizon
Reply #3 Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:49 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:49 PM
EventHorizon ponders the definition of 'yake'... 
kjay528
Reply #5 Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:53 PM
Reply #5 Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:53 PM
TAKE...........her to dinner. valentine day. boy, I really have to watch where my finger's land you guy's catch very thing v.d. . is that better.
. is that better.
yrag
Reply #8 Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:55 PM
....yea....that's better..
Reply #8 Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:55 PM
| you guy's catch very thing |
....yea....that's better..
DavidK
Reply #10 Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:59 PM
Reply #10 Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:59 PM
VD day is one of those DRD statements... (Department of Redundancy Department) and 'yake' must be the past tense of 'yikes'.
Happy VD to you all
And Happy VD to you tooo, David!
kjay528
Reply #13 Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:09 PM
Reply #13 Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:09 PM
yrag.........good every thing. I hope you all had a good valentine's day. hope all the rose's where red and dinner's were great, you all have a great night..... 
Ingui
Reply #16 Saturday, February 14, 2004 11:41 PM
Happy VD
Reply #16 Saturday, February 14, 2004 11:41 PM
| February 14 is Valentine's Day. Although it is celebrated as a lovers' holiday today, with the giving of candy, flowers, or other gifts between couples in love, it originated in 5th Century Rome as a tribute to St. Valentine, a Catholic bishop. For eight hundred years prior to the establishment of Valentine's Day, the Romans had practiced a pagan celebration in mid-February commemorating young men's rite of passage to the god Lupercus. The celebration featured a lottery in which young men would draw the names of teenage girls from a box. The girl assigned to each young man in that manner would be his sexual companion during the remaining year. In an effort to do away with the pagan festival, Pope Gelasius ordered a slight change in the lottery. Instead of the names of young women, the box would contain the names of saints. Both men and women were allowed to draw from the box, and the game was to emulate the ways of the saint they drew during the rest of the year. Needless to say, many of the young Roman men were not too pleased with the rule changes. Instead of the pagan god Lupercus, the Church looked for a suitable patron saint of love to take his place. They found an appropriate choice in Valentine, who, in AD 270 had been beheaded by Emperor Claudius. Claudius had determined that married men made poor soldiers. So he banned marriage from his empire. But Valentine would secretly marry young men that came to him. When Claudius found out about Valentine, he first tried to convert him to paganism. But Valentine reversed the strategy, trying instead to convert Claudius. When he failed, he was stoned and beheaded. During the days that Valentine was imprisoned, he fell in love with the blind daughter of his jailer. His love for her, and his great faith, managed to miraculously heal her from her blindness before his death. Before he was taken to his death, he signed a farewell message to her, "From your Valentine." The phrase has been used on his day ever since. Although the lottery for women had been banned by the church, the mid-February holiday in commemoration of St. Valentine was still used by Roman men to seek the affection of women. It became a tradition for the men to give the ones they admired handwritten messages of affection, containing Valentine's name. The first Valentine card grew out of this practice. The first true Valentine card was sent in 1415 by Charles, duke of Orleans, to his wife. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London at the time. Cupid, another symbol of the holiday, became associated with it because he was the son of Venus, the Roman god of love and beauty. Cupid often appears on Valentine cards. |
Happy VD
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Reply #1 Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:47 PM