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that is valentines day, gutterminds. what are you giving to the one you love/like/stalk?

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Best thread title ever.

― Dan (It's A Secret! Wait Until Wednesday) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

gonnnnnhorreeaaa.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Agreed.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Um with Dan's statement.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I plan to join together in love the contents of my swollen sinuses with THIS WHOLE PACK OF BOG ROLL. Honk!

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

yeah, totally, vd.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

yes, thank you.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

An itch.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

See the Vienna thread.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

nothin'

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I sent out cards to friends. I also sent one to a boy I like, eek.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

i plan to give nothing to anyone. on the fifteenth i plan to give myself several dozen assorted chocolates, though.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:52 (twenty years ago)

a unit to go along with the car stereo I gave for Xmas.

also am cooking filet mignon and yummy heart-shaped cake.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

A bicycle lock and a tire pressure gauge. Sehr romantish! My man and I are going to a new strip club in town, check out the herpes simplex.

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1791/mri88hy.gif

― mr. inappropriate, Monday, 13 February 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

serious answer: flowers (prolly roses i guess), dinner, maybe chocolates.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

a necklace

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:58 (twenty years ago)

It all depends on whether you can still eat Love Hearts after you've written on them in felt-tip pen.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I called a felt-tip pen company a few years ago and asked. The ink is non-toxic. It's ok to eat. Phone research also proved that glitter is safe to eat, if you want to make brownies with a Special Ingredient that isn't the weeds.

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Thank you. This helps.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

*snort*

and, nothing. VD SUCKS!

― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Monday, 13 February 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

VD SUCKS!

aww...dont say that!

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Phone research also proved that glitter is safe to eat

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42814

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 February 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Phone research also proved that glitter is safe to eat

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0721051gold1.html

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 February 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

But I plan to send a picture of a flock of birds flying in a heart shape. I'm not going to add any text or anything, because she already has a boyfriend and I'm only the friend.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 February 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

I mailed my bf a book on beijing (he's going there in june, hopefully with me in tow) wrapped in a pink tea towel, a love letter & a wooden spoon. the wooden spoon had a little tag on it made from a pink bicycle playing card & said, "spoonful of love." really, i just liked the spoon.

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 13 February 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

That's fantastic. I love the spoon, too, and I haven't even seen it!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 February 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

i am not giving anything. i am hoping i receive something from a secret admirer, that i might have, but probably don't, though.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 13 February 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Anti gallery: http://fuckvday.com/gallery.html

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

I can't hear the phrase "spoonful of love" without going "ew".

― Dan (Biohazard) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

im not giving anything, fuck that, i have $8 in my bank account right now and that's two full packs of smokes

[though i did have my crush over last night for a movie. over the course of our group conversation (as a few of my housemates/mutual friends with crush were there) i not only got made fun of for girlpants, but she also talked about how she wanted some dudes who lived across the street]

fuck lamentines day

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

on a less annoyingly jaded note this really is a fantastic thread title

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

nervous, she sounds like a dick.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

mandee i think it was a lot more jokey than i took it... my friends rib me all the time, but with the way i was feeling at the time (ie just having gone to pick up one of my frat brothers for the movie and seeing the car of exgf i still have deep feelings for parked there as she's started hooking up with another one of them) (ps dont judge me for the frat thing) i just took it the wrong way.

still, i doubt she returns my affection, and i'm not super excited about spending my 20th valentines day in a row alone

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Try telling her that she can use you to perfect the technique she's gonna try out on the dudes across the street.

― Dan (Romcom Solution) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

i agree spoonful of love is corny & promotes ew-ness, but i was charmed by it & needed to tie it into the theme. just to justify, you understand.

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

(ps dont judge me for the frat thing)

haha! too late!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if I'd call the phrase "spoonful of love" "corny", per se.

― Dan (Perhaps "Semeny") Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

You could chuck in a 10cc album as well.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

nervous: i thought frat boys got laid, constantly??

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Google tells me there are a disproportionate number of recipes that call for a spoonful of love.

― Dan (Ew) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

my friend said she got me a pocket pussy for anti-valentines day. im not sure if shes joking or not. are they fun?

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Here's a hint, Phil; you put your dick in it.

― Dan (Do The Math) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

nervous doesn't look like a frat boy to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what to say to you, Dan Perry. Should the tag have read, "I heart spooning"???

By the way, I don't think you're in Mpls, but that's where I mailed "the spoonful."

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OF (or 4) XPOSTS:

djp: this is a genius answer-- but more seriously the thing that's so stupid about the whole situation is that since i started with my last girlfriend over a year ago i've completely forgotten how to flirt without being really drunk. and since i've just promised myself that i would start restricting my drinking to only 3 nights a week (instead of the 5 or 6 i was doing before) that leaves me little time! plus none of our mutual friends want to help me for some unknown reason

misery: awwww- one day i'll have posted enough to earn my ilx stripes and make it past all the anti-greek sentiment around here. or actually, i was also thinking about depledging (seriously)

mandee: apparently not :( :( :( or, i mean... all of them but me

jaymc: i'll take that as a compliment. it's a bit of a non-traditional frat anyway, i'm not a jock/ladykiller/douchebag and very few of the kids in my house are either

okay i'm done being defensive

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

my bff and i are going to eat beans and weenees, drink cheap beer, and watch nascar or wrasslin' or something like that on t.v.

i made a valentine's day card for my boss: "it's valentime for a raise!"

i'm giving it to him with a bar of green & blacks. do you think it'll work?

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

i'm giving myself a hangover

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)

jim otm

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)

wait, you're supposed to buy gifts for valentine's day?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

"it's valentime for a raise!"

Haha, I *like* this.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Also, PP OTM - do people actually buy full on presents for every hallmark holiday? To me, Val Day, Mothers/Fathers day, Easter etc are about contacting friends and loved ones as apropriate, maybe sending a card or letter, getting together and having a meal. Not buying washing machines and cars and televisions :/

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

It depends on the relationship. In my relationship, we buy gifts on Valentine's Day.

― Dan (Go Ahead And Judge Me, I Dare You) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

remember when we made valentine's day "mailboxes" to put on our desks at school? i wish we still did that.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

But Dan -- washing machines??? I think my dad gave my mom an iron for her birthday once and she cried. He didn't do THAT again.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Dan I'm not judging anyone! Gifts are fine, especially sweet caring little gifts, but seriously when its big expensive things it gives pause. Then again I dont even really go in for flowers, so what good am I to say ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

(mind you if we're talking rings/diamonds, that I can see as understandable)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Unless of course your wife has been scrubbing out those coveralls of yours over the rocks in the stream behind the house, in which case a washing machine is an incredibly thoughtful, sensitive gift option. Which, having heard a little about your wife over the years, I rather doubt.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Also, PP OTM - do people actually buy full on presents for every hallmark holiday?

I used to not do anything for v-day beyonds candy, twee stuffed animals, etc. But then I was given an iPod last year.

Now, I do gifts.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

spoonful of love dipped in melted butter

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

My wife's getting a couple of VERY nice books...

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

I sent a PURITY DAY card to someone.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

banana bread

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

and the high hard one

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

the wife's out of town carin for her dyin grandma and I'm here with our box of chocolates that she got before we left so uh... nothin. I'll have something for her when she gets back tho.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

a sachertorte and a mix-cd which i've yet to actually make.

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

I got my boi a Lindt easter bunny choc and am making us dinner.

Dunno if I'm getting anything! :/ I dont mind though :)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

My husband bought me a chocolate bar up the shops. Ha.

― She's been known to sleep on piles of dry leaves... (papa november), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

I got a red rose. I am giving a hand-made card (not hand-made by me, alas, but it's very nice.)

I never know, about VDay. I think it's better in some ways when you're NOT in a couple, when you might get anonymous cards and exciting stuff like that. When you're married there are other, better, days to be romantic on.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

I got a very tidied up living room. Hey believe me, that was a fine gift! :D

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

A book on Lord Kelvin, and tickets for Earth/Sunn0))) tonight.

In a cutesy twee way, we bought each other the same card.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

The gift of music natch

FAG: Shimura Curves Valentines Day Mascara

I can't even type that with a straight face.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

nobody has yet said head

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

That's for March 14th.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I am in bed sniffling. No one's getting anything from me but a cold.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

I thought we weren't doing vd presents, we booked a weekend away in spain instead, but I still got a big bunch of tulips at work again, which made me look stupid as everyone had asked me this morning if I was getting flowers again and I'd told them no I'd put some sense into Chris last year and he wouldn't be doing it again.

I made him some heart shaped biscuits yesterday, but they didn't come out great, and the pink icing I made wasn't great either, and he came home before I managed to finish them, so we ate some of them last night. I also made his card, but I did buy him a little bar of green and black's maya gold.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

That is very sweet. Where are you going in Spain, Vicky?

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Santander, not the first place you'd think of to go to, but we won't have that much time there, and I've read that there are some really good tapas bars.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

head.

― the kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Santander looks very pretty in my guidebook, I want to go one of these days properly (I just saw the bus station last time). Have a great time!

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I got a bag of candy and NAVY SEAL cookies from a couple of friends last night. That was nice. It was totally delivered like a MAY DAY BASKET.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

I gave my gf a CD, and a card which I made myself (actually an a4 page, I hated all the cards in the shops and I am shit at making stuff, but thought that counts etc etc). I got......nothing! She says it's in the post though so I guess that's ok.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Pleasant Plains,

Please put these (below) together. I'm looking forward to the outcome in our driveway tonight.

xxxxSS

ps: Thanks Trayce!!

wait, you're supposed to buy gifts for valentine's day?

-- Pleasant Plains /// (pleasant.plain...) (webmail), Yesterday 4:59 PM. (Pleasant Plains ///) (later)

Also, PP OTM - do people actually buy full on presents for every hallmark holiday? To me, Val Day , Mothers/Fathers day, Easter etc are about contacting friends and loved ones as apropriate, maybe sending a card or letter, getting together and having a meal. Not buying washing machines and cars and televisions :/
Trayce (spamspanker@gmail.com) (webmail), Yesterday 5:02 PM. (trayce) (later)

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, whatever happened to /del? Let me try that again:

Dear Pleasant Plains,
Please put these (below) together. I'm looking forward to the outcome in our driveway tonight.

xxxxSS

ps: Thanks Trayce!!

wait, you're supposed to buy gifts for valentine's day?

-- Pleasant Plains /// (pleasant.plain...) (webmail), Yesterday 4:59 PM. (Pleasant Plains ///) (later)

Also, PP ~~OTM~~ - do people actually buy full on presents for ~~every hallmark holiday? To me,~~ Val Day , ~~Mothers/Fathers day, Easter etc are about contacting friends and loved ones as apropriate,~~ maybe ~~sending a card or letter, getting together and having a meal. Not~~ buying ~~washing machines and~~ cars ~~and televisions :/~~
Trayce (spamspanker@gmail.com) (webmail), Yesterday 5:02 PM. (trayce) (later)

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

the foyer of my work building is crammed with flower/balloon baskets right now. more roses than ive ever seen. i had no idea. american boys are romantic!

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

New kitten. a 4, maybe 6-mo. old blue point snowshoe.
"Doctor Rofflesberger."

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

american boys are whipped into line by the 'romance' industry!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

i know! isnt it great!?!

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

New kitten. a 4, maybe 6-mo. old blue point snowshoe.
"Doctor Rofflesberger."
-- TOMBOT (hoora...) (webmail), Today 9:02 AM. (later)

omg! photos! now!

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

I am taking my sister to see Roman Holiday at the Tennessee Theater:

http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek05/tw0701/0701pw_knoxville3.jpg

We are dressing up and I am giving her a massive box of choc and and a mixed cd.

Later I am going dancing with a boy and I didn't buy him a damn thing.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm about to start baking my heart shaped cake (devil's food, with choc icing - both scratch - and strawberries btw the layers). Then I'm serving an avocado salad, cocktail shrimp (his like), steak and rolls. oh! and after just watching Martha I'm going to dip some spoons in chocolate to eat our cake and ice cream with. If I get time I'd like to make a mix cd.

yay unemploymment!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

i miss 'bold and the beautiful' and 'starting over' every single day

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

this is from when he was taken in at the shelter, we went and met him the very next day! They still have to do the "house visit" and make sure we aren't animal hoarders lying about our living conditions. But we should be able to go pick him up tomorrow.
http://www.washhumane.org/adoptpix/NYcats/randall8feb.jpg

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

He got his balls chopped off yesterday. No VD for him!

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

his pupils look blue! so do his ears! what color are his eyes?

is he snuggly or a fighter?

that black tail is killing me.

so this is like a new breed? siamese and something else?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

WHY AREN'T YOU NAMING HIM ZEUS?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

btw, i just got a raise. it totally fuxxing worked, wtf. happy vd!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00004KD24.01._PE47_.The-Lovin-Spoonful-Greatest-Hits._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

you should get rid of that 47% off sticker first

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

OMG Tombot, that cat is great! A guy I worked with had those Snowshoes, they would follow him around like dogs and had figured out how to open all the doors in their house - smart cats.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

cunnilingus

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Since my wife is Australian, I could get away with just not getting belligerant and drunk for one night, right?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

sure you can pull that off?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

a) take her to an outback steakhouse, i'm sure it will be just like home
b) give her a green bay packers jersey

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh boy, a Siamese cat.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

b) give her a green bay packers jersey encrusted with emeralds

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

You do know that I once lived in Minnesota, right?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

a peanuts ecard

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

is minnesota some kind of euphemism for rehab?

xpost

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

What an adorable kitty! I wish I was getting a cat for Valentine's day.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

It was quite teh opposite.

x-p

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Alcoholics Abundant. 12 steps to the methadone clinic.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Where "41 Shots" ain't a Bruce Springsteen song...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

i just saw a webpage print out, on the mini printer here near my desk at work, that is an english-to-spanish translation page with the words 'I am empty without you. You complete me' typed into the translation box. Oddly, no Spanish.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

We're eating at San Francisco's MAVERICK... anybody tried it? I like the name. I wonder if like Chuck Norris is the chef.

http://www.sfmaverick.com/

― andy --, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Overheard from the classic rock station's control room:

CALLER: I thought that you were going to play me a love song!
DJ: I am playing it for you right now!
CALLER: "TURN THE PAGE" AIN'T A LOVE SONG, BILL.

She's got a point.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

tell me it was the metallica version

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I gave a heart-shaped box filled with truffles from here:

http://www.kingsburychocolates.com/

(to my mom).

I received a paper valentine

(from a two-year-old).

RE: workplace deliveries of flowers. I view it as a source of workplace harrasment. I think it should be disallowed. Or, Vicky, Chris should send flowers to everyone in your office. Otherwise, it just makes everyone else feel and look bad. Birthday is bad, but not so bad, because not everyone is expecting something. But, can't flower-giving be restricted to the privacy of home? Otherwise it seems a bit showy-offy?

Or is this more sour grapes? I've never received flowers at home or at the office.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not a huge flowers at the office fan (i told him off for it last year) but I was the only one who got flowers at the office (again) and a few of my colleagues seemed more pleased about it than I did!

But I don't think it's such a big issue in our office, certainly I don't think anyone was expecting flowers, myself included. And it was very low key, mine came in a box and only a few people noticed. If I hadn't have got flowers and someone else had, it wouldn't have been a big deal for me at all. It's just not that kind of workplace.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a thin blond girl with an unpleasant facial expression struggle out through the doors of the bank at closing time carrying all these enormous bouquets with cards pinned to them, and fight to unlock her hatchback from behind the foliage. She looked cranky about the whole business, like no one who wasn't pretty could ever understood how hard it is to be beautiful on VD.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

a few of my colleagues seemed more pleased about it than I did!

I didn't mean to harp on you and Chris, particularly, Vicky--what a way to kill the Valentine's Day vibe! and I haven't even thought about this lately, except for a friend of mine at work has a birthday the day after mine, and her husband had flowers delivered to her, and yes, while you feel happy for the person, there is also part of you that knows you have to feel happy for the person.

More difficult when people you have continually receive at-office flowers (a situation I was in years ago when I worked in a 3-person office--the others were engaged/married/newly in love/blah blah blah.

I guess I just don't understand--you wouldn't necessarily send a present to the office, so why flowers? I guess it can brighten their desk and that's all well and good, but I'm going to have remain on the side of the bitter singletons on this one.

Did you see last week's American Office? Ha, I don't think you would have. Anyway, the receptionist actually is engaged, and she and her man have "decided not to do anything" and he complies, meanwhile, every five minutes a delivery guy comes with something new for her coworker. Sort of an exaggerated versiou of how it can feel to be the other side looking in.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

We're going for BBQ (Everett & Jones!) and a movie.

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you didn't like movies.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't but there are two of us in this relationship.

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

My other question: for those couples. Do you feel self-conscious when you are out and about with all the other couples doing V/DAY type things? I just have a cringing self-consciousness about this day, as a romantic holiday, that I cannot fully get into the spirit of it, even if I did want to affirm a relationship or something. It's different than Christmas--I don't have a problem running around buying my presents at the last minute and sharing in the joy of the season outside of Macy's on 34th Street where it seems like everyone is on the same page (sorry non celebrants). I do get into a bit as a kids' holiday or a friendship holiday though.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Everett & Jones!! Very sexy.

― andy --, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

It just makes me cynical. I saw a guy up the liquor store with a shit eating grin on his face buying a bottle of champagne, and I thought "You think you're going to get laid tonight don't you?".

― She's been known to sleep on piles of dry leaves... (papa november), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

That's the idea!

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Don't knock it, Andy. They have R Kelly on the jukebox.

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Everett & Jones
http://www.soulofamerica.com/images/photosca/oakland3/Everett_nJonesBBQchef.jpg

If that doesn't turn you on...you're dead.

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Is that Everett on the left?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

kiss me

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

we are going to citron in oakland. this is the last splurge of romance before we have a kid around. I guess romance like this is what gets you into that situation. so watch out, everyone!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

That will explain your tired look at Saturday night's show.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

(gave: ipod + jewellery-choker thing + a4-sized ambigram of her name I made)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.showyourlogo.com/custom-cooler/FannyPack.jpg
http://www.sas.com/offices/asiapacific/japan/images/cprofiles/gerber.jpg

Enjoy yourself, Kyle... in the meantime, a glimpse into the future.

― andy --, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

there's bbq in cali?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

This is Oakland, dude.

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone is fiercely chauvinist about their own bbq, so I won't go into rapturous song, but Oakland/Richmond/Vallejo bbq is pretty righteous. I'm sure there's some good Mexican-style bbq around, too, but I'm not so schooled on that.

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hotnsaucey.com/images/nfl/oakland_raiders_bbq.jpg

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not chauvinist about bbq, i guess i just didn't know east bay was a player

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

We like it that way.

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chowhound.com/misc/mel/pizza/spflints.jpg

Flint's was probably the greatest (a sleeping dog on a dirt floor, indifferent staff, a b&w tv on the counter) but they seem to go out of business about every 8-10 months. I don't know the current status.

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Oakland BBQ alert: Chef Edwards has been destroyed to build condos (20th & San Pablo)... don't know if he has a new location.

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

We went to the Little Chef in Dumbarton.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

had a really nice dinner at regional, this restaurant on broadway between 98th and 99th.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I gave my wife a nice pair of diamond earring studs (14K gold). Unfortunately, she did not receive the gift until 11:55 PM because I was stuck at work all evening helping to solve a crisis. Meanwhile, she had gotten us a fancy hotel room and had dinner order in for us, neither of which I really got to enjoy.

― Dan (I Hate Valentine's Day) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

aw sorry dan.

i also got big lebowski and warriors dvds. rulin'.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, no! I am very sorry to hear that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

that sucks Dan.

I have to vote in favor of flowers at the office. They're such a nice surprise. Once, many jobs ago, my co-workers had flowers sent to me for my birthday. That was nice.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

i gave my girl flowers in the office yesterday but we work at the same place.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

i was the only female on my floor who didnt receive a flower/basket/balloon delivery, but im still pro-flowers in the office. it makes everything look prettier and seems to put everyone in a good mood. There are still a bunch of red and silver balloons around today, which is nice.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

uh oh.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

oh and i got flowers, a pearlized porcelain cat, and a 3 dvd box set of americas funniest home videos - animals, kids and animals, and the best of the best.

i gave hip flask engraved with initials, shirt, true crime: nyc.

we ate pineapple pizza, drank coca cola and watched the sopranos season 2 final episode.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

pish. at $70+ a bouquet i say 'save it for AFV'. if others want to pay to decorate the office, thats peachy.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

i think that it's obvious to anyone reading this that I'm the one making out like a bandit in this relationship.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

ANIMALS BITING CROTCHES
ANIMALS ATTACKING TODDLERS

s'all im sayin'

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

You guys should star in a remake of The Thin Man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

not a big fan of hosting dinner parties.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

i have no idea what youre talking about

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

you found yourself a REAL GEM, P.P.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

she likes the silver chews

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Madchen wins.

We went to the pub and played pool (we went out for a meal first though, to a lovely proper Chinese/Thai/Japanese fusion restaurant which was brilliant - and completely unexpected in the shithole in which I reside)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

i was given PITTSBURGH PENGUIN CUFFLINKS!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I said this on TITTWIS I think but I was given a $100 gift certificate to my local yarn shop! yay!! also a very nice black and pink laptop case and roses and lillies. But yarn, yay!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

How was Maverick, Andy?

― Barnet's greatest ever pimp (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

im clear out of ideas this year

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

sex

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

caek

― Jordan, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

flowers, a special meal, sexy times, all that standard stuff. I should throw in a nice gift, though, and that part does kinda stump me.

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

oh hi, xp

― caek, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

A gay tableux between Venom and Spiderman.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

waht

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.digital-toys.com/VENOMPL.gif
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q8B16K8YL._AA280_.jpg

Specifically these spiderman and venom figures. But since it is Valentines Day, they should probably be making out.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

Venom's got the tongue for it.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

Exactly.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

this:
http://www.jinpatisserie.com/store/product.php?productid=16182&cat=251&page=1

and dinner at jar:
http://www.thejar.com/

(sorry these aren't very ironic or funny)

― get bent, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Nice, though. I am usually too jokey for my own good.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

PP had tulips delivered to my work. awwwwww! im all gooey with love now.

― Wands and wings!Little crowny things! (sunny successor), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:40 (thirteen years ago)

Gave my wife a gift certificate for a "couples massage" at a local spa. No idea when we'll be able to redeem it though, with our busy schedules and deeply-ingrained inability to let anyone else watch our kids, even for an hour.

― getting good with gulags (beachville), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:43 (thirteen years ago)

Taking my sweetie to see Martina McBride, one of her two all-time favorite singers, in concert tonight. She's never had the chance to see her before.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:50 (thirteen years ago)

I shaved off my beard for my boyfriend so I'm giving him a . . . clean surface?

― the tune is space, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:19 (thirteen years ago)

I made this
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6829783589_40a29fd4e1_b.jpg
and gingerbread with raisins and nuts

― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:22 (thirteen years ago)

Mr Veg is going to be grilling me some delicious steak for dinner, and some asparagus! ...and I am going to attempt to make semifreddo for dessert (with a kind of raspberry smoosh and some dark chocolate)

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:29 (thirteen years ago)

Gave a poem (a reworking of an old Augustine poem) only to find I received a poem, and a reworking, too, of a Sappho poem <3

― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:04 (thirteen years ago)

I got sweet treats from my New Mexican lover in the mail. I didn't get her anything! Oh well, she knows how I feel, but I sent her a gushy text message anyway.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:53 (thirteen years ago)

Handmade Valentine's day cards are the best. Nice job LL.

I had plans to be with a long-distance gf that fell through because I need to take care of business matters at be home this week. I have nothing prepared for tonight, but maybe that's for the best since unrehearsed, unscripted spontaneity is more romantic than anything contrived and preplanned.

― Lee626, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:58 (thirteen years ago)

My husband asked me to marry him. I said yes. This was years ago. How could I top that? lol

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:05 (thirteen years ago)

we're apart but had a hotel break last weekend

― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:07 (thirteen years ago)

I could use a "hotel break" right about now....

― Lee626, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:12 (thirteen years ago)

Don't tell anyone but I'm going to give flowers to whomever comes out for drinks tonight.

― one little aioli (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:13 (thirteen years ago)

Giving the next Robin Hobb book she hasn't read.(Karen has some allergies which make flowers not such a great choice).

Our best buddy/neighbor is sad this Vday so we are bringing her to dinner with us.

― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:37 (thirteen years ago)

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