100 REASONS WHY YOUR VALENTINE IS TOTALLY THE BEST

3. is apparently ok with us just making cupcakes and watching lost and not buying each other gifts or flowers or anything

4. don't have to endure questions about relative hotness of celebrities anymore

Oh boy, this thread probably isn't good for me to keep reading.
How long until the bitterly unloved begin to protest?

5. is attached to my wrist and never complains

there are plenty of other threads for people to bitterly protest...maybe this one is better for that?BAD DATES. :(

6. Wants nothing more on V Day than to get Chinese food and rent horror movies.

But naturally detractors of the holiday would show up here, no?

I really have no business in this one, so I'll just go away...

yeah sure, detractors are welcome
i just wanted to brag about getting to have steak made for me ANY TIME I WANT. because that is the awesomest thing i have ever heard.

7. emails suggestively detailing this evening's activities

8. By the time the kids are back from Brownies, it'll be all over.

That reads wrong...

infinite supply of steak sounds...suspicious.

IT'S MADE OF PEOPLE

Yeah, steak & BJ day is March 14th

So I lied.

Yeah congrats on the steak business. That's still the best one listed so far and could really only be topped by the addition of "wrapped in bacon" (and I suppose the aformentioned BJ thing, but those are just expected on ocasion).

And for clarity's sake I'm not a detractor. Though I am bitter because I almost have a valentine.

I'm kickass at spell.

i will mark the steak and bj day on my calendar, i think i remember hearing about this last year...

9. Draws me pictures of robots in love

10. Made me 9 mix CDs for our road trip this weekend complete with some "surprises that will make (me) smile".

11. buys me jeans that fit

12. doesn't care too much about v-day

13. Now that I'm single, I can sit on the couch, drink whiskey, smoke half a pack of Camels and watch Death Race 2000.

robots in love

Huh, that's my brother's ILX screen name.

15. She will let me do 13^!

hi quincie i love you

^^^this

16. she took a 1/2day off to get w33d, rent movies, make me a feast of tapas that includes wine tasting. but doesn't want any presents or flowers and shit

He gave me a lovely diamond necklace. This was a surprise and I believe was given to make up for the lack of engagement ring that I've half-expected over the past couple of holidays. And the standard roses.

He would grill steaks tonight but I've told him I have plans for our dinner.

Then we are watching LOST.

oh yeah Lost tonight! perfect

she took a 1/2day off to get w33d, rent movies, make me a feast of tapas that includes wine tasting. but doesn't want any presents or flowers and shit

did you get that last part signed in blood?

(sorry, I am not trying to wreck Valentines Day, be happy everyone)

i know,right? maybe i should have back up gift

17. rich
18. pretty

19. we're going for the second night in a row to see this robots exhibit at the kennedy center, then going for the second night in a row to eat delicious pizza and drink dogfish head world wide stout, then we're gonna do an alt-weekly crossword puzzle on the train ride back to her place for the second night in a row

did you get that last part signed in blood?

Haha, this was our agreement too (no gifts) and I was perfectly fine with that. (He's been hinting too much lately about a Wii and I'd rather spend that kind of money on myself.)

The necklace truly surprised me given our agreement and I feel a bit bad. Some non-standard sex will probably have to happen this week.

then we're gonna do an alt-weekly crossword puzzle on the train ride back to her place for the second night in a row

If it's a B3n Taus1g puzzle, you may be disappointed with a couple of the theme fills this week.

yeah both tausigs, we did the onion one last night, and the wash city paper (which may be special to that paper?) one will be tonight

5. is attached to my wrist and never complains

-- DG, Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:26 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

you cant claim a watch as your valentine

20. Gave me socks. One has lightning bolt on it. Socks wrapped in Iron Maiden paper (which came from shoes, but still).

Plus is totally the best, which pretty much seals the deal.

Oh, I guess my "imaginary, so unable to do anything wrong, therefore perfect" isn't valid either then. (xpost)

16. she took a 1/2day off to get w33d, rent movies, make me a feast of tapas that includes wine tasting. but doesn't want any presents or flowers and shit

-- carne asada

get her a present

yea, you probably should get her something.

yeah carne dog buy her some flowers

(which may be special to that paper?)

It's syndicated, although he's been known to change up a clue or two in each market to make a local reference.

And this is the one I'm talking about: a couple of the theme fills really feel like stretches to me.

i think you guys are right.lunch time shopping run may be in order here.
damn, i suck at this stuff

jaymc stop ruining valentines day

Anyhoo, I am making coconut curry tofu for my girlfriend tonight, and then we are going to go to the local creperie for a dessert crepe and some wine. Yay.

*insert crepe joke here*

dude, back up gift. maybe a gift cert to restaurant you guys like? that way you can be low-key and say that next week dinner is on you.

21. Procured The King of Kong to watch while eating pizza and drinking beerz

21a. Change verbage "procured" to the word "borrowed", tks.

21b. anything for you, Valentine!

already this thread is gayer than the gay thread

22. Gays up the Valentine thread and I don't care <3 <3 <3

hi mr que i love you

hi peter pants much love back at you valentine!

dude i am ADDICTED to that beer i had w you guys at pizz para

http://beeradvocate.com/im/articles/658-1.jpg

no no

http://web.mit.edu/~tcarlile/www/images/blog/383wws.jpg

^ That's the stuff that tastes like coffee! I love it.

sure you're not thinking of this?

http://www.ratebeer.com/beerimages/full_size/1190.jpg

Someone remind me whether the 60-min or the 90-min IPA is the good one. I always forget. I got one and thought it was fine but not remarkable.

90 90 90 90 90 90

i guess my valentine is my cat. and she is the best because she looks at me quizzically and meows.

id say 90>120>>60>>>>>>>>>>>>>most other beers around

the chicory one is good, but not great. and the WWS def tastes like coffee

xpost to Jordan - Hmmmmm. Well that probably does too but I think the fist one does also even though it says nothing about coffee on it. There are beans on the label though so you never know. Anyway, it's good stuff.

Dogfish Head! I used to work down the street from that place back when I lived in Delaware. In a few months I'm getting married in DE so Dogfish Head is one of the 3 beers I picked out to be served at the wedding.

Are you getting married in Rehoboth Beach?

dogfish head is 90 is my favorite too ...

congrats again Al

All this talk makes me want to convince my girlfriend to go to Hopleaf after crepes, since it's just across the street.

not in Rehoboth (which is where I used to live and where my mom still lives), but about 20 minutes away from there. (xpost thanks dude)

There are a couple of Chicago thread regulars who have roots in Rehoboth.

And yeah, now that you guys mention it, I think it was the 60-min IPA that I ordered that one time.

I see Dogfish Head in Baltimore and D.C. bars fairly often but had no concept of how many people drink it much further away from Delaware.

xpost wow really? funny. who? did any of them go to Cape Henlopen HS?

Well, Kelsey (who posts as "sweet tater") grew up in Michigan, but her parents live in the Rehoboth area now, and she got married there last summer. And Facebook tells me that Jenny (who posts as "Jenny") did in fact go to Cape Henlopen, class of '90.

weird! I was class of '00, though, so I'm guessing no social sphere overlap there.

WHO ARE YOU OTHER THAN SOMEONE NAMED ALEX WHO LIVES IN BALTIMORE?

I think you graduated with some of my cousins. Note: I am not responsible for any of my cousins being assholes.

Also they are step cousins.

Note to any of my cousins: You are not assholes and steps are for staircases and I love you as if you were my own blood-related cousin.

lol

haha. ok, well my last name is Shipley, I have a brother and some cousins who also went there but only a couple years ahead of me.

Shipley sounds really familiar. My cousins are mostly M1llm@ns and one Br@dl3y.

I'm having trouble even remembering any of my teachers... Mr. C@ssidy was my favorite teacher but he got busted for possession of crack cocaine! Whoops!

mostly M1llm@ns and one Br@dl3y

doesn't ring any bells, but then, I've probably forgotten the surnames of some of my best friends back then by now. my cousins were mostly B@chers.

Nope, nothin'. I think we've established that a) we don't know each other at all; and b) the world is not actually as small as Disney songs would have us believe.

You guys know a lot of hackers!

Although LOL at people running away from Sussex County and never looking back, amirite?

The last thing I need is one of my asshole cousins vanity-googling his or her name and finding ILX and, worse yet, ME.

oh yeah, absolutely. i always had roots elsewhere and just lived there for a big chunk of my adolescence, but definitely only go back for family. really the only reason I'm getting married there is that we get to do it for free on a farmhouse that once belonged to my grandparents and it turned out to be a really nice convenient/sentimental option. (xpost haha)

Hahaha I know an @l3x M1llm@-n! but he is in c4n4d4 (can i st0p th1s y3t)

i did NOT think this thread would turn out to be about delaware

Delaware is for lovers

xp - Nobody ever does.

Oh, I just scrolled up so I have two more questions for Alex and then I will leave this thread and take my Delaware-specific conversation with me:

1. Where did you work that was near DFH?
2. Are you getting married in Milton, perchance?

23. Buys me a sweet new hoodie and raw denim jeans, plays magic: the gathering and brings a 6 pack of Stone IPA.

OMG JUST WHEN THIS THREAD WAS GETTING OK AGAIN IAN HAD TO COME AND GAY IT RIGHT BACK UP

max, rehobooth beach delaware is like the gayest place in america and that is what they were just talking about before so shut your face

1. I worked for a year or two at the Summer House, about a block up from DFH (also interviewed Steve Shelley there when one of his non-Sonic Youth bands opened for Mike Watt there when I was in high school!)
2. yes, in Milton! eerie.

(xpost yes Rehoboth is super gay, in every sense of the word)

Yeah, I know the Summer House. They were notorious for serving underage people when I was underage. Go Summer House! And I figured 20 minutes from RB, barn... had to be Milton. That's where my giant stepfamily all live.

Well, congratulations on your nuptials and your free wedding barn and not living in Sussex County any more!

haha I didn't know that (and I WORKED there underaged and never got served, damn), but I'm not surprised. the old owners were a nice rich couple, though, i think they sold it a year or two back.

Aren't there only like three cities in Delaware, anyway?

florest hooked me up! plus got some nice desserts form the bakery.

arguably, yeah. Wilmington's a city, Newark is more of a college town than a city, and Dover has an airforce base but is kind of a piddly excuse for a state capital, and down in lower slower Delaware the bigger coastal towns are all tourist traps that dramatically shrink in population in the off season.

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.

I tried to think of a way to abbreviate that, but "V Day" and "V.D." are already taken.

can't see the trees from the florest

was hoping nobody caught that

On ILX?

yea, you probably should get her something.

haha yeah, just a little something even. my friend tim here at work was asking if he should do this b/c he is making his gf dinner and everything but i said, well, you should prob also get something small, like a couple of truffles or flowers. and today i asked he was explaining the dinner-to-be and i asked him if he bought truffles and he says "i got her a four-pack of gum!" and pulls out a thing of gum. it was hard to stop laughing. i think he's getting her truffles later.

cuz he bruises easily.

i got good advice from ILX today!

i have eaten a lot of unexpected chocolate today!
and i don't even have a valentine!

the one who got away may VISIT THIS WEEKEND OMG

Pretends not to notice that after blowing my nose hundreds of times in the past 3 days, the skin around the opening of my nostrils is rubbed raw, and is now flaking off like a sunburn peeling, looking like crystallized boogers. Givers me kisses anyway.

Found my missing MIDI controller AND
Cooked me a pizza from scratch!
Valentine of mine, you are totally bad ass!

Didn't get weirded out when I demanded he buy c0nd0ms on the way home (haw)
Has bought fretless bass and insists we have a jam tonite with it
Smoked w33d and drank with me all evening quietly and then gave me lots of cuddles

I <3 him.

this thread has made me realise my valentine isn't the best.