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Toodygirl5 Joined Fri 10/26/12 Posts: 14463	Tue 02/06/18 03:41 PM
February 14 Is a day of celebration of your show of Love and Affection for another.

catinidaho Joined Fri 10/24/14 Posts: 10640	Tue 02/06/18 03:51 PM
Reminds me, I should send a card to my sister and her new husband.

ciretom Joined Wed 06/18/14 Posts: 4953	Wed 02/07/18 05:02 PM
February 14 Is a day of celebration of your show of Love and Affection for another. It's Cupids birthday, right? How old is he now? Like 1600 years or something? And that guy's still wearing a diaper and shooting people with arrows? I think someone might want to test him for senility or Alzheimer's or something. Although, he may already be living in retirement homes. They're always smelling like old flowers, the old people always have candy laying around, and it seems the spread of STD's continues to be a problem in those places...

greeneyes148 Joined Fri 12/25/15 Posts: 5830	Wed 02/07/18 05:13 PM
February 14 Is a day of celebration of your show of Love and Affection for another. It's Cupids birthday, right? How old is he now? Like 1600 years or something? And that guy's still wearing a diaper and shooting people with arrows? I think someone might want to test him for senility or Alzheimer's or something. Although, he may already be living in retirement homes. They're always smelling like old flowers, the old people always have candy laying around, and it seems the spread of STD's continues to be a problem in those places... STD's is Shady Oaks retirement village?.. please say it ain't so! And I actually thought they went to SLEEP at 7:30PM!

Toodygirl5 Joined Fri 10/26/12 Posts: 14463	Wed 02/07/18 06:02 PM
February 14 Is a day of celebration of your show of Love and Affection for another. It's Cupids birthday, right? How old is he now? Like 1600 years or something? And that guy's still wearing a diaper and shooting people with arrows? I think someone might want to test him for senility or Alzheimer's or something. Although, he may already be living in retirement homes. They're always smelling like old flowers, the old people always have candy laying around, and it seems the spread of STD's continues to be a problem in those places... Sad

Toodygirl5 Joined Fri 10/26/12 Posts: 14463	Wed 02/07/18 06:03 PM
Reminds me, I should send a card to my sister and her new husband. Yes, that's nice!

Toodygirl5 Joined Fri 10/26/12 Posts: 14463	Thu 02/08/18 10:57 AM
Valentine's!!!! Best time ever! :

Unknow Joined Tue 07/08/14 Posts: 1213	Thu 02/08/18 09:33 PM
I've never really had a reason to want to celebrate valentine's day.

Robxbox73 Joined Sun 12/27/15 Posts: 5302	Thu 02/08/18 09:49 PM
Well it was introduced, aww heck...here's some history!!! Roman Roots The history of Valentine's Day is obscure, and further clouded by various fanciful legends. The holiday's roots are in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February 15. Pope Gelasius I recast this pagan festival as a Christian feast day circa 496, declaring February 14 to be St. Valentine's Day. Valentines Galore Which St. Valentine this early pope intended to honor remains a mystery: according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, there were at least three early Christian saints by that name. One was a priest in Rome, another a bishop in Terni, and of a third St. Valentine almost nothing is known except that he met his end in Africa. Rather astonishingly, all three Valentines were said to have been martyred on Feb. 14. Most scholars believe that the St. Valentine of the holiday was a priest who attracted the disfavor of Roman emperor Claudius II around 270. At this stage, the factual ends and the mythic begins. According to one legend, Claudius II had prohibited marriage for young men, claiming that bachelors made better soldiers. Valentine continued to secretly perform marriage ceremonies but was eventually apprehended by the Romans and put to death. Another legend has it that Valentine, imprisoned by Claudius, fell in love with the daughter of his jailer. Before he was executed, he allegedly sent her a letter signed "from your Valentine." Probably the most plausible story surrounding St. Valentine is one not focused on Eros (passionate love) but on agape (Christian love): he was martyred for refusing to renounce his religion. In 1969, the Catholic Church revised its liturgical calendar, removing the feast days of saints whose historical origins were questionable. St. Valentine was one of the casualties. Sooooooo, is it a bussiness??? Sure it is...a romantic one. In America alone we spend 30 billion every Feb.14 to show our affection for our loved one....or ones.....hee hee...see what i did there??? It takes a shy couple and it pushes the relationship into deeper truer water, or into the realization that they should just be friends. Either way... HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!

Pranav Joined Sat 02/22/14 Posts: 9	Thu 02/08/18 11:22 PM
i hope someone is going to send you same love.

dreamerana Joined Sat 09/21/13 Posts: 21544	Thu 02/08/18 11:33 PM
February 14 Is a day of celebration of your show of Love and Affection for another. It's Cupids birthday, right? How old is he now? Like 1600 years or something? And that guy's still wearing a diaper and shooting people with arrows? I think someone might want to test him for senility or Alzheimer's or something. Although, he may already be living in retirement homes. They're always smelling like old flowers, the old people always have candy laying around, and it seems the spread of STD's continues to be a problem in those places... STD's is Shady Oaks retirement village?.. please say it ain't so! And I actually thought they went to SLEEP at 7:30PM! This cracked me up. I used to work in a retirement home. I could tell you about geriatric love triangles.

Piscesmoon02 Joined Wed 11/02/16 Posts: 56490	Fri 02/09/18 04:20 AM
Well it was introduced, aww heck...here's some history!!! Roman Roots The history of Valentine's Day is obscure, and further clouded by various fanciful legends. The holiday's roots are in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February 15. Pope Gelasius I recast this pagan festival as a Christian feast day circa 496, declaring February 14 to be St. Valentine's Day. Valentines Galore Which St. Valentine this early pope intended to honor remains a mystery: according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, there were at least three early Christian saints by that name. One was a priest in Rome, another a bishop in Terni, and of a third St. Valentine almost nothing is known except that he met his end in Africa. Rather astonishingly, all three Valentines were said to have been martyred on Feb. 14. Most scholars believe that the St. Valentine of the holiday was a priest who attracted the disfavor of Roman emperor Claudius II around 270. At this stage, the factual ends and the mythic begins. According to one legend, Claudius II had prohibited marriage for young men, claiming that bachelors made better soldiers. Valentine continued to secretly perform marriage ceremonies but was eventually apprehended by the Romans and put to death. Another legend has it that Valentine, imprisoned by Claudius, fell in love with the daughter of his jailer. Before he was executed, he allegedly sent her a letter signed "from your Valentine." Probably the most plausible story surrounding St. Valentine is one not focused on Eros (passionate love) but on agape (Christian love): he was martyred for refusing to renounce his religion. In 1969, the Catholic Church revised its liturgical calendar, removing the feast days of saints whose historical origins were questionable. St. Valentine was one of the casualties. Sooooooo, is it a bussiness??? Sure it is...a romantic one. In America alone we spend 30 billion every Feb.14 to show our affection for our loved one....or ones.....hee hee...see what i did there??? It takes a shy couple and it pushes the relationship into deeper truer water, or into the realization that they should just be friends. Either way... HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!! Thanks Rob for the interesting history. Happy Valentines Day to you too

Toodygirl5 Joined Fri 10/26/12 Posts: 14463	Fri 02/09/18 12:37 PM
5 Days and counting!!!

RustyKitty Joined Fri 05/15/15 Posts: 1601	Fri 02/09/18 05:19 PM
I call it a Hallmark holiday..

AngelHappiness Joined Sat 11/11/17 Posts: 1109	Fri 02/09/18 07:48 PM
February 14 Is a day of celebration of your show of Love and Affection for another. Just an ordinary day but somehow a little special coz I will be receiving cards and chocolates from kids

Robxbox73 Joined Sun 12/27/15 Posts: 5302	Fri 02/09/18 08:26 PM Edited by Robxbox73 on Fri 02/09/18 08:27 PM
Well it was introduced, aww heck...here's some history!!! Roman Roots The history of Valentine's Day is obscure, and further clouded by various fanciful legends. The holiday's roots are in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February 15. Pope Gelasius I recast this pagan festival as a Christian feast day circa 496, declaring February 14 to be St. Valentine's Day. Valentines Galore Which St. Valentine this early pope intended to honor remains a mystery: according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, there were at least three early Christian saints by that name. One was a priest in Rome, another a bishop in Terni, and of a third St. Valentine almost nothing is known except that he met his end in Africa. Rather astonishingly, all three Valentines were said to have been martyred on Feb. 14. Most scholars believe that the St. Valentine of the holiday was a priest who attracted the disfavor of Roman emperor Claudius II around 270. At this stage, the factual ends and the mythic begins. According to one legend, Claudius II had prohibited marriage for young men, claiming that bachelors made better soldiers. Valentine continued to secretly perform marriage ceremonies but was eventually apprehended by the Romans and put to death. Another legend has it that Valentine, imprisoned by Claudius, fell in love with the daughter of his jailer. Before he was executed, he allegedly sent her a letter signed "from your Valentine." Probably the most plausible story surrounding St. Valentine is one not focused on Eros (passionate love) but on agape (Christian love): he was martyred for refusing to renounce his religion. In 1969, the Catholic Church revised its liturgical calendar, removing the feast days of saints whose historical origins were questionable. St. Valentine was one of the casualties. Sooooooo, is it a bussiness??? Sure it is...a romantic one. In America alone we spend 30 billion every Feb.14 to show our affection for our loved one....or ones.....hee hee...see what i did there??? It takes a shy couple and it pushes the relationship into deeper truer water, or into the realization that they should just be friends. Either way... HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!! Thanks Rob for the interesting history. Happy Valentines Day to you too Oh yes You 2 Pieces!!!

dreamerana Joined Sat 09/21/13 Posts: 21544	Sat 02/10/18 08:18 PM
Wishing everyone a happy Valentine's Day

mhavic1573 Joined Sun 10/30/16 Posts: 1746	Sun 02/11/18 07:27 PM
February 14 Is a day of celebration of your show of Love and Affection for another. it's Heart's day, showing of love and affection to people who matters to you dearly

krazy07 Joined Tue 03/04/14 Posts: 12	Mon 02/12/18 03:19 AM
I hop to get any older woman tis valentines

krazy07 Joined Tue 03/04/14 Posts: 12	Mon 02/12/18 03:19 AM
I hop to get any older woman tis valentines