Happy VD

[Bob]

 

I know, I know... You're thinking...   It's too early!


I just read an article about VD.  It was interesting.  A brief history of VD.  I thought I would wish everyone happy VD here then.   


I think most people are generally ok with VD, but for other people VD makes them sad.  I guess I can understand that.  I suppose some people won't know exactly what to expect when VD time comes around.  From what I understand, most people get something though.  It's nearly a for sure thing.  Everybody getting and giving a VD gift.







Anyway... Happy Valentine's Day!   

[lau]

valentines day is the worst holiday...all you get is those gross heart candies with the dumb sayings on them..i don't think school is even off

[lichristine]

I don't mind Valentine's Day, I guess...I'm usually a wee bit lonely, but hey that's cool with me cos other people are all happy-lovey. ^_^

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings.

No, the school is sadly still held in session, but at least you get candy.

[jre58591]

haha i thought this thread was referring to venereal disease. no one eally says "happy VD" over here.

[lichristine]

well that can sometimes be a result...

[wishful thinker]

I too thought that VD was a reference to venereal disease (now referred to a STD - no not Subscriber Trunk Dialling but Sexually Transmitted Disease  )

Surely VD is much nicer - venereal coming from Venus, Goddess of Love 

[shortyshort]

valentines day is the worst holiday

Is valentines day a holiday

I thought it was just another americanised excuse for shops to sell you a load of cheap rubbish at great cost.

Shorty

[wishful thinker]

To follow the Venerable Hinton's Sax lesson, a little VD lesson 

At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city. In William of Malmesbury's time what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo, was called the Gate of St. Valentine. The name seems to have been taken from a small church dedicated to the saint which was in the immediate neighborhood. Of both these St. Valentines some sort of Acta are preserved but they are of relatively late date and of no historical value. Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing further is known.

Saint Valentine's Day

The popular customs associated with Saint Valentine's Day undoubtedly had their origin in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, i.e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair. Thus in Chaucer's Parliament of Foules we read:

For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day
Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.

For this reason the day was looked upon as specially consecrated to lovers and as a proper occasion for writing love letters and sending lovers' tokens. Both the French and English literatures of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries contain allusions to the practice. Perhaps the earliest to be found is in the 34th and 35th Ballades of the bilingual poet, John Gower, written in French; but Lydgate and Clauvowe supply other examples. Those who chose each other under these circumstances seem to have been called by each other their Valentines. In the Paston Letters, Dame Elizabeth Brews writes thus about a match she hopes to make for her daughter (we modernize the spelling), addressing the favoured suitor:


And, cousin mine, upon Monday is Saint Valentine's Day and every bird chooses himself a mate, and if it like you to come on Thursday night, and make provision that you may abide till then, I trust to God that ye shall speak to my husband and I shall pray that we may bring the matter to a conclusion.
Shortly after the young lady herself wrote a letter to the same man addressing it "Unto my rightwell beloved Valentine, John Paston Esquire".

[ahinton]

To follow the Venerable Hinton's Sax lesson,

I wonder who he is, then? No known relation of mine, to be sure - and it's obviously not me personally, as I am neither venerable nor do I play the instrument so have never given anyone a lesson on it...

For the remainder of your scholarship, however, we are all surely indebted.

Best,

Alistair

[wishful thinker]

Well, you did ask - and what I have to say about it is not,  I fear, likely to be witty even if it may possibly be instructive to all those who do not want so to be instructed.

You are correct, of course, in what you say about the transposition arrangements for the three members of the sax family that you mention, but what you wrote was far from complete (not that I am at all criticising you for this).

OK - so, it's time for a little sax education.

[ahinton]

OK, but if that were really an example of tuition and I were the hopeful sax-playing student, I'd be demanding my money back faster than you could say "reed"...

Best,

Alistair

[wishful thinker]

I don't know, first lessons usually start with a cursory description of the instrument in question; though your lesson may have had the effect of creating a life long aversion in the pupil that no amount of sax therapy could eliminate.

So, in creating one less sax pest, you certainly will have done the rest of us a service, for which we can never adequately repay you. 

Q: what is another name for the  Venus fly trap?

[gilad]

What did your boyfirend/girlfriend give you for venereal disease day?

[rob47]

Everybody getting and giving a VD gift.

hahaha

[pianistimo]

i, too, wondered about this shortened version of the day.  especially after listening to my daugher's radio show today - which set up this girl with an old flame/admirer (who still has a thing for her).  so the talk show guy says to the mystery guy (girl listening) 'what is your best memory of this girl?'  and he says 'when she was wearing pink netted stockings and eating cotton candy.'  i though FOR SURE this was a joke of some kind.  (being that she sounded so sophisticated and all).  she calmly replies 'yes, i remember that.  oh.  that was a loooong time ago.'  (they sound like 15 and 17 on the phone - her sounding a little older).

[Bob]

  ditto

Right day this time.

[soliloquy]

It sounded like it was going to be a joke about venereal disease until the last line :O

[Bob]

 

 

[666666]

Try the cream stuff, it should be gone in 4 to 6 weeks.