| Re: Valentine's Day Facts |
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| ::darkshadows:: (over@bite.net) |
2008/01/18 11:53 |
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:20:24 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com>
wrote:
>"Rolex" <rolex@astraweb.com> wrote in
>news:Fw4kj.32241$6j2.14529@fe03.news.easynews.com:
>
>> Amazing-but-True Valentine's Day Facts!
>>
>>
>> In the Tahitian language, "valen tine" is an extremely vulgar
>> expression.
>>
>> Although a common practice now, John Wilkes Booth's brother,
>> Edwin, was the first known actor to send a Valentine card to himself.
>>
>> To celebrate being the most romantic city on Valentine's Day,
>> couples in Loveland, Colorado, trade Broncos jerseys for the day.
>>
>> Franklin D. Roosevelt spent every one of his 13 Valentine's Days
>> as president of the United States tooling around the
>> White House in his wheelchair completely naked.
>>
>> When broken down into its basic elemental components,
>> love, in fact, actually does stink.
>>
>> In some remote mountain villages in the Romagna-Campanile
>> region of Italy, Valentine's Day is still celebrated by the ancient
>> Roman lottery in which each teenage boy draws the name of a
>> teenage girl who will be his sex partner for the rest of the year.
>>
>> In Rome around the time of Tiberius, children were taught archery
>> from a young age, and for sport, some would sneak naked into bath
>> houses and shoot people with their toy arrows.
>> This was the origin of "Cupid" -- Latin for "accursed child."
>>
>> On February 14, 1933, Al Capone's widow started an ultimately
>> unsuccessful petition to have the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
>> downgraded to a "public disturbance."
>>
>> Infamous cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer superstitiously
>> avoiding eating heart on Valentine's Day.
>>
>> The phrase "Friends, Romans, countrymen" is an example of
>> "copulative asyndenton" (coincidentally an anagram of
>> "Valentine's Day Cop-out"), which is how Mark Antony's
>> February 14th speech was characterized by those still loyal to Julius
>> Caesar.
>>
>> An old Ukrainian custom dictates that women make sachets
>> out of lovers' flowers after Valentine's Day. So the women
>> who leave their men after Valentine's Day even after receiving
>> such gifts are said to "come out smelling like a rose."
>>
>> Hallmark this year launched a new line called
>> "the Brokeback Collection" for gay lovers.
>>
>> Satanists traditionally celebrate St. Valentine's Day by sacrificing
>> one live kitten for each date who turned them down during that year.
>>
>> The St. Valentine's Day Massacre originally was scheduled for January
>> 5, but nobody could spell St. Telesphorus, so they rescheduled it.
>>
>> The caloric intake from 50 cinnamon candy hearts provides precisely
>> the calories needed to sign and seal one valentine card.
>>
>> "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening got his start drawing loveable
>> animals on children's valentine cards.
>>
>> Ovaltine was originally marketed as Ovalentine, "the elixir of love."
>> In 1930, when it began sponsoring "Little Orphan Annie,"
>> the name was slightly altered at the request of church groups anxious
>> to avoid any nasty sexual connotations.
>>
>> In 18th-century Italy, it was customary to cut out your lover's heart
>> upon his or her death and carry it with you one day for every year you
>> were together.
>>
>> Unsold Valentine's Day heart candies are sold as chalk to Third-World
>> schools.
>>
>> Roses were traditionally brought to duels in the middle ages by
>> onlookers as a gift to console the widow of the fight's loser.
>>
>> In colonial America, it was believed that saying "Happy Valentine's
>> Day" backwards 10 times while copulating would ensure that your next
>> offspring would be male.
>>
>> Candy and flowers have dropped to positions #2 and #3 as
>> favorite Valentine's Day gifts. Position #1 is now occupied by video
>> disks.
>>
>> Former Major League Baseball manager Bobby Valentine
>> was born on Valentine's Day.
>>
>> In 1946, after seeing one of her films, the crown prince of the Congo
>> once sent actress Shirley Temple a gift of 70 head of cattle.
>>
>> Despite common lore, Valentine's Day was not named after St.
>> Valentine, but the great-great-grandfather of Rudolph Valentino, a
>> poet.
>>
>> On a molecular level, red roses and a pint of type
>> AB-negative blood are the same exact color.
>>
>> The practice of giving fresh-cut flowers to one's beloved
>> is a modern-day replacement for the traditional gift of fresh-killed
>> game animals.
>>
>> In early days, locksmiths charged half price on Valentine's Day
>> for making duplicate keys for chastity belts.
>>
>> The most popular brand of candy hearts is actually made with a
>> mixture of 90% sugar, 5% artificial flavoring and 5% gunpowder.
>> If laid on a flat, hard surface and stomped on, they "explode" just
>> like cap-gun rounds.
>>
>> If said in the correct tone and cadence, "Be my Valentine"
>> played backwards sounds exactly like "Butt-love is in."
>>
>> Fearing the country was becoming too violent, President Chester Arthur
>> declared Valentine's Day would replace Knife-Fight Day.
>>
>> The daisy, not the rose, is the biggest-selling flower on Valentine's
>> Day, according to the National Flower Association.
>>
>> The tradition of giving chocolate hearts was started in 1255 by the
>> Duke of Hershey, who murdered his wife's lover and presented her
>> with his heart on a platter with an assortment of fine candies.
>>
>> In Wisconsin, sodomy is legal for the 24 hours of Valentine's Day.
>>
>> Use of the heart to symbolize affection originated with the ancient
>> Egyptians.
>> After removal of all internal organs in preparation for mummification,
>> pharaohs' hearts were given to their widows as a last expression of
>> earthly devotion.
>>
>> Among the findings of the 9/11 Commission was that a young
>> Osama bin Laden received no valentines as a third-grader in a London
>> prep school.
>>
>> Schlitz has been the "Official Beer of Valentine's Day" since 1982.
>>
>> Windows XP users who create a user name "billg" then play
>> 214 games of FreeCell on February 14 will be treated to a
>> slide show from Bill and Melinda Gates' wedding.
>>
>> Actor Vin Diesel has been selected as Mr. Valentine of 2006
>> by the town of Valentine, Wyoming.
>>
>> Candy hearts were originally candied hamster hearts
>> that were dried, cut and stamped.
>>
>> The average red rose contains 38 calories. White roses have only 26.
>>
>> "Will you be my Valentine?" has traditionally been at the low end of
>> the sexual harassment scale, but in recent years has moved up quickly
>> among easily-offended women.
>>
>> Valentine's Day cards were invented by an out-of-work
>> newspaper obituary writer who hung out at the back exit
>> of a brothel with a camera.
>>
>> On 2/14/00, 214 people bled to death from injuries attributed to rose
>> thorns.
>>
>> There are more fatalities on Valentine's Day from cardiac arrests
>> -- i.e., broken hearts -- than any other single cause.
>>
>> Although the human heart is not actually "heart-shaped,"
>> its valves are, to allow blood to flow in only one direction.
>>
>> The real-life third-century St. Valentine was notorious for his forays
>> into bestiality.
>>
>> A box of holiday chocolates, one of which contained a de-legged,
>> living roach, was a popular parlor amusement of French aristocrats.
>>
>> A recent survey showed that marriages in which both partners vote
>> Democrat tend to last 4.3 years less on average than those
>> in which at least one partner votes Republican.
>>
>> During WWII, British spies occasionally used small bags of
>> candy hearts to pass secure information, using the sayings and color
>> of the hearts to add layers of encryption.
>>
>> The poison most likely to have been dispensed to Romeo
>> by an apothecary of that time was "tincture of wormwood,"
>> which has the same exact fragrance as a combination of roses and
>> chocolate.
>>
>> February 14 (2/14) was chosen as the date to celebrate
>> Valentine's Day because it symbolizes "TWO become ONE FOR-ever."
>>
>> The symbol of the heart for Valentine's Day and love came from an old
>> Visigoth ritual of eating the hearts of one's enemies to gain
>> virility.
>>
>>
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>Why as I not around in the days of Tiberius LOL.
>
>Mercury.
You sure about that?
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