Tough day today Valentine’s Day when you are supposed to slather your loved one with candy, flowers and ‘special treatment’ is also Ash Wednesday the start of the lenten season of denial of self and pleasure leading up to Resurrection Sunday. Celebrate or Sacrifice??? You must choose, coin flips are not allowed.
In my first year in Korea, I gave valentines gifts to my female colleagues. They were really confused. Koreans “celebrate” Feb 14 by females giving gifts to males. The males’ turn is Mar 14, “white day”. Then April 14 is “black day” for all whose romantic efforts failed.
Concretionist 9 months ago
It’s nice when the teacher agrees with your flight of fancy.
JWilly48519 9 months ago
Novelists and poets “make it up”, too. “Making it up” can be a very good thing.
ChristineFoxdale 9 months ago
Creativity and presentation. Facts just get in the way
Rhetorical_Question 9 months ago
He sold it
eromlig 9 months ago
Another excellent one, Jef!
markkahler52 9 months ago
CreAtivity!
prrdh 9 months ago
Social and a certain kind of internal pressure.
bluephrog 9 months ago
Tough day today Valentine’s Day when you are supposed to slather your loved one with candy, flowers and ‘special treatment’ is also Ash Wednesday the start of the lenten season of denial of self and pleasure leading up to Resurrection Sunday. Celebrate or Sacrifice??? You must choose, coin flips are not allowed.
spinner 9 months ago
One of our “Holidays of Obligation.”
goboboyd 9 months ago
Works better under pressure.
garcoa 9 months ago
Wow, do we celebrate his day on the 13th or the 15th?
sandpiper 9 months ago
Audacity often wins where pragmatism fails.
rshive 9 months ago
Methinks that expectations play into this also.
DaBump Premium Member 9 months ago
There’s a lot of that going around these days.
Richard S Russell Premium Member 9 months ago
Possibly Mrs. Olsen was nostalgic for the original Valentino of her youth.
ckeller 9 months ago
For me, February 14th will always be kidney day, because that’s when I got my transplant.
Bill The Nuke 9 months ago
I would have given him an A also.
T Smith 9 months ago
Makes as much sense as anything religion has to offer.
Mike Baldwin creator 9 months ago
Ha! Right as in relatable, maybe.
Bill Löhr Premium Member 9 months ago
Did we ever find out what happened to Mr. Olsen?
EMGULS79 9 months ago
Now that story was a real gas!
djlactin 9 months ago
In my first year in Korea, I gave valentines gifts to my female colleagues. They were really confused. Koreans “celebrate” Feb 14 by females giving gifts to males. The males’ turn is Mar 14, “white day”. Then April 14 is “black day” for all whose romantic efforts failed.
gregcartoon Premium Member 9 months ago
I hadn’t heard of St. Beano before, and now, I need an icon or something for the studio.
Otis Rufus Driftwood 9 months ago
No more ridiculous I suppose than today originally being to honor an early Christian power.