BS: After The Roses and Romance

Subject: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 11:13 PM

Valentine's day is Monday, when we celebrate romance.
Tuesday is Susan B. Anthony's birthday. Susan B one of the leaders of the American Women's Suffrage movement refused to marry saying she could not marry when it could never be a union of equals.
She devoted most of her life to getting women the vote. She saw some small victories, but she didn't live to see the amendment she had worked so hard for become law.
Think of Susan B. and keep on fighting.

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: mack/misophist
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 12:11 PM

Equality can only be a choice, not a gift. And as soon as Valentine's is over, that left over chocolate will go on sale.

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 01:27 PM

Who says that there ever has to be "after the roses and romance." Far as I'm concerned, roses and romance never end..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 03:43 PM

Champagne and roses? I got something better - a husband who finds new songs for me to sing and plays the guitar accompaniment when I KNOW that he really wishes that he could sing them himself. That's real romance.

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: Amos
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 04:29 PM

That's the Real McCoy all right, Jacqui -- but then the skippuh always was a genuine sorta article.

After 25 years I see no reason for the real or virtual roses to stop.

A

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 05:23 PM

I just cannot see why someone should need to wait until a particular day of the year to show people they love them. It should be an all year thing. There should be no After for roses or romance... if you are going to be extravagant on one day, why not another day... It's a ridiculous day, hyped by people who want to sell cards, chocolates and flowers at ludicrulously inflated prices.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 05:30 PM

I'm with you, Liz:

I celebrate my wife whenever I feel like it, which is often. I am not bound by seasons or holidays. I've already bought some presents for next Christmas (and am already giving some out.)

Saves on special wrapping paper that way. :-)

Whenever I think of something I can do, or give to someone, I do it THEN. I don't check the calendar.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: GUEST,Fembo
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 05:39 PM

Kill all the men.

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: open mike
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 07:18 PM

send special wishes to those who do not have a sweetheart
as this holiday has it's bitter side for them...

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: Layah
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 08:15 PM

I think my displeasure of valentines day started in elementary school when all the kids give other kids valentines and I don't end up with any. And from then to this very day I have not ever had a good valentine's day. The best I can say is for the few Valentine's days that slipped by unnoticed. Eventually I'm bound to have a good one. It's not going to happen tomorrow though.

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 08:28 PM

Shoulda let me know sooner, Layah. I wooda sent you one. I nver got none either.

Sniff, sniff..

Worst yet, I was always the last kid chosen for the football team. Charlie Brown was All American in comparison to me.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: Peace
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 08:33 PM

I stsrted a thread for Layah--whom I don't know: it is entitled "Valentine's Day for Layah".

It is now for you, too, Jerry.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 09:30 AM

Fembo, sounds like you have a problem. Wanna talk about it?

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: Mooh
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 10:00 AM

My bride has insisted that I not get her flowers this year. (As it happens it would be life-threatening to go get them or have them delivered today because of the freezing rain.) I hope it's not an omen.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: Flash Company
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 10:49 AM

Sheila and I got engaged on Valentine's Day thirty years ago, but are appalled by the hype that has overtaken it since then. We stay home in the evening now, and celebrate our own way.
The Engagement night out was one to remember (or forget), we went to a Valentines Dinner Dance at a local hotel. In a room that would have held most of a hundred, there were fourteen people (including the band!). The most musical thing the band did was assemble the drum kit. From there on it got worse.
Fortunately the marriage has made up for it!

FC

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: kendall
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 02:59 PM

That almighty dollar has polluted everything in this country.

Subject: RE: BS: After The Roses and Romance
From: mg
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 03:34 PM

Part of it is women's status thing. One way you measure each other, by how many flowers, how many pounds of chocolate, how many ounces of gold. So it has a lot to do with romance, yes, but also a pecking order type of thing. So don't even try to fight it with more romance on other days. mg