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What are you doing for your romantic partner this year?
What are you doing for your romantic partner this year?
Valentine's Day
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Take the wife out to eat Friday night, I can't stand the crowds on Valentine's day. On Sunday I'll make Greek style Filets with buttter & parm spaghetti and a side salad. I'll also rent a movie I know she's been wanting to see.
We plan to get pagan and celebrate in Lupercalia style with whips.
Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody — and a bit muddled.
Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one good place to start is ancient Rome, where men hit on women by, well, hitting them.
From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day
Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody — and a bit muddled.
Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one good place to start is ancient Rome, where men hit on women by, well, hitting them.
From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day
If you need a barking German Shepard to sacrifice I can give you my neighbors address and when he comes and goes. Plus there is an escaped goat lurking somewhere around the U of I Oakdale campus that has eluded capture.
