How about a love poem? This is from Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll).. do you see something different about it?
LOVE AMONG THE ROSES
"Seek ye Love, ye fairy-sprites?
And where reddest roses grow,
Rosy fancies he invites,
And in roses he delights,
Have ye found him?" "No!"
"Seek again, and find the boy
In Childhood's heart, so pure and clear."
Now the fairies leap for joy,
Crying, "Love is here!"
"Love has found his proper nest;
And we guard him while he does
In a dream of peace and rest
Rosier than roses."
Yes... If you take the first letter of each line, you find an acrostic on the name of Miss Sarah Sinclair, the addressee of the poem written in 1878.
Valentines Day Assault on the Pocketbooks of New Yorkers:
In today's New York Times, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) took out a full-page (very expensive) "happy face" advertisement of a dad and his daughter.. with the tag line: "Saving for her sweet sixteen. It starts now."
If you open a "promotional savings account" of at least $1.00, you can earn the staggering amount of 1.01% APY (just until April 2016.) If a minimum account balance isn't set up and maintained, a monthly fee of $50 may be charged (fine print.)
Valentines Day in some Arab Countries?
Have you thought about the suicide bombers who are extremely sexually frustrated and think that their itch will be scratched by the crowds of virgins waiting for their sorry asses in heaven?
Kamel Daoud writes in the New York Times today that in some places, groups of local youths worked up by the speeches of radical imams monitor female bodies at bathing beaches, and hound married couples who display affection in public places. Some gardens are off-limits to strolling couples. Benches are sawed in half to prevent couples from sitting together.
Kamel mentions also some "grotesque" fatwas: making love naked is prohibited; women may not touch bananas; a man may be alone with a female colleague only if she is his milk-mother, and she has nursed him. .. No wonder there is so much warfare in the Middle East, with all those frustrated folks roaming around.
From Baltimore to Sweet Heaven
Robert Strauss writes in the New York Times, that Bill Belichick is reported to be the highest-paid coach in professional sports, with an estimated salary of over $7.5 million dollars a year. Think back to when he was an assistant coach for the Baltimore Colts.... at that time he made $25 dollars a week.
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PS: By the way.. the Urban dictionary defines PREPOP as "the small amount of soda that squirts out when opening the can."
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