Valentine's Day @ Argghhh!

By The Armorer on February 14, 2006 | | Comments (43)
Happy Valentine's Day, Sweetie! I love you!

This will obviously be up top all day. Everything else new is below this.

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By AFSister on February 14, 2006 7:41 AM
THAT IS SO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
By cw4(ret)billt on February 14, 2006 7:54 AM
This will obviously be up top all day. As well it should be...
 
By kat-missouri on February 14, 2006 8:24 AM
Isn't that sweet? So, what'd she get ya? Civil War Cannon Ball from the Appomatax court house? Gold enlayed, sterling silver bayonet with your initials on it and a bayonet practice dummy (no, not Neffi or the Chief)?
 
By seawitch on February 14, 2006 8:29 AM
Ahhh. That is so sweet.
 
By Cricket on February 14, 2006 8:30 AM
She is a pretty lady. Happy Valentine's Day!
 
By Barb on February 14, 2006 8:38 AM
*rolls eyes at Bill* You are such a sweetie, John! What a lovely Valentine -- Hope you both have a great day.
 
By jim b on February 14, 2006 9:23 AM
Bill has become quite adept at leaping over rolling eyeballs, it comes with lots of practice. Of late he has been incorporating several ballet moves in his repertoire. As a younger man he used to demonstrate moves asuntothen yet unseen. And he did it in full aviator battle rattle. Meaning a helmet and a zoombag, with zipperboots. Ah the joys of Saint Valentines Day, and Hallmark Cards. Unfortunately I mentioned St Hallmark and how they built a plain ordinary day into a marketing masterpiece to the love of my life last night. Fortunately I had a box of Dove chocolates to defuse the situation with. She agrees with me about the cards, so in place of a card I made a date with her for a weekend get away. Life is good.
 
By Jon The Mechanic on February 14, 2006 9:45 AM
WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!! Valentine's Day Grinch message follows. Don't say I never warned you. WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!! Cupid and St Valentine should be boiled in chocolate for the hoops that we have to jump through because of those two and the extra high expectations that they have set for the average guy. Today I REFUSE to do anything special, because I believe that to act differently due to it being a certain date on the calander is a sham. Every day is a special day if you are truely in love and to set an arbitrary date to "express your devotion" is hogwash. Message ends.
 
By Cricket on February 14, 2006 9:47 AM
To see Bill do a grand jete is to understand physics. His fouettes (spelling phrench ballet steps is NOT a strong suit) with his blades running at full tilt was to give new meaning to the word, 'whip' and the phrase 'rotor wash.' And his pirouettes! Sheer poetry. I am in shock and awe.
 
By Cricket on February 14, 2006 9:51 AM
jon, you are just suffering from that genetic male marker of fugeddaboudiall itis. Therefore, if you are truly in love, every day is Valentine's Day. Let the games begin.
 
By jim b on February 14, 2006 9:53 AM
Jon the Mechanic. You go guy!! Oh by the way let us know what hospital you are gonna be in and what the visiting hours are. We won't bring anything special, we will keep it low key.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 14, 2006 10:01 AM
Hah. JtM is currently SO-less and this is a rant from a Safe Position!
 
By Jon The Mechanic on February 14, 2006 10:59 AM
Cricket, You, out of everyone, get it. Jim, I am not going to be going to any hospital because of this. I will die with my boots on and in a blaze of glory. John, My SO status is irrevant to this argument. It is the principle of the argument that matters.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on February 14, 2006 11:19 AM
Heh. Anytime somebody says ...status is irrevant to this argument. It is the principle...that matters. it's the status.
 
By jim b on February 14, 2006 11:22 AM
And if you say: "I will die with my boots on and in a blaze of glory." You do not understand the nature of the battle of the sexes.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 14, 2006 11:39 AM
JtM - it's easy to have principles when there is nothing at stake. Look at the MSM. Snerk!
 
By kat-missouri on February 14, 2006 12:00 PM
Heh..JTM, reality is so much different than fantasy. It's a nice thought, that you would act like it was valentine's every day, but life happens and time slips away. V-Day is like extra credit at school where you get to make up for any missed assignments during the year. In which case, if you miss it, you might get your wish to die with your boots on, but I doubt it will be in a "blaze of glory", more like that slow painful death you see on spaghetti westerns where the guy gets staked out on an ant hill, smeared in honey and a rather tight leather collar thing that's been wet down twisted around his neck to shrink and slowly constrict, while you roast in a scorching midday sun for days on end until you just go stark raving crazy. That's about the only "blaze" you'd get. And, in case you don't get the parallel, imagine the day after Valentine's day and the days after that where you will suffer the squinty eyed look from every female and male friend in your circle. The women because the WSN would have identified you as a potential threat to the WWO (women's world order) would have spread the news in under one hour flat. The men because they would have gotten the message too and know now that they have to spend extra time and money just so their own WSN agent doesn't feel neglected or think that he will turn out like you one day. The women will whisper and make sly comments. The men will profess solidarity while popping a beer in the garage only to go home and re-affirm thirty times that, yes indeed, JTM is an uncaring SO(B) who will get whatever he deserves and they will half mean it because their credit cards were maxed. The family of the SO will be worse. There is a reason that American Indian tribes used to turn their captured enemy over to the women of the tribe to torture. Just don't say you were never warned. This has been a test of the WSN emergency broadcast system. If this had been a real emergency, WSN agents would have provided JTM with a list of appropriate gifts and venues to avoid the Woman Scorned Missile and avert love life total destruction.
 
By Barb on February 14, 2006 12:02 PM
Everyday is Valentine's Day here at Casa Way - but flowers are a very nice gesture as well. So there, JtM ... PTHtbtbtbtbtb!
 
By kat-missouri on February 14, 2006 12:03 PM
This was only a test.
 
By FbL on February 14, 2006 12:16 PM
Actually, I'm with JtM on this one. I'm just not sure whether that makes me a traitor or a liar, LOL!
 
By AFSister on February 14, 2006 12:28 PM
Barb, those flowers are GORGEOUS! Somebody recently told me that "foreplay is 24/7", and that foreplay includes any sort of loving gesture, conversation, email, touch, kiss, etc. I have to agree. Being romantic on one or two days a year doesn't make up for the other 363 you took her, or him, for granted.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on February 14, 2006 12:33 PM
Brab - *Very* nice arrangement! Ummm--are they edible?
 
By Punctilious on February 14, 2006 12:36 PM
I don't know Kat. I think you might have it wrong. I think this is one of those white glove warfare days. (The sort used to determing hierarchy amongst the women.) The weapons are self-targeting and shoot flowers and chocolate. It seems as if the pressure is on men to produce the goods but it is really on the women who have to indirectly (or directly) signal their expectations. Victory or dominance is determined by which girl gets the best loot. With the most brutal treatment (sympathy) for the ones who get nothing or have no expectations. (Battle without fisticuffs is a lot more complicated and the rules are never clear.) While I do get the extra credit arguement, in essence I agree with Jon. This is a marketing day.
 
By Jon The Mechanic on February 14, 2006 12:39 PM
Jim, you do not know the women I know. If I piss them off too much, they use guns, knives and other items to inflict serious physical damage to anyone who angers them.
 
By MCPO Airdale on February 14, 2006 12:50 PM
I don't care. . . I'm not playing anymore. And yes, the wife is MIFFED. She'll havta get over it. I played for 25 years. Got the flowers, jewels, chocolates and cards every year. No more! It is a manufactured holiday that has no relationship to my love for my wife. Let Hallmark find another "mark"!
 
By kat-missouri on February 14, 2006 12:56 PM
Oh, sure, Puncti, there is definitely some internal competition in the WSN including quite a bit of schadenfreude, but, I disagree on who the primary target of dissatisfaction would be. Ridicule and sympathetic looks from the cohort can cause some serious hair trigger backlash against the male SO. AFSIS...I agree. The point of Valentines Day is not to make up for 364 days of bad behavior. If it is, then you're right, the whole thing is screwed. The extra credit is for accidental incidentals or to get an A+ rating. Not to bring you from an F to a barely passing D.
 
By jim b on February 14, 2006 12:57 PM
Ah yea the true spirit of Valentines Day, Guns, Knives and Woman Scorned Missles. One of my all time favorite lines is from Beetlejuice, when the new owners of the house's wife says; "If you don't let me gut this house and redecorate it, I will go crazy and take you with me." Ah love!
 
By kat-missouri on February 14, 2006 12:59 PM
Oooooohh...Airdale is in so much trou-bllle. It's going to be a hot time in the old town tonight.
 
By Punctilious on February 14, 2006 1:00 PM
Never said they weren't caught in the fallout. That is the visible effect...
 
By Jon The Mechanic on February 14, 2006 1:11 PM
Don't you people LOVE the honesty that comes out when someoen bucks the establisment??
 
By Bad Cat Robot on February 14, 2006 1:17 PM
Uh oh! Somebody tell Carborundum the Ell-Tee is running around in his skivvies again! (In the Hellaflopper-dude header, hee hee!) I swear, the guy gets off his meds for one day ...
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 14, 2006 1:38 PM
'Bout time someone noticed, BCR! Good on yaz!
 
By cw4(ret)billt on February 14, 2006 1:49 PM
You sure it's not just a fignewton of her imagination? The only banner I keep stumbling into is John's, with the guns 'n' roses.
 
By jim b on February 14, 2006 1:51 PM
Nope nope there it is ... some guy in a zoombag layin back on a superwhopper, with a nearly naked female hovercraft about to impail him with some kinda arrow thingie. After which he will of course fall totally in love with his gun mounts.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on February 14, 2006 2:18 PM
*refresh* *refresh* *refresh* *refresh* *refresh* *refresh* *refresh* *refresh* *refresh* Oh--there's the li'l cutie. Hey, BCR, that's not the EllTee, that John's new do--uuuhhll--Curlie McDimple ♥throb™ Action Figure that came with the Good Ship Lollipop railway gun cum zeppelin model. Better snag it and put it back on the shelf with the others...
 
By Barb on February 14, 2006 2:23 PM
Bill - In theory, yes - but I have better choices available for gnawing on ;-) For the record - we don't *do* cards for V-day, and the flowers are a sweet treat that I didn't expect, adding to their value.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 14, 2006 2:44 PM
Brab made a naughty allusion! Brab made a naughty allusion! Though she'll claim she meant chok'lit or sumpin'.
 
By keewee on February 14, 2006 2:46 PM
The perfect salute for a beautiful lady.
 
By Beth on February 14, 2006 3:46 PM
Thanks for the nice Valentine, Sweetie. Interesting comment stream! You know, we live in Hallmark area - I've worked for Hallmark before, as have many people in the Kansas City Area. They are having to fight hard to make money in this day of electronic greetings - so I can't blame them.
 
By Cricket on February 14, 2006 8:24 PM
Ah, JtM, I never give up a good bit of cyber wordplay. Jimb, you stated it so eloquently about no one understanding the battle of the sexes. Might I offer this Bit O' Wisdom (and then hide behind BillT): No Man or Woman, for that matter, will ever win the Battle of the Sexes because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy. BillT, I need to pick your brain and I am confoozled as to which email address you use...an ambitious kid cleaned out my email before I could edit my address book, and I have two different ones for you in there. 'Tis a pilot's knowledge I seek, and preferably off the blog. Hugs to all. HVD to all.
 
By Cricket on February 14, 2006 8:30 PM
And our newest Denizenne, Brab. *just kidding*
 
By Justthisguy on February 14, 2006 10:20 PM
Awww! Just Awwwww! No, really, aw, she so purty,and all... awww. That hairy bear love must be some good stuff to get and keep a woman like that!
 
By Justthisguy on February 14, 2006 10:35 PM
OK, I've read the rest of the thread now. I kinda sympathize with JTM, in all sortsa ways; both he and I seem to be more rational that emotive in our relations with other people, and also both of us seem to have ended up hanging out with well-armed women. The S&W J-frame seems to be common pocket litter among the (admittedly few) women with whom I hang out.