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DevilFroggy

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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2020, 10:21:29 AM »
The only redeeming thing about 2/14 is that it's the day before 2/15, which is my birthday.
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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2020, 10:46:57 AM »
Happy Early birthday.

My i s c & a aggie wife and I don't ever do anything for Valentines for all of the above-mentioned reasons.  Dinner out is a bad deal and a bad time, flowers are way too expensive at this time (and at Mother's Day) so I skip the flowers and buy them on many other occasions.

However, our kids really like it, so we give them small presents and candy, and help them make or buy cards/gifts for their friends.  It's pretty cute how much they get into it, especially given how little we've ever stressed it in our lives.  Apparently Hallmark has ways of getting to them, without our interference.


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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2020, 11:35:21 AM »
If you're looking for cheaper greeting cards, go to Trader Joe's. Only 99 cents instead of a lot more. Same for flowers. 

I'm firmly in the "don't like Hallmark holiday" camp. 

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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2020, 12:27:55 PM »
I feel cards and flowers are a waste

so, please don't send them to me
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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2020, 01:01:48 PM »
I got lucky, my wife doesn't believe in hallmark holidays. No, this isn't a cautionary tale either, she also doesn't like flowers because they just die. 

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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2020, 01:08:41 PM »
I feel cards and flowers are a waste

so, please don't send them to me
Too late I sent a card made out of an empty TP roll and a nice combination ragweed & poison ivy planter.Figure you'd recognize them as you're usually hitting out of the rough/woods
Suburbia:Where they tear out the trees & then name streets after them.

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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2020, 01:24:15 PM »
I got lucky, my wife doesn't believe in hallmark holidays. No, this isn't a cautionary tale either, she also doesn't like flowers because they just die.
Even worse, you take a living plant and chop it off from its sustenance just to watch it die. How sadistic is that? 

And the same women who want flowers think that sport hunting is disgusting. "What do you mean you're going to shoot that beautiful buck just so you can mount its head on your wall?? I can understand hunting for food, but just for display?"

Sorry lady, you want dead plants just so they look nice on your table for a week and then they go straight in the trash. How about a bowl of fruit, that you can at least eat?? 

Women who like flowers are just the sport hunters of the plant world. 

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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2020, 01:45:35 PM »
That's some deep chit right there.
U RAH RAH! WIS CON SIN!

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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2020, 02:00:16 PM »
Hell,in Ohio - American Greetings I believe started Sweetest Day.Supposedly celebrated in the Great Lakes Region.At least on Feb 14 we can commemorate the Last of Danny O'Banion's North Side Gang and Bugs Moran's escape - I know I'm a romantic at heart
Man, all this time I've been calling it Sweeties Day, and no one had the "heart" to tell me.
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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2020, 02:36:45 PM »
That's some deep chit right there.
If I ever do a stand-up open mic, I think I've got a premise for a joke there lol...

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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2020, 03:33:39 PM »
If I'm going to eat the Buck, (and I always do) she's going to eat the flowers
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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #25 on: February 12, 2020, 04:21:14 PM »
If I'm going to eat the Buck, (and I always do) she's going to eat the flowers
And there's my punchline!

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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #26 on: February 12, 2020, 04:31:25 PM »
My lawnmower seems to enjoy eating flowers
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Re: Hallmark Holidays
« Reply #27 on: February 13, 2020, 12:56:02 PM »
Hallmark is effin' greedy.  It's bad enough spending $6.99 on a piece of cardboard with 17 impersonal words.  Flowers and dinner are fine and all, but some of the best gestures a man can do for his wife don't cost a dime.

Want to impress her?  Wash and clean out her car.  Offer to take the kids out for an afternoon.  Cook for her (and clean the kitchen afterwards).  Watch a movie with her that *she* wants to watch.
on the Hallmark channel???

 

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