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#1 Oct 20 2006 at 6:20 AM Rating: Good
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Wikipedia wrote:
Sweetest Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the Great Lakes region and parts of the Northeast United States[1] (with Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo, New York being the biggest Sweetest Day cities[2]) on the third Saturday in October. It is described by Retail Confectioners International, a Candy Trade Organization, as an "occasion which offers all of us an opportunity to remember not only the sick, aged and orphaned, but also friends, relatives and associates whose helpfulness and kindness we have enjoyed."[3] Critics call Sweetest Day an artificial holiday created by the Candy and Greeting Card Industries solely to boost the revenues of candy and greeting card companies.

This holiday seems to be big around here, and I've never heard of it before. I tend to agree that it's a dumb V-Day wanna-be holiday, but I'm curious: Does anyone celebrate this AND Valentine's Day? Is this different and sooperspeshuler somehow?

Oh, and for all you smartasses, no, I'm not posting because I want a gift. Quite the opposite, actually.
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#2 Oct 20 2006 at 6:22 AM Rating: Decent
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I heard about this when I first moved to Cincinnati.

I still dont understand it, but the people here are stupid midwest rubes and they go crazy over both this and V-Day.

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#3 Oct 20 2006 at 6:26 AM Rating: Excellent
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I think I've bought a Sweetest Day card once in my dating life and that was because I was in a drugstore and saw a "Tomorrow is Sweetest Day!" sign. If you were to ask people about it in May, I doubt anyone not directly connected with the candy 'n cards industry could tell you when it falls.

Where St. Valentine's Day at least has some apocryphal stories of early Christian martyrs curing eyesight and so forth, Sweetest Day is pure Hallmark machinery.
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#4 Oct 20 2006 at 6:31 AM Rating: Decent
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Jophiel wrote:
Where St. Valentine's Day at least has some apocryphal stories of early Christian martyrs curing eyesight and so forth, Sweetest Day is pure Hallmark machinery.


True, but if I put a shiny ring around her finger for sweetest day, she has to leave a wet ring around my member.
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#5 Oct 20 2006 at 6:41 AM Rating: Excellent
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Never heard of it.
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#6 Oct 20 2006 at 6:45 AM Rating: Good
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I live right in the aformentioned region, but Canada side and I have never heard of such a "holiday". This just adds fuel to the argument on how gullible Americans are.
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#7 Oct 20 2006 at 6:47 AM Rating: Good
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Never heard of it.
I was you, eight months ago. Now my mother-in-law tells me she has "tons" of weddings going on this weekend because of Sweetest Day, one of my Interpreter's kids proposed to his girl, balloons in all the units and flowers, and I'm kind of floored that people bought into it. Do you really need a corporation to remind you to buy your wife some flowers, ya bastages?
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#8 Oct 20 2006 at 6:49 AM Rating: Decent
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Do you really need a corporation to remind you to not be a cnut to your husband, ya bastages?


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#9 Oct 20 2006 at 6:50 AM Rating: Good
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Never heard of it, either, but I want to offer all of you this card because you are old and sick, and I love you.

I think it's a humanized hairy onion hiding behind a heart because he's shy.
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#10 Oct 20 2006 at 6:54 AM Rating: Good
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::shrugs::...Meh...this stuff is world wide. In Japan they have "White Day" (men give women white gifts such as marshmallow and candy) started by a Marshmallow company... It's all about the Merch.
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#11 Oct 20 2006 at 6:58 AM Rating: Good
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Oil wrote:
In Japan they have "White Day" (men give women white gifts such as marshmallow and candy).


Obviously, I was going to make a ***** joke here, but in respect for Sweetest Day I've restrained myself.




Edited, Oct 20th 2006 at 7:58am PDT by Barkingturtle
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#12 Oct 20 2006 at 7:00 AM Rating: Good
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Grandfather Barkingturtle wrote:
Oil wrote:
In Japan they have "White Day" (men give women white gifts such as marshmallow and candy).


Obviously, I was going to make a ***** joke here, but in respect for Sweetest Day I've restrained myself.
This should help you with your problem.
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#13 Oct 20 2006 at 7:02 AM Rating: Good
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"True, but if I put a shiny ring around her finger for sweetest day, she has to leave a wet ring around my member..." --PsiChi

"Never heard of it." --Sammy

You never heard of wet rings around his member or rings around her finger for Sweetest Day?

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#14 Oct 20 2006 at 7:14 AM Rating: Default
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I've never heard of it.
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#15 Oct 20 2006 at 7:15 AM Rating: Good
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Now I'm depressed that I've never had a sweetest day.

Dammit!
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#16 Oct 20 2006 at 7:16 AM Rating: Good
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The wet rings around his member? Or the ring around her fing... ah, ****. Of course you know all about wet rings around members. Silly me.

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#17 Oct 20 2006 at 7:23 AM Rating: Default
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Hey if someone can make "Talk like a pirate day" pretty much everything is fair game. Better get those days named quick, there is a limited supply after all.
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#18 Oct 20 2006 at 7:25 AM Rating: Good
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I declare today, "Worship Elderon as your Supreme and Ultimate Leader Day"!











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#19 Oct 20 2006 at 7:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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Totem wrote:
"True, but if I put a shiny ring around her finger for sweetest day, she has to leave a wet ring around my member..." --PsiChi

"Never heard of it." --Sammy

You never heard of wet rings around his member or rings around her finger for Sweetest Day?

Totem


In the specifics, neither.
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#20 Oct 20 2006 at 7:33 AM Rating: Excellent
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All Hail Elderon!

Ever since the Order of the Solar Temple did themselves in I've been looking for a new religion.
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#21 Oct 20 2006 at 7:35 AM Rating: Good
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I nominate myself as Ambassador to the Natural Blonde Reserve. Oh, and all hail Elderon and stuff.

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#22 Oct 20 2006 at 7:37 AM Rating: Good
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I proclaim that tonight shall be Sweatiest Night, and the lambs shall not be silent.
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#23 Oct 20 2006 at 7:56 AM Rating: Excellent
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Tare wrote:
Now I'm depressed that I've never had a sweetest day.

Dammit!
I'm browsing the Ross-Simons catalog now. God Save the Elderon.
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#24 Oct 20 2006 at 7:57 AM Rating: Excellent
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I've never heard of Elderon.
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But if I give my wife a shiny Elderon around her finger, she has to leave a wet elderon around my member.

Smiley: laugh
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#26 Oct 20 2006 at 8:03 AM Rating: Excellent
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Mistress Nadenu wrote:
I've never heard of Elderon.
And you are....?
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