Sarah was reading in the paper today that this year consumers will spend about 17 billion dollars on valentines day related non-sense. That marks a relatively severe downturn from last years 20 billion. I read last year about valentines day being the biggest holiday in India after Diwali. Does anyone even know what we are celebrating?? The Hallmark folks left that one out of the advertising blitz.... There are several posited excuses for this lame ass marketing mess, mostly involving besotted Roman priests and army graft. No matter how you slice it, its D-U-M-B with a capital D. Spend spend spend... you might get a goverment backed bailout.
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I was in Walgreens saturday night getting "got2b glued" for the little one's spiky haircut and the valentine's stuff was almost entirely gone.
There was one very sorry looking rose by the register, and you could see two guys debating buying it. I wanted to scream "its just a sham set up by Hallmark, the Florists and the chocolate companies, egged on by the jewelers!"
Congrats on the beer brewing- I was thinking of the time you had me try that really dark ale at Bear Brew one Octoberfest- can't say I've acquired any better taste for it since!
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