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Author Topic: V.D., "The Evilest of All Holidays" ? Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 02-03-2003 10:19 AM                    Hey, I need to create an anti Valentine's Day card for a friend who calls it The Evilest of All Holidays. Anyone know of some suitable graphics online...dead Cupids, etc?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-03-2003 10:37 AM                        Some links: http://abnormalcomics.keenspace.com/images/cupid.jpg http://www.frenchspot.com/Holidays/Valentine/Cupid/cupid.html http://www.speakeasycigarco.com/St%20Valentines%20Day%20Massacre.gif  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 02-03-2003 12:33 PM                        This place gets weirder everyday.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 02-03-2003 12:48 PM                    {{bows}} Hmm...I see that an image of last year's BD card is still online: Clicken Sie Hier  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-03-2003 12:50 PM                        New Yorker's love Valentine's Day. Of course , like most Canadians we have good looking women with great personalities. The ones that don't qualify, we send to Chicago.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 02-03-2003 12:51 PM                        I'll second that! edit: I was referring to Bob's "like most Canadians" part. But I'll try to pry my foot out of my mouth anyway.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-03-2003 12:53 PM                        Daryl --- for those outside the US, the last link is to a photo of the "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre", a mob-related killing in Chicago on February 14, 1929: http://www.crimelibrary.com/capone/caponesaint.htm The movie "Some Like It Hot" used the event as a plot device.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-03-2003 01:02 PM                        When I saw this subject line I thought 'V.D.' referred to a type of optical soundtrack introduced by William Fox in 1928. Proves how sad and unromantic I am. There again, it could refer to something very unromantic indeed (of the sort that requires unpleasant medical treatment), so it could be worse...  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 02-03-2003 02:39 PM                    Years back when I saw that there was a newsgroup called alt.mag.penthouse you know what I was thinking!  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 02-04-2003 03:43 AM                        <- is the kind of person that bakes blood red cupcakes, decorated with a variety of anti-Valentine's Day odds and ends, to share amongst other who wince at the thought of this "holiday"  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-04-2003 04:03 AM                        The nearest us staid Brits come to those sorts of extremes is an act of revenge being planned on a much unloved colleague who has called what promises to be a long, unpleasant and boring meeting starting at 1600 that (Friday) afternoon. In the hope (and almost certain expectation) that he does not lurk around these parts, I can reveal that the plan is to send him an anonymous Valentine's card. The problem is that the individual in question is almost completely devoid of any sense of humour and so probably won't have a clue what it refers to. But it'll make us feel better.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 02-04-2003 06:41 PM                    No, but she does hold an annual Evilest of All Holidays party. I believe this year's theme is vampire movies. Before you cast any aspersions you should know that she loves silent films and 70mm, particularly if she can fondle it. But then who amongst us doesn't enjoy that? Edited: I didn't catch Gracia's arrow; thought she was asking about my friend. Apparently many don't like this "holiday." [ 02-04-2003, 10:23 PM: Message edited by: Steve Kraus ]  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 02-05-2003 02:58 AM                        Well, mostly I'm just bitter. ...No-one ever sends me flowers or other random tokens of affection on the 14th of February! Then again, it's also a highly commercialized holiday. ...and that's poodoo!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-05-2003 08:11 AM                        I agree about the hard sell: furthermore all the advertising propaganda and the like is designed to make you feel that there's something wrong with you if you're not married or in a relationship, which annoys me no end. My theory is that this is the greeting card industry addressing a major problem on its hands: that the only time [normal] people buy the things are for birthdays and Christmas, ergo the industry is trying to manufacture more occasions to boost its sales. Well, that stunt isn't going to work with me. After all, the firework industry only ever shifts any merchandise in the fortnight before 5 October (Make that 4 July for US readers) and it doesn't seem to go bust.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 02-05-2003 11:17 AM                    Does it seem to others as it does to me that they (the card, candy, and flower industries) are no longer pushing Sweetest Day as they once did? (Third Saturday in October. Perhaps USA only?) Surely this must have been an artificially concocted holiday so you wonder why they are letting it slide.  |  IP: Logged

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