Happy Lupercalia

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  10 years ago

  ..the IliadBUT.. on the rhyme about violets being purple...?Here is a well known song with THAT very line in it..Roger Miller -- "DANG ME".Well, here I sit high, gettin' ideas Ain't nothing but a fool would live like this Out all night and runnin' wild Woman sittin' home with a month-old childDang me, dang me They oughta take a rope and hang me High from the highest tree Woman, would you weep for me?.Just sittin' around drinkin' with the rest of the guys Six rounds bought, and I bought five And I spent the groceries and half the rent Like fourteen dollars and twenty-seven cents.Dang me, dang me They oughta take a rope and hang me High from the highest tree Woman, would you weep for me?.Roses are red and violets are purple, Sugar is sweet and so is maple surple Well I'm the seventh out of seven sons My pappy's a pistol, I'm a son-of-a-gun.Well, dang me, dang me They oughta take a rope and hang me High from the highest tree Woman, would you weep for me?.See.. "Class, AND rhyme"ESPECIALLY ifyou hold onto the idea that there are "Two kinds of music""Country" and "Western".

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  10 years ago

  To you too PG.I am home with my three dogs,watching DVDs,reading Michael Connelly,enjoying the gorgeous weather,recovering from bingeing on Vikings last night on SBS. Enjoying my solitude xxFreya

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  10 years ago

  Cavey, I'm going to be singing that song all day now - thanks for that! And it's good to read the verses - I had forgotten them, so will just have the chorus running ad nauseum through my head! Thanks Freya. I haven't seen Vikings yet, but it's on my list. I've heard good things about it!

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  10 years ago

  The Dark Origins Of Valentine's Day Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one good place to start is ancient Rome, where men hit on women by, well, hitting them. Those Wild And Crazy Romans From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain. The Roman romantics "were drunk. They were naked," says Noel Lenski, a historian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Young women would actually line up for the men to hit them, Lenski says. They believed this would make them fertile. The brutal fete included a matchmaking lottery, in which young men drew the names of women from a jar. The couple would then be, um, coupled up for the duration of the festival — or longer, if the match was right. The ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of our modern day of love. Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine's Day. Later, Pope Gelasius I, muddled things in the 5th century by combining St. Valentine's Day with Lupercalia to expel the pagan rituals. But the festival was more of a theatrical interpretation of what it had once been. Lenski adds, "It was a little more of a drunken revel, but the Christians put clothes back on it. That didn't stop it from being a day of fertility and love." Around the same time, the Normans celebrated Galatin's Day. Galatin meant "lover of women." That was likely confused with St. Valentine's Day at some point, in part because they sound alike. Thanks OP (and google) I learned something new today I will be going to a M&G to meet and mingle ... I suspect no matchmaking lottery or whippings with animal hides but I do like the idea of Galatins Day!!! LG

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  10 years ago

  Today, I'm celebrating that I have stuck to a promise I made myself. It's been nearly a year that I purchased a Thermomix and, as it's a very expensive kitchen gadget, I told myself I was not allowed to buy any more kitchen gadgets (I don't buy lots of shoes but I have a weakness for kitchen gadgets and find them hard to resist). The only kitchen gadget I've bought is a new coffee machine when mine broke down. Do I feel the need to buy any more kitchen gadgets? No!! I'm cured of my addiction! How am I going to celebrate this achievement? By making tomato relish (with my Thermomix of course). True love for one who loves to cook!

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  10 years ago

  Hugs Summer - I'm sorry your morning sucked. Your evening celebration sounds like mine, though! - Posted from rhpmobile

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  10 years ago

  What I'm doing and what I was supposed to be doing, well it sucks, but that's life 😔 found this which cheered me up 😁 If you're going to get married, get married early in the morning. That way you haven't wasted a whole day 😂😂😂

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  10 years ago

  up a storm at MVMNT!

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  10 years ago

  Quoting 'Freya70' To you too PG.I am home with my three dogs,watching DVDs,reading Michael Connelly,enjoying the gorgeous weather,recovering from bingeing on Vikings last night on SBS. Enjoying my solitude xxFreya once at a book signing! My favourite author for over a decade now :) he was a really nice guy! Staying on topic, I took a roadtrip to see a girl I been seeing. Was worth the trip! :)

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