From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.personals,alt.romance.chat,soc.couples
Subject: Re: Valentine's Day Plans I (Jan 26 93)
Keywords: Valentine's Day Public Service
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:02:09 GMT
Followup-To: alt.romance
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

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Suggestion box: What to do on Valentine's Day
************** General suggestions ********************

1. Personally, i have always liked the bottle of good red wine and
renting "War of the Roses".
	modrall@world.std.com (Mark W Modrall)

2. The only thing I am going to do for Valentine's Day is send
valentines to ALL of my friends. I would rather be given a card,
or flowers, or a present because the person wanted to give to me,
rather than because they "had" to.
	terrylee@wpi.wpi.edu (Patricia Currier)

3. Send flowers to your Mother.  She'll call you, and you'll get 1 warm
fuzzy that day.
	esther@verdix.com (Esther Lumsdon)

:::::::::::::::: Suggestions for singles ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
1. Go buy a copy of Joe Jackson's album "Look Sharp", and sit down and
listen to "Happy Loving Couples" over and over again ! The whole album
is generally about being miserable and spiteful about being single !
	Some lyrics:
		Wanna be, wanna really be
		What my friends pretend to be
		Be it in my own good time
		Being kind to myself 'til I become one of two of a kind
	Chorus goes:
		Happy loving couples make it look so easy
		Happy loving couples always talk so fine
		[Missing 3d line]
		Those happy couples aint no friends of mine !
	solnorda@dmpe.csiro.au (The Soul Doctor)

2. $$$ Under "cheap things" and single men, an anecdote $$$
Our hero goes to the bathroom and showers and dandies himself
up.  He goes to his walk-in closet and agonizes over which suit
to wear.  After a lot of heart wrenching, he selects his garb.

Then, he proceeds to the lavatory, where is arranges his hair
just right.  Next, he polishes and dons his shoes.

He saunters over to his telephone and dials.  After a short
conversation, he hears a loud click on the other end of the phone.

He then strolls to his bureau and gets a blanket.  He picks up a
good book on his way to his rocking chair.  He settles down
on the chair under the blanket and reads the book.
	yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo)


****************** Groups and parties *******************
1. Have a party.  Invite all your friends.  Tell your coupled friends
that they can only come together if they bring a date for you.
If this works, you should have lots of MOTAS to choose from.
Even if it doesn't work, it might be a good party, which is better
than staying home alone.
	bkt@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Barrie Trinkle)

:: Is there hope? : Singles' parties ::
1. About four years ago some people I didn't know (!) got together
and decided to host a Valentines Day Singles party. It was a
semidressy party, BYOB, with one key rule--bring a friend, but
NOT a date. It was a great party: over 250 people showed up, the
cops showed up twice....I took one of my roommates with me and
he is now married to a woman he met at the party; I ended up
dating a couple women I met there and am still friends with a
couple more.
	One of the keys to the success of the party was that there
were 5 people hosting, and they asked all their friends to invite
all their unattached friends (that's how I got my invite--a
friend of one of the hostesses gave it to me). The other key
was that you knew everyone at the party was unattached, so that
eliminated most of the usual guessing games. Very refreshing.
	dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson)

2. What I did was get a bunch of my friends both male and female together
for a "lonely hearts nite out" or "lepers nite out" depending on which
way you want to look at it.  Any way a bunch of us got a big table at a
local chinese restaurant and had quite a feast.  Although there was no
intention of romance, one of the women whom I had invited ended up
marrying me.  All in all it was a nice low effort night out with friends
who were almost sure not to have any other obligations that nite.
	moe@netcom.com (Morris Bisted)

3. I have had a large social group for the past few years (20-30 people,
and all friends with each other). A couple of years ago the miserable
single ones in the bunch decided to go out to dinner at a nice,
semi-romantic spot. But first we crashed a party held by a local dating
service, thereby doubling its size (there were about 15 of us). The
women in the group snared a couple young studs and they joined us at
dinner and later joined our group.
	 megatest!plethorax!gnelson@uu4.psi.com (Glenn Nelson)

4. A cool thing I've seen done is throwing an "anti-Valentine's Day"
party for all the lonely people you know. This works a lot better if
you're all a bunch of single young types who like to drink beer at
parties.  Play un-romantic music like George Thorogood and stuff.  Put
Arnold Schwartzenegger movies in the VCR.
	Anonymous (Wed, 13 Jan 1993 22:29:23 EST)

5. THROW A "SPAM" PARTY. This stands for Single People Against Marriage.
Invite all your friends, especially your single ones, and tell them
to bring their friends. EMPHASIZE that it's NOT a "lonely hearts" party,
so no suffering allowed.
	danwood@netcom.com (Daniel J Wood)
-- 
Emil Thomas Chuck	eyc@acpub.duke.edu	BSE in BME in 1993
"You just can't promise something like that just to get elected if you
 know there's a good chance that circumstances may overtake you."
	- Bill Clinton, East Lansing MI debate, Mon Oct 19 1992
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