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What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts?
With the oh-so-dreaded Hallmark holiday on the horizon we are flooded with tips and tricks (mostly designed to sell us things our mates cannot live without) of how to please/capture/sedate the ones we care for. One writer even suggests ways to capture the interest of a geeky girl. That said, what are some of the crazier romantically inspired, geeky V-day stunts or activities that you or someone you know has executed to terrible success or failure?
I know. It's out there, but, contrary to my expectations, she didn't totally humiliate me in front of everyone in the cafeteria.
But then I realized the cable was blue, so I only gave it one star. I hate blue.
I never timed it around V-day, but my wife thinks getting pregnant is romantic. :-)
Terrorist, bomb, al Qaeda, nuclear, yellowcake, kill, assassinate. Carnivore is dead... long live Echelon.
Life is not a romantic comedy. If you're already in a relationship, nice chocolate, flowers, and dinner (or any subset of the above) is plenty celebration. If you're not already in a relationship, don't start one on V-day. Just don't.
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Just, no.
Flowers + alcohol = good time
:)
Don't be a geek and try to over engineer valentine's day. Keep it simple and if she likes you, good things follow
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For the record, I hate Valentine's Day. It's just silly to assign a day of the year to plan something romantic.
real women like flowers, chocolate, and other mushy stuff. Though a well thought-out stunt may work on a rare occasion, they are much more likely to backfire than a traditional gift. Have flowers and chocolate on hand just in case.
Sometimes the best solution is to stop wasting time looking for an easy solution.
Chloroform soaked rags always get me the ladies.
Trolling is a art,
I have noticed that my wife tends to really like surprises. It doesn't REALLY matter if I am super-romantic or something... but just surprising her with an outing that's just for her. It's romantic on a deeper level than throwing candy hearts at her.
Now we just have to determine which method he was martyred by.
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DO A BARREL ROLL!!!
she get mad when she wakes up but it's for her own good.
Linus and his wife Tove, who is a six-time Finnish national karate champion, met back in 1993 when Linus was teaching a course. He asked the students to send him an e-mail as a test and Tove sent him an e-mail asking for a date (and threatening to break his geeky body worse than his boot loader, should he refuse). And people wonder why Linus has an aversion to mobile phones! Sorry, this was supposed to be a romantic story... Umm, Linus fell... in love with Tove's roundhouse kick.
I'm sorry, but Valentine's Day is the absolute worst of the fake holidays. I refuse to participate in it in any way; if a woman is so shallow that this offends her then fuck her.
Why are you tormenting us poor slashdot readers? You know we don't have significant others!
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Sedate? IANAL, but that's just got to be asking for trouble, at least north of the M-D line.
it's now an officially Linus-endorsed product. any geeky girl should be impressed. and if she isn't, have her banned from /..
/. at the end of the sentence, should there be one "." or 2?)
(p.s.: here's another question for randall: when you write
weinersmith
And I pulled off one of those a while ago. Actually its been like 2 years. Anyways. Yeah - its pretty easy to do, once you know your girl well enough to get her to play along - and a car definately helps. The idea is simple, place letters along a path, each one giving clues to the next one. Given todays technology, just about everyone has a web enabled phone, which lets you take things a bit further than just a hunt. I had converted the clues into binary... ascii values... Hex... knowing not to do anything complex like public key encryption, lol, but she can recognize what is what and can look it up if she needs help. She eventually made her way down the street to my car, the previous letter informed her to look under the trunk, where an envelope with a spare car key was taped up. She opened the car to find a subjective question of who would win in a fight, 2 raptors or a t-rex - in a very crowded jungle. (We'll leave that open to debate). One envelope said Raptors, and the other said T-rex. It didn't really have any bearing on the actual hunt, but it kind of goes along with this inside joke that we have. We personally think that -EVERYONE- secretly still loves dinosaurs, just when they get older they are too afraid to admit it. Anyways, so it leads her into this park where I'm sitting there, reading my book, with a nice picnic set up. We both agreed earlier that week that Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwhiches are totally still delicious, it seems odd that you stop eating them completely as soon as you are out of junior high. So we had a picnic with sandwhiches.
Needless to say, she really enjoyed it. However, she told all of her friends, and her friends got jealous and razzed their boyfriends, and they all gave me guff the next time they saw me, saying it made them look bad.
It's not necessarily a Valentine's day thing, but one guy hacked Chrono Trigger in order to propose marriage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_HMLvLB7b0
I could see how such a treasure hunt could backfire horribly....
While talking to her, instead of just wishing you could talk to her, is probably the best stunt, you might consider that women frequently like displays of peer group mastery.
If she's into Soduku, make her a VD Day soduku card.
If she likes chocolate, get her an interesting chocolate (e.g. Theo's Chocolate has spicy curry, for example) and wrap it up in Doctor Who tape.
Show you actually know what she's into and you're doing well. ...
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go hope that cute bio stats doctoral candidate runs into me while I'm enroute to something.
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You have to do a little something for Valentine's Day even if she says otherwise. Keep this in mind though, giving her flowers on any other day for no reason will make her feel a lot more special than on V Day. Set a reminder in your calendar on a random day and do this.
I sent my geek girl a box of comic books, calligraphy and knitting supplies and a Supergirl camisole. Later in the week I'll gift her with Dragon Age Origins and Batman: Arkham Asylum through Steam, since I know she wants those games.
She lives a thousand miles away so we don't get to see each other very often, but I know she'll at least be happy with her box of geek goodies.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
I cut off my ear and shipped it in a shoebox to a girl I like.
Haven't heard back from her yet.
I dont have any stories to share about V-Day, but recently I was looking at Western Digital website to download a diagnostic utility for my hard drive. I noticed on the bottom of the page a V-Day ad saying how romantic an external hard drive would be for your girlfriend. There has to be a pun in there somewhere, but I can't find it...
Is not a good St-Valentine's Day present.
Just be two of: tall, good-looking, rich, talented-musician/artist
Or for impressing a geeky girl once could try to execute an injection attack. Just make sure you use a Trojan or you might spawn unwanted child processes.
Boy, this takes me back to the past of the Internet without firewalls and Unix servers running with the regular services, including, finger, enabled. We were at different Universities and often talked using talk...
But she was not online as much as myself, so I had to know, when to start the talk... The solution is obvious: execute finger every minute. If "on since" is detected in the output, write out a log-entry to a file. A separate instance of xbiff was running to alert me, when that file was modified.
Nowadays various instant-messaging clients do this all for you, and even on Slashdot I have to provide Wikipedia links to describe things I'm talking about...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
If more men would just be a bit more romantic spontaneously through out the year, there wouldn't be a need by industires to guilt men (and some women) into doing something special on Valentines Day and Sweetest Day.
Besides, if you are only romantic on Valentines Day, do you really have a need to complain?
Life takes interesting turns, but the most interest is when you're off the beaten path.
I go for the machine and shot gunning into marmalade of my opposition.
I shudder to think of capturing the interest of geeky girls! No more geeky girls for me. When they like you, they tend to like you in a crazy manner! I had the experience of one trying to get my attention in every way. She would always try to understand the software projects that I am working on and even google the terminologies that I put in my blog. This is funny, but she asked me out lots of times, I tried to say no but is really persistent. She once caught me having dinner with friends in restaurant and in a very planned manner, went straight to our table talked to a couple of my friends behind my back and then went to me. She tends to approach love and relationships in a very calculated manner. I am already like that and NO I am not going to spend my life with a person who is just like me (why can't I attract the real girls)? :/
Fellahs, this is the perfect time to show your lady you love her by giving her the best present she'll ever have:
Your cock.
Suggested ways to present your cock to her:
1. Wrapped in ribbons! Nothing says festive like pink ribbons on your pink monster. Bonus points for complicated bondage knots.
2. Under a codpiece! Feeling medeival? Why not proffer your pork to her the olde-fashioned way?
3. Covered in chocolate! Chicks dig chocolate, so why not give her a truly delectable dong? Warning: don't melt chocolate onto your cock, use chocolate sauce.
4. With a flower taped to it! Want her to feel really special? 'Cause nothing says special like a rose-laden trouser-snake.
5. Emblazoned with love poetry! Have a literary geek to impress? Put some Shakespeare on your schlong.
Disclaimer: actual use of any or all of the above methods may result in death or serious injury via penile kicking.
In Soviet Russia jokes are formulaic and decidedly non-humorous.
Pulled this off awhile back, not on valentines, but it worked very well...
First, I setup a "girl's day out" for my wife and her cousin. Called wife's cousin, asked her to take my wife out shopping/getting a pedicure/etc. I needed wife out of the house for a couple hours for setup.
While she was out, I went over to my parent's house, since they drink lots of bottled water, and recycle the bottles. I knew they'd have pleanty of empty bottles on hand. Also went to the store, got a dozen tulips (or maybe roses, can't remember), a nice quality bubble bath, some of those glass "pebbles" for fish bowls, some ribbon, and a pack of tea candles.
Knowing my wife likes to take relaxing baths, but she almost never treats herself to one, I setup a nice bath for her to come home to. Used the pebbles + water to fill the water bottles (after removing the labels and putting a nice piece of ribbon around the screw threads, sealing with hot glue), and get them bouyant with a flower in each bottle.
Made a nice playlist of some of her favorite relaxing music, loaded it on an mp3 player, and set that up through a battery-powered speaker. Tied back the shower curtain with some leftover ribbon, spread the tea candles around the tub, and through the rest of the bathroom. Filled tub, got it nice and bubbly, and set the floaty flower-bottles around in the water (it took a few minutes to settle after it got done filling).
Finally, lit candles, turned out lights in the bathroom, and set the book she was reading on top of a hand towel.
I think she was in that bath for about 2 hours. I could do no wrong for months afterwords.
My wife wants a Nook super-bad. I have to find one. Somewhere. She puts up with my creeking ancient conservative pain in the rear self and deserves [mushy love stuff]. So I'm going to get her a Nook... or she will kill me!
This is my sig.
Whenever my wife's been out of the house I've been ripping her CD collection and putting it on a portable media player, along with a Star Trek video and soon some of her favorite photos.
I took my gf skydiving last Saturday for V-day. She had a blast. But, ymmv. Make sure she's up for it.
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I wanted to find a nice middle ground between lovers who like to send affection to one another on Valentine's Day and cynics who just want to dress in black and stab bitches, so a few years ago I started a charity at Swarthmore College called NinjaGram. It's pretty simple. You pay us $3, which goes to some charity or other, and fill out a card with a cute logo, and then shadowy assassins stalk your target on 14 February and surprise them with the card when they least expect it, screaming "NIIIIINJAGRAM!" Classes and events get interrupted a lot on Valentine's Day, but the administrators and faculty and public safety officers buy and receive as many as the students do, and besides who wants to argue with ninjas? This Valentine's Day, black is the new pink.
The couple of weeks before Valentines day is the easiest time of the year to meet women. Most single women WANT to be with someone on Valentine's day, so they'll be less "picky" than usual. Just go out to a bar looking well groomed and clean, and girls will be approaching you. Of course, you'll have better luck if you actually approach them rather then waiting for them to come to you.
I get some 364 days a year...
Thank you!
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
If we get him modded to interesting, we might be able to spawn some interesting conversation...
al using fake cops to line people up to a wall back in the mob days
1. get someone's birthday
2. subtract 3 months
3. tell them the holiday they were likely conceived on
kids born in early april started as fourth of july fireworks, kids born in late september were christmas celebrations, kids born in mid november are valentine's day gifts, kids born in mid october had parent's who REALLY admired martin luther king jr, kids born in mid december were st. patrick's day stupor mistakes, etc, etc
mildly amusing game at any age, but for some reason extremely hilarious in 7th grade
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V-day? Why not just shorten it all the way to VD?
Never let a mediocre career stand in the way of a good time
I am not convinced that such a creature exists.
For those guys with geeky girlfriends/wives near the Toronto area, I would recommend you take her to a place called Build-a-Bear. You can build custom version of teddy bears for you and her. Trust me, and when i say trust me, I really REALLY mean it, she will be all over you like bubblegum on velcro.
I've had more men dump me right before Valentines day and then try to fix thing afterward just to avoid the day all together. How's that for a Valentine's stunt. Lovely..... NOT.
Life takes interesting turns, but the most interest is when you're off the beaten path.
the target site is so bad that TINY URL had a forced preview!!
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love-shy or incel.
Classic!
1. lift lid
2. pee
3. replace lid
4. ???
5. profit!
That's funny... while you're ripping her cd's, I'm ripping her ass in a cheap motel room. Got some photos, too, if you want.
For Valentines this year, I am taking my girlfriend out to the Mitchell Park Domes - she gets to enjoy more flowers than I could possibly afford to buy her that will not die in a week and it will cost me less than buying plain-jane roses. Then we'll be off to get sushi at a nice restaurant. Not so much of a stunt as an unconventional and romantic day that we're more likely to remember than "Oh, you got me chocolate!".
You know the song "I wonder, wonder who, who wrote the book of love?" Well, it was Ovid. He wrote Ars Amatoria (2 books) and Remedia Amoris (1 book). The first book was on how to get a girl. The second was on how to keep her. And the third was on how to get over it when it's over.
From the second book, there are 2 days a year you avoid like the plague (unless you're rich and can afford not to): Cupid's Day (later renamed by the Catholic Church as St. Valentine's Day) and her birthday. On both days you'll be expected to give gifts. So, if you can't afford that, Ovid's advice was to break up with her before the day arrives and get back together again with her afterwards.
So I guess you could say, given the fact that there are guys who think that way, simply not breaking up with your girlfriend/wife, despite the 2000 years of expectations she's layering on top of your relationship, is pretty romantic in itself. But don't try to convince her of that. She'll probably want to be pampered in some way anyway.
Knowing this DOES give you a conversational edge, however, on the cynical morons who think that Valentines Day was invented by Hallmark. And ladies, if you you're reading this and are pissed that this advice was EVER given, you might take comfort in having this retort handy: A while later, Augustus Caesar exiled Ovid from Rome for the rest of his life. In Ovid's own words, the reason was carmen et error. The carmen is widely believed to be these 3 books, which ticked off the aristocracy no end.
Ovid
this.
I am officially gone from
or a 3 month gestation
either way, alien, you've just outed yourself
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Last year I made the NerdKit Valentine Day card. I customized it so that it fit onto the top of a box of chocolates and put pictures of our pets on there. She loved that more than any other gift I've gotten her, and that includes jewelry. As an added bonus, her friends were completely jealous their significant others didnt do anything that "creative".
Play to your strengths. If she doesn't appreciate it, your with the wrong girl.
Basically, if the object of your affections is a student on a college campus, you can monitor her movement around the campus by finding out her class schedule, checking the school computer systems to see when and where she logs in, and so on. Collect all this data for a while, and then when you decide to make your move, work out where she'll be and when, and leave a small gift or a single rose at each location. Then, at various points in the day, arrange to be in the same location, act as though it's a complete coincidence, and strike up a conversation with her. There's no way this plan can fail!
Bow-ties are cool.
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Not Geeky but... One year covered the Garage door in newspaper and spray painted a 20 x 8 VD card, another year used sidewalk chalk to draw a VD card in parking space at work yet another dedicated Temptations song 'My Girl' to her over radio (hard part making sure she was listening to radio at right time).
Really, this is my best advice. It is hard to really make your wife/girlfriend think she is important when it appears that every other person in the world is also out for dinner at the place your choice (or a nicer place). You will be herded in like cattle, some generic Valentines Day special things will be found at the tables (candles, special napkins, whatever) but they won't be special or unique as every table will have them. It will be loud, crowded, and uncomfortable even if you do drop a good amount of money at a nice establishment.
Usually I will take the time and cook a fancy meal by myself, something I usually wouldn't do. She gets that nice meal and sees me slaving away to deliver it. Our house is much quieter and private than an overloaded eatery which leads to great conversation (except in one case where she was so in awe by my to that point unknown culinary talents that she preferred to keep trying the different things I cooked rather than talk much.) After that, an activity you both like (hopefully...if not you'll have to settle on one she likes) is good. This can be anything but hopefully not going to the Movie Theater...which will also be crowded and irritating like places to eat.
Not directly affiliated with her (my girlfriend did work for her last year around this time, though), but the gal at Leaf Cutter Designs makes some pretty neat/cute/cool gifts. It's not too late to write your S.O. (note, that acronym is not for the also excellent Stack Overflow) a short message delivered by the world's smallest post office. She does other neat stuff, too. If you're SO is of the creative/craftsy persuasion she'll probably appreciate something there.
http://leafcutterdesigns.com/shop.html
My best 'stunt' was a singing telegram to my girlfriend's (same one) dorm a few years back. Definitely a hit. This year is dinner at a surprise location which we always walk by and she says "aww, we should eat there sometime, its cute". You don't have to go too crazy, just let her (or him, ladies!) know she's special and that you've been paying attention.
I'm not entirely sure it fits the criteria, but here it does put function over form--which is pretty geeky--so here it goes:
I gave a girl I really liked a light bulb one time for Valentine's Day... it was used (i.e. from my lamp), but hers had blown the night before...
We started dating almost immediately and we've been together seven years now (married for six). :D
I just don't get... eh, ugh... never mind. This post wasn't worth the research I put into it.
This takes a clever feat of engineering.
a) Leave gifts with his name, that will repel her from her man. Break up letters, and dirty pictures of the him and the ex will do fine.
b) Leave really nice gifts that her man would never give her himself. Like a oil on canvas portrait of her, preserving her beauty for eternity.
c) Add some Rohypnol to those valentines chocolates that your anonymously send her. Then show up with your dick in a box, and ask her to open it for you.
d) wait in the alleyway for the said guy to show up at said girlfriends house. Beat him up, and surgically remove his face aka face off with travolta
e) rent a u-haul van, and buy a velvet bag with a drawstring, and a santa costume. Trust me nobody will know the difference.
True romance and thoughtfulness will win every time. My girlfriend lived 200 miles from me in a Memphis midtown second story apartment. I drove up on Valentines day without telling her and brought with me a single long stemmed red rose (all I could afford in college). When I got there I went around to the side of the apartment and climbed a drain pipe with the rose in my teeth. Her window was locked! So I waited hanging to the wall until someone inside responded to my knocking and let me in. As I climbed in the window I looked back down to the restaurant that I hadn't noticed before. All the patrons were clapping at my success. Years later a friend of her Mom told the story after learning where she had lived. The friend was actually one of the people in the restaurant that saw the show. Talk about getting points with the mother.
...are the one she does for me! :D
bazinga!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Most women, just like most men, like to feel that they are special, particularly in the eyes of somebody they feel is special to them. You should be trying to make her feel this way daily, not just on some over commercialized holiday. If you don't know what makes her feel special, or she really doesn't mean that to you, then you've already lost.
What I'm hoping for is an offer from an organization I've had several interviews with. If I get the offer, I think I might give my current boss a nice card containing a Poem-of-Resignation.
Another idea that isn't quite ready for prime-time is sending lingerie and perfume to a thieving bastard I know in prison. It's not quite ready for prime-time because although he's been caught, he hasn't been to trial/convicted yet.
A card saying "I'd divorce you all over again" containing a coupon for STD screening for my ex-wife would be pretty funny (I caught her cheating).
"Lame" - Galaxar
Apparently you meant "take a holiday, subtract three months, and see who was born in that month," but it reads like "take someones birthday, subtract three months, and look for holidays." The former is correct, the latter isn't, hence the confusion.
It's not about the number of months, it's about which one is being subtracted from what.
...Cut a hole in a box.
Step 2: Put your junk in that box.
Step 3: Make her open the box.
And thats the way you do it.
get married on VD - she'll love it and unbeknownst to her, she lost a holiday - 2x win for guys....
The best one is the Dick in a Box as described in an SNL sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwbxEfy7fg
;-)
So this husband forgot Valentine Day and the wife was furious.
She told him in no uncertain terms that tomorrow morning she expected a gift in the driveway that goes from zero to 200 in less than ten seconds - AND IT BETTER BE THERE.
Next morning the husband leaves early. Later the wife awakes and looks out the window to spot a small gift-wrapped box in the driveway. So she puts on a robe and brings the box in the house to open it.
And inside is a brand new bathroom scale.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
You couldn't afford to make every day Christmas, but you wouldn't want to do without it altogether, so we've compromised on picking one day of the year to do it regularly.
My wife would have gotten her Valentine's Day gift anyway, but it is fun to time it for V-Day to underline the intent behind it.
You said:
Okay, let's see... someone says their birthday is in December. Subtract 3 months. So they were conceived in September? Uh... that would mean they were either in the womb for 3 months of 15.
So to answer your question, yes, you're really that stupid.
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round up a few friends/ family and a few Thomson Sub Machine Guns and a buncha ammo
track down her enemies get them all in a warehouse somewhere and....
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Does putting a picture of the clock on the stove into a Rolex box and wrapping it up count as a stunt?
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it is for emotional zeroes to steal romantic ideas from others.
I don't remember if it was Valentine's Day but there was this geeky guy on Slashdot who proposed marriage ON SLASHDOT! Wonder how that turned out for him.
Do really dense people warp space more than others?
You're not being trolled. You made a mistake in your original post. Go back and re-read it and think about it. You said:
1. get someone's birthday
2. subtract 3 months
3. tell them the holiday they were likely conceived on
However, if you were to subtract 3 months from someone's birthday, that would imply that they were conceived either 3 or 15 months before they were born. However, if you add 3 months to their birthday, then you will be able to locate the holiday they were possibly conceived on.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
All of my base
Are belong to you
(I didn't write it, but I think it's adorable)
I could not care less about valentine's day. Maybe it's because I'm not american but I've always thought it the most worthless piece of blatant commercial bullshit. Mother's day is only slightly less pointless (and I'm also a mother).
I expect a bit of fuss on my birthday, and hubby and I always, always book a babysitter and go out on our anniversary, and we both have a thing about starting the first second of the new year with a big kiss.... but valentine's day? Fergeddit - I don't need hallmark to tell me when to be romantic!
I guess I'm a lucky guy, I've made it well known to my girlfriend that I hate Valentine's Day (and really, really hate sweetest day) and she's ok with it. That doesn't mean I won't do anything, I just don't go out and spend $50 on some thoughtless gift. Last year she had ruined her favorite blanket by spilling hot wax on it so I found a replacement and put it in her car with a single flower during my lunch hour. Then I cooked dinner that night. This year I got a couple tickets to the local philharmonic that just happen to be playing her favorite beethoven symphony. All most girls really want is to know that the guy actually pays attention to them.
I would never date/marry a girl who required elaborite gifts else she throw a fit. I think it's a sign of selfishness and shows a lack of intelligence, being easily manipulated by the media.
I consider myself very lucky to have found my girlfriend, especially with us both being in our 30s. She actualy asked me what I wanted for V-day... that was something I've never heard a woman say before.
"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
I don't think I ever did anything specifically to attract a geek girl except buy a Zebra 301 pen. I was in an English course in college. This girl next to me needed to write something down. I lent her my pen. She wrote something on her folder. She handed back the pen. She said, "Nice pen."
It wasn't my pen, though. That afternoon I went to Office Depot and bought a Zebra 301 pen. I started wearing it in my shirt pocket.
All this because some girl said, "Nice pen."
Roadhouse.
Show her the star whose distance in light years is approximately equal to her age. The photons reaching our eyes left that star the year she was born. This revelation is always followed by a moment of silence, misty eyes, or a quiet "wow". After tickling her brain, hugs & kisses come easily...
Here's a cheat sheet to help you select the right star: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_bright_stars and here's a site to help you locate the chosen star: http://www.heavens-above.com/ (use the constellations page & the whole sky chart).
Next year, she'll be a year older, and it will be a different star. We sometimes do this on her birthday.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
Yeah, he was some geeky guy
i suck, i'm a moron
(red faced)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I have a long distance relationship, several states over, so I don't get to see my girlfriend often. This summer I'm moving out to be with her, so last Christmas I tried to make things go extra well. To prepare for Valentines day, when I knew I wouldn't be able to be there, I hid ten slips of paper all over her room with passwords on them. I gave her clues to find the next one each time she found one, in the form of little riddles. She's found all of them now, and I'm about to send her a box with a microcontroller/display that won't open without the passwords. Inside are some personal things, and candy, a letter, etc.
I was inspired by another project that was location-locked. It had a GPS and merely displayed the distance to the unlock location when a button was pressed.
Seriously, there's a lot to be said for a nice kiss, hug and a sincere "I Love You" - though my wife and I did that every day anyway (yes, every day) for 20 years. She died of a brain tumor in January 2006 and I still give her a kiss, hug and an "I Love You" - every day - with the addition of "I Miss You".
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
It wasn't a Valentine's day stunt, but none the less the effect it has been long lasting since it occurs in 2007. It was for the 21st B-day of my secret lover known since high school. She is been very popular in college and also in med-school now.
So to build a more solid relationship, I handed her some of my personal statements for application to graduate school, and also some scientific papers for her to proofread. Some of the get accepted. So an idea pop up... " Hey let's throw her a surprise party on her 21st birthday!" At that point, her birthday is almost 200 days ahead. So to ensure proper operation, I organized a facebook group called "Lolo's Columbus day 21st birthday surprise --- organizing committee" (it no longer exist) for this purpose. IT was suppose to be top secret. But apparently, word has been arrived to my potential competitor, so he also organize something trying to sabotage my birthday campaign. He somehow come up with facebook accounts operate under a fake name and under an university he is NOT related in any kind (through the use of social engineering methods), and pretend to be one of our campaign staff, and then trying to harass the girl through bombarding her facebook wall.
Without going into detail, our version of the birthday party did not occur, but his version does. And she decide not to talk to me anymore. I should have made a "response", but my family situation coupled with graduate coursework just made my limit, so I decide to ignore the situation.
Now, i realize what I have lost. Now I have to undergo a "reconciliation campaign" just to rebuild the relationship... I am running out of time... .Doomsday 2012 is coming..... She is the first girl i met since I moved into this country in 2001.......
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I was part of a small singing group (a quartet) back in my early college days. The quartet would do four-part singing Valentines as a fundraiser for the music program. I was engaged at the time, and decided to pull one over on my wife to be. While delivering some of the singing valentines in the campus commons area, we sang one after another after another, while the director just shuffled us from table to table. Sometimes we would ask for the target first and deliver a Valentines note or card from our customer. Other times, we would sing first and had over the card afterwards.
We approached the table where my fiancee and her friends were sitting, and then broke into our rendition of "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree With Anyone Else But Me." At the conclusion of the song, our director announced "To [my fiancee's first name], from Robert," at which time I made myself look shocked and loudly proclaimed, " Who's Robert?!?! ".
When the look of panic set in on her face and she started insisting that she didn't know any Robert, I ended the gag and said, "I know. That was from me." I'm not sure if she really wanted to kill me over the next few minutes, but she was laughing about it shortly thereafter. To this day, 17 years later, she loves telling that story to friends old and new, and we all laugh and laugh and laugh.
~Robert
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
Make sure you use Y2KY jelly. It allows you to fit four digits into your date instead of two.
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
i mean, roses only last like a couple weeks
and that's if you leave them in water
and they really only exist to be pretty
so that's like saying "my love for you is transitory and based solely on your appearance"
but a potato!
potatos last for fucking ever, man
in fact, not only will they not rot, they actually grow shit even if you just leave them in the sack
that part alone makes it a good symbol
but there's more!
there are so many ways to enjoy a potato! you can even make a battery with it!
and that's like saying "i have many ways in which I show my love for you"
and potatos may be ugly, but they're still awesome
so that's like saying "it doesn't matter at all what you look like, I'll still love you"
My girlfriend was in a bad mood the other day and as a result she started ranting about how much she hates Valentine's Day-- because it's something that's just become commercialized and a huge deal when it really shouldn't be. The best part of this is that I know women well enough to know that despite her protestations, she'd love it if I did something for her on Valentine's Day. Now if only I could decide on what to do...
Any advice from a woman about what they would like?
Also, Valentine's Day isn't just for a man to do something nice for a woman. A woman could do something nice for a man.
Or, y'know... a man for a man. If both men are into that kind of thing. Because if he's not, then it will sure be a surprise, and not the good kind.
Towards the Singularity.
Show her the star whose distance in light years is approximately equal to her age. The photons reaching our eyes left that star the year she was born.
My wife's age is closest to the star Beta Virginis. I can see it now "So you're saying you want me to be a born again virgin???? *slams door*" Thanks a bunch dude!
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
While at work one VD several years ago, I was summoned to the reception area for a delivery. There stood two smiling strangers with balloons and a large, covered, silver platter. A card was taped to the platter's lid.
I thanked them and wanted to take the platter to the relative privacy of my desk, but no, I needed to open it there so they could see my reaction. That made me a bit nervous...
I first read the card. It had a poem that ended with something sweet and sappy like '...and I give my heart to you.' It was from my girlfriend; we had been seeing each other for only about a month.
I then lifted the silver cover to reveal a real heart, roughly the size of a football! OMG, I was equally shocked and fascinated. My co-workers were definitely grossed out.
My GF got the bull's heart from a friend that worked in a cattle slaughter house. It eventually ended up in a nearby dumpster.
FWIW, due in part to such an awesome stunt, we're working on our 22nd year of marriage.
Buy a dozen Roses, Throw one out. Include card "At first glance it might seem the blooms are short one. Stand in front of the mirror to see the missing and by far the best rose." My wife still has her card.
Are there no (straight) female slashdot readers? Anyone else dislike the implicit bias in this story?
then I jump 12 busses on a motorcycle on the way to her sisters house...
I dont fuck her though. Instead I let her fuck me and let her think that it was her idea.
Ask me how?
I'm Tiger Words Nigga!
"What's wrong with a kiss, boy? Hmm? Why not start her off with a nice kiss? You don't have to go leaping straight for the clitoris like a bull at a gate. Give her a kiss, boy!"
A few years ago, I was complaining to my then-girlfriend about how much I hated dealing with airports and flying. She mentioned that she had never been in a plane before, but wanted to try it. So for a Valentines day surprise, I got a friend of mine who was getting his pilot's license to put me in touch with one of his friends from a small local airport. I talked to the guy, and he agreed to take me and my girlfriend up in a small plane for about a 20 minute flight. We flew over our town, found our houses, flew over the lake and dam, and since she was sitting in the copilots seat she even got to fly for about 10 seconds. She would have flown longer but we decided not to let her after she sent us into a steep dive. ;)
Is that right for all girls? No, some would be scared out of their minds. She was admittedly a bit nervous, but I knew she wouldn't be the type to back down, she's pretty athletic and a bit of a tomboy. She absolutely LOVED it, and told all of her friends. It was something that made her feel very special, and even though we're not together anymore, remembering the look on her face when I told her what we were going to do while we pulled into the airport, and remembering how she looked at me when we left from the airport, I still can't help but smile.
You don't have to do something incredibly cheesy or embarrassing, but sometimes little stunts like these that you will both enjoy can be more memorable than anything else you could do.
read through the Darwin Awards
I'm shure you'll find some stunts there, that are crazy enough for you... happy imitating...
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
Somehow I doubt that the author of the article is truly geeky. Those ideas sound forced and artificial, not to mention somewhat inarticulate.
And, what the hell, Valentine's day shouldn't just be about pandering to the girl's whims. Leaving aside the fact that Valentine's is a completely artificial holiday designed to boost retail sales of chocolate, bad lacy red lingerie, plant genitals, etc., there are many more genuine, simple ways of showing togetherness than eating out at an overpriced restaurant with bad service and worse food.
Try:
- cuddling
- stargazing (works best if it's a bit cold outside, and of course the weather must cooperate)
- buying that second PS3/XBox360/other console, form a clan and go whoop n00b a$$ together (be careful to let each other make a few game-winning kills though)
- watch some movies and criticize plot holes and movie science together
- foreplay
- bubble bath for two
- read mathematical proofs to each other
- turn off the heater and stave off hypothermia together
a cunning stunt.
I asked if her father would let us marry
He accepted. She accepted.
Biggest mistake of my life.
Seriously. Can you tell me any other day when a UPS uniform and a pack of pralines or a bunch of flowers gets you access anywhere?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
A 69...
One in the pink, one in the stink.
I adopted a kepler star for her...
and cuddle all day long...
God's gift to chicks
Listen up, his wife is not happy anyway, is she, otherwise he wouldn't feel compelled to do something for her to make her so. There are fucking COUNTLESS marriages that no longer involve what you so mystically refer to as romantic love, they're not sad, and you are a "dreamchaser" to imagine that they are. The world is a tough fucking place at times, and we're not entitled to heart-thumpy shit 24/7, 7 days a week for 40 years. Sometimes you get it a while, sometimes you never get it. That doesn't invalidate your existence. Or your relationship. A marriage isn't any more a continuous porn show than it is dopey-eyed endorphin-saturated "bliss". Getting along well with your "partner", even when there is no great attraction or "love" for undefined periods of time, is an exercise in maturity and wisdom. That little effort, that little stimulus, that little push, can sometimes make all the difference and come back to you in countless ways. Sometimes well later. And sometimes we need to be reminded of that. I give the GP credit for at least WANTING to make his wife happy in the way she expects. Get off his case. He's trying his way - he doesn't need you to moralise about his actions. Maybe she's a troll, or uncontrollably depressive, or any number of other things that make his life harder, and he stays with her for the sake of her mental health or for the family. Maybe he "gives his life" so that others may have some.
As for "modern" romantic love - it's profoundly pathetic at it's core - a rather recent invention - emotionally crippling - infantile and ridden with self-entitlement at times, and despite what the movies would have you believe, "happily ever after" does not exist. Ever.
Don't get me wrong - I enjoyed, and enjoy, those rushes when they come. It's commercial horseshit, but maybe V-day really does save some relationships at times, precisely because it does FORCE some people to take that extra step.
Best stunt could be going up and down! - we call it fucking!
I'm actually impressed with how many guys on Slashdot actually have wives or girlfriends. There is hope. Now if I could just get her to change...
Works very well. You don't need to know how to make a large variety of dishes. Just learn to make a few VERY well. Also, around date 5-7, buy a reasonable bottle of champagne and make chocolate covered strawberries. That seems to work very well for me. Women appreciate effort.
A couple years back, I tried this Valentine's Day stunt.
I went around to every gal at work and with a nice smile told them that I was giving out kisses for Valentine's Day.
After giving them a moment (there were some funny expressions), I looked them in the eye, leaned forward, and held out a Hersey's Kiss on the palm of my hand. Lots of smiles and laughs from that one.
Side note: I once had a boyfriend who was doing an internship at a community clinic, which was mostly frequented by people needing testing or treatment for STIs (sexually transmitted infections), so he joked that he was working in the VD clinic on V-Day.
My suggestion for impressing your date: take him or her to The Vagina Monologues. Always a good time.