Romancing the … no, I can’t say it
February 10th, 2010
I’ve got a discussion going on the other blog today about “What is romantic?” in honor of Valentine’s Day. That’s probably where the action will be, so go check it out.
And here’s a little story I’m not sharing with the boston.com crowd: yesterday, I was doing a radio interview on the same topic. What is romance, do men and women define it differently, media versus actual people’s ideas of romance, etc. During the entire interview, Milo was sitting at my feet, happily pleasuring himself.
No, I didn’t mention it. That, my friends, is what it means to be a professional.
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I think it’s funny that everyone on boston.com is referring to Valentine’s Day as VD!
I KNOW!!
Your story about Milo makes me very happy that the Schnauzer is a girl. : )
When you own a male dog, E.A., you never look at lipstick the same way again.
We **did** have a male dog, once. One. Back when I was a kid. After that experience, Mom vowed never to have a male dog again. He’d wait until we had company to do what you describe in your post above. Always and only when we had company.
ROTFL at the tube of lipstick thing. : )
I think those of us who still us the term “VD” are dating ourselves…though not in the Milo way.
A couple years ago I had to explain to my septuagenarian boss why I found her new license plate amusing. (It could be read “For STD, sixty-nine…”)
She still didn’t get it.
Apparently, Jerry, even STDs now are respectable “Save the Date” invites for weddings! Mr. Improbable and I got an STD just this week, in fact.
I honestly wasn’t sure if some of the posters were using it deliberately. I had a phase in my 20′s where I would equate pink frilly things and sappy sentiment with the other VD. As in equally uncomfortable.
I’m pretty sure that the respectability upgrade for STD hasn’t trickled down to the middle-class midwest yet :-)
Well, it’s certainly popular in Springfield, Missouri:
http://robinabrahams.com/2009/12/acronyms-gone-bad-abg-rural-edition/
Ha! :-)
I do feel bad for businesses that choose names that will somehow later turn into really bad slang. I half-remember an article a year or so back about the owners of (something like) Wilson’s Tree Farm being denied a vanity license plate with the company’s initials. The older couple was horrified when they heard why.
I just bought a standard pillow at Target, and it showed up on my receipt as an STD pillow!