Be your own valentine
Posted by E190 on February 14, 2007
It’s everyone’s favourite day today! Yay! Valentine’s Day! The day when single people worldwide are informed that we’re pathetic lumps of some unknown blobby, emotionless substance with no worth to society in general or to that phantom potential someone in particular.
To make everything that much more fun and real, also on this day in 1389 in Strasbourg, 2000 Jews were accused of causing the bubonic plague by poisoning the city’s wells. All 2000 were then burned alive and Jews were subsequently banned from the city for 100 years. Similar murderous acts were committed against Jews all over Europe around this time.
Hurray for being a single Jew on a day named after a Christian martyr for people who feel all superior because there are 2 of them! Hurray!
Prof. Kurt Jacobi said
To be fair to our Gallic friends, Strasbourg was considered a German city at the time this happened. A more subtle but equally cruel medieval French reprisal for the alleged “crime” would have involved being forced to down flat champagne, stale Swiss chocolate and a ham sandwich with escargots on the Sabbath at a two-star cafe with surly waiters. Understandably, some would have chosen the stake instead.
E190 said
I’m not convinced the two are equal but I’ll grant you that’d be pretty bad, especially if it were milk chocolate.
ChooChoo said
hmm… You know, I bet that if I eat enough of those little candy heart thingys, I can swell up to twice my original size. Then it’ll be almost as if there’s two of me.
E190 said
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
*cough*sputter*
Hahahahahahahaha!
sigh…
That made my -20C morning :-)
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