{"id":1184,"date":"2008-02-14T23:26:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T04:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1184"},"modified":"2008-02-14T23:26:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T04:26:17","slug":"adios-valentines-day-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1184","title":{"rendered":"Adios Valentine&#8217;s Day 2008&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Valentine&#8217;s Day would be complete without a heartwarming story of true love succeeding against impossible odds?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=514170&amp;in_page_id=1770\"><strong>Married prison psychologist fell pregnant after affair with mentally-ill inmate<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A married psychologist is about to have a baby by a mentallyill prisoner after one-to-one therapy sessions, a court heard yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Reeves, 30, had sex with the convicted criminal in the lavatories of a secure hospital unit while escorting him to the gym.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently being treated for paranoid schizophrenia at Ashworth secure hospital, where patients include Moors murderer Ian Brady.\n<\/p>\n<p>Reeves &#8211; whose husband also worked at the unit &#8211; said she loves the prisoner and plans to raise the child with him if he is ever considered safe enough to be released.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other news, Fark.Com is having their <span class=\"headline\">annual design a Valentine card you&#8217;d send to an ex<\/span><span class=\"headline\"> Valentine&#8217;s Day photoshop theme&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"491\" alt=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/img249.imageshack.us\/img249\/9625\/j03864361bc3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And you thought I was bitter.&nbsp; So&#8230;to any knuckle-dragging homophobes who might be thinking that my little Valentine&#8217;s Day poster contest is only proof that The Gay Lifestyle<sup>tm<\/sup> is inherently desperate and lonely: just peruse the cannonballs being lobbed across the gender fence over at Fark.Com.&nbsp; Or just google &quot;anti-valentine&quot;.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a lot of discontent out there on the heterosexual side of the street too.&nbsp; And I&#8217;ll bet you pinched faced, uptight blue noses are responsible for a lot of <em>That<\/em> too.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And in other Valentine&#8217;s Day headlines&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswatch50.com\/news\/national\/story.aspx?content_id=28270c38-8bd5-4d14-aec4-41675119a120\"><strong>Razer blade found in Valentine&#8217;s Day lollipop<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080213\/ap_on_fe_st\/odd_valentine_s_divorce\"><strong>Radio station giving away free divorce<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfgate\/detail?blogid=19&amp;entry_id=24244\"><strong>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day From The Storm Worm<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/localnews\/stories\/DN-candy_14met.ART.West.Edition1.45064fa.html\"><strong>Don&#8217;t let stale chocolates leave a bad taste in your valentine&#8217;s mouth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently some of those Valentine&#8217;s Day treats have been sitting on the shelves past their use-by date.&nbsp; Kinda ironic, when you think about it&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>And finally, some random entires from this Fark.Com finish the sentence contest:&nbsp; <strong><em><span class=\"headline\">I knew this was going to be the worst first date ever when&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>she brought out those beancans and started cutting up that squirrel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He brought a can of corn along on the date.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>he asked to meet me in the Winn Dixie parking lot. &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;he squealed the tires pulling out of my mother&#8217;s driveway, then told me he had problems telling left from right because he&#8217;d smashed one too many<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When I realized that every time he smiled he looked like George W. Bush.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>when he told me how much he still loved his ex-girlfriend.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He showed up at the restaurant with plastic cutlery and said one can never be too careful when it comes to germs.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>he told me &quot;masturbation was getting kinda old&quot;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When I kissed him and couldn&#8217;t get the taste of butter out of my mouth for a week.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My date brought me a hot cocoa sampler pack instead of flowers.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The second sentence she says to me, and I quote: &quot;The way [blank] described you, I thought you would be hotter.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I got my ass handed to me in Star Wars Trivial Pursuit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>she wanted to cuddle afterwards.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Goodbye Valentine&#8217;s Day 2008.&nbsp; It was&#8230;swell.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s do it again sometime&#8230;okay?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Valentine&#8217;s Day would be complete without a heartwarming story of true love succeeding against impossible odds? 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