I think it's bollocks as well.

But I got a valentine card this morning. And no, it wasn't from me.

I've even put a red t-shirt on today
--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Buen mueble de patio)
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

 

It arrived then. ;-)

 

You can't think Valentines Day is bollocks and then post to say you've
received a card, 'cos that must mean that it - Valentines Day - does
mean something to you, thereby disproving your subject line. So there.

I got one too, by the way. And a traditional[1] Valentines Day
chocolate cake.

Ged
[1]Starting this year, apparently

 

I arranged our 'Food For Lurve' buffet at work today. Contributions
from the IT team included 145 cocktail sausages and food totally
18,440 calories.

 

If there's chocolate, I'm in.

 

Why?

 

You remember Star Trek? The original series? Well, the Security guy,
the one in the red shirt escorting the Away Team - he never comes
back.

"It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim ... "

 

And the other character that always dies is the newly introduced one you've
never heard of before.

Ali

 

"Redshirt" is now common slang among sci-fi/space opera fans for
disposable minor (usually appearing in a single episode) cast members
destined only to die, often messily.

Also, note the surname of the Babylon 5 head of security (series 1-3),
and look up an alternative meaning for that name...

 

So the shirt is red so as not to show the blood, so does not need
laundering before being reused in the next epsisode? Khaki would be a
better choice.

 

Newbies beware, Ali speaks the truth.

 

CBA, just tell me, it's B5 trivia I don't know.

 

Hang on. Zack Allen? Garibaldi? I know I'm a serious B5 fan, but that lost
me.

Ali

 

It's even more likely if said person is the gorgeous bird that the Captain
falls for.

Ali

 

I knew the united Italy bit, but not the red shirt thing. I'll bet bloody
Straczynski did, though.

Ali

 

<mode=Bear C'n'P comedy quote>
"Why is it that so many biscuits are named after revolutionaries?
You've got your Bourbon, your Garibaldi and your Peek Frean's Trotsky
assortment".
</mode>

 

Champ likes The Young Ones *and* Comic Strip?

****, I must be older than I thought :-(

 

Pfft, one decent story does not a genius make.

 

If nothing else, it was as good an excuse for a slap up dinner courtesy
of Heston Blumenthal.

Mmm, tasty, and thoroughly recommended.

 

Michael Garibaldi. The Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi was
known for wearing red shirts, and his followers were known as "Red
Shirts" (although in Italian, obviously) as their unofficial uniform
was copied from him. I believe a certain style of red shirt or blouse
is still known as a Garibaldi.

Either that or biscuits.