re: #175 zombie

Interesting info from wikipedia (which can be useful at times, on non-political topics):

“English eighteenth-century antiquarians Alban Butler and Francis Douce, noting the obscurity of Saint Valentine’s identity, suggested that Valentine’s Day was created as an attempt to supersede the pagan holiday of Lupercalia. This idea has lately been contested by Professor Jack Oruch of the University of Kansas. Many of the current legends that characterise Saint Valentine were invented in the fourteenth century in England, notably by Geoffrey Chaucer and his circle, when the feast day of February 14 first became associated with romantic love.”

I had always heard that Valentine’s Day was just a Christianization of Lupercalia — surprising to learn that it isn’t after all!

Chaucer - the rogue agent of the Greeting Card Company Conspiracy!