# Doper Valentines Exchange **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763 "2004-01-23T14:25:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/241 "2004-02-13T04:36:33Z")
I received SEVEN more cards today! Thanks, **LurkMeister,** **dantheman,** **NoClueBoy,** **Shannablu,** **FairyChatMom,** **Scuba Ben,** and **Steve Wright (from across the pond!)** Krisfer: yep, that’s me! Art and I would like to sing you a love song in honor of Valentine’s Day… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/242 "2004-02-13T04:54:16Z")
Got more! **Andros\_X** - I will use this at the Dopefest! Whenever I go to one… **Lurkmeister** - a choice manly 'tine for another guy. 🙂 **Scuba\_Ben** - Shops at the same store as Lurkmeister! Sweet little metal hearts. **Irreverant Tone** - I can now tell fortunes! Scooby style. **FairyChatMom** - Yes, metallic confetti DOES go through the USPO. **Shannablu** - Very sweet sentiments. Right back atcha, darlin’ **VivaLosTwages** - Where did you find that old photo of me, T’Pring? **twickster** - A very cool bookmark. Yeay! **Romansperson** - ANOTHER very cool bookmark! **Scout1222** - REAL KISSES! I mean it, REAL kisses! **Pandora** - (with the preAbrahamic covenant name) I thought those were candy hearts! Yes, I’m going to post a response to every 'tine I get. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/243 "2004-02-13T05:23:35Z")
A spate o’ cards arrived today from **Pandora, Irreverent Tone, Ultraviolet, Featherlou, Theo, Romansperson, Avarie537, earthpuppy.** Thanks, all! And to think I never used to care much for Valentine’s Day… Wow, **earthpuppy** , you must have spent days on the gorgeous doily heart and that incredible envelope! **Romansperson** : Beautiful bookmark for this happy bookworm! **avarie** : Nice job with the create-a-card program. 🙂 Heck, they’re all cute. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/244 "2004-02-13T05:41:15Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > \*who wasn’t on my list - fortunately I have extras I can mail out tomorrow Did you get the full list? If not, that’s why you got cards from people who weren’t on your list. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![skittles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@skittles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skittles)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/245 "2004-02-13T13:58:01Z")
Just wanted to say - I’ve gotten a slew of cards already - will post more in detail as time permits. Unfortunately - mine have yet to go out. They will be late - sorry! But they will still be filled with tons of Doper Love!!! ---
**Author:** ![maggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@maggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/246 "2004-02-13T14:02:52Z")
As a first time participant in the doper valentine, I am amazed at the beautfiul cards I am getting…Lurkmeister, Pandora, Averie…thank you…it is so nice - my husband is laughing at me because I get so excited I have so many valentines! As one of the few Canadian members apparently, I am only sorry it took me so long to find the SDMB! Maggy / aka Lynn ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/247 "2004-02-13T14:10:07Z")
I’ve gotten six cards already, and it’s not even Valentine’s Day yet! This is soooo cool! Every day, I run through the house screaming, “I got ANOTHER Valentine’s Day card! I got TWO Valentine’s day card!” I have confetti all over the floor in my foyer (where I stand and open my mail), and my kids keep asking me if I’m going to sweep it up. “It’s staying there,” I’ve told them. Every time I walk through the foyer, I walk in confetti. It’s getting tracked through the house and I’m finding little glittery and pastel hearts here and there. It is so, so, so cool. Little heart reminders of all my new friends all over the place. My daughter came home from college for the weekend and saw all my Valentine’s Day cards. “Where did you get all of these?” she asked me. “You have STRANGERS sending you Valentine’s Day cards?” she asked me horrified when I told her. “They aren’t strangers,” I explained, “They’re my friends from Straight Dope. AND THEY SENT ME VALENTINE’S DAY CARDS!” This is so, so, so, so, sooooo cool! Oh, I would like to personally thank no only everyone on my list, but a Hats Off Thank You to Scuba Ben for putting together the lists (and making sure we got them). ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/248 "2004-02-13T15:13:02Z")
So, last night LilMiss gets the mail. “MO–OOOMMMMM!!!” “What?” “You got a TON of Valentines!” “No, you CAN’T open them for me!” “Aw…crap” 😃😃😃 There were at least 10 Valentines! W00T! I was kind enough to let her open a few (after she separated the ‘shaky- noise-makey’ ones- **I** wanted to open those!). THANKS ALL! ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/249 "2004-02-13T17:41:06Z")
**YOU** are my favorite Doper.[sub]Don’t tell anyone I said that on _all_ my cards![/sub] :: smooch :: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/250 "2004-02-13T18:52:04Z")
Wednesday, I got two. Thursday, I got one. Today, on Friday February 13th, I got _13!_ Big Beautiful Doper Valentines. My mailman must think I am really, really loved (or a slut). I bought a box of chocolate truffles with a really cool Valetine’s Day inspired red and pink cover. Tomorrow night I shall make a cup of cocoa, eat the truffles, and open all the Doper Valetine Cards. Then they will go into the now-empty box, and I will keep them forever. This is so much fun! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/251 "2004-02-13T19:56:09Z")
Well, I can go home and rummage through my mailbox with a clear conscience – I just finished sealing, addressing, stamping, and putting return address labels on **33** Doper ValentinesTM. Enjoy, all – I know I’m enjoying the gorgeous and silly and wonderful valentines I’ve been getting. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/252 "2004-02-13T21:28:42Z")
Got more! **Stargazer** - who turns out to be a girl and NOT a monkey who’s evolution is being guided by a monolith sent a very nice custom made card. **Archergal** - who is also not a monkey, sent a very nice custom card. **Featherlou** - sent me Pepe! And a game! **look!ninjas** - covered me in tiny hearts and a Walt Whitman poem. Purdy. **Sanguine Spider** - informs me that she wants to go dancing next weekend. Sure! **Steve Wright** - sent me ROYAL mail! I didn’t know you were part of the Royal Family. [wink, wink] And it was a custom, made for me only, sci-fi hot babes card! Whee! Um, lessee… Space 1999, Dr Who, Blake’s Seven. and The Prisoner? I’m probably wrong, but as long as they’re hot!, who cares? **EarthPuppy** - sent an envelope so pretty, I didn’t even open it. Okay, I did, and it was a lacy thingy, very girlie and very pretty. Wow. I am now shamed that I only sent you fuzz, lint, and an old spitwad. **misstee** - sent a way too cute custom card. And hearts on the envelope! **DirkGently** - sent me cigarrette butts! Whee! And a very nice card. **HorseFlesh** - sent me $20 for a lap dance from my stripper exGF. And a 1920s style LOVE ray. (e-mail when you’re coming through, and we’ll exchange #s for a miniDopefest hook up. Maybe I can get JoeK and the others from the OK list to join us fer beers or something.) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/253 "2004-02-13T21:36:30Z")
The recent posts - regarding valentines received - reminds me of the current Kay Jewelers commercial, the one where the little girl gives her boy classmate a valentine, and he looks puzzled at first and then hands her a jar with a toad in it. Priceless, huh? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/254 "2004-02-13T22:29:01Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > **Steve Wright** - whose picture is that? It’s either Diana Rigg in _The Avengers_ or Joanna Lumley in _The New Avengers_ - I may have no imagination, but I have a bunch of DVD box sets, and a scanner … (Today’s haul - thanks [again!] **Pandora** , and **scout1222**!) ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/255 "2004-02-13T23:02:48Z")
I am finally ON IT! First load went out today, but my offspring was hogging the puter so I couldn’t get addresses off it to send out the rest! A couple of disclaimers: **Stargazer** see above reason why your’s is addressed to your username **Theo** I couldnt read your handwriting so its coming to just Theo **Avarie** obviously computer print out isn’t much better for me… I misspelled your last name… jeeeeez… Though I bet it isn’t the first time someone has misspelled it. More will go out tomorrow! Thanks bushels to everyone who has sent me cards! They’ll make great bookmarks throughout the year! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/256 "2004-02-13T23:35:47Z")
Jumpin’ Jesus on a pogo stick! I want y’all to know… handmade or storebought, male or female, whatever - these are REALLY making my year. Thank you all very much! Today I got cards from: \*\*Avarie Blonde BrattiAtii Featherlou PHall0106 rocking chair Sheepi Siege \*\* Man, the effort that was put into these must have been tremendous! And all I did was stuff Harry Potter and Mr. Doo into envelopes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/257 "2004-02-13T23:39:46Z")
Jackpot! Yesterday and today I received a whole bunch of valentine cards, too many for me to conveniently count. Thanks and hugs to everybody! This has been so much fun! I took the cards in to work today, and set them up in my cube. I kept it all very low key, to remind me why I like this place and all the people here. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/258 "2004-02-14T00:10:36Z")
**NoClueBoy** , you’re the first to get one of my valentines? COOL! And where shall we go for the merriment? I got five more cards today, thanks to: **FairyPrincessKitty** - That was a cute one, my daughter keeps stealing it from the pile… she loves pooh, Winnie the Pooh, that is! **Andros\_X** - yum! Wicked sweet tooth of mine shall enjoy your eartly delights! And I pick… hmmm, ALL the cute Doper guys. 😃 **NoClueBoy** - You love me, doncha? I know from the love to confetti ratio! You think I’m cute, too. **Avari537** - very cool card, miss. Dopers and chickens both love Cecil! **BrattiAtti** - I like how you enhanced yours! I should have done more to my store bought ☹ . I can’t wait for the rest! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/259 "2004-02-14T00:17:03Z")
Wow! I got a Valentine from **NoClueBoy** and I didn’t even sign up! Thank you so much! You have no idea how big a smile that put on my face 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![shannablu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@shannablu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shannablu)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763/260 "2004-02-14T00:17:58Z")
I can’t believe how creative some of the dopers are out there. Next year I think I will make my own instead of buying them, I promise. **Maggy** - I love the pop-up card, that was just too cute. **DirkGntly** - Thanks so much for the thought. **look!ninjas** - It was so beautiful I almost cried. **SanguineSpider** - I liked the addition of the personal note. **Misstee** - What a sweet handmade card, it was lovely. **Blonde** - The first person to send **Horseflesh** and I a joint card. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-valentines-exchange/225763.md?page=14)