PROCLAMATION (and also poetry)

[jazzfish]

WHEREAS, the Feast of St. Valentine has repeatedly proven offensive or inconvenient to the majority of the American People;

WHEREAS, the Feast of St. Valentine has been demonstrably debased by unseemly commercialism and rapacious greed;

WHEREAS, all attempts to celebrate the Feast of St. Valentine in the common way debase the true arts of love;

WHEREAS, the above factors in combination have continued to cause strife,discomfort and misery in the Greater Portion of the American People;

WHEREAS, the activities surrounding the Feast of St. Valentine debase and shame the American People;

AND WHEREAS, a more appropriate and honorable claim to that day exists;

NOW, THEREFORE, we decree that the celebration of the Feast of St. Valentine be hereby ABOLISHED;

AND WE FURTHER ORDER that the Fourteenth Day of February each year be rededicated to the celebration of the birth of Joshua Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, who, by the grace of God, ruled his people wisely and well for more than twenty years.

(originally by kfringe; if you re-post, please link back to this post.)

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Tomorrow is St. Valentine’s Day,
And Alphonse has a score:
Let in the guys, that after play
Never departed more.

--John M. Ford

Comments

[jadelennox]

GIP!

[isolde-deely.livejournal.com]

all hail emperor Norton!

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

And I trust Emperor Norton, maybe more than I have trusted any Emperor who ever lived and claimed that title.

(Can we still keep Half-Price Chocolate Day please? Please please?)

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Naturally stores will order a lot of chocolate to be eaten at Norton Day parties, and there will be some left over...

[jazzfish]

Hear, hear.

(Half-price Chocolate Day is MANDATORY, Citizen.)

choice

[stormking.livejournal.com]

that is the awesome.

[laughin.livejournal.com]

Awesome, except that today is Ben Houseknecht day - my best friend in college. But maybe I will choose not to celebrate Joshua Norton I day except to take the day off.

[absolutliz.livejournal.com]

Any chance that there will be Emperor Norton-shaped chocolate covered marshmallows? Because those are a delicious way to celebrate any day.

[jazzfish]

Chocolate-covered marshmallows shaped like the hat in this picture of him would be AWESOME.

[uilos.livejournal.com]

It's also National Donor Day. Have a heart - donate yours. :)

[rbandrews]

I'm using mine. Can I donate someone else's? :-)

[uilos.livejournal.com]

Sure, but you have to remove it on your own.

[rbandrews]

Oh, with pleasure...

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

Happy Nortonmas!

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

from here http://beatonna.livejournal.com/23574.html

[jazzfish]

:) I am much amused. I feel like that myself some days.