Valentines Day

[Drguano]

I figure there aren’t too many Puritans on a cigar smoking web site but if there are, these are for you!

[El Presidente]

When you want to send a message that is less committal. 

 

[JohnS]

Aah, the good ol' days when even Christmas celebrations were banned for some time under the Puritans!

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/christmas-under-puritans

[Drguano]

37 minutes ago, JohnS said:

Aah, the good ol' days when even Christmas celebrations were banned for some time under the Puritans!

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/christmas-under-puritans

Philip Stubbes' complaint in the Anatomie of Abuses (1583), which dealt with the celebrations as part of a broad attack on the theatre and other follies of the nation, was that Christmas was the time of the year when the abuses were most flagrant. "Who is ignorant," he asked, that at Christmas time "more mischief is committed than in all the year besides? What masking and mumming? whereby robberies, whoredom, murder, and what not, is committed? What dicing and carding, what banqueting and feasting, is then used more than in all the year besides!"

Yes, I always thought whoring goes hand in hand with Christmas!