Special Valentine's Day Edition
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GEHS February, 2015 Volume XIV, Issue VII SPECIAL VALENTINE’S DAY EDITION What did the boy rabbit say to Sweet Laughs To the girl rabbit on Valentine's Day? Inside this issue: Make Your Day - “Some bunny likes you!” If your aunt ran off to get mar- Pick up Lines 2 Do skunks celebrate Valentine's ried, What would you call her? ROSES ARE Day? - Sure, they are very scent - Aunt - Elope 3- -imental! RED Love Is In the Air What did the little girl sheep say What did one pickle say to the 7 to the little boy sheep on Valen- other? - "You mean a great dill tine’s Day? - “You are not So February Festivities 9 to me." Baaaaaaaaaaa-d Yourself!” VIOLETS ARE What did the paper clip say to What did the caveman give his 13 the magnet? - "I find you very Fun Zone wife on Valentine's Day? - Ughs BLUE attractive." and kisses! What did the bat say to his girl- Around School 14 What did the boy cat say to the friend? - "You are fun to hang GEHS IS THE girl cat on Valentine's Day? around with." Sports 16 - You are purrr-fect for me! What did the man with the bro- BEST AND ken leg say to his nurse? - "I What did the boy bee say to the Cupids Corner 18 have got a crutch on you!" girl bee on Valentine's Day? - THE You are bee- utiful! Will you bee What do you call a very small mine? valentine? - A valentiny! What did the elephant say to his What did one oar say to the oth- STUDENTS girlfriend? - "I love you a ton!" Special points of interest: er? - "Can I interest you in a little row-mance?" Do you have a date for Valentines day? - Yes, ARE TOO! Teacher Conferences— "Whale you be my Valentine?" February 14th. Thursday 2/12 and - "Dolphinately" (continues on page 7) Tuesday 2/17 4:00 to 7:30 Washington's Birth- Presidents’ Day! day, also known as Teacher In-Service Presidents' Day, is a national holiday held on the third Monday of February. This patriotic day was originally started in 1885 to cele- Friday, February 13th brate both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays. No School During that time period, there were two Presidents’ Days because Lincoln’s birthday was on February 12th but Washington’s was on February 22nd. The citizens found this somewhat confusing, which is why in 1950 Congress made the official name to this holiday Presidents’ President’s Day Day, to celebrate all the president’s not just Washington and Lincoln. However, Americans did not accept it because they did not think all the presidents deserved recognition. Things changed Monday, February 16th in 1971 when the government declared the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create No School more 3-day weekends for the nation’s workers and Presidents’ Day was moved to February. Americans eventually learned to accept it. NO SCHOOL FEBRUARY 16TH. Page 2 February Festivities The Torch Valentine’s Day Massacre—That Which Occurred in ‘29 February 14, 1929, five members of the North Side Gang, plus gang collaborators Reinhardt H. Schwimmer and John May, were lined up against the rear inside wall of the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side, and executed. Two of the shooters were dressed as uniformed police officers, while the others wore suits, ties, overcoats and hats, according to witnesses who saw the "police" leading the other men at gunpoint out of the garage after the shooting. This shooting became known as the “Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre,” due to its date. This was a metaphorical message sent by notorious crime boss, Al Capone, to rival gangster Bugs Moran. Capone was boss of the South Side Italian Gang, and Moran was boss of the rival North Side Irish Gang. -Aaron Troknya You look familiar, did we have a class together? I swear we had Pick Up Lines chemistry. Pick up lines are hilarious, cheesy, and a great way to woo your Are you coffee? Because I like you a latte. Valentine, here are some of the cheesiest, funniest and cutest pick up lines that you can try. Are you Life Alert? Because I have fallen for you and I can not get up! If you were a booger, I would pick you first. Are you a library book? Because I have been checking you out. Do you have a bandaid? I scraped my knee falling for you. Let us make like fabric softener and snuggle. Do you have eleven protons? Because you are sodium fine. -compiled by Cat Towell and Shelby Press I lost my number, can I have yours? Are you French? Because Eiffel for you. Hey girl, feel my sweater.. You know what it is made of? Boy- friend material. You must be a broom because you swept me off my feet. Do you have a map? I keep getting lost in your eyes. If you were a Transformer, you would be Optimus Fine. I hope you know CPR, because you take my breath away. If you were a triangle, you would be an acute one. On a scale from one to America, how free are you tonight? I think you are suffering from a lack of Vitamin Me. You must be debt, because my interest in you is growing. Are you the Hulk? Because you are smashing. Volume XIV, Issue VII Love is in the Air Page 3 LOVE’S TRUE FORM Since the dawn of time people have debated the meaning of love. Wars have been fought, riots have erupted, and people have died due to the ever-growing controversies concerning the baffling concept of love. Many also debate whether or not love is uncon- ditional, which entitles everyone the right to be loved, no matter who they are, or their background. Some races and religions be- lieve other races and religions are not worthy of love. Some people deny love and compassion to criminals, because of their mis- takes. There are so many different theories and opinions regarding love. There is not one sole meaning for love, love is defined by one’s personal beliefs and values, but should be unconditional. Many people cannot find the strength within themselves’ to love their self or others, but that does not mean they do not deserve to be loved. Love is not only shared by lovers and families, it can take many forms. Love could be a bond between an animal and its owner, or the light breeze drifting in the moonlight. Love can be passion, but not only the heart-throbbing, eager, and spellbinding kisses exchanged by star-crossed lovers, in romance novels. Passion can be a cause or ideal someone is willing to fight for or a sport or activity someone enjoys. Love is not fully understood; but it is not meant to be understood. Love is something bigger and better than ourselves; it is a force stronger than gravity. Love will never be comprehended, but also never questioned about its cunning power to influence lives. That is why people yearn for it as they do, it is an explicable experience that cannot be bought or packaged. It is a connection between the heart and soul that is impossible to mimic. Some people wait years for love to find them, and then give up hope that they will ever experience it. Others have lost love, and fear that its glistening spark will never return to their hearts again. This is not always true, love has a way of drifting with the wind, or following the riptide, it can end up any where sudden and abruptly. Even if it only stays for a short while, its impact on a person is endless. Love is more than cards and candy, more than a relationship, more than a feeling; love is an energy that will light lives for generations. -Staff Writer Heartfelt Advise for the Unattached A Day for Companies to Make Money February is quite typical- for you.) Just because you Valentine’s Day, the day that some of us dread, and others absolute- ly seen as the month of love. do not have someone to ly love, but is this holiday really overrated? People use this day as a It is all because of Valen- give you chocolate, does not romantic excuse to do something nice for their significant other, but if you tine's Day. Couples and/or mean you can not give it to truly cared for the significant other, would you not try to do nice and people in love come togeth- yourself. (Please ignore this romantic things for them all the time? Corporate companies see this day er to take the chance to be tip if you are, in fact, aller- as a day to make money, to build their corporation to catch sorry saps in with their loved ones. Some gic to chocolate.) their trap, spending hundreds on materialistic things to show their loved people might even use this ones that they care. In reality, what amount of “stuff” is going to save Watch Netflix! Endless (well, time to be with their friends. your relationship from going downhill? Whether you are single, do I am sure there is an end..) not have friends, or just got amounts of selections that Valentine’s Day is what should be called a corporate holiday, because ditched by your significant are not romance that you it is only a holiday for the big companies that give people more excuses other; here are some ways can drown your lonely sor- to buy the usual stuffed animals, chocolate, and flowers.