We hold these truths to be self evident #59.

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 2, 2014 at 11:51am

Not only is 'Valentine' a female name in France, but last night I discovered that the new, young barmaid at the Café de Paris* was called 'Fred'.

'Fred' is very obviously female. She told me that 'Fred' was short for 'Frederique'.

I've never met a female 'Fred' before, but there's always a first time...

* I wonder if there is a 'Café de Sigean' in Paris? Perhaps we could send Dean out to investigate....

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 2, 2014 at 9:00am

Yep, in Sigean everyone calls him "Mark"...

but i like "my dear Valentine" :-)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on July 31, 2014 at 4:48am

The story is: I was named 'Valentine Mark'.

'Valentine' was the maiden name of my mother -- 'Elizabeth Joyce Valentine'.

I passed the name on to my children 'Susannah Valentine' and 'David Valentine'.

'Valentine' got shortened to 'Val' (my mother-in-law thought it was short for Percival!

It was not easy growing up in a tough NE England town called 'Valentine' or 'Val' when everyone else had good 'solid' names like John, Paul and George -- but not Ringo.

I existed professesionally as Valentine M.

When I came to live in France a decade ago, I found out that 'Valentine' was a female name, and 'Valentin' was the masculine equivalent.

Various authorities refused to recognise me as 'Valentine', so I beacame 'Mark'.

Here at IUOMA I am 'Valentine Mark'.

And my newly born grandson? Was he named 'Valentine' too? No, he is called 'Louis Rjo Herman'.

'Rjo' means 'Dragon' in Japanese -- I'm sure you know that. He is the first (and possibly last) dragon in the Herman family. (The 'Valentine' family tree can be traced back through 13 generations to 1624 -- there are no dragons in, on or under that tree, either)

Au revoir. Mark

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on July 31, 2014 at 1:15am

Hmmm.

Comment by on July 30, 2014 at 11:42pm

Yeah, I'd like to know too please

Comment by stripygoose on July 30, 2014 at 10:01pm

ooh - what's the story behind this one?

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