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Happy Valentine's Day!

I find it rather ironic that today's word is spoony, don't you think?

Word of the Day for Tuesday February 14, 2006

spoony \SPOO-nee\, adjective:
1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental.
2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love.

Nevertheless, because we're spoony old things at heart, we like to believe that some showbiz marriages are different.
-- Julie Burchill, "Cut!," The Guardian, February 7, 2001

So when your fervor cools, you think that this suddenly familiar and lusterless partner couldn't possibly be the one you're destined to be with; otherwise you'd still be all spoony, lovey-dovey and bewitched.
-- John Dufresne, "What's So Hot About Passion?," Washington Post, February 9, 2003

We know they aren't doing it for love, otherwise it wouldn't take $50 million to sucker them into getting spoony for a construction worker.
-- "Say it isn't so 'Joe'," USA Today, December 30, 2002

Comments

Matt Mikalatos said…
Are you still sick?

p.s. I like spooning. But not with you, thanks.
11:15 PM
Ken said…
I'm in the recovering phase, I would say I'm 75% well.

matt, why do you have to break my heart like this? especially at this valentine's season. what ever happened to quality guy bonding? oh yes, you always backed out of the quality guy times at the sauna in EA ... sigh
12:18 AM
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