Valentine Time

It’s official. The most romantic word in the world is … “amour!”

That would be, of course, the French word for love.

Ya gotta hand it to the French. They may not be good at war or world leadership, but they’ve got this love thing nailed. (Not to mention wearing berets and baking long loaves of bread!)

Ironically, the least-romantic way of saying "I love you" went to the Japanese for "watakushi-wa anata-wo ai shimasu."

Yikes. That doesn’t roll off the tongue. It's a wonder any Japanese babies are born.

Again, no surprise. The Japanese make great cars and computers, but people known for spiffy engineering usually suck at personal relationships.

Take Bill Gates, for example. Good thing he’s a jillionaire, or let’s just say he probably wouldn’t be passing along his genes to the next generation.

And just to round out this holiday report, the three least-romantic sentences in the English language are:

“If you get enough food stains on a T-shirt, it looks kinda artsy.”

“Hand me that pair of undershorts marked ‘February’.”

“Uh, I just threw up in your bathroom … and missed the toilet.”

... Happy Valentine’s Day anyway. They say love is blind; sometimes it needs to be.