A Cupid of Another Kind; Musicland Launches Valentine's Day Spoof Site, CrankyCupid.com.MINNEAPOLIS -- Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. is for lovers...yeah right! Thanks to Musicland and an off-color cupid, the truth is out with the launch of CrankyCupid.com. Tagged as being a site for lovesick love·sick adj. 1. So deeply affected by love as to be unable to act normally. 2. Exhibiting a lover's yearning. love Valentines or those just sick of Valentine's Day, CrankyCupid.com offers visitors realistic advice and observations on love, Valentine's Day survey results, humorous blog entries and break up lines to get the point across. For the romantically-challenged, the site also has entertainment help including top love songs, a music personality assessment to help set the mood and compromise DVDs to keep harmony on Valentine's Day. "CrankyCupid.com gives a humorous perspective on love and Valentine's Day," said Laurie Bauer of Musicland. "As you'll see from the site, when it comes to love, not all cupids are created equally." Due to an unfortunate love experience as a young cupid, Cranky's motivation for creating the site is part of his vow to make people aware of the other side of Valentine's Day. The irritable and somewhat sarcastic sar·cas·tic adj. 1. Expressing or marked by sarcasm. 2. Given to using sarcasm. [sarc(asm) + -astic, as in enthusiastic. cupid pokes fun at his peers who, "flutter Flutter (aeronautics) An aeroelastic self-excited vibration with a sustained or divergent amplitude, which occurs when a structure is placed in a flow of sufficiently high velocity. Flutter is an instability that can be extremely violent. around making people lovesick," while his arrows shoot a dose of reality into unsuspecting victims. "Valentine's Day has become so cliche," said Cranky crank·y 1 adj. crank·i·er, crank·i·est 1. Having a bad disposition; peevish. 2. Having eccentric ways; odd. 3. . "It is not just about flowers, candy and cards." On Valentine's Day, the site will launch a national sweepstakes in search of bad-date stories. Bad-date victims can get more information at www.crankycupid.com. About Musicland Musicland Group Inc. is a leading national specialty retailer of music, movies and games that appeal to trend-conscious, entertainment-focused consumers. The company is expanding and diversifying its key entertainment offerings to satisfy the changing needs of its consumers. Musicland operates more than 900 retail stores and online under the names Sam Goody Sam Goody is a music and entertainment retailer in the United States and formerly in the United Kingdom. It is owned and operated by Musicland, which itself is owned by former rival Trans World Entertainment which also runs Suncoast Motion Picture Company and, until January 2006, (samgoody.com), Media Play (mediaplay.com) and Suncoast Motion Picture Company (suncoast.com) in 48 states, Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. and the Virgin Islands. |
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