Famous Valentines (from Your Kindly Uncle William)
The first of the Manson babies was Valentine Michael Manson, named after
Valentine Michael Smith, the Martian Sexmonster hero of Robert Heinlein’s
Stranger in a Strange Land. His nickname was Pooh Bear.
The standard cure for syphilis in the first half of the twentieth century
was the Valentine Irrigator, which involved inserting a tube into the urethra
and flushing it out with an acidic solution.