Valentine Post: Meaning of Flowers
What That Rose Says About You
The Most Searched-On Flowers and Their Secret Meanings
By Molly McCall
Tue, February 12, 2008, 9:54 pm PST
You want to give your sweetie a bouquet of flowers on Valentine’s Day. That’s a classy move. Think twice, though, before plucking any random bunch of blooms. If your special someone is among the thousands of searchers hitting the Web for “meaning of flowers,” he or she may have a funny reaction to that clutch of striped carnations. (What you just said: “Sorry I can’t be with you.”)
To save you the horror of broadcasting the wrong message with yellow chrysanthemums (”slighted love”), yellow hyacinths (”jealousy”), or bright and shiny marigolds (”cruelty, grief, and jealousy,” oh my!), we’ve paired the week’s most searched-on flowers with their generally accepted meanings. Select with confidence…
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When it comes to sheer flower power, the rose is the “American Idol,” the Michael Jordan, and the Beatles of botany, all rolled into one sweet-smelling, thorny cache. No flower comes close to its popularity. It draws its own “meaning” searches (”rose color meaning“), cooks up its own candy queries (”chocolate roses“),and sprinkles the Search box with its velvety parts (”rose petals“).
If you’re thinking of a dozen long-stemmed messages de amor for February 14, here are the week’s most searched-on types of roses and their secret meanings…
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The much anticipated game finally out. Hopefully, we can dust off the Spore-based curriculum and get it going for Fall 08……..IF we can get an early copy. I just emailed Will Wright via Facebook about possible educational discounts or early release. Let’s wait and see what happens. Can’t wait to get this going for a new Honor’s class.
” Willow Shenlin got us off to a great start by sharing her bilingual dictionary modified from an SL Glossary. This is keyword searchable by typing in to chat and it also provides a link to an mp3 file so you can hear the word being spoken! The one she demoed was 
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