| "Your boyfriend is about to celebrate his special | | | | today's men would most likely give you a forced |
| day and you want the birthday gift for the man in | | | | smile if you give them a pink sweater as a gift. |
| your life to reflect just how special he is to you. | | | | - A Celine Dion Greatest Hits CD |
| Luckily, most men are quite easy to please and | | | | Don't even think of saying "but Celine Dion sang |
| would be happy to receive just about anything | | | | 'My Heart Will Go On". You may think that Celine |
| from you-- anything but these things, that is: | | | | Dion was an angel sent by God to the earth to |
| - Scrapbook | | | | bless us with her voice, but the Canadian singer's |
| Women love scrapbooks because they are | | | | music is just not the kind you would find in a |
| sentimental, frilly and nostalgic-the very same | | | | man's iPod play list (and if you do find a Celine |
| reasons why most, actually, all men cannot stand | | | | Dion song in your boyfriend's iPod, then you |
| them. A scrapbook as a birthday gift for your | | | | better start asking questions). |
| boyfriend is not likely to get the same yelp of | | | | - Flowers |
| gratitude as the latest Nokia cellular phone. Let's | | | | Women are suckers for pretty flowers. When |
| face it, a gift like a scrapbook would only likely | | | | they are given a beautiful bouquet of blooms, |
| gather dust in the corner of his room, a gift that's | | | | they gingerly put them in a vase then arrange |
| been forgotten and buried deep into the recesses | | | | them to maximize and enhance their beauty. Most |
| of his mind (harsh, yes, but true). | | | | men on the other hand, do not know anything |
| - Poem | | | | about flower arrangements and probably don't |
| Unless your boyfriend is Bono or one of those | | | | even know a vase. What will they do with |
| artistic types, then a poem is not the kind of gift | | | | flowers? |
| your boyfriend would like to receive. Like a | | | | - Tickets to a ballet recital |
| scrapbook, a poem is too sentimental for the | | | | If your boyfriend was educated in an exclusive |
| ordinary man. What makes poems even worse is | | | | public school, grew up listening to Tchaikovsky and |
| the fact that they convey deep feelings and | | | | frequented the Met, then, sure, you can give him |
| emotions. Plus, men don't like guessing and figuring | | | | tickets to a ballet recital. If he's not any of these |
| out vague messages, and poems are nothing but | | | | however, then tickets to see a ballet recital is not |
| unclear, ambiguous lines. | | | | likely to be a gift that could make his knees |
| - Pink sweaters | | | | quake with excitement. |
| "Real men wear pink", they say, but no man in his | | | | Men are not picky with when it comes to |
| right mind will ever really wear a pink sweater | | | | presents and will be grateful for whatever you |
| (unless he is Carson Kressley). This look may | | | | give them. Just stay away from these gifts. |
| have worked for the preppies of the 1980s, but | | | | |