When the world was little and there was no interweb with which to communicate, people would write each other letters. Correspondence between two people in the world could take months to reach its destination.

Although we live in a time where communication can be instant, some romantics like to do things the old fashioned way. For example, in Japan's Ise in Mie Prefecture, a man decided to make his cause to woman known by using a black marker to write "I'm going to rape Kyoko Sonobe" on a guardrail.

Kyoko, as you can read here, is a pre-teen elementry student. After the message, and 50 others, were found all over town her secret admirer was discovered: her elemtry school teacher.

That seems a lot more devoted to me than some tool renting a billboard to ask his girlfriend to marry him.

Often times, public communication exists in the form of ritual. Garry Robin Ford, a former member of the Queensland National Party was charged with, among other thing, indecent treatment of minors, sodomy, contributing to the deliquency of minors and all around buggery.

Gerry inducted several young boys into his Pagan "White Brotherhood" sect, that ironically wore BLACK capes. The induction included dancing, chanting to the heavens, many candles and a small amount of assraping.