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Love description contest
Posted by Rainhat • 8/20/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: describe, love, words
I wrote a love song recently (and you can now listen to it and download it on my blog, ta-dah!) and noticed that it's tricky to pull it off without having it sound cheesy or cliché. So many love songs, love poems, love letters, etc. have been written that it's hard to come up with anything original and fresh.
How would you tell your significant other that you love him/her, in a letter, poem, or just in general, if you were to use *different* words than the same old usual ones?
"My dear, if we are water, you are the hydrogen in it."
So, let's make this a contest. Whoever writes the best, strangest, most peculiar, sincere, or innovative formulation, will get their name included in a song (or a song written about them). I shall completely non-democratically pick the contribution that I like the best as the winner. Deadline is next friday the 28th at midnight GMT.
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I love it. I don't know if I am creative enough for this, but I think we have many members who are!
"My darling, you are the green stuff on my sushi. Spicy, fresh, and bracing but in a good way..."-
Haha! Excellent!
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My dearest Maddette,
it has been 20 fortnights since I last felt your bosom. I feel a tingling in my loins when ever I think of you.
Your love,
Jebidiah Sinclair-
40 weeks? Patient guy...
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I never knew what a fortnight was. Now I do...
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He's in the war
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My love, nothing will separate us. We will be like the Bondo I used to repair the nasty dent on your cousin's Dan's pick up truck.
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If you were a buffet, I would go for seconds
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If you were a vodka shooter, you'd go straight to my head.
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Awwwwww. That one really got to me still :*(
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If someone shot you in the face and you had no face left, I would still love you.
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@still
That one is sweet, in a slightly scary kind of way...
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You are the ginger biscuit antidote to my sickness. -
You are the oxygen in my lungs, the glimmer in my eye, the warmth in my sunlight, the brightness in my day.
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I am powerless to resist you, like Superman on Red Kryptonite.
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Our love is a tornado, and my heart is the little dog in the house being dropped into Oz.
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You are my pied piper, play a tune and I will follow you.
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If I were an evil super-villain bent on taking over the world, I would bestow upon you your own swivel chair...
And a hairless cat of your own, with which to join me in the crusade. -
You are the A-1 sauce on my steak
Our love is an ocean, let's frolic in it naked. (I am a nasty girl!).
Thinking of you brightens me like so many rays from the sun in the wide and expansive Montana sky. -
You are the whiskers on my cat, long, shaggy and bit ticklish.
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You're the cinnamon in my rooibos tea, spicy and warming amidst the sweetness.
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You are the tomato sauce to my hotdog, the butter to my toast, the tea with my crumpets.
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For the destructive relationship:
I love you like Stalin loved Russia. -
Our love is like the jelly bean jar on the counter of the candy shop. You can never guess how deep it goes.
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I'm sorry baby but I gouged your eyes out for your own good. That way, I really know that you'll only have eyes for me. I SAID YOU ARE MINE sweeeeedoms and if you try to leave, i'll cut off your arms, you try again, your legs will most likely get trapped under the lawn mower- by accident.
Tell me you love me too dear?-
Have you been watching "Boxing Helena"?
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My love for you is as vast and infinite as the stars sparkling on clear summer night.
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Your kiss is the frosting on my shredded wheat, but our love if the fiber that sustains me.
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i am not checking your emails or posing as a hottie on facebook babe. No i did not look at your statements. I am just doing all this to protect you. It's for your own good really, can't you see how much i love you?? I even carved your name on the children' back with a butter knife.
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You're a little scary, Lo.
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You did see the picture of the cock under the high heel on her blog didn't you, Still?
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Ah, nothing says love like murder and mayhem...
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I did see that and it is burned in my memory, unfortunately.
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LOL!!! shall i post more pics like that for your viewing pleasure my dear still?
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When I look into your eyes, i see true love reflected; I see its beauty, innocence and honesty. When I look into your eyes I see me, I see my love for you and When I close my eyes, I know you see the same in mine.
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"I love you like all those, y'know, things that I would remember, if you hadn't made me forget them by sleeping with me and then telling me that you were a vampire. I love you the way opportunistic people love opportunity, the way that Sherlock Holmes loves strong tobacco, the way that poets love grant applications that fill themselves in as if by leprechauns in the night. You are my Duclinea, my Beatrice. You deprive me of consonants."
[P.S.: rejoices at the fact that Lolita is no longer Eminem]-
LMFAO @ You deprive me of consonants.
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Hahaha! Good one.
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Not my words, but who could argue with:
"You are a magnet, I am steel." -
Who can resist the words of Walter Eagan?
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Your passion rockets me across love's brightly hued rainbow.
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je t'aime comme le poisson aime l'eau de la mer.
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hahahaha!
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that was D.'s like you know. sad what i fell for huh?
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Does he roll his r's?
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sometimes (when his french accent surfaces) but he has a deep voice so it sounds intimidating but cute, lol!
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lol Tres bien.
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You are the little cube of tofu in my miso soup.
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you are the goo that drips out at the end of a fantastic orgasm would work too
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*head desk*
Yes, I suppose.
It's a bit sticky and smelly, but if that's love to you, OK.
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You make me as hot as a wasabi filled handroll!
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As long as I get to share your paycheck at the end of the week, honey my love is forever yours.
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lol! dig dig...
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love is never having to say you're sorry you ever said, "i do", which i don't need to remind you was your bright idea to begin with.
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LOL!!!!! i am gonna try it out when the hubby gets home
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it's big in electrical engineering circles, hopefully that's what hubby does. good luck.
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he is in the construction business. but i'm sure he will. if not, i'll explain, then tell it again and force him to laugh
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I still love you the way i did when we first met. I just wish I knew you like I know you now.
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I do not want to heal your wound, I want to become your wound. You needn't make a spectacle of it since I am the clown and you are the paying spectator. I have no money, says she. You lucked out, I say, tonight is free representation for the orphans of Delhi.
In any case, I have memorized your scent, each of your fingers, left thigh and big toe too. I sense you essentially everywhere, in particular when I hold my breath. -
Your love is the sunshine on my face and in my heart
Sappy but it could work.-
Your love melts the callous of my heart.
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Love is putting ointment on your haemorrhoids, trimming the hair from your ears and not putting a pillow over your face while you snore like a pig.
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lol...da dat da.
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JAJAJAJAJAJA WIN! -
tcinvestor inspired the ear hair bit, I am sure he mentioned that the other day.
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Yea...I knew it. It turns you on.. the whole werewolf thing.
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No
It is the reason I don't believe in love. -
Your a real crumpet. ;-) and we here at BC are the topping.
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I am not
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Which reminds me, I went to Whole Foods today and saw a real crumpet! I finally know what a crumpet is.
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@stillthinking - did you get one? So now you know what a tasty little crumpet is.
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No, I just stood there and poked at it through the packaging.
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LOL..now that's a mental image.
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Still! You should get crumpet! They are:
1. Yummy
2. Not fattening (1 crumpet has like 70 calories)
3. Excellent with butter and jam (the little holes just soak up all the butter and jam--but then, of course, it has more than 70 calories when you do that).
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I want to grow old with you.-
lol. i want to stay young forever so that will result in divorce
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I love you beyond what words express
Our love will withstand the harshest of tests
If you are unhappy, I'll dry your tears
If you are afraid, I'll calm your fears
When you are ecstatic, I'll share in your laughter
We are meant to be one, from here on after
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very corny. but love is corny i guess.
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Yah--it is--but it's also fun!
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You are the Romeo to my Juliette, the perfect fit for my C.
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repeat.
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I dream about you, even when I'm awake
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My darling love, you are the chocolate to my chip and the scent off my rose.
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Our love is like plastic, permanent and non-degradable.
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Wow--that's SO romantic. Our love is like plastic!
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Such lovely sentiments, no wonder I believe in twoo lurve.
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Our love is as steamy as a cloudburst on a hot summer day.
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You are the tufts of fur between my cat's toes, which I think is the cutest part of her.
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I love that too! that little fur between the toes.
I want a kitty!
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A nerdy one...
You are the activated carbon that filters out all my worries -
Another nerdy...
Every time I see you my heart warms up like a Bunsen burner -
more nerdy ones, please deray?
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Jeez Lolita! I can't think that fast! jajajaja
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You know part of me is an incubator? I would love to take care of your genes for a while
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Your 23 + my 23= a lifetime of happiness
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My X would want yours, or your Y, any day!
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When you touch me my heart feels like a tube in a super-centrifuge
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LOL!!!!! this should go on for days Deray, i love them. hehe
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When I'm around you I walk like there's 0 gravity and smile like I'm high on N2O
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You are the solution to my precipitated loneliness
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If I was a bacteria you would be my phage
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bahahahahaha! That is awesome! Deray, you've got the best ones on here!
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Thanks ST, I was on a roll for a while. Let's see if I can get inspired again
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If you were an invasive bacteria I would be your host cell
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You are the bucket to my vomit, the imodium to my diarrhoea, the kleenex to my cold.
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JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA
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The water to my thirst, the food to my hunger, the blanket to my cold.
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The LB to my E. coli, the FBS to my tissue culture, the fibroblasts to my CMV
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Hahaha! I'd like to see someone try to work *that* into a love song...
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I should give it to WW on her challenge me thread
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You are the curry in my chicken, the jalapeno in my burger, the jalsberg cheese with my wine. -
The catheter to my blocked urinary tract, the senna to my constipation, the liquid nitrogen to my warts.
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The Helicobacter to my stomach, the Vibrio to my colon, the Salmonella to my gallbladder
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Ah, Deray: the nerdiness is so disarming. I'm tempted to up the ante in the direction of a greater geekiness:
"You are the "Bag of Holding" for my heart, the +5 chain mail that protects me from the world, the music of the Valequenta before the discord by Morgoth." et cetera.
Sorry, I'm sure it won't surprsie any of you that I had a wasted youth.
Claire: "blanket to my cold" is very sweet. It'd certainly be the one to say to someone over 'bucket to my vomit'.
Best,
-Mal-
Well I thought there should be some sweetness in there somewhere
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But of course
Oh, and claire: I think you should be able to contribute something to this thread based on the theme of withholding tea to one's enemies that I saw on another thread. (Hilarious). There's got to be something about how love does not withhold tea, but how one's cup runneth over. Or something.
Best,
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You are the level teaspoon of sugar to my perfectly brewed cup of Yorkshire Tea.
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You are the fever-induced seizures to my meningitis
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You are the teapot made for two, full of hot liquid waiting to be poured.
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Brilliant both of you.
Okay, Claire a challenge : can you now twist the tea motif so that it now applies to love gone awry, to sadness, bitterness, name-calling et cetera. (I mean, at some point I'm hoping that Rainhat turns the whole thread into a song, so a tea-based deterioration of a love affair seems as indispensable as that level teaspoon of sugar.)
Best,
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Hahaha! Now, *that* would be a challenge...
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You are the tea bag that stewed and left a bitter taste in my mouth.
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You are like tetley tea, a warm cup of piss.
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Tetley?
So harsh!
Man, love DOES seem to turn bitter when it goes bad.-
I hate Tetley Tea.
When love disappears, the ability to palate ones foibles also disappears.
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Your the key lime to my beer...cheers!
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So true. I think that someone (Slavoj Zizek in this case) said a wise thing in this case, that people don't love people b/c of their qualities, they love their qualities because they love them, i.e. the moment that someone is weighing up the others persons foibles against their good points, is potentially the moment when they no longer really care. Interestingly, hate is like that, as well. I mean, you find lots of reasons to hate the other person (she's so annoying/that stupid voice/always talks drivel and so on), but in the end, you realise that the hate seems to set you to disliking all of the particular traits rather than the other way 'round.
This is why it's so strange to listen to someone talking about someone loving/hating them. I mean, you're always happy for the person in love, but they often tell you things "he's so magnificent, she's just the greatest, smartest, cutest person in the world", which you can't possibly agree with in the absence of love/hate.
It's also what makes break-ups so tragic. People who once said: "I'd do anything for that person.", suddenly say things like, well, I just couldn't stand the way she used to put the milk in first/I just started to realise how much her nose dominated her face.
Sad. But seems to be the way of things.
Best,
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Oh Mal you keep making me google people, which is actually a good thing because Slavoj Zizek seems like a fascinating dude.
I have just spent a while reading up on Lacanian Psychoanalysis, bookmarked for further reading.
You are spot on about the tragic nature of a break up, when an almost inventory of character flaws is listed and never just a simple I just don't love them any more.
Thanks for edumacation
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home i think it is not so bad.
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You are my comfy blanket
My comfort food
My breath, my air
fitted like painted on jeans -
Claire,
My pleasure! Our mutual friend, Mr. Curmudgeon also references Zizek quite often.
I do not like Zizek's last two books as much as I have liked some of his earlier ones, but he IS interesting. As a place to start I reccomend his earlier books "The Sublime Object of Ideology", "Enjoy your Symptom", "Looking Awry". These last two are also great introductions to Lacan who is virtually impossible to pick up without some entree. Also, Zizek is all over the interent. There are many youtube videos, including some impressive lectures from the European Graduate School, articles at lacan.com: he even has a twitter account.
Best,
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Oh thanks for that
Although I don't usually look at the world through philosophical eyes, I do find it interesting. Also the way that you and Mr Curmudgeon reference things to illustrate certain points makes me want to know more about it.
/adds more books to library list
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You are the biff, zing, and pow in the comic book of my life. Without you, I'd be Betty (with Jughead), but with you I'm Catwoman stalking the Batman. [pounce]
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You are the chocolate to my milk
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and the fruit in my yogurt. You're the bleu in my cheese and the dill in my pickles.
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I guess we are both having breakfast Leg jajajaja
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It's almost lunch time for me. I'm glad I've got some yogurt in the fridge.
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If I had you I would take days off the lab to be with you
That one got inspired by the fact that I haven't had a day off in almost 2 months and the fact that I'm getting ready to go to the lab now *sigh* -
You are the food in my refrigerator and the gas in my tank. -
The juice for my smoothie, the shiv for my shank.
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What is a shiv? And a shank?
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a shiv is a makeshift stabbing device and shank means to stab someone.
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Ah, gotcha.
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I'm just trying for a little poetry, here. You think of something romantic that rhymes with tank!
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You are the rohypnol to my lust, the handcuffs to my escape and I am the body in your basement.
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I am lame, but here was a true life facebook status proclamation (drunken of course):
I love you like an emo boy loves girl pants...
*note to self: aftershock + beer + vodka = randomly stupid proclamations of love-
bahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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omg! wow one vote for the emo....
here's my voice:
Deep and dark...your roots have dug into my flesh....I am an empty hole after the hurricane.
Fill me up again... -
"you are the the air that i breathe,
you are the light of my life...
without you, i wont survive..." -
You are the very blood that flows in my veins, the air I breath, the meaning in every senseless moments...you are my life support. -
You are the left to my right, the zig to my zag. Without you, I'd be unbalanced.
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You are the Jeebus touch to the leprosy of my heart.-
I half expected you to say something along the lines of, "you're the shot of antibiotics that clears up my dose of the clap".
If you were going to mention disease, mind you. -
You know me so well I was actually thinking of that! But I thought no, people expect me to say that so I'll go with a all new religious theme.
Because as some one once said "No one expects the Spanish inquisition." -
Their chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency. Their three weapons are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency and a fanatical devotion to the Pope...among their weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, a fanatical devotion to the Pope and a nice red uniform....
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You are the comfy chair in my Inquisition of a life.
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@legbamel
Invoking another sketch:
You're my reason for living and for pining for the fjords (what kind of talk is that?) -
If you hadn't nailed me to my perch I'd be pushing up the daisies.
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@legbamel
You're the reason I'm off my twig, why I've curled up my tootsies, while I've shuffled off this mortal coil, vis a vis my metabolic processes, I've had my lot, any statements as to my going concern are from now on inoperative. -
Without you, I am an ex-parrot.
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@legbamel
You're the reason I better replace myself then...not with a slug.
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You are the Spam to my Eggs
You are the ooze to my puss
You are the cream in my tea
You are the pick to my lock
You are the black on my white
You are the wrong to my right
You are the half of my whole
My North and South Pole...
You are my dream of heaven
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lol! I think this is the first post that has made me go "eww", "aaawwww" and "hmm, indeed" all at the same time...
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But --- it wasn't a poem LMAO!
It was just snippets that ran trough my head when I was trying to think how I love thee... LOL!
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This is what love is like...
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lol How descriptive...
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I thought so
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Nothing says I love you, like a fridge full of beer.
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jajajajajaa
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Hahaha! It always looks funny to me when you write jajaja instead of hahaha. My fiancee is from Spain, she does it too. But "ja" is the Swedish word for "yes", so it looks like you're saying "yesyesyesyesyeeesss!"
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Well, it also works, doesn't it? jajajaajaja
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You are the hair in my plughole, the elevation in my loo seat and more than half of my blanket.
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more than half of my blanket
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Erm no it's not nice! I hate it when some bastard steals my share of the blanket.
/reason 567 not to get married
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Ah, I misinterpreted. I figured you were saying that if you love someone, you'd be willing to give that person more than half of your blanket.
Besides, it's not just husbands who steal blankets, boyfriends do it too. Not to mention girlfriends and wives who freeze easily... -
Its okay I was being sneaky and leaving it open to interpretation
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How sneaky...
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You must have enough for at least 50 songs now
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Hehe! There's definitely stuff here to be inspired by, although some of it might be a bit tricky to work into a song...
So many years have passed now
since that late summer day
when our eyes first met and you told me
I was like the green stuff on your sushi
And since that day you have never been
more than a step away
and you still deprive me of consonants
oh baby, can't you see
you are like the tofu cubes in my misoooooooooo *wailing*
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You're the freshly-sharpened blade on my lawnmower, the string in my trimmer. I love you more than a leaf blower, but not for the same reasons.
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I'm being kidnapped for a vacation trip tomorrow morning, and I'll be away until Sunday. I may or may not have internet access where I'm going. If I don't, I will read through all the lovely phrases about love when I get back and pick a winner then.
This contest ends on Friday, midnight GMT sharp, so come up with your best, weirdest, craziest, corniest, strangest, funniest, sweetest, most unusual, original or most sincere ways of telling a person you love him/her before then.
The prize is a song about you, written and recorded all professional-like. The song will be licensed through Creative Commons, I will post a copy of it on my music blog, and the winner will have the right to use the song in any way they choose for any purpose they want.
Have fun, and see ya in a week, if not sooner. -
My love is like a red, red rose. It's got thorns and it's full of bees.
I love you like paint loves a stir-stick. Without you, I would separate and not cover well. -
You are the dreams in my night
My lust in my eyes
My feelings of no reason
And virtually every season
You are the reason I live
You are the take to my give
You are the water in my wide open sea
You are the missing part of me -
Comme une hirondelle en pleine tempete tu es le soleil qui seche mes ailles.
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Ah, très poétique. Est-ce que ton mari est Francais?
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non, mais on parle tous les deux la langue de Moliere; nos enfants aussi
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Que bien! C'est un beau langue, mais un peu difficile à apprender...
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*bump*
3 hours left! If you wanna participate and possibly win a song written about you, now's the time. -
I have often compared my relationship with my hubby to eating cookies rather than crackers. Dorky I know but here was the logic:
If you are hungry for cookies and you go to the cupboard but all you can find are crackers, you'll eat them, cause you're hungry but, you will not be satisying your craving for cookies. So, before meeting him, I had been eating crackers.. and now I get to eat cookies every day! So, I call him my cookie! (I told you it was dorky!)
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Tu es la rose que j'arose avec les battements de mon coeur.
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"love stinks. . . . . yeah . . . . . yeah" -
You've been away so long and I am missing your silly tantrums, you great cries and agonizing, your constant nagging, your wrong arguments, your negativity and comparisons with other people ... yes i miss them all in a bitter-sweet way, yes i do
where'd u go... i miss u so .. seems like its been forever ... -
i love you more than peeing after holding it back for hours.
I love you so much i would change gender if you wanted to.
Love you more than salt. -
I love you more than a freshly-sharpened pencil and a blank page, more than the dictionary and the thesaurus put together. Without you, I am a pen without ink and a book without pages. For you, I would give up my computer, but it's wonderful to know that you love me enough never to ask.
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The end!
I'm gonna read everything now and pick a winner shortly.-
WOHOOOOOOOO! Finally - we've all been waiting for your awesome contest!
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Yeah. Note to self: 9 days is a bit too long for a contest in an online forum...
This is tricky. I've narrowed it down to 7 nice phrases.
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And the winner is... *drumroll*
Deray28!
with the phrase
"You are the activated carbon that filters out all my worries"
Close runner-ups in no particular order were:
You deprive me of consonants
- by Maladjusted
Our love is like plastic, permanent and non-degradable.
- by Stillthinking
Love is not putting a pillow over your face while you snore like a pig.
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WOOOHOOOOO - Deray!!
and look at all you runnerups!
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Aw RainHat, but didn't you see how I love her inspite of everything?
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Congratulations DeRay!!! Salut!
(Rainhat: I'm delighted to be mentioned especially in such magnificent company.)
[gulps down sports drink ostentatiously in front of the cameras in the hope of getting sponsorship money....proceeds to rattle off sporting cliche's long into the night...]
Well done, everyone!-
*grin* Mal - you're great. You're absolutely funny.
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This is just lovely post
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YAAAAAAY! I WON! This just made my day! Thanks Rainhat
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My pleasure!
I'm going to have a look at your blog and start thinking out a song. Writing and recording it might take a couple of weeks (I'm starting a university course on Monday as well) but I will send you a shout, as well as post a note here on BC when it's done.
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Oh congradubloodylations to Deray
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