> After reading the noble "How to be Romantic" lessons enshrined in the RinkChat archives, I can no longer resist...
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> On November 30, 1999 at 08:30:00, Howard suavely suggested:
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> "Would it be ok to refer to Sam as SWWBP? I think the whole Snookie Wookum Weetie Bunny Pie name is a little long to type out."
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> Wolfspirit is starstruck by Howard's astounding acumen and replies:
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> Oh Howard. Howieeee. My dearest, delightful lovey-dove... my handsome little smooogly macaroni bunny cake. Howie, isn't my new name for you just *adorable*?

*Ouch* That was painful.

> Darling; surely you know it's now your turn to reciprocate. How sweet! I know you love Ogden Nashish verse, but we're speaking of finer things... of oh-so-delicate courtship rites, and the heady negociations wrought in pursuit of true luv. Doubtlessly you know Dorothy Parker says it best with matchless clarity, don't you think dear? She writes,
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> "One Perfect Rose"
> Dorothy Parker
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> A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.
> All tenderly his messenger he chose;
> Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet--
> One perfect rose.
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> I knew the language of the floweret;
> "My fragile leaves," it said, "his heart enclose."
> Love long has taken for his amulet
> One perfect rose.
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> Why is it no one ever sent me yet
> One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
> Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
> One perfect rose.

Actually, I'd be happy to get one perfect rose. Even a perfect daisy would be welcome...

> Wolf "whoo--I bet a finn that Howard runs screaming and all" spirit

-M"I call your bluff, and raise you two finns and a flipper"el