# A toast to the ladies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2000, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456 "2000-11-30T22:26:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/41 "2000-12-02T00:16:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > \*\* > > Some guy posted a thread that has seemed to disappear where he spoke of how great it was to be able to flirt with women who were “out of his league” in high school. > > \*\* me. \*\* > [@](#): > > Ah yes, the SDMB, where we can flirt with all the girls we didn’t have the guts to talk > to in high school and college, because they were WAY out of our league. > > \*\* ``` Part of it is what you said, we don't worry about appearances. We talk to people who talk to us. Particularly when we have a little time to post, we can think it out and try to have a semblance of poise we may not have IRL. ``` What is it they say about some people, the more attractive they find someone, the more likely they are to fall in love with them, and there are other people, the more they fall in love with their partners, the more attractive their partners become to them? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/42 "2000-12-02T00:26:07Z")
She will always be the one … Surrounded by a crowd of admirers, And here am I Who shouldn’t be in the cloud at all Were it not for those eyes. Those magnificent, beautiful, gorgeous eyes That twinkle when she smiles Brightening my midnight sky. [Edited by Eutychus55 on 12-01-2000 at 06:40 PM] ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/43 "2000-12-02T00:34:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > > BUT, since I’m so much **not** your father that I have never met your mother, not even in the Richard-Hatch-as-donor sense, you are most certainly included. HEY! You have too met me, just not in person. Sheesh. And Euty, you made me swoon. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/44 "2000-12-02T01:49:36Z")
Euty, you are right magnificent. A sweet good evening to you. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/45 "2000-12-02T04:50:07Z")
Let me join in the toast to the intelligent, charming women of this board, who are beautiful both inside and out: my love thy hair is one kingdom the king whereof is darkness thy forehead is a flight of flowers thy head is a quick forest filled with sleeping birds thy breasts are swarms of white bees upon the bough of thy body thy body to me is April in whose armpits is the approach of spring – e.e. cummings ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/46 "2000-12-02T04:51:04Z")
**Persephone** said: > [@](#): > > …and in my mind’s eye, you’re all tall, dark, handsome, intelligent, witty, classy, well-dressed, well hung, and fabulously wealthy… Thank you. That’s exactly how I like to be thought of. 'Course, now I can never actually meet any of you. ---
**Author:** ![Pixoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pixoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixoid)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/47 "2000-12-02T08:48:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen, > Here’s to the widow of fifty! > Here’s the the flaunting, extravagant queen, > Here’s to the housewife who’s thrifty! > \*\* Darn it! Where is that from, please? It’s horribly familiar, but I don’t know why. [sub]Do you know how proud I am that I caught an allusion from Ukulele Ike? It’s like reading a “thinker” of a book–just trying to understand it makes me feel more intelligent. And when I do…well, wow. :D[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/48 "2000-12-02T09:03:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Persephone \* > \*\*If I may hijack: > > I’d like to toast the gentlemen of the SDMB. You guys are the best. > \*\* What about the bachelor slobs of the SDMB? We need love, too. ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/49 "2000-12-02T10:39:32Z")
cheerio you bachelor slobs! 😃 dodgy ---
**Author:** ![Sn-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sn-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sn-man)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/50 "2000-12-02T11:50:16Z")
Warning Warning Warning Bad prose follow Here’s to girl in the little red boots, She eats my food and drinks my booze, She doesn’t have a cherry, but that’s no sin, She still has the box the cherry came in! One of those silly college party toasts, Funny thing about it: The first time I met my wife, she had on red boots! We still tip a glass to this one occasionally. Anyway, here’s to those made with lace and a second one for that god given Space 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/51 "2000-12-02T14:43:07Z")
Here’s a toast for all of you from an arachnid lady. --------- **Y** ----:)/ ----///\\ (non-alcoholic, spiders have too many legs to trip over without adding booze to the equation) extra glasses: **Y** **Y** **Y** **Y** **Y** **Y** ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/52 "2000-12-02T19:57:54Z")
Of course, I didn’t just mean the _gentlemen_ of the SDMB. If I did that, I’d only be toasting what, maybe 2 or 3 of you? 😉 Here’s to all the: Gentlemen Men Guys Dudes Boys SDMB members with members 😉 Oh, and hi Tygr! How YOU doin’? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/53 "2000-12-02T19:57:55Z")
**Spidey** , have I ever told you how cute your spider pictures are and how much I enjoy them? ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456/54 "2000-12-04T21:21:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Persephone \* > \*\*Oh, and hi Tygr! How YOU doin’? 😃 \*\* :::Blushing & stammering::: “Um,er…Well, that is…ahh”[sub](Hoping she sees this as a “Hugh-Grant adorable-bumbling” thing, rather than the “hopeless-wallflower petrified-nerd” thing that it is…)[/sub] :::Pulls self together, straightens his tie, grabs Evie’s hand and invites her into the SDMB Mistletoe Thread… [sub]Post cont’d there…[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-the-ladies/43456.md?page=2)