# Conversation Hearts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827 "2003-01-31T06:40:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/21 "2003-01-31T23:03:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultrafilter \* > \*\*I always get the blank ones… \*\* Look on the _other_ side. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/22 "2003-02-01T21:28:21Z")
Okay I’m trying to come up with extremely geeky ones. I know you people can help me. The two I have so far are: 18 CHA and PON FARR (If you don’t get them, “18 CHA” means 18 Charisma. Until recently, 18 was the highest score you could attain in D&D in the “Charisma” stat, which governs looks and such. “Pon Farr” is the Vulcan mating ritual or something.) What are some others I can use? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/23 "2003-02-02T02:45:33Z")
][ |L|_|/ |_| ---
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/24 "2003-02-02T03:46:59Z")
Legomancer, depending on what you’re being geeky about: MAN CHI ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/25 "2003-02-02T10:30:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultrafilter \* > \*\*][ |L|_|/ |_| \*\* 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/26 "2003-02-02T10:38:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bren\_Cameron \* > \*\*A link for conversation heart fans: > > [http://www.acme.com/heartmaker/](http://www.acme.com/heartmaker/) \*\* I just got done peeking at that site and I’m going to have to go back and play when I have more time. Did you check out some of the hearts and labels people made? :eek: Even something about the “all your base” thing ( I never understood) done in conversation hearts! ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/27 "2003-02-02T11:44:26Z")
Time to drag out the [bad stuff](http://www.despair.com/bittersweets.html). I especially like the flavors: “Banana Chalk, Grape Dust, Citrucel, You-Call-This-Lime?, Pink Sand and Fossilized Rolaid.” ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_Schmeese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Marconi\_Schmeese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_Schmeese)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/28 "2003-02-02T14:21:07Z")
## quote: ## Originally posted by ultrafilter ][ |L|_|/ |_| Kricket, I LUV U - get it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/29 "2003-02-03T03:27:14Z")
I still wish they’d make some that are really nasty. Like, You Suck Bite Me Drop Dead I Hate You Loser Dumbass Stuff like that. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/30 "2003-02-03T12:40:01Z")
Marconi & Schmeese, what can I say? I’m speechless! I wasn’t aware that you had these feelings for me.🆒 Funny thing is about an hour later when I was resting my little head on my pillow it dawned on me and I felt like a ditz. But hey, at least I got you to admit your true feelings.😃 Guinastasia, go and play at that site it will make you feel better. I know I plan on playing there later after a few hours sleep. Or then again maybe I should go play now on no sleep and see what I can come up with? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/31 "2003-02-06T11:35:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SnugTheJoiner \* > \*\*My favorite memory of conversation hearts is a gag from a PEANUTS special: > > \*\* What you quoted is lovely. But do you remember that Charlie Brown’s heart said “FORGET IT KID”? I met Mr. Rilch shortly after Valentine’s Day of 19[cough]. When I offered him a message heart, he reached into the bag and said gloomily, “Great, I’ll get the one that says ‘Forget it kid’.” Obscure Peanuts reference = kindred spirit. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/32 "2003-02-06T16:17:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*I still wish they’d make some that are really nasty. Like, > > You Suck > Bite Me > Drop Dead > I Hate You > Loser > Dumbass > > Stuff like that. \*\* [Your wish is my command.](http://www.despair.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827/33 "2003-02-06T21:21:59Z")
I think conversation hearts should say stuff that you’d hear in an actual conversation, like: **what?** **Over there** **I don’t know** **Told you so** **No, I’m not** **’Scuse me** **You think so?** And so on. They’d be out of context and boring as hell, but at least they’d be CONVERSATION hearts, not pick-up-line hearts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversation-hearts/151827.md?page=1)