# Love Is...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 22, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009 "2009-04-22T19:30:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/1 "2009-04-22T19:30:02Z")
…like oxygen.
…a battlefield.
…all you need.
…
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### Author:  [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/2 "2009-04-22T19:38:38Z")
…a many splendored thing?
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/3 "2009-04-22T19:42:50Z")
…a banquet on which we feed.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/4 "2009-04-22T19:46:36Z")
higher than a mountain
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### Author:  [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/5 "2009-04-22T19:52:17Z")
…a sweet old-fashioned notion.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/6 "2009-04-22T19:53:55Z")
…a pretty lame comic strip.
> **[Love is... willing him to call you. Love is... comics.](https://www.loveisfan.com/love-is-53-1995.html)**
>
> Love is... willing him to call you. Love is... Comics In Color, Love Quotes, Love is Comic Strip.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/7 "2009-04-22T20:06:44Z")
. . . a stranger in an open car
. . . the drug
. . . all around you
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/8 "2009-04-22T20:08:29Z")
I don’t know what it is, but I know where it comes from: up above. Anything posing as love which comes from anywhere else is not the genuine article.
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### Author:  [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/9 "2009-04-22T20:17:27Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#):
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> I don’t know what it is, but I know where it comes from: up above. Anything posing as love which comes from anywhere else is not the genuine article.
You tops are all the same!
Love is…[not what is used to be](http://theendofhumor.blogspot.com/).
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/10 "2009-04-22T20:23:00Z")
> [@S. J Perelman](#):
>
> “Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin: it’s the triumphant twang of a bedspring.”
🙂
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### Author:  [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/11 "2009-04-22T20:25:11Z")
…the losing score in tennis.
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### Author:  [@Black\_Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Sunshine)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/12 "2009-04-22T20:29:40Z")
. . . on the way. I can see it in your eyes.
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### Author:  [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/13 "2009-04-22T20:30:50Z")
…in the air, everywhere I look around.
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/14 "2009-04-22T20:43:22Z")
a [Tanglewood tree.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teJxMpCEjy4)
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/15 "2009-04-22T20:45:42Z")
…but the song we sing.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/16 "2009-04-22T21:01:52Z")
…swift arrows.
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### Author:  [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/17 "2009-04-22T21:07:23Z")
…meted out as determined by a directly proportional take/make equivalence.
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### Author:  [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/18 "2009-04-22T21:08:21Z")
…making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope.
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/19 "2009-04-22T21:46:31Z")
…like a butterfly, and butterflies are free.
…a four letter word.
…never having to say you’re sorry!
…stinky (Ergo “Love stinks!”)
…what the world needs now - love, sweet love!
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is/494009/20 "2009-04-22T21:55:47Z")
… a many _splintered_ thing.
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