# To All the Ladies on the Board **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516 "2001-03-02T16:35:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/1 "2001-03-02T16:35:42Z")
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines And often is his gold complexion dimmed And every fair from fair sometime declines By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st Nor shall Death brag thou wandrest in his shade When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breate or eyes can see So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (This is from memory; forgive and correct any errors you find.) ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/2 "2001-03-02T16:52:25Z")
Very nice. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/3 "2001-03-02T16:59:38Z")
Oh wow, is it mating season _already_? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/4 "2001-03-02T17:00:54Z")
Oooh, sorry I’m late, dear. I was out walking in beauty, like the night. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/5 "2001-03-02T17:07:08Z")
Mmmmmmmmmm. Very nice. And I should not worry over any errors. Anyone can copy from a book. If you say it from the heart (or memory), that matters to me. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/6 "2001-03-02T17:34:29Z")
Why, Thank you! :😊: ---
**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/7 "2001-03-02T17:35:11Z")
And to a sweet man on this board…A Kiss… ---
**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:** [March 2, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/8 "2001-03-02T18:03:13Z")
That was lovely. ----:)/ x o x o x ----///\\ ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/9 "2001-03-02T18:09:35Z")
Okay, boys, one of you get down on your hands and knees behind **BlackKnight** so I can push him over after I take his lunch money. ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/10 "2001-03-02T18:21:49Z")
Aw… It’s my favorite! ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/11 "2001-03-02T20:00:12Z")
Yeah, but do you suck where the bee sucks? That’s what I want to know. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/12 "2001-03-02T20:16:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*Okay, boys, one of you get down on your hands and knees behind **BlackKnight** so I can push him over after I take his lunch money. \*\* Ha! I’m a college student. I don’t _have_ money. 😉 (And thank you, everyone, for your kind responses! _HUGS_ to all who want them.) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/13 "2001-03-02T22:01:12Z")
Originality is such a lost art. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/14 "2001-03-02T22:10:21Z")
Aw, how sweet, BlackKnight! Thank you! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/15 "2001-03-02T22:25:35Z")
_swoon_ I wish more guys would talk like that. I just love it, I just do. The biggest blush someone ever got out of me was quoting a couple of lines from “Don Juan”. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/16 "2001-03-02T22:55:52Z")
:Swooning: Oh Sir, do go on. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/17 "2001-03-02T22:58:49Z")
(ahem) (ahem) (cough) (spit) To all the Ladies of the Board My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/19 "2001-03-02T23:06:30Z")
Thank you Kittie Katt. Smooches right back atcha. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/20 "2001-03-03T00:16:00Z")
To all SDMB ladies: ```auto She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! Lord Byron ``` Fenris ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516/21 "2001-03-03T00:52:29Z")
> [@](#): > > **I’m not gonna let Arnold and BlackKnight get all the smooches!** Well then … _SMOOCH_ There ya go. hehe 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ladies-on-the-board/56516.md?page=2)