priceless is just wondering if that tattoo is going to look like one of the retarded flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz in 30 years.

I was kidding bout the wedding, but generally speaking, two shy people who start off with a long song and dance around and towards each other do make fanastic couples. Wierd, but true.

Find out what his favorite fast food is, bring it to him at work sometime. A simple gesture that yields wonderful results.

I've been watching this infomercial for two hours now, WHEN WILL IT END!!!

Look caris, I was where you are right now once. Face the facts, most girls in their early twenties don't want to settle down with the nice and sensetive guy. They won't decide that that's what they want until they're 26~30 and the fun of alcohol fades away and all the good guys are taken.

So for right now, give up man. You can't find love. It has to find you. And if you're not getting out there and hitting the town every once in a while, you're not really giving it a chance to. Not to mention, one night stands are only a problem when SHE isn't expecting it to be one. Girls like sex too. Give 'em what they want! You get knowledge that can be used in future relationships, they get Caris Mclovin. It's win-win.

Ouch, I don't know how you do it man.
I turned into a raving lunatic smeared in paint and chain smoking after two months.

Ahhhhhh....my work here is done.

Congrats, sounds like you made the first step. You can take the rest from here, make sure I get an invite to the wedding.

*thought about it in the shower, while singing and preparing for McMuffiny goodness*

I guess I didn't really answer your question. Your question was actually 'What is ROMANTIC love?'. I think that's what you really want to know.

Well, as someone currently struggling with exactly that, let me disappoint you with a little fact. Don't get me wrong, Leanne is my world, but there's a dark side to romantic love too. Love is the hole in my wall and my bloody, bruised knuckles. Love is my gouged knee because I broke my cardinal rule of not playing with swords while drunk and pissed off. My point is, romantic love involves making a lot of bad decisions. Leaping off a lot of ledges just hoping that each time there's a safety net beneath you. And sometimes it does. And waiting at the bottom is the greatest moment of your life.

But why are you asking us dumb schmucks? We're on a DATING WEBSITE. Actually, why are you asking at all? Figuring out what love is to you is the greatest quest you'll probably ever embark on. You'll know what it is when it finds you.

Well put.

Cats all the way. Dogs almost always look sad to me, so I constantly try to cheer them up. It's exhausting.

Mmmm....McMuffin.

*heads for McDonald's*

Okay, sometimes there might be butterflies involved too.

I don't agree with many of the definitions here, butterflies and all that, because love isn't something you only feel for a signifacant other, it's something you feel for family and friends, and sometimes even strangers you meet in passing.

"Love is a many spledored thing, love lifts us up where we belong, love gives us wings, all you need is love!"

True. But love is also putting yourself through hell, pain, and anguish if necessary to keep the one you love from enduring the same. It's protection when they need it, and selflessness when they don't expect it. Mostly, I think love is overcoming all obsticals, physical, finacial, and emotional, as a union rather than an individual acting for their own good.

I am The Duck.

Well, my favorite opening line is "I was just wondering what a guy like me would need to say to a girl like you, in a bar not unlike this one, to earn a few minutes of her time."

Just kidding.

Pick up lines are all well and good if you still think life revolves solely around the number of people you sleep with. But if you're looking for the real thing, just start with a friendly gesture and a kind hello.

I'm not talking nice, leather night on the town jackets.
I'm talking full-length, faded and cracked one's from my rougher times on the road.

What do ladies want?

Such a pointless question. Just like every scenerio, it all depends on the person.

I've had the same problem, and will agree that *GENERALIZATION* most girls will be drawn to the assh*#e. It's genetic. Woman are coded to be lead by the belief that a dominate and abusive male will also be more aggressive in defending her against danger. And Hollywood doesn't help that image.

However, I know that I overlooked A LOT of warning signs along the way that should have told me I was with the wrong kind of women. The ones who liked me better in my leather jacket with my hair slicked back rather than my lambskin with the clean and neat look. The ones who liked it better when I yelled then when I whispered. The ones who llllloved me drunk. They were the ones who I should have been weary of.

You've just described, to a tee, the relationship I had with a girl I work with named Kelly.

I do the same thing, saying something half to myself and half to her, it's 'fishing' darling, he's hoping if he throws the line out enough times he'll get a bite.

I would say things like 'Mental note: Doesn't like Christmas.' or give her little complements when I didn't think it would be too obvious why I was giving them. HE'S SHY! Kelly and I even formed a list of reasons why we SHOULDN'T date, and if that's not a pretext to dating, I don't know what is.

Eventually, enough of those times went by without a bite, and we both ended up with other people. I may be happy with who I'm with now, but I still regret the missed opportunities.

I say stick with the long and in depth profile. I discount a lot of people on here just because I don't know enough about them, their interests, or what they're looking for to waste my time trying to get to know every one of them. Also, saying those things in your profile let's people know that you're not just agreeing with whatever they're saying if you do talk.

Keep the profile, it's a good one.

A friend of mine recently compared the brush off a lot of us good guys get from girls to being rejected from a job.

"It's like getting called back for a second interview, and then sitting down at that little chair in the corner and being told 'I'm sorry, I'm afraid we can't give you the job at this time. Instead, we're going to hire someone much less qualified and pay them much more than we would have paid you. But what we will do is keep your number on hand, so that we can call you occasionally to complain about the person we did hire. And when we inevitably fire them for incompetence or failure to preform job tasks, we will shuffle past your resume again to the next, less qualified applicant. Thank you and have a good day.'"

This is not a joke exactly, just my new favorite quote.

"In recent news, it was revealed that human cloning was actually banned because if Chuck Norris were to clone himself, then one Chuck Norris roundhouse kick could potentially meet another Chuck Norris roundhouse kick. Physicists theorize that this collision could in fact destroy the universe."