Monday, December 22, 2008

Search Engine Funnies (SEF): The Kiss

I like to look at my blog stats and try to figure out what the hell people were thinking when they stumbled onto my blog. I'm still not convinced that the day I blogged unflattering things about Sarah Palin, I just happened to get my one and only visitor from Wasilla - looking for whether or not to spell out numbers under twelve. The fact that my son is twelve gives this "coincidence" particularly disturbing overtones. But never mind...

There's one, today, who wants to know "how to spell out the sound a kiss makes." I thought I would turn this over to my readers - how WOULD you spell out the sound a kiss makes? What a fun exercise in onomatopoeia!

I think a chaste kiss on the cheek - the papery cheek of an elderly, spinster aunt - would sound quite different from a lustful French kiss in the back of an elevator that's hovering precariously between floors. A kiss underwater would sound different from a breathless kiss a champion swimmer might give her lover as she touches the wall, springs up for air, and sets a new world record for breath-holding and speed. How about baby kisses, with and without soggy cookie crumbs? Or the kiss of a mother's lips on a child's forehead as she not only comforts the child, but tests his skin temperature for signs of a fever.

Pick your kiss (or kisses). In the comments below, describe the type of kiss, and spell out the sound you think it would make. Inquiring readers want to know!

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