You might as well say 'I eat what I see' is the same as 'I see what I eat'!

"I love you."

"I love you too."

"I love you... a dozen."

"You what?"

"I love you a dozen."

"I see. Well, in that case I love you two dozen."

"What? You can't love me TWO dozen. That's like saying, 'I love you mauve' or 'I love you scrub brush.'"

"I love you, Scrub Brush."

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[Ray Davis]

Uncompromising, enterprising, anything but tranquilizing, right-on mauve.

[Kevin]

It was the best butter.

[Elsa]

"I love you a dozen" and "I love you, Scrub Brush" sound like they're directly lifted from our household patter.

... though "I love you a dozen" would seem a little scant, given our industry standard "I love you a million."

[redfox]

Ray: But mauve, unlike Maude, is a bit tranquilizing, I think.

Kevin: "I love you, broken pocket watch."

Elsa: They really do! We rarely would go so far as to confess that we loved one another a million (how stingy of us!) but we do often admit to "six... teen... hundred... and nine... ty three."

[Elsa]

Well, we are technically newlyweds... graying, decrepit newlyweds. By the time we've been together a few more year, I'm sure we'll be doling out the I Love Yous more stintingly.

And, as my loving sister mentioned once, "You know that you guys make the rest of us want to barf, right? Okay."

[Elsa]

I should clarify: the "I love you, Tarantino/I love you, toolkit/I love you, monster truck" game and "I love you a million" stuff, we confine to home.

The barf-making behavior was, I think, that we quietly enjoy sitting next to each other at family gatherings (though that's as much for the sake of strength-in-numbers as it is for sheer besottedness), and that we have occasionally been spotted holding hands when we thought ourselves unobserved. To a couple of two or three decades, I imagine that looks pretty sappy.