"John" <gh14tq5@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:f1i66r$jfv$1@aioe.org...
> John R. Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
>> That doesn't get any hits on Google. I'd recommend "Musume^san wo boku
>> ni kudasai".
>
> After checking with a number of other Japanese friends, this is the
> phrase that pretty much was recommended by everyone, and the one I ended
> up using.  I'm sure I made a number of gaffes, but at least the outcome
> was the one I wanted.
>
> John
>
>
>> This is a kind of fixed phrase with perhaps a few variants. The one my
>> wife asked me to use was "[her name] wo boku ni kudasai", which is
>> basically the same as the one I suggested above, but substituting her
>> name for "musume-san".
>
Well what happened..did you slip and fall face first into the omanjoo?

Did he lob your head off?