August 31, 2010
Online Dating Profile Isn’t Working
8> You posted your profile on GeoCities.
7> Your ad titled “Hot GeekGirl Coder in Bikini Seeks GamerGuy”
overloaded the server with seven billion hits in one hour.
6> Those e-mails indicating “Your account has been blocked!”
aren’t spam. They’re from the other members of match.com.
5> It’s a bit of a turn-off when your status has been showing as
“online” 24 hours a day for the last 4 weeks.
4> You really shouldn’t describe your case mods as “erotic.”
3> They want 29 dimensions. You’ve got 29 dementias.
2> Your spell-check changed “house wired with CAT-5″ to “house
with 5 wired cats.”
yourself any favors by using the handle “3.5inch_floppy_guy.”
Selected from 33 submissions from 11 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:
Bruce Brown, Dayton, OH — 1
Peter Casper, Brisbane, Australia — 2
Donald Johnson, Cincinnati, OH — 3, Topic
James Knowles, Bellingham, WA — 4, 7
Glenn Anthony, San Jose, CA — 5, 6
Douglas Frank, Crosby, TX — 8
Kim Moser, New York, NY — List Moderator