The Bland and the Beautiful
Whitney:
The volume has indeed skyrocketed. Of the 17 emails I received within the last 24 hours, I received the following efforts at piquing my interest:
- "Hello. My perfect match is someone who Love's to laugh. Someone who Love's to talk over A candel light dinner... Most important someone who Love's to go to concert's. I love A girl/woman who has A great personality and Love's to just have fun."
OK. There's no way this poor bloke would know this, but grammar matters to this particular girl/woman. Since when is "love" a proper noun? Maybe it should be, but then we'd need to capitalize the other elements, like Fire and Water. Also, what gives with the capitalized As? Why is every word ending in ess possessive vs. plural? In sum, I'm sure he's a lovely (albeit unoriginal) soul. I'm not feeling it though.
- "I love your attitude and demeanor. I am [Boy's Name], 38, fulltime opera singer. I seek an eclectic lovely woman to have as mine and me as hers :-) Possible?"
Hmm. Maybe I'll write back and tell him, yes, let's be BF/GF 4 Eva. A fulltime opera singer sounds intriguing, but he lives upstate, and well, you know. I like Brooklyn.
- "awww you are so adorable. what's a cute girl like you doing on a site like this??"
That's a good question, and I'm beginning to wonder. I have no problems approaching people or even *gasp!* asking for phone numbers if I'm feeling saucy, and this is in real life to boot! I don't generally possess social awkwardness, save for occasional excited nerves. Anyhoo, I'll blame it on Robert. And thanks, Quote number 3, for the nice compliments. Seriously.
posted by Whitney Wangstein @ Wednesday, September 14, 2005
1 Comments:
You know what would really launch this here blog into the blogo-strato-sphere? Pictures of the people in question.
I used to think pictures were 40% of the decision, and it's probably way different for men and women, but now I think if we are honest with ourselves, it's way higher. Like 70%. But the thing is, you need multiple pictures from different angles and different situations. If you think about it, that's what we do on the subway or in a bar -- we size up your pics. OK, we guys size up your pics.
Wouldn't it be cool if...you could walk around the city and pull up the "profile" of someone that catches your eye? Remember the Ikea scene in Fight Club? Like that. But with people instead of furniture.
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