Have You Ever Placed A Personal Ad? And What Happened?

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And yes, DG, makeoutclub.com does count.

― Tom, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Embarrassingly, yes. Back in the early days when I first moved to NYC, and didn't know anyone, I did one of those free ads in the back of the Village Voice. Did it work? Well, I did have a very drunken one-night stand with a boy who looked *exactly* like William Reid/young Bob Dylan, so I guess it was worth it. ;-)

Then the next week, I answered another ad (in the musicians wanted section) and joined a band, and never had to worry about going without male attention again. Mwah hah hah.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Me and my friends put up this ludicrious one once online for a right laugh, and then since I was the only single one of our trio (one has two men, the other is married), I had to go meet the guy we judged best. He was pretty cute but obsessed with his ex-girlfriend - who STILL LIVED WITH HIM!!!! - and talked about how much he loved the Upper East Side all night. I will never again do something that lame ass and stupid, no matter what those two twitheads try to convince me to do.

I mean, it was fantastic, the ad said stuff like "My only qualification for a man is being able to party past 2am!" and "Hobbies include drinking". We had the best laugh when guys would send photos, because a lot of them were quite old, and we claimed ourselves as an 19 year old girl in the ad! I mean, they were like my dad's age. One had these photos of him in "exotic locations" that he "travelled to" (which all suspiciously looked like the Bronx) and he had on a gold chain in all of them. What a pimp.

But still, the whole meeting the guy thing was easily the weakest shit ever. Sure, I got a free dinner, and the ladies bought me drinks, but fuck.

― Ally, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One had these photos of him in "exotic locations" that he "travelled to" (which all suspiciously looked like the Bronx) and he had on a gold chain in all of them. What a pimp.

Ally, you fool! You turned down Mahir! You'd have been famous by now!

― Tom, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Goddamnit. I knew I should've went out with him instead of the guy they liked. They're all about looks, I coulda had a pimp with a kick ass record.

― Ally, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Tom's out to get me, first suggesting there's crack in my water supply and now reminding me about Makeoutclub. It'll be pistols at dawn at this rate, Pooing Ewing.

― DG, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whatever. Answer the question, DG.

― Josh, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, Josh is keen to know if MOC works.

― Tom, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, I'm still holding out hope after hearing of Tom's own disastrous experience with it.

― Josh, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

tom? (i mean, you had to have had a reason to ask in the first place...)

― fred solinger, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I placed two personal ads in SELECT, one in tandem with another ILM/E semi-regular. At the time of placing them I was single - the first one was basically placed as a kind of therapy to prove to (i.e. dupe) myself that I was Getting Over It. The second one was placed as a drunken joke-but-not-really, shortly after.

By the time the first ad actually ran and I started getting replies I wasn't single any more so it was a bit embarrassing. I passed any promising ones to my friends and shuddered at the rest.

The second one was a bit easier. We'd written "two boys, one single one not" in the ad so we just swapped roles (NB neither of us were single but I decided to admit I wasn't). We got a fair few letters including one from two girls who wanted us to share a tent with them at Glastonbury, and one from someone saying his girlfriend was writing to us but if we wrote back he'd break our legs (or something). We wrote back to one of them and exchanged a letter or two but it stopped for reasons I won't go into because that's somebody else's confession, really.

― Tom, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually Tom gave one of the second crop of those letters to me. We exchanged a grand total of five letters until it petered out under exam pressure. So I've never placed or answered to a small ad: I've gone one sadder.

― Magnus, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Me and my sis used to join internet dating agencies, give each other our passwords then send abuse to whichever fools replied. Being disturbingly full of more desperate men than women I had lots more fun than my sister. Then I started thinking that these people might actually be serious/ emotionally damaged so it didn't seem such fun anymore... (the boredom of having a conscience)

― zchari5, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

I tried to place an ad once, but they thought it was to dodgy to publish

― slecked, Sunday, 29 June 2008 02:26 (sixteen years ago)

pooing ewing? wtf

― sunny successor, Sunday, 29 June 2008 03:30 (sixteen years ago)

9/11 changed everything

― DG, Sunday, 29 June 2008 03:33 (sixteen years ago)

~~9/11~~ two girls one cup changed everything

― sunny successor, Sunday, 29 June 2008 03:43 (sixteen years ago)

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