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Threadjack: First Date Smoochin’ on Qt3
1 Comment Published by Joel April 10th, 2007 in Romance. Share ThisIf you’d like to waste an hour or two like I have this morning vicariously living out a sad internet sack’s dating experience, please avoid the rest of this post and click the link below to the “First date smoochin’” thread on videogame forum Quarter to Three. Forum regular “extarbags” started a thread with a […]
You may have come across the Men’s Health article, “50 Things She Wishes You Knew” [menshealth.com], and now there we have the inevitable backlash, from a blogger named “Klashbash”. [Ironfisted.com] One thing I wish they each knew: they’re both jerks who deserve each other.
Cougars Attain Higher Profile
5 Comments Published by Alex April 5th, 2007 in Romance, Sex, Women. Share ThisCBS News has just published an article profiling “cougars”, the popular name given to the kind of mature women who are on the prowl for younger men. It’s an intriguing state of the dating union. The fact that the term and what it represents has now become network newsworthy kind of gives the phenomenon a […]
Book: I Saw You: Missed Connections
0 Comments Published by Joel March 30th, 2007 in Books, Romance. Share ThisFrom the upcoming book “I Saw You: Missed Connections,” filled with cartoons inspired by posts on Craigslist’s personals section of the same name.
I Saw You: Missed Connections [Flickr]
Book Blog [MissedConnections.blogspot.com]
“A woman walked out on her boyfriend because she said her new lover had a special talent - he could make her climax using only his mind.” [NYDailyNews.com]
Judging Dates by Their Apartments
1 Comment Published by Joel March 29th, 2007 in Decor, Romance. Share ThisWhere to begin with this creepy and utterly useless piece in today’s New York Times about people who are rejected because they have strange apartments? Could it be the comedy “REJECTED” stamps photoshopped onto images of pathetic (but rich!) schlubs who occasionally don’t get laid because they have Lego in their apartments? (I’ll admit it, […]
I Can’t Believe I’m Posting This
13 Comments Published by Alex March 28th, 2007 in Romance. Share ThisYes, I this is in from Cute Overload, but the Mrs. just sent me this and damn, is it cute. Your heart is a stone if it doesn’t make you want to cuddle something, even if it’s just a football. I defy you to not forward this to your lover or your mom.
Okay, I […]
Sorry, ladies! Bao Xishun, Mongolian shepherd and the world’s tallest man, is no longer an eligible bachelor.
At 7′9″, Xishun received worldwide attention last December when he was called to duty to save the lives of two dolphins who had swallowed pieces of plastic. His 41.7″ long arms were the only tools capable of effectively […]
Silly online dating bill that would have required sites to detail their level of background screening has been knocked out in the Illinois House. [Ars Technica]
“The world’s first ever sheep shagger personals site.” [AdultSheepFinder.com]
Taking Your Wife’s Surname
18 Comments Published by Joel March 23rd, 2007 in Family, Romance, Women. Share ThisTaking your wife’s surname really freaks a lot of people out, at least if Donna and Mike Salinger’s story is any indication.
As Donna and Mike entered their wedding reception, an unwitting announcer told the expectant crowd, “Ladies and gentleman, put your hands together for the new Mr. and Mrs. Salinger!”
Some guests clapped, some chuckled at […]
Expose Yourself: Picking Up On New Sounds
16 Comments Published by Alex March 19th, 2007 in Music, Romance. Share ThisOne of the problems I’m discovering as I get older is that, like my joints, my taste in stuff requires more and more effort to stay limber; this is best illustrated in terms of music. Every generation inevitably finds itself becoming the outdated demographic sooner or later.
By the time you’re in your early thirties […]


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