Do you know this girl?
September 15, 2002 5:58 PM Subscribe
Do you know this girl? C'mon people - lend this guy a hand. Let's face it, he needs all the help he can get...
Or c'est la guerre, as it may be.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:10 PM on September 15, 2002
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:10 PM on September 15, 2002
Got a mirror, Mo?
posted by dash_slot- at 6:10 PM on September 15, 2002
posted by dash_slot- at 6:10 PM on September 15, 2002
Caught it just in time. Now mirrored at http://firelive.com/p_haste/
posted by momorgan at 6:18 PM on September 15, 2002
posted by momorgan at 6:18 PM on September 15, 2002
Helping this guy out is a bad idea. I had something similar happen to me. I met a girl, we had a good time, we never exchanged phone numbers or addresses. I didn't really think we had made any agreement to contact each other. Anyway, she managed to find me after a year and spent some time stalking me. I was still in school and living with my folks, I came home from school/work one day and she was there, bags unpacked in our guest bedroom.
I wouldn't have minded her getting in touch with me at all, but to just show up for an entire week was a bit much. As it was it was really awkward because she had told my parents a story about us that had strayed somewhat (several miles) from the truth. We were long term acquaintances etc etc etc.
posted by substrate at 6:21 PM on September 15, 2002
I wouldn't have minded her getting in touch with me at all, but to just show up for an entire week was a bit much. As it was it was really awkward because she had told my parents a story about us that had strayed somewhat (several miles) from the truth. We were long term acquaintances etc etc etc.
posted by substrate at 6:21 PM on September 15, 2002
Cherchéz le femme, say hello to the Internet.
posted by alumshubby at 6:21 PM on September 15, 2002
posted by alumshubby at 6:21 PM on September 15, 2002
freaky.
posted by trioperative at 6:41 PM on September 15, 2002
posted by trioperative at 6:41 PM on September 15, 2002
Hey, I know her, her phone number is 212-479-7990, her website is here.
posted by m@ at 6:41 PM on September 15, 2002
posted by m@ at 6:41 PM on September 15, 2002
I applaud the guys quixotic romanticism. We all have, in our individual memories, people who we passed a couple hours with who we still stin what if. We could combine 'em all and create a Google of Missed Oppurtunities.
Besides, IIRC, isn't the back page of the Village Voice full of personal ads like this "Girl with red sweater. We talked for a minute but I didn't get your name etc.etc," So it's got precedent.
posted by jonmc at 6:48 PM on September 15, 2002
Besides, IIRC, isn't the back page of the Village Voice full of personal ads like this "Girl with red sweater. We talked for a minute but I didn't get your name etc.etc," So it's got precedent.
posted by jonmc at 6:48 PM on September 15, 2002
Assuming that the mirrored site is complete, there is no indication that the motives here are unrequited love or anything like it. Perhaps she passed on some nasty disease to him and he wants to find out where she is for a bit of payback? The site doesn't say "get in touch, I can't get you out of my mind" it says "get the hell in touch"
Or am I being too pessimistic here?
posted by dg at 6:59 PM on September 15, 2002
Or am I being too pessimistic here?
posted by dg at 6:59 PM on September 15, 2002
The mirror is complete, apart from the annoying Geocities banner ads.
Actually, you're quite right - there is no specific statement of intention. But look at the body language in the second photo: he's into her in a big way. She, however, looks kinda terrified...
posted by momorgan at 7:05 PM on September 15, 2002
Actually, you're quite right - there is no specific statement of intention. But look at the body language in the second photo: he's into her in a big way. She, however, looks kinda terrified...
posted by momorgan at 7:05 PM on September 15, 2002
It's 'cause she took one of his kidneys.
But she thinks of him every time she uses it. :)
posted by jonmc at 7:13 PM on September 15, 2002
But she thinks of him every time she uses it. :)
posted by jonmc at 7:13 PM on September 15, 2002
I told a friend of mine about someone looking for her with a similar site, and when they linked up, the guy let her know he was about to get married and really wanted to shag her as his last farewell to batchelorhood.
Needless to say my friendship was strained horribly, and it's still not back to rights. I'm rooting for the girl to keep anonymous.
posted by dwivian at 7:29 PM on September 15, 2002
Needless to say my friendship was strained horribly, and it's still not back to rights. I'm rooting for the girl to keep anonymous.
posted by dwivian at 7:29 PM on September 15, 2002
Sorry, no. That's just creepy.
Words of advice for this site's author:
Give up. Move on. Greener Pastures! Lots of fish in the sea! Do you have any idea how many really, really beautiful women there are between Prague and LA? That was a freaking year ago, and she's half a world away. No hope here, man. I'm not kidding. I know, ya got yer anonymous GeoCities page, and you got an anonymous special purpose hotmail address. Done some html layout and all, scanned in some photos, nobody's faulting you for lack of effort. Now, I'm no Casanova, or any thing like that, but there's a couple rules about things like this (it's too late this time, but maybe next time...).
One. Get her phone number. If she doesn't want to give it to you, drink more beer. Beer won't do you any good with the target of your affection, but it may make the uglier girls prettier.
Two. You gotta know her name. "We think her name is Ellie" simply isn't gonna impress the ladies. If you've been following the beer part of rule one, remember that if God wanted us to remember the names of women we pick up in bars, He wouldn't have given us cocktail napkins.
Three. The Toque. Seriously. If you're in Zurich in December, that's one thing. But you're in Prague, and it's August. You're in a bar, and you're trying to score with the hotties. The toque looks stupid. Lose it.
posted by swell at 7:30 PM on September 15, 2002
Words of advice for this site's author:
Give up. Move on. Greener Pastures! Lots of fish in the sea! Do you have any idea how many really, really beautiful women there are between Prague and LA? That was a freaking year ago, and she's half a world away. No hope here, man. I'm not kidding. I know, ya got yer anonymous GeoCities page, and you got an anonymous special purpose hotmail address. Done some html layout and all, scanned in some photos, nobody's faulting you for lack of effort. Now, I'm no Casanova, or any thing like that, but there's a couple rules about things like this (it's too late this time, but maybe next time...).
One. Get her phone number. If she doesn't want to give it to you, drink more beer. Beer won't do you any good with the target of your affection, but it may make the uglier girls prettier.
Two. You gotta know her name. "We think her name is Ellie" simply isn't gonna impress the ladies. If you've been following the beer part of rule one, remember that if God wanted us to remember the names of women we pick up in bars, He wouldn't have given us cocktail napkins.
Three. The Toque. Seriously. If you're in Zurich in December, that's one thing. But you're in Prague, and it's August. You're in a bar, and you're trying to score with the hotties. The toque looks stupid. Lose it.
posted by swell at 7:30 PM on September 15, 2002
Yeah, the Chicago Reader does these too: Red Line, Saturday morning. You: Brown sweater, granny glasses, eyes sparkling like water in a mountain stream. Me: Fade haircut, green windbreaker, copy of Sartre's Being and Nothingness. I was aphonic. I'm sorry. 555-1212
They're often entertaining in their desperate inventiveness.
By the 80s, this had evolved into a personal-messages section that positively bloomed with the idiosyncratic and arcane. Backwater Barry: This is not the time to be crowing about your pen time. The Feds are closing in. Or perhaps it's just an approaching storm. Sort of a paper BBS with a one-week latency.
posted by dhartung at 7:41 PM on September 15, 2002
They're often entertaining in their desperate inventiveness.
By the 80s, this had evolved into a personal-messages section that positively bloomed with the idiosyncratic and arcane. Backwater Barry: This is not the time to be crowing about your pen time. The Feds are closing in. Or perhaps it's just an approaching storm. Sort of a paper BBS with a one-week latency.
posted by dhartung at 7:41 PM on September 15, 2002
I don't see the harm in providing her with his e-mail address. Then it's all up to her -- blue pill or red pill?
posted by Devils Slide at 7:53 PM on September 15, 2002
posted by Devils Slide at 7:53 PM on September 15, 2002
She, however, looks kinda terrified...
Yeah, she seems to be thinking "I just know this is a bad idea - if I sleep with this guy once, he will probably fall for me in a big way and stalk me via the internet".
Four beers later: "Nah, that would never happen, he seems like such a nice guy".
posted by dg at 7:55 PM on September 15, 2002
Yeah, she seems to be thinking "I just know this is a bad idea - if I sleep with this guy once, he will probably fall for me in a big way and stalk me via the internet".
Four beers later: "Nah, that would never happen, he seems like such a nice guy".
posted by dg at 7:55 PM on September 15, 2002
In a similar, non-creepy vein, Sars from Tomato Nation is searching for Don, a man she met on September 11 in New York. Check the right side bar for information.
posted by Zosia Blue at 7:55 PM on September 15, 2002
posted by Zosia Blue at 7:55 PM on September 15, 2002
Sure, I love this sort of ad. If you are a friend of this girl you should warn her. It's great he put the page online. So many stalkers are usually less public. Asking the world to find you is just scary.
posted by ?! at 8:20 PM on September 15, 2002
posted by ?! at 8:20 PM on September 15, 2002
Wasn't she in one of those "Girls Gone Wild" videos? I'm pretty sure I saw her drunk and showing her tits for a tshirt.
posted by nyxxxx at 10:56 PM on September 15, 2002
posted by nyxxxx at 10:56 PM on September 15, 2002
I'm gonna burn for this, but the guy looks like he should be dating his sister, keeping it 'in the family'.
posted by Frasermoo at 1:10 AM on September 16, 2002
posted by Frasermoo at 1:10 AM on September 16, 2002
Do you know this girl?
I know her -- she's a whore.
posted by uftheory at 8:46 AM on September 16, 2002
I know her -- she's a whore.
posted by uftheory at 8:46 AM on September 16, 2002
Although in some ways it reminds me of a famous bit in citizen kane
where Bernstein tells about a pretty woman he saw for a glimpse ages ago. I must admit that every once in a while i'll meet someone on the subway have a conversation and never meet that person, and think "if only."
posted by Duck_Lips at 9:35 AM on September 16, 2002
where Bernstein tells about a pretty woman he saw for a glimpse ages ago. I must admit that every once in a while i'll meet someone on the subway have a conversation and never meet that person, and think "if only."
posted by Duck_Lips at 9:35 AM on September 16, 2002
Besides, IIRC, isn't the back page of the Village Voice full of personal ads like this "Girl with red sweater. We talked for a minute but I didn't get your name etc.etc," So it's got precedent.
and the online equivalent (at least in sf) is this. A wonderful online addiction of many of the locals here. (so many beautifully longshot ads.)
posted by fishfucker at 9:49 AM on September 16, 2002
and the online equivalent (at least in sf) is this. A wonderful online addiction of many of the locals here. (so many beautifully longshot ads.)
posted by fishfucker at 9:49 AM on September 16, 2002
I just can't get over how pale and flabby her pipes look in the first picture.
Oh, wait. Just got over it...
posted by sharksandwich at 1:21 PM on September 16, 2002
Oh, wait. Just got over it...
posted by sharksandwich at 1:21 PM on September 16, 2002
It appears that it was not the man in the picture who posted this site, but someone who is friends with him/was with him on the trip.
Also, in the second photo she looks elated while he looks slightly uncomfortable.
Am I wrong?
posted by disaster at 1:02 AM on September 17, 2002
Also, in the second photo she looks elated while he looks slightly uncomfortable.
Am I wrong?
posted by disaster at 1:02 AM on September 17, 2002
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C'est la vie.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:09 PM on September 15, 2002