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April 10, 2003 2:37 PM   Subscribe

This personal ad validates what I've always suspected about life, dating, and everything.
posted by goethean (25 comments total)
 
Broad stereotypes = comedy gold
posted by dhoyt at 2:41 PM on April 10, 2003


I don't get it. It's clearly a joke. What's the point?

For the record, I never laugh.
posted by rocketman at 2:47 PM on April 10, 2003


Bless you Craigslist.
posted by zekinskia at 2:51 PM on April 10, 2003


No, goet's saying, life, dating, everything: a bad parody

...of what? you ask

one often asks oneself, when reading bad parodies, is this in fact not a failure but a parody of successful parody? not like those sites which make fun of the onion's tics and fallback styles, but imagine making fun of the onion by deliberately making a non-funny mock-up of the onion, which was instead just depressing? this would of course resemble the real newspaper, and someone would say, "i don't get it. it's clearly not the news, but it isn't funny."

but turn it inside out: watch the news for humor alone and be blase when it fails to deliver. enter into relationships with the feeling that it is just a lame commentary on what a relationship could be. this is what we did as children: we watched the news for humor, as we watched everything; we were best friends with everyone we could manage.
posted by mitchel at 3:03 PM on April 10, 2003


I don't even remotely believe this ad. Good Christian girls certainly do work out to keep their butts hard but they don't say so. Cultures that include the word "clenched" in their vocabulary are so far from cultures that includes good Christian girls (and me, for that matter, except when I'm feeling particularly snarky) that there's no use even shouting -- in either direction. Human voices spiral down into the yawning gulp and vanish.

This ad was dreamed up by some dude to validate, what was it, "...what I've always suspected about life, dating, and everything." Goethan, say it wasn't you!
posted by jfuller at 3:04 PM on April 10, 2003


why do i keep hearing the word 'cunt' in my head?
posted by quonsar at 3:06 PM on April 10, 2003


On preview: fuller tips hat to mitchel.
posted by jfuller at 3:06 PM on April 10, 2003




My first thought was that this is so clearly a joke as to not even be funny.

My second thought was of my husband's ex-girlfriend. Coincidentally, she was also so clearly a joke as to not even be funny.
posted by padraigin at 3:10 PM on April 10, 2003


> beleive that Jesus is our savior

fuller indulges in spelling flame without remorse. If there's one word that believers are unlikely to misspell...
posted by jfuller at 3:10 PM on April 10, 2003


> I have a truckload of steaks, ribs, thighs, wings, breasts,
> you name it I got it. A little bit old, not smelly or nothing,
> probably good for stews.

Young man with truckload of raspberry Alka-Seltzer seeks young woman with swimming pool and taste for the bizarre.
posted by jfuller at 3:26 PM on April 10, 2003


I don't get it. It's clearly a joke. What's the point?
2.5 kids

Ok, what is she asking for here, I know it's a joke. Two kids and chance at a third, Or, 2 & 1/2 times she will spread her legs after marriage. The half when she's done...and you're not. That may keep you married to what quonsar said, in hope for more, good grief.
posted by thomcatspike at 3:31 PM on April 10, 2003


Clenched, Christian buttocks.

I'll part that sea like Sexual Moses.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 3:37 PM on April 10, 2003


Am I the only one who can't see the ad?
posted by LittleMissCranky at 4:16 PM on April 10, 2003


I'll part that sea like Sexual Moses.

I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief that The Jesse didn't have an inline image to go along with that one.

posted by padraigin at 4:17 PM on April 10, 2003


I don't see it either lil'miss. But it was posted in my area about 2 months ago too. Some pretty humorous responses were posted here, scroll down to March 5th.
posted by feelsgoo at 4:23 PM on April 10, 2003


Thanks, feels!
posted by LittleMissCranky at 4:30 PM on April 10, 2003


Here's another copy.
posted by stopgap at 4:57 PM on April 10, 2003


You know, when I followed the link, I got a page that only displayed the craigslist breadcrumb and I actually found it quite amusing. Dare I say, I chuckled. In a way, a blank craigslist posting with the title "sorority girl seeks successful christian frat boy" really seems to validate "what I've always suspected about life, dating, and everything" more so than the actual copy.
posted by shoepal at 5:11 PM on April 10, 2003


ah, satire on craigslist is always about as subtle as, uh, let's say, a punch in the face.

which is a nice segue to *my* personal ad.
posted by fishfucker at 5:12 PM on April 10, 2003


Like shoepal, I only saw the abbreviated version until I followed the link supplied by stopgap. Somehow though, it conveyed the whole ad in just those few words and the complete copy really did not add anything. I find it interesting that the answer to the ultimate question about life, dating, and everything can be summed up almost as succinctly as the answer to that other ultimate question.
posted by dg at 8:28 PM on April 10, 2003


that other ultimate question.

why don't we d-do it in the road?
posted by quonsar at 5:09 AM on April 11, 2003


It's an obvious parody and a bad one. It reeks of smugness and superiority which is repulsive and revolting in anyone. But it does prove that the so-called non-conformist open-minded hipster-types at Craig's List are as sterotype laden, cliqueish and stuck up as the people this ad mocks.
posted by jonmc at 5:26 AM on April 11, 2003


The joke has been made - ad nauseum - here in Chicago. The inspiration for this personal: The Lincoln Park Trixie Society.
posted by aladfar at 5:49 AM on April 11, 2003


Metafilter: More easily nauseated than you!
posted by goethean at 7:39 AM on April 11, 2003


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