Esquire's brutally honest personals

September 24, 2004 1:34 PM

Esquire presents some brutally honest personal advertisements. Find your soul mate today.
posted by xmutex (13 comments total)

If I were younger and not married I'd be all over Rachel Tropp.

'cept for the Anime. That's like kryptonite.
posted by bondcliff at 1:45 PM on September 24, 2004

ha, I love this. If I lived in L.A. and Dana's ad was in nerve instead of this I'd totally write her.
posted by Peter H at 1:48 PM on September 24, 2004

Been there, done that.
posted by fenriq at 1:55 PM on September 24, 2004

Peter H - Dana's a mefite - and she is very cute, isn't she. (Don't you have some compelling reason to visit L.A.?).
posted by taz at 2:08 PM on September 24, 2004

Ha, her blog is great. Damn, very cute also.
I will fess up to being taken. (Quite happily, too!) But if I were single I would absolutely write her. There's not an unflattering word in her Esquire entry.

But (checks her mefi profile), only two comments in as many years! what sort of commitment is that? ;)
posted by Peter H at 2:23 PM on September 24, 2004

Dana used to have a Nerve ad -- we exchanged a few emails -- under the name "coygirl." Might still be in there, I suppose.

She's as cool as she seems.
posted by me3dia at 2:30 PM on September 24, 2004

Matthew Steckler: I use Dial and Irish Spring soap

Heh. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I guess if I'm interested in knowing what he smells like, I can cruise the aisles at Piggley Wiggley and find out.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 2:35 PM on September 24, 2004

What bondcliff said. But with exclamation points!
posted by majick at 3:19 PM on September 24, 2004

I wonder why so many more women than guys? (Stefan's endearingly lanky, but I hope that look on his face is stonedness and not lazy arrogance -- and yes there is a difference dammit.)
posted by digaman at 3:50 PM on September 24, 2004

Those were excellent. Thanks!
posted by dobbs at 5:12 PM on September 24, 2004

> If I were younger and not married I'd be all over Rachel Tropp.

Me, if I was slightly younger or drunker I'd be all over this political prisoner. "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole," forsooth.
posted by jfuller at 5:14 PM on September 24, 2004

it's true what they say...i only post on mefi when it behooves me to do so. ie, when the topic of conversation is about yours truly. i'm a leo, i cannot be helped. what can i say?

anyway, it's so bizarre that this esquire thing is back en vogue. the issue came out in may and somehow because boingboing linked to it today, it's back! curious, that.

a little update: i received about 500 emails, about 350 of which were real and not spammy/virussy. of those, i responded to maybe 10. of those, i met 1. of that 1, i ended up dating 0. but i did hire him and now he works for me as a designer, so at the end of the day it was a pretty fun social experiment in self-deprecation and dating.

anyway, thanks for the compliments and i'm sorry i'm not more of a mefi-er, but there just isn't enough time in the day to participate *everywhere*, you know? could someone look into expanding the 24 hour day into something more like 36? once that measure passes, i'll so totally mefi more often. pinky swear.

p.s. i do have a nerve ad. the name is dontmakemethink. ;)
posted by maybeiam at 5:40 PM on September 24, 2004

Dana's Ex is also a mefite, and is also very cool, despite breaking up with her on Valentine's Day.
posted by jonson at 5:44 PM on September 24, 2004