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November 29, 2003
the up side of boredom
there's a part of me that really enjoys having nothing much to do. i find all kinds of interesting, creative things happening in that situation.
so my current personals ad is far and away my most sincere, and probably my least creative ever. and as you can see... it doesn't seem to be very successful.
so i decided to do a completely fascetious ad, partly because it was fun, and partly because i'm curious to see if creativity alone gets a response where sincerity does not. my sincere ad is still up there, but i don't think it'll be easy for anyone to tell that they're both the same person.
for those who are curious, the new profile name is "monsterthumb".
Posted by lisa at November 29, 2003 04:14 PM | TrackBack
Comments
monsterthumb scares me!!
i don't think you'd want to go out with anyone who responds to that ad! ;-)
Posted by: christa on November 30, 2003 10:52 PM
rrrrrrrrrrrr!
they forcibly removed my cute monster picture, though :(
Posted by: monsterthumb on November 30, 2003 11:56 PM
I agree with Christa, Monsterthumb is one scary chick! The weird thing is, I didn't know how to search for a specific name so I searched for age, zip code and so forth, and your 2 profiles came up as the first and second result :) funny to compare the sincere you and the scary you. And no I don't think anyone would know they were the same person :)
Posted by: Sarah on December 1, 2003 08:21 AM
I tried this once. I made up a personal ad called biggie_shorty (from "Pootietang" of course, duh). Most folks didn't get the joke, including most of the guys who responded. I found it even less successful than my other very earnest (and clever, I thought) ad.
I think monsterthumb is funny, and so it might appeal to folks looking for that. But there are too many questionmarks for most folks to pick up the mouse and reply. Most people are chicken shit.
Posted by: Ruby on December 1, 2003 02:41 PM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.