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Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Finding your perfect lover, dot com
If you're the type that always just misses out on getting a girlfriend because you waited too long and lost your chance, I have more depressing news for you. Now you can't even buy one.
Not on eBay, anyway. Not anymore.

[ February 11, 2004, 11:34 AM: Message edited by: Chris Bridges ]

Posted by Anti-Chris (Member # 4452) on :

::laughs::

Great job, Chris.

Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :

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If you're the type that always just misses out on getting a girlfriend because you waited too long and lost your chance

*snicker* Three years ago I considered asking one of my male friends out on a date. But I spent too long agonizing over whether or not I really wanted to, and he ended up in a relationship with someone else before I made up my mind. [note to self: ten months is too long to dither over whether or not to ask a guy out]

Great column, as usual.

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

Hey for thirty bucks a pop, I'd send guys frou-frou letters too.

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

I actually preferred some of the guy auctions that popped up in response, including one who offered to provide a virtual beating and steal your virtual girlfriend, and one that advertised himself as a "imaginary stalker ex-boyfriend."

Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :

Hmm. Could you be prosecuted for sending threatening letters if you were hired to do it on e-bay?

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

I think it would depend on your contract, and whether or not you stopped if asked.

Virtual masochism?

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Loved it!

I really enjoyed the Superbowl one too.

Thanks Chris!!!

Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :

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eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said some of the more tangible offers had crossed the line "into something that was clearly inappropriate," which I'm guessing means poetry.

That line made me crack up.

Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :

Chris, you are a column machine.

And I mean that in a very good way. [Smile]

(I came back just to read your column yesterday, despite drowning in my own phlegm. It's just that kinda column. Also, in a good way. [Wink]

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