Hey What's up

i want one of them emails

A close race with the "I'm so in love with you & we are a match made in heaven" even though you've never met or chatted with the sender.

Oh, I hate the phone number ones.

Like I'm really gonna call, so you can try to sell me a subscription to the Harrisburg Gazette or something.

Another excellent example of why many people don't hook up via email on M2! Thanks, Lex!

It amazes me when people just give out a phone number in a first e-mail. I haven't seen a lot of that on Mingle -- I think people here have more sense -- but I was on a pay site a few years ago where the phone numbers were just rampant.

And I'm thinking "If she's giving me the phone number without ever having even messaged me before, how many other people has she given it to?"

Serious disincentive to proceed.

My bet? Check the bathroom walls - LOL!

Yeah, and I never call those either....!

Touche' - I rank you as a smart man!

i got one with this






and another with"hey"

Clearly the literate, chatty types???

Another one I like is when they want to argue with me about my profile. I get a few of those, not many. I would've thought anyone who took the time to read the damn thing would realize it's pointless to try to get me to reconsider what I put in there. Jeez, it would take me 6 years to rewrite it....

So no deadlines from your editor re: profiles, eh? LOL!

I'm not established enough to even HAVE an editor! Typically, I have a few people proofread my stuff to see if they can find any mistakes or plot holes or continuity errors, but they're people I know and can rely on not to sugar-coat anything. But they're not really "editors" in the traditional sense -- I've actually done more editing than writing in my life, so I can handle that part pretty well, for the most part.

Now, the reality is that my profile is a stylistic mess -- it meanders all over the place, has some redundancies, and isn't the best work I've ever done (except maybe for the story about the talking atheist bear -- that's actually pretty good) -- but when you consider it's been written over a period of a year and a half or so, and then you consider that I have the attention span of a narcoleptic hamster, I think it does all right.

Anyway, the e-mail complaints I get about the profile are never about the style, or anything nearly so literary as all that. They just want to argue about my preferences and standards, and tell me why I'm totally wrong about everything.

I've read your profile. You are what you are. Anyone who tries to change you is an idiot.

And yet they continue to try. Better to teach a fish to play basketball.

Another e-mail I find interesting -- and I've gotten a fair number of these lately -- are the ones that say "So-and-so likes you but she's intimidated by your writing."

I have issues with this whole concept, and in fact did a couple of threads on the topic (albeit in a somewhat veiled manner) which I think totally missed their target -- The Arrogant Narcissistic Conceited Jerk thread was one -- because I wanted to play off the idea that an Arrogant Narcissistic Conceited Jerk was not only NOT intimidating, but an entirely laughable construct -- this "persona" leaves a great deal of room for (what I hoped would be) some good-natured self-deprecation -- alas, the intent seemed lost in the ether....

Look, anybody who is "intimidated" by words on a screen, written by some more-or-less anonymous stranger thousands of miles away, has bigger issues than me to worry about.

I was up half the night reading Mirror's profile... but what a great read!!!

Sometimes I get mail about comments I've made in the forums or complaints about my profile.

hey

how's it goin,

cheers to everyone that shot me a


hey how's it going e-mail