From the "It Figures" category....

My friend's sister was telling me about a site one of her friends was on. "I never heard of it," she said. She told me the name of it. I never heard of it either.

Having a couple hours to kill, and no bullets, I decided to take a look at the place. It seemed pretty typical for the genre: no forums, lots of flashy gimmicks but not much in the way of substance, a lot of contests and pop-ups and distractions to keep you from noticing that there really isn't all that much there.

Every time I see a site like that, I'm reminded of why I like Mingle so much.

But, since I was there anyway, I decided to do a search on the locals. They had tons of locals; again, pretty typical for the genre, EXCEPT there was one who was absolutely stunning. I mean devastatingly stunning, and if I could think of some more words that contained "ing" in them that I could add to the list, I would add them.

And -- it said she was 1.8 miles away from me.

Well, that's impossible, so I looked a little deeper, and then I saw:

"Last log-in: October 15, 2006"

Yikes.

By now, she's either dead, or married with five kids.

October 15, 2006 is BEFORE I even signed up on Mingle (JSH at the time)....!!

It's a conspiracy, I tell ya....

I figured this thread had to be from you, Lex, because "A lot" was properly written as TWO words, not one.

I've seen that a lot , people realize it's a waste of time & they forget about even having an acct. on a site.......Now you see not seen in over 30 days or something like that.

They're trying to 'hook, line, and sinker' you...run Lex, run!!

I got a "flirt" on another site, when I checked her out, had not been on site for more than thirty days...I mean...magic I guess

OK, here's what you do........

Take a nice 2 mile walk in every direction from your place, calling out her screen name every 10 feet or so. Use a megaphone if you have to. Be prepared to run if anything goes awry. Good Luck~!

I hear that some sites are offering a "delayed flirt" now....!!

is that kinda like a delayed date...."sometime after hell freezes over"

sounds like a modern day Cinderella story,..

My theory is that a lot of sites have a plethora of fake profiles to make them look more populated. (not mingle, of course!)

How does a dating site get going anyway. Do some just start out with no members and then grow from there, one member at a time?

Don't believe everything you read. Computers lie! I was communicating with a fella on another site. Sent him mail three days ago, read his response yesterday and responded again. The site said he hadn't been contacted in over a week and perhaps I should send him a message. Huh? I know he was contacted at least twice this week. Do I not count?

I'm impressed, Dan... you used the word "plethora" - one of my fav words!

You just count so much more than he counts, so it negated everything!

He thinks it's a fish, though.

It ISN'T a fish?!

Scrap that comment.

I think in the distant past i did watch that film.

Though i dont get the reference.

I think in the distant past i did watch that film.

Though i dont get the reference.




"A plethora of pinatas"

I dont remember that quote. But then i have seen a plethora of films since then as well.

WOW! I managed to use it twice.

It is two words