So, I was checking my e-mail, and I got a message from another site that I'm not even on, and, as far as I can remember, have never even looked at.

They included this huge, gigantic picture of three obviously sloshed women -- the first is looking at the camera as if to say, "Wow, what the hell is that thing?" The second is looking at the third one's hair, as if to say, "Wow, I wish I had hair like that." The third one is on the verge of passing out, as if to say, "Wow, I'm on the verge of passing out."

As amusing and diverting as all that may be (which, admittedly, ain't all that much), the best part of the whole thing is the line directly beneath the picture.

"Images are for illustrative purposes only and do not reflect actual members."

OK, so these are NOT real members from that site. Fine. It's not like these three drunken floozies are any kind of inducement for me to sign up. I like my floozies sober.

Be that as it may, it disturbs me a little that the site thought so little of their own clientele that they had to go outside the ranks, as it were, to find representative samples of people they thought would be alluring to miscellaneous e-mail recipients all over the world.

What's next? They send out messages with a picture of an $80,000 car and say "Sign up now and get a car," and the disclaimer says "You do not actually get a car."

I'd write more, but somebody just sent me a $1000 Wal-Mart Gift Card!

I love the tactic where they send you something after you've deactivated your account. Of course there are several good looking men underneath it and they ask you to return to read your messages before they are deleted. I click on to find that you can't read the messages now unless you upgrade and none of the emails is from any of the good looking men.

I can understand sites using "models" for ads, but drunk ones? What does that say about them is what I wonder.

I would think they would want to put their best foot forward to draw people in....but what do I know? I use cartoons for my pictures a lot

Lex, you are looking at this all wrong. The site is stimulating the economy by hiring probably out of work drunken floozies while protecting the "truly drunken floozy nature" of their actual clients. It's not only economically friendly but compassionate and caring. You should join. BTW, you get a free pepsi with this reply. Please send $13.99 for shipping and handling.

Oh yeah, there are some pay sites that are notorious for that.

"These 63 astonishingly gorgeous people all want to talk to you and give you expensive gifts and exotic Polynesian statues, but you'll need to take advantage of our amazing Full Membership Plan at only $79.99 a month for 180 months."

And then if you sign up, it turns out that those 63 astonishingly gorgeous people are actually just fake profiles....

Like they say about "If it sounds too good to be true...."

i always liked the ones that send me a message telling me that she liked my pic and wants to meet up somewhere. sad thing i never posted a pic on that site.

Well, I don't know, but I'm guessing the underlying message is "Hey, look at us, we're fun, we party, we drink, and my friend is always looking at my hair for some reason."

The marketing strategy seems to be to appeal to the young, hip, increasingly-brain-addled urban lounge regular. I can see where this would fit like a glove (not OJ's, either) for a lot of people out there.

But it really doesn't do much for me....!!

If the drunken floozies had a better union, none of this would be necessary.

$13.99 is a pretty good deal for a free Pepsi!

I love the ones where they have this weird miscombination in where they're from, like "Bogota, Alaska," or "Vladivostok, Arizona."

I had one IM me the other day. Her first five questions were stuff that is in the first couple of paragraphs of my profile. Finally she says, "So, what do you do?" and I said, "I know you said you read my profile but I think you should go back and read it again, because all of the answers to the questions you're asking me are in there."

And she said, "Fine, so what do you do?"

I always write back to them asking if they were beat with a forest of ugly sticks. Then I tell them to show me a picture of their mother.

It means they are not too fussy about who they let in?

I get people asking me stupid questions like that all the time, on this site, from people who I have been talking to for days.

How come this never happens to me?


Hmmmm..


I want this to happen to me!

Expressing how funny I found that would be difficult, but know it made my morning.

you must never look at porn then....