Monday, February 27, 2006

Say cheese.

Online dating is a safe place for people to use cheesy lines without being laughed at by the opposite sex.

Only when online dating would a guy use the name "Sir Hugs A Lot," or use the tag line "Do you have a name? Or can I call you mine?"

Please!

But then again, at least "Sir Hugs A Lot" shows a little more personality than "Nice Guy 916."

Then there are the tag lines like: "Just trying this for fun" or "Are you the one?"

Whatever, Mr. Original. Do you put as much thought into your relationships as you do your profile?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sometimes it's best to pick up people using cheesy lines with the intention of making them laugh. Otherwise, unacceptable.

I've never done the online dating thing, but I imagine there's a lot of pressure to come up with that one introduction line.... unless you have a really great picture, I guess.

Anonymous said...

The ability to say something coherent and original about oneself, or lack of it, is quite an efficient way of filtering potential mates, though, is it not? ;-)

Anonymous said...

MJ, there is a fine line between making someone laugh and turning someone off completely. It's like advertising, you only have a couple words to win someone over.

That's why I'm not really interested in online dating, because how can you judge someone on a cheesy tag line and a 40 word profile.

Coatman, it is an efficient filter. Maybe too efficient.