Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Wanted: Message-ID: <397@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-May-85 18:16:04 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcc.397 Posted: Mon May 6 18:16:04 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 7-May-85 21:40:16 EDT References: <2100002@umn-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 32 Summary: In article <2100002@umn-cs.UUCP> mincher@umn-cs.UUCP writes: > I am curious to know what experiences people have with the personal >columns in local "newspapers". I am not talking about the sleezy type >of paper but rather the more conservative "looking for someone to have >dinner/go to plays with" type of ads. I met one of my oldest and dearest friends through a personal ad, over ten years ago. I was living in North London at the time in what the British refer to as "Bedsit Land" (a neighborhood of houses converted to one-room apartments with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities). For that, and other reasons, I was feeling depressed and lonely when I happend to read my friend's ad in _Time Out_ magazine (roughly equivalent to _The Reader_ in the U.S.). In the ad she sounded (read?) like someone who had a few things in common with me, so I took the time to answer. Since then we've gone from being strangers to sexual partners (briefly) and on to a friendship that has stood up to considerable time and distance (I left England in '75). In fairness, I should add that I answered several other personals at the time and got no replies from any of them. I suspect most women who place such ads are immediately inundated with replies from men of, shall we say, dubious intent. Someone I knew once made the mistake of putting her phone number in a personal. She had the number changed after three weeks of obscene phone calls from a variety of sources. -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe