3041

You know how you know he’s a winner, his email address is cptkirk2225@yahoo.com. What more do you need to know about a man?

So tempted to send an email to cptkirk2225@yahoo.com claiming to be you. Well, more exactly, claiming he would know who I was since I was the only one he sent the lovely poem too, and asking him what exactly he liked about my profile. Them lets see him squirm.

3042

That’s a good way to approach things, too many people just look at the pictures, then auto-fire responses. It’s weird though, when I was on PoF, I always got comments on my profile from women, I guess my candid and silly profile was something if interest. I think out of the responses I got, only one was something cheesy like they thought I was cute, the rest were along the lines of “Hi, I thought you have a cute profile, you seem to have a really sarcastic and funny personality. Give me a shout back if you want to chat. ;)” etc…

3043

Forgive me, I had to post the Picardpalm.

3044

As if Patrick Stewart would have cptkirk as his email address. That’d be like Tom Brady going by ManningFan.

3045

Someone write back to Gay Tony or Patrick in the name of science. You may want to do this from a computer at a public library or something.

3046

I would be ecstatic to see the kind of shenanigans this would cause.

3047

While I don’t get the real world reference, I am duly embarassed by my Trek blunder.

3048

I’m also only 69% his friend. He better not try to friend-zone me!

3049

I got winked at by a 73 year old woman tonight. Hello grandma!

3050

So begins the sordid tale of ElGuapo’s Epsom salt foot-tub.

3051

That’s sloppy, using the same end-rhyme in the second couplet of the second quatrain as the first couplet of the third quatrain.

Also, “What have you to lose, I have a money back guarantee” is one of the cheesiest lines I’ve ever read.

Of course, I’ve written my own moony, bad poetry, once upon a time, so I guess I shouldn’t throw stones. Maybe someday if/when I’ve had a few too many I’ll share some. Or else I’ll just save it for when Tony (or, in my case, Tonya) comes calling.

And, man, 73 years old is nothing. There was a time I was routinely getting hit on by octogenarians, who routinely got misty-eyed and started reminiscing about their date to the senior prom, who inevitably went off and joined the war and never returned. Of course, I was affecting a more classic style of dress at the time, so that could have had something to do with it.

3052

GILF?

3053

Wheee!

3054

Don’t post people’s email addresses in the clear, WTF

3055

Agreed. The guy might write cheesy poetry, but he doesn’t deserve the new spam he’s gonna get when the harvesters come to Qt3.

3056

Fixed.

3057

When someone contacts you on a dating site and specifically provides an e-mail address and requests that you use it instead of the site’s own messaging system – and does this with the initial unsolicited message to you – the chance of it not being scam-related is close to zero.

I can’t speak to Siren’s but in my case “Tony” is a big ol’ fake. I’ve gotten the same message before, on a different site, from a “different” person with different stock photo attached. (I just checked now and the Tony account has already been deleted.)

However, not posting e-mail addresses is common courtesy and if there was any doubt on my part, I would certainly never post one. In fact, I’ll edit out Tony’s for the benefit of “just in case” even though I know there’s no incredibly hunky 25 year old lurking behind it. :)

3058

Obnoxious. I think what Lorini is asking for is extremely reasonable. I always try to find something specific in someone’s profile to write about. It shows I’m, y’know, actually paying attention to their profile. And is it really unreasonable to want one’s individuality acknowledged by a person one might be dating?

3059

Unreasonable to want? Not at all. Unreasonable to demand? Yeah, pretty much. Why waste time crafting some perfectly-customized greeting when the person may well just glance at your profile and go “Meh”, delete.

Online dating should not feel like a homework assignment. Save the profile-specific chatter for after mutual interest has been establish.

3060

Save the profile-specific chatter for after mutual interest has been establish.

Have you ever done online dating? Talking to someone, cold call style, is pretty difficult without something in their profile to get started with. Sure, you can be completely generic and ask about the weather but that doesn’t do a lot to get conversation started.