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Date: 2006-08-12 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-12 05:22 pm (UTC)Maybe it didn't like that I selected just about everything under the religion categories for a possible match. The only categories I left out were, uhm, er, ahem... religions that looked a bit too Fundamentalist. Because it just wouldn't do to toss my drink in someone's face on a first date :P
Ya know, I filled out that long, time-consuming questionnaire because I'll fill out just about any online quiz ("Which Sandwich Are You?" "Which 70s Sitcom Are You?"), but I came away feeling insulted. It's good to know I'm in good company! Hurrah for us!
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Date: 2006-08-12 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-12 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-12 05:24 pm (UTC)Speaking of which, I was planning to get down there this week, but medical stuff is still getting in the way. Maybe by the end of the month. I miss you guys! Being a freelancer was supposed to free me up to visit :D
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Date: 2006-08-12 08:34 pm (UTC)Hey, great! We'd love to see you. I was thinking of you last week--I was sparring with someone who'd just been to Queen's (rapier, not epee), and the only way I scored a decent touch on her was by shifting to defensive guard. All that practice fighting your southpawed self paid off.
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Date: 2006-08-12 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-12 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-16 08:43 pm (UTC)And you wouldn't have to put up with an interest in watching sports. Unless that is genetic.
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Date: 2006-08-12 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-12 05:28 pm (UTC)Will you accept a match with:
[ ] two heads
[ ] three arms
[ ] scales
[ ] tenacles for (locomotion only)
[ ] non-oxygen-based respiration
[ ] transdimensional protuberances
Not to mention the whole cold-blooded/warm-blooded issue ("Ladies! Select a cold-blooded dating candidate and never argue over turning up the thermostat!").
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Date: 2006-08-12 05:53 pm (UTC)How important is it that your match doesn't consider you prey?
[ ] very important
[ ] somewhat
[ ] not sure
[ ] doesn't matter, I can run fast
And then when you finally find someone... you scroll down to read this...
Turn ons:
Wings
Feathers
more than two eyes
shape-shifting
Turn offs:
Long hair
Cartoonists
;)
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Date: 2006-08-12 10:07 pm (UTC)This is just crying out to be made into a quiz page. Maybe... "E.T.-Harmony"...
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Date: 2006-08-13 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-13 02:56 pm (UTC)Of course, the site's dirty little secret might be that transgendered, asexual, and hermaphrodite aliens need not apply. Or, it's the secret dating service for followers of Cthulhu. One or the other, we'll see.
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Date: 2006-08-13 03:02 pm (UTC)This will not stop me from foraging onward tow Excel in quiz making!
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Date: 2006-08-15 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-15 10:25 pm (UTC)We can all sign up as helpers and write clever and amusing stories about you that will, if nothing else, illustrate your (perhaps questionable?)taste in friends.
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Date: 2006-08-12 06:15 pm (UTC)If you like quizzes, try okcupid.com. It's got the matchmaking aspect to the site, but also lots of fun quizzes for if you're bored. :-)
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Date: 2006-08-12 08:40 pm (UTC)(I think I know what I'm ordering for dins tonight....)
I wonder if these dating sites expect a person to paint a very rosy, pleasant, perky picture of themselves, and can't account very well for my general snarkishness. Does anyone ever get a match from eHarmony? I'm beginning to think not.
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Date: 2006-08-12 09:00 pm (UTC)I'm sure he could handle the cold! ;)
Also I just love how eHarmony is like... "no matches... just keep paying, surely there's someone out there, just pay us more and we'll make it happen!" Is... is it wrong to keep paying? Maybe they'll find a match for us in... Bora Bora! :)
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Date: 2006-08-12 10:02 pm (UTC)I am laughing so hard I'm scaring the cat. I'll have to make a Jason Bateman icon for moments like this :D
And give no credence to the rumour that anyone at all in SPQR Blues is in any way even remotely modelled on either of those two, particularly not at all Jason Bateman, no, that would be peculiar, which I never am. Nope. Nope.
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Date: 2006-08-13 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-13 03:12 pm (UTC)Uhm.
Good thing I'm holding a few extra-weird secrets in reserve.
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Date: 2006-08-13 06:59 pm (UTC)*squint, hand placed on forehead*
Yes, I can definitely picture reading them on screen.
Perhaps you've mentioned them in other Daily Angsts? I read 'em all!
Of course it could also have been something someone instant messaged me...
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Date: 2006-08-13 05:24 pm (UTC)I and my friend Rachel both got matches. I didn't pursue any of mine (I think there were three on my possibilities list) because, as it turned out, I guess I wasn't really ready for a relationship.
Rachel, however, was determined to find a new SO, and she really tried hard to work with the eHarmony system -- using the confidential e-mails, and the extra questions you can send the potential matches, etc., exchanging e-mail and having a lot of first dates. She did end up having a few second and third dates with a couple of her matches, but none of them worked out. I think in the end she had expanded her geographical region to something like a 500-mile radius and still didn't find just the right person. And Rachel, I should add, is a smart, cute girl with a great job who is very friendly and open to a relationship (unlike, say, myself, who only fits the "smart" and "great job" categories (oh, and I'm a girl)).
:-)
R
P.S. Oh - there is a new dating site out there, called PerfectMatch.com. It has a similar yet different questionnaire system. Klio, if you want to take another quiz, check 'em out! It's all True-False questions!
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Date: 2006-08-13 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-14 02:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-12 06:30 pm (UTC)Wait, you answered "Nero" for something? That might explain the rejection! ;)
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Date: 2006-08-12 08:57 pm (UTC)I am proud and pleased not to have passed eHarmony's standards. Although it does make me want to try and crack their code for what makes a person matchable. Hey, I have plenty of e-mail addresses I can sign up with.
I suppose I should have answered that I grew up in the perfect Brady Bunch family. Oh, no, wait, the Brady Bunch are one of those weird blended families, with unrelated teenage boys and girls sleeping right nearby each other. The Seventh Heaven family, then--which I thought was one of those gee-whiz-family-values shows, but why is it every time I see a coming attraction for it someone is unexpectedly pregnant or running off with someone else? WHERE ARE OUR VALUES!! No, seriously, where are they, 'cause I seem to have misplaced mine.
There could very well have been one of those sliding-scale questions on the site. You know the sort:
shy [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] extroverted intuitive [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] logical Nero [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] MartyrsI don't think I'd pass the test on that last one.
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Date: 2006-08-13 03:27 am (UTC)Isn't it a sin to kiss on the first date?
Date: 2006-08-13 02:51 pm (UTC)Maybe they're gathering data on how 1 out of 5 people are alone and unmarriageable on account of having no values :P
Re: Isn't it a sin to kiss on the first date?
Date: 2006-08-13 04:53 pm (UTC)I wonder if there's a liberal dating service. :p The closest thing I know of is drinkingliberally.org ...
Re: Isn't it a sin to kiss on the first date?
Date: 2006-08-13 05:08 pm (UTC)I can't remember the URL. I checked it out once and just browsed through some of the profiles, but I didn't take their quiz or questionnaire.
Robin
Re: Isn't it a sin to kiss on the first date?
Date: 2006-08-14 02:07 am (UTC)Think of Shadow glaring at the interloper holding down his legs saying, "You're not moving ONE inch buddy."
All night long.
LOL.
Yeah... that's happened.
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Date: 2006-08-14 03:17 pm (UTC)