Thursday, February 05, 2004

Misspelling is sexy; spelling is sexier

One of my favorite guilty pleasures is reading the personals in TimeOut NY. All the cutesy questions, like, "blank is sexy, blank is sexier," "Favorite on-screen sex scene," "The five items I can't live without," and the myriad annoying, and suprisingly not so annoying, ways you can answer them make for engaging reading. I don't read them to be a hater: I think writing a good personal, besides being pretty lame, is also pretty hard. That being said, sometimes, I can't help but be a hater.
Here's the one that set me off:
Woman seeking Man
Volvobebe (maybe a less annoying name than Mustangbebe, which is slightly more predictable, but who wants to be associated with Volvos, the essence of stationwagons and safety? And if she means it more literally, "Like I am the child of Volvo drivers" then, well, that's just weird)
Age: 24
Last great book I read: Virgin Suicides by Euphenides.
Omigod. That is not his name you fucking idiot. There may be those who think it's really no big deal if she got the author's name wrong by a consonant sound, but I'm not one of them. Firstly, it's supposed to be your favorite book (though, while on the subject, it also sucked), so learn the author's name. Secondly, this is a personal intended to attract people to you based on short answers to silly questions that convey a good sense of humor and like interests. Clearly, you spent some time thinking up the answers to said questions, enough to have come up with the tortured, A Pompadour is sexy; bed head is sexier. You probably also spent some time imagining the "amazing intelligent hottie" who is somehow single and checking TimeOut New York personals. You couldn't spend some time checking the author's name? Can't be that hard; it's probs on your bookshelf next to those books by Dostoyebsky and Nabokof.

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