One of them is in Mississippi, the other Alabama. I'd say you should at least be able to outcompete one of them by living in the other's state, unless southern women are looking for long-distance relationships.
Plus they're both 5'9". Does anything else really matter?
Combined with the animal/bad motherfucker comment, it's sort of endearing: "I'm a cute little thug." I picture him like the chickenhawk in the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons: "I'm a chickenhawk and you're a chicken. Are you going to come along quietly or am I going to have to rough you up a little?"
I should dig out my old Usenet posts so you can really see me with my hair down. I especially liked the ones where I used to torment Star Trek: Voyager fans.
I really like how, in a personal ad, #1 broadcasts that he's really big in to cheating, and tells his prospective reader to "kiss his ass." Does he understand the concept of a personal?
I actually just got suckered into a conference room by a scary email from a partner's secretary, and found a bunch of people I work with lurking with a carrot cake for my birthday. I still despise my job, but the people here are awfully nice.
Felicitations, LB. At the museum where I used to work, they once broke out many bottles of champagne for my birthday, and dropped a single raspberry in each flute glass, which I thought was a nice touch. Extra festive.
Plus they're both 5'9". Does anything else really matter?
Posted by L. | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 10:36 AM
One of them is in Mississippi, the other Alabama. I'd say you should at least be able to outcompete one of them by living in the other's state, unless southern women are looking for long-distance relationships.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 10:42 AM
If you're looking to compete, you're screwed already.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 10:42 AM
"Sometimes told I resemble Moby."
I think #2 may be exactly as bad as he seems.
Posted by tom | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 10:42 AM
Not the whale, Tom.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 10:43 AM
Plus they're both 5'9". Does anything else really matter?
Combined with the animal/bad motherfucker comment, it's sort of endearing: "I'm a cute little thug." I picture him like the chickenhawk in the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons: "I'm a chickenhawk and you're a chicken. Are you going to come along quietly or am I going to have to rough you up a little?"
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 10:58 AM
I kind of picture him more as an overcompensating spaz, but then I rarely find anything about men's personal ads "endearing".
Posted by Tarrou | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 11:09 AM
Did either one note that he has a "nice tooth?"
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 11:28 AM
What exactly is "decademce"?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 11:31 AM
Ten demces.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 11:33 AM
Decademce? Hell, I'm polydemce.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 11:44 AM
I can't believe "Always Something There to Remind Me" puts Bachelor #2 in the mood.
Posted by annie | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 11:49 AM
Decademce? I nearly killed it!
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 11:52 AM
Why Dr. Bennit!
Bennit? Hell I broke it.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 11:55 AM
OT, but I want to say Happy Birthday to LizardBreath.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:02 PM
Yeah, man, Uther and Igraine, there's a sexy scene: a knight in armor raping a naked woman. Hott!
Posted by Timothy Burke | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:20 PM
Is that what that is? Oy vey.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:22 PM
Hey, thanks.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:26 PM
OK, so whose descent from his own lofty blog is further when he comments here: DeLong's or Burke's?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:30 PM
What BG said. Happy birthday LB.
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:30 PM
Happy birthday, LB. I hope it's a short day for you.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:32 PM
Yeah, happy birthday.
Posted by L. | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:39 PM
Re: #19 - meant entirely as complement to each. (There was some confusion about a similar comment I once made.)
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:42 PM
Compliment.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:45 PM
I should dig out my old Usenet posts so you can really see me with my hair down. I especially liked the ones where I used to torment Star Trek: Voyager fans.
Posted by Timothy Burke | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:52 PM
That is exactly what you should do. Furniture and pictures of bugs can wait.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 12:55 PM
I guess anyone could do it, really.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 1:01 PM
Ayup.
But you know, usually by the time I get to one of these threads, you guys have made all the cock jokes there are to make, anyway.
BTW, Crooked Timber got the Katherine-Harris-is-drunk link up first: that is so totally an Unfogged topic, it seems to me.
Posted by Timothy Burke | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 1:49 PM
I really like how, in a personal ad, #1 broadcasts that he's really big in to cheating, and tells his prospective reader to "kiss his ass." Does he understand the concept of a personal?
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 2:01 PM
Anyone who's willing to respond does know exactly what she's going to get, which is something you can say for him.
(and 20, 21, 22 -- again, thanks. Now I'm all embarassed about having mentioned it.)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 2:05 PM
ph yeah, Happy Birthday!!
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 2:18 PM
and 20,21,22
Birthday girl
Did you take a break from "are you one, are you two, are you three, etc." to comment?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 2:30 PM
I actually just got suckered into a conference room by a scary email from a partner's secretary, and found a bunch of people I work with lurking with a carrot cake for my birthday. I still despise my job, but the people here are awfully nice.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 2:34 PM
Happy birthday, it's good to know that not so nice jobs manage to bring together nice people.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 2:39 PM
Felicitations, LB. At the museum where I used to work, they once broke out many bottles of champagne for my birthday, and dropped a single raspberry in each flute glass, which I thought was a nice touch. Extra festive.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 2:54 PM
Extraordinarily so. Sounds like a good time (and a nice place to work).
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 4:16 PM
re 19: unless Burke starts commenting as not just a hedgehog, but someone else's hedgehog, DeLong must be making the furthest leap.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 4:23 PM
I think Burke should start commenting as The Hedgehog. That's a leap.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 4:37 PM
I think we will have reached a milestone when bad motherfuckers use computer dating sites, but I don't think we have reached that point yet.
Posted by Joe O | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 7:27 PM
I think Burke should start commenting as The Hedgehog.
Brad DeLong knows many things, but Tim Burke knows one big thing.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 08-10-05 10:44 PM
That sounds like a good way to start my own personals description should I ever need to stoop to that. "Bigger than DeLong"? Is that too obvious?
Posted by Timothy Burke | Link to this comment | 08-11-05 8:32 AM
I think it's, "My One Thing is bigger than DeLong's."
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08-11-05 9:26 AM
Happy belated, LB!
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-11-05 10:00 AM