It’s the lit­tle things that put the spring in your step (and the ego into over­drive)…
This email was sent to me last week:
We are very pleased to re­port that you are in the top half of OkCupid’s most at­trac­tive users. The scales re­cently tipped in your fa­vor, and we thought you’d like to know.
How can we say […]

I love vin­tage ads. They cer­tainly didn’t beat around the bush back then. They told you, in very frank and ex­plicit terms, why you needed to buy this prod­uct — you were too fat, you were too ugly, you were sin­gle!
In these times of sub­lim­i­nal mes­sag­ing, where the misog­yny be­hind an ad is hid­den in sub­text and “art”, […]

Like most women my age, I have al­ways har­boured fan­tasies about a uni­formed man com­ing into my place of work, lit­er­ally sweep­ing me off my feet and car­ry­ing me off into the sunset. In An Officer and a Gentleman, Richard Gere dons a white naval uni­form and does ex­actly that to Debra Winger. We all re­mem­ber it — it’s stored in our men­tal fil­ing cabinet, […]

lovely day for walk along the wa­ter maybe not lol maybe a bon­fire at nite and a bot­tle of wine we could look at the stars or play in the sand just a thought lol
cudlyandsoft@xxx.xx luv to chat on msn or phone
im ital­ian french luv my cot­tage and play­ing sports an­to­nio xo you are so geor­geous wow wish we […]

I re­ceived this email from an on­line dat­ing site.
Dear Antandre, Please view my pro­file and see if you will like us to be com­pan­ions. Regards — xxx
Intrigued by the fact he used proper gram­mar and spelling and didn’t fall into the usual bad first-message habits, I did view his pro­file.
Profile Name: AprilOx
I am Mature, Resourceful, and Has Initiative.
ABOUT ME: […]