I should add, if it seems like I have a lot of dating stories, I do, because I've been single for 15 years.

Searcher, count me in as a screener. I'd love to be the chair of that board.

Daisy, I would have loved to have seen the look on your face. That's one of the problems with online dating. I still believe there has to be a physical attraction.

Darn tootin' Dotsie! Friends don't let friends date ugly men. Period.

It truly is a jungle out there, with lots and lots of monkeys. Ah...make that APES.

I think we should form this board, and Dotsie can be the Chair since it's her forum and she might whine and carry on if we don't let her. Now...who wants to do the Questionaire?

Like what kinds of questions do we want?

1. Got a job?
2. Got teeth?
3. Are you on first name basis with your local police department?


what?

JJ

4. Do you carry your "jammies" with you?

5. Do you wear jammies?


eeeekkkkk!

It's almost embarrassing to continue to post these disaster Internet dating stories. I've actually written about this one here before in another thread. Here goes:

This fella and I hooked up thru Match.com. We corresponded sporadically for months, and finally agreed to meet for dinner. He wasn't bad, and the conversation was even okay. He brought me rocks from New Zealand, since he knew I create and sell art on rocks, and he also brought several CD's of his fav music as a gift. That was pretty nice, I thought, though I felt no attraction to him.
During the week after the dinner, I decided to go online and see how many singles' sites this man was posted on. On one site, Mingles, I think, there was a link to "Adult single." I had never visited such a site and didn't realize what it was about, but I went there. Whoa! It's very pornographic, with most members showing pics of their genetalia instead of their faces, but there was this guy with whom I'd just had dinner, posting his face! He stated he was looking for "discrete" relationships. He continued to call and email me numerous times, which I didn't answer, but finally I sent him a brief email stating I had seen him on the pornographic site, and please not contact me again. It was quite a revelation to me to see that in my little state alone there were some 80,000 members in that site.
ARI

Yikes!

This is what I asked my husband before our first date:

Are you married?
Do you live with a woman?
Do you have a girlfriend?
Are you gay?

The gay question was important because my sister had just found out the man she'd been married to for over 25 years was gay.

I've weeded through several responses, and didn't like any! So, I winked to someone in another city, yet same state, and we've corresponded via email only. I answer w/in 48 hours so as not to appear desperate.

Recently, he wanted to know more about me and sent me a pix. Well, I know he is posted on at least half a dozen singles sites, and the pictures get progressively older (yet he is still attractive). So, in response to his question, I state that I note that in his varios posts he indicates he works for one of the big 4 accounting firms and that I work for a large firm, too. I do not provide names of the firms. I also mentioned that I love to travel. Also, that in his postings, he does not mention travel at all, and if he has traveled, what was his favorite place?

Have not heard from him! Must be looking for one of those snow bunny types!

Mustang, this is another reason I no longer visit the singles' Internet sites.
I really don't know what these men are looking for.
ARI