But, Lex, how far were said girls from you? 879,300 miles? Former Soviet Union?

And I'm adding you to the list of people I am not playing Scrabble with.

M

Got a winner for ya here Lex - from another dating site.
Received this email just last night. I fixed all the weird line breaks (it was obviously copied and pasted in from another doc)

Dear friend!!!

I have just registered on this site and couldn’t stand myself from writing to you.
You seem to be the person I’ve always wanted to get acquainted with. Please, give me a chance to get to know you better and I also have much to tell you.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t do it right now. I am lack of time now. But if you give this chance, you will find a lot of interesting things about me, I hope.

You will be not able to see my complete profile. I am not really good with all these computer things. And I tried to post my picture here but something just didn’t work . I don’t know how else to do it so I will just send you my picture and more information about myself with my next letter to you, of course if you send me your reply back.

Some words about me. I am a good, caring and very understanding girl.
I am single and what I really want is to find my second half. The one I could love and be loved by.

I think that we all just want to be happy and I think it is our main mission in life to get happy and to find our true love.
So if you decide to write me back you will find a good friend first and perhaps, this will grow into a beautiful story.

Write to me on my e-mail- xxxxxxxxxxxx on yahoo com (xxxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com).
I shall be send you my picture therefrom.
So, please, feel free and write me back.

Last year, one of my friends told me about a dating site she had signed up with, and asked me to set up an account there. I did; the site was nice to look at but completely useless insofar as actually meeting people was concerned. I dabbled with it for a few weeks and then forgot about it. I think the last time I was there was in July or August.

Today, I get two e-mail notifications from that site. Here's the weird part. The first one, after going on for a bit with the typical soporific drivel, says this:

"I hope you'll want to connect, and if you do, don't reply directly to this message. I'm using my best friend's account, and I don't want her to think you're writing for her."

OK, fine; this sounds a little deceptive, but no more so than the Van Buren administration.

Then, in the second one, I read:

"Btw, I'm not using my profile to contact you. I asked my friend to lend me hers cause I'm not sure how all this really works. If you're interested, please send your replies to my email address so we can chat."

What the hell is going on? Suddenly there's this epidemic of people using other people's accounts to make contact?

Needless to say, I have no interest in contacting either of them. But I may need to borrow someone's account to send out some messages....!

Dammit Lex the police warned you about leaving the drapes open at night!!

Last year, one of my friends told me about a dating site she had signed up with, and asked me to set up an account there. I did; the site was nice to look at but completely useless insofar as actually meeting people was concerned. I dabbled with it for a few weeks and then forgot about it. I think the last time I was there was in July or August.

Today, I get two e-mail notifications from that site. Here's the weird part. The first one, after going on for a bit with the typical soporific drivel, says this:

"I hope you'll want to connect, and if you do, don't reply directly to this message. I'm using my best friend's account, and I don't want her to think you're writing for her."

OK, fine; this sounds a little deceptive, but no more so than the Van Buren administration.

Then, in the second one, I read:

"Btw, I'm not using my profile to contact you. I asked my friend to lend me hers cause I'm not sure how all this really works. If you're interested, please send your replies to my email address so we can chat."

What the hell is going on? Suddenly there's this epidemic of people using other people's accounts to make contact?

Needless to say, I have no interest in contacting either of them. But I may need to borrow someone's account to send out some messages....!

Terry, do me a favor and push these people down the elevator shaft! (Seeing as how it's not working, we might as well get SOME use out of it, somehow....)