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Real meaning behind the abbreviations in personal ads
FIRST THE WOMEN
- 40-ish
- 48
- Adventurer
- Has had more partners than you ever will
- Athletic
- Flat-chested
- Average looking
- Ugly
- Beautiful
- Pathological liar
- Contagious Smile
- Bring your penicillin
- Educated
- College dropout
- Emotionally Secure
- Medicated
- Feminist
- Fat; ball buster
- Free spirit
- Substance user
- Friendship first
- Trying to live down reputation as a slut
- Fun
- Annoying
- Gentle
- Comatose
- Good Listener
- Borderline Autistic
- New-Age
- All body hair, all the time
- Old-fashioned
- Lights out, missionary position only
- Open-minded
- Desperate
- Poet
- Depressive Schzophrenic
- Professional
- Bitch
- Redhead
- Shops the Clairol section
- Reubenesque
- Grossly Fat
- Romantic
- Looks better by candle light
- Voluptuous
- Very Fat
- Weight proportional to height
- Hugely Fat
- Wants Soulmate
- One step away from stalking
- Widow
- Nagged first husband to death
THE MALE SIDE OF THE LIST
- 40-ish
- 52 and looking for 25-yr-old
- Athletic
- Sits on the couch and watches ESPN
- Average looking
- Unusual hair growth on ears, nose, & back
- Educated
- Will always treat you like an idiot
- Free Spirit
- Sleeps with your sister
- Friendship first
- As long as friendship involves nudity
- Fun
- Good with a remote and a six pack
- Good looking
- Arrogant bastard
- Honest
- Pathological Liar
- Huggable
- Overweight, more body hair than a bear
- Like to cuddle
- Insecure, overly dependent
- Mature
- Until you get to know him
- Open-minded
- Wants to sleep with your sister but she's not interested
- Physically fit
- I spend a lot of time in front of mirror admiring myself
- Poet
- Has written on a bathroom stall
- Spiritual
- Once went to church with his grandmother on Easter Sunday
- Stable
- Occasional stalker, but never arrested
- Thoughtful
- Says "Please" when demanding a beer
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