I think I am learning nothing about using online dating sites. So you see their pictures, read their profiles, then have dinner with them? Then they show up and are 40 years older than their photo, or they are suddenly a hobo? I'm really confused why people do this.
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ha ha ha ha ha, Wanders! Reading Mary Worth strips and expecting to learn anything about how the real world works? Now that's funny!
Was Libby helping Estelle choose last week's crop of candidates? If so, Libby should have no access to Silver Daters. On the other hand, if Estelle was handling things on her own, Libby's input this week could only help. In fact, maybe Libby should be in charge.
I noted that some early-morning readers pointed out "Arthur Z."s" resemblance to Ted Miller. Giving a phony name and bio sounds like Ted's m.o. (that's what characters do!), so PLEASE PLEASE let this be Ted! Notice that there is no mention of muffins in his bio - he's avoiding that as he tries to recover from the muffin-hat trauma.
Actually, you've just about summed it up. I met a woman and nearly said "I hope you're here to drop off your daughter".
You can usually eliminate the hobos before meeting for dinner though.
I thought it looked like Ted Miller, too. However, at first glance, I thought Jannie was Dawn.
(I’m fauxprof)
It would be funny if this guy turns out to be a filthy, penniless, whiny, 84-year-old misogynistic bigamist. And it would be a real work-saver for Moy.
But I hope he's a well-off, charming, smooth, suave, and debonair con man, perhaps even a prince of some sort.
-- Scottie McW.
Today's Boldface Haiku is titled
"But You Can Call Him Artzy, Short For Con Artist".
(Hmm...
"Arthur Z"...Looker!
Easy eyes!)
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. Apparently Estelle hasn't heard this adage, or maybe she doesn't know that Silverdaters offers a money-back guarantee...
Actually, Wanders, in the real world
people who use dating apps and websites usually develop a good BS meter pretty quickly.
As someone who was on dating websites before I was married, I can speak from experience it doesn't work the way Estelle is doing it. Yes, I met my share of creeps, but you can eventually weed them out by inboxing them and getting to know them that way before going on a date (also Skyping helps as well to see what they REALLY look like) and finding out they're (in the order Estelle dated them) Mr. Burns from the Simpsons, Slim Whitman, Curly Joe from the Three Stooges, Homeless Harold and Walter the dummy from the Jeff Dunham show.
I'd like to think that KM and JB are going for comedy but I'm more inclined that once again KM doesn't understand the way things work and JB is going along for the ride.
I'd love for this new guy to be Ted Miller under an assumed name. Even better, I would love if KM brought Ted Confey out of mothballs. I'd love to hear him call Estelle Queenie.
Instead of Jessica Savitch - Sunday's quote should have been...
Fool me once - shame on you!
Fool me twice - shame on me!
Fool me three times - change dating sites!
Fool me four times - seek counseling!
Fool me five times - take away my computer!
Am hoping Mr. Easy Eyes is really in prison for some white collar crime.
I want to know what percentage match Estelle was with last week's cast of characters.
There's a Snake 'N' Bacon strip that actually begins with the line, "I'm so sick of dating hobos!" Except there, M. Kupperman is deliberately writing a farce.
Arthur Zuckerberg? Mark's rich uncle?
The pickings are slim, Wanders. The pickings are slim.
I wonder what the Hobo's profile looked like? Or Old Man Methuselah? Surely Estelle has learned by now that people are less than honest about themselves and don't necessarily use their real pictures?
At the rate Esetelle is going, this one is probably an undead ghoul of some sort. Or worse, Wilbur.
I keep seeing Libby in these panels and think Col. Klink from the old Hogan’s Heroes saying, “Hoooogaaaan!!”
Arthur Z?? That gentleman is none other than the infamous Aldo Stractino, I recognize him from the Dateline exposé on felons with ominous acronyms for surnames.
Let's get this trainwreck going! We all know Moy hates the internets, so nothing good ever comes from them. But if Estelle ends up settling for Wilbur, I'm going to be seriously upset.
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