# Craig's List Personals **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 22, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigs-list-personals/603749 "2011-11-22T15:04:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigs-list-personals/603749/21 "2011-11-23T14:25:35Z")
I listen to a podcast called [It’s on Craigslist](http://itsoncraigslist.blogspot.com/) that consists of two people digging through the Craigslist personals for random cities and making fun of the bad writing, bizarre requests and other craziness they find. As that’s been my main exposure to Craigslist, I’m not sure I could take an ad there seriously if I wanted to. ---
**Author:** ![the\_real\_john\_smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@the\_real\_john\_smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_real_john_smith)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigs-list-personals/603749/22 "2011-11-25T06:47:34Z")
Nope mostly cause I’m not 18 though 🙂 and cap10 sounds really familiar I think it was a YouTube channel am I mistaken? ---
**Author:** ![IOCTycho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@IOCTycho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IOCTycho)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigs-list-personals/603749/23 "2011-11-28T05:12:33Z")
So, wow. Imagine my surprise when I poke around the blog, and I see that one of the top traffic sources this week is this forum, and I think, I’ve never heard of them before, I should go check them out. Thanks for the mention, Lord Il Palazzo. We appreciate it. As for me, if there’s one thing the podcast has taught me, it’s not to respond to any CL ads that I might find, although I will occasionally, for my own entertainment, post personals ads for fictional literary characters. Cthulhu, for example, will probably be lonely forever. Same with Slenderman. The Doctor, however, has a lot of fans out there, and I wonder how Sam Vimes or Roland Deschain will do? -Tycho Co-host, The It’s On Craigslist! Podcast > **[It's on Craigslist](http://itsoncraigslist.blogspot.com)** > > Home of the It's on Craigslist podcast. You can click post titles for the podcast posts to hear the audio in browser, right click and save the podcasts, use the handy Atom feed link just below the post if you use your own feed aggregator, or... [CraigslistPodcast@gmail.com](mailto:CraigslistPodcast@gmail.com) ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigs-list-personals/603749/24 "2011-11-28T07:20:11Z")
Yep, all the time. Ironically, I hook up more in the Platonic section than in anywhere else. I’ve never found a girl in the Casual Encounters section that wasn’t a spambot. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigs-list-personals/603749/25 "2011-11-28T08:18:28Z")
I haven’t but my best friend did, and in a weird twist it turned out to be an ex boyfriend (in the broader definition of the term- basically a feckbuddy he’d been out with a couple of times a year before. The guy had, incidentally, lied his ass off on the personal site; he claimed to be late-20s, he’s early 40s; claimed to be muscular, he’s not, claimed to be single and in town on business, he’s in a relationship and lives in town [met at a hotel].) My understanding is the door opening was quite an eye widener for both of them, but they hooked up any way. A couple of women I know who hooked up with men they met on there (in brightly lit public places and all) and all said that the guys they met were about as truthful in advertising as the above. One described the experience as “Waiting for Denzel when Fred Sanford showed up at my table” and another said the guy neglected to mention he was married. I’ve known several online dating success stories including a couple that ended with marriage but none from Craig’s List. Personally I’m way too afraid of meeting a Jeffrey Dahmer reenactor. If I were that desperate for a hookup I’d probably just go full on escort (which I never have done but have nothing ethical against, just “make sure certain practicalities are observed”). ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigs-list-personals/603749/26 "2011-11-28T18:41:35Z")
Met my wife. Supposed to be a casual hook-up… and wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigs-list-personals/603749/27 "2011-11-28T19:05:52Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > Met my wife. > Supposed to be a casual hook-up… and wasn’t. So another case of false advertising. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigs-list-personals/603749/28 "2011-11-28T19:30:25Z")
I met a girl through Craigslist once. I gave her my address and she came to my house. Turns out she was actually pretty cute… She paid me, I gave her the sports tickets I’d advertised, and then she left. Now I feel like I might have missed out on something. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigs-list-personals/603749/29 "2011-11-28T20:03:08Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > Met my wife. > Supposed to be a casual hook-up… and wasn’t. Though this might should be changed to “Met at a Doctors Without Borders Benefit we learned about online” when the kids ask.😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigs-list-personals/603749.md?page=1)