# Dating Service, 5¢ (FREE for Registered Dopers!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 11, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768 "2000-11-11T04:57:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/161 "2000-11-16T05:38:31Z")
I think it means we’re onto something here. But I could be wrong… ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/162 "2000-11-16T20:28:37Z")
Um…we didn’t mean to kill the thread. We haven’t really won yet. Really. Carry on with the mating dance, please. ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/163 "2000-11-16T20:55:54Z")
Aha! A guilty bump! I go away to play some games and look what happens. I’m too lazy to go back and find the quote (this is one of my faults that you’ll just have to put up with, and gimme a break, I’m just living up to my username) but somebody asked me how to engineer quality. My answer is that I actually do have a plan, and if you sign the right NDAs I might even show it you. I think we might be better termed analysts, basically I just get to be nitpicky on somebody else’s time. Somebody else asked about my Welsh grandmother, and you’re right, but she’s also by way of Missouri (or Missourah) which makes it all worse. I can’t deal with mushy Okra either. And I just realized a forgot a few of the basics in my first post…5’8, bigger than I oughta be, but according to a friend I have a ‘nice rack’, blonde to muddy brown hair depending on the season, green eyes that sometimes look gray in sunlight, fair skin. Nymysys, you can now rest easy that you didn’t kill the thread, but now I’m worried that I will. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/164 "2000-11-16T21:00:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slackergirl \* > \*\* > Right now I’m wishing I knew where pricciar’s watch is, and wondering where in California he is. I too like green beans (and Grean Bean) and bacon, but not together the way my grandmother used to boil the life out of them when I was a kid. > \*\* Woohooo!!! I have been noticed by an unmarried doper! Not that I mind being noticed by the beautiful fun and unavailable **Green Bean**. Green beans _and_ bacon? I don’t think I have ever had that. It probably makes for some soggy green beans. Although, filled with bacony goodness. I think I will pass on trying em, though. I like green beans when they are crunchy and uncooked. And I like bacon when it is crunchy and cooked. Oh too bad you don’t know where my watch is. I really really hope it ends up being in the last place I look. Otherwise, it is in the first place I looked. And I will never look there again. I live in Santa Barbara, which, of course, is right next door to Alameda. Ok, not really. Atleast they are in the same state. Oh, I forgot to mention, you can find my picture at the People Pages. Thanks to Shayna my picture is up for the entire world to see. (Hopefully, that guy who hates everyone won’t find me.) pat ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/165 "2000-11-16T21:17:20Z")
Well, damn. Two people in the same state, even. I think it’s time for other people to start placing bets. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/166 "2000-11-16T22:03:41Z")
I’m in Nym. :lays down a Benji: ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/167 "2000-11-16T22:11:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slackergirl \* > \*\* > green eyes that sometimes look gray in sunlight, \*\* Thank you, someone else with variable eyes! I told someone my eyes were blue, but looked gray at times, and they acted like I was crazy (well, I am, but not because of this…) ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/168 "2000-11-16T22:24:35Z")
Irishman, Hi there! If you could find a way to compliment me by working Medea into the mix, you would be a fine man indeed. Most guys just get kinda squeemish about the legend…understandable considering she wasn’t particularly nice to her husband when he wanted to get remarried. Even so… _blush_ Lurker, one of my very best friends has varible eyes. They go from deep blue, through green, gray, brown and hazel. Also purple, but that is when he’s wearing his favorite colored contacts. I think its a fun trait…especially for identification purposes. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/169 "2000-11-16T22:43:00Z")
Contacts are cheating. What I’m working on is getting one to turn gray while the other stays blue. If I manage it, I’ll show you - it’s pretty much straight across. ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/170 "2000-11-16T22:57:33Z")
Well, don’t place any bets yet. Santa Barbara is a few hundred miles from here. Too bad I didn’t know about you in June, when my sister still lived there. I was down there every 3 or 4 weeks this spring. So, when are you going to abandon all those tile roofs (rooves?) to join the .com madness? ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/171 "2000-11-17T03:55:10Z")
All right, more folks with magical, color changing eyes! Mine are hazel, usually green with a brown streak in each one. But sometimes they are all brown or a really great green. Carry on! ---
**Author:** ![wyldelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@wyldelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wyldelf)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/172 "2000-11-17T04:00:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AudreyK \* > \*\*dpr’s signing up for a dating service? > \*\* Hey dpr - signing up right behind you 🙂 ok General Information: Age:24 Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia Height: 5’0" on a good day with a stiff upward breeze 🙂 Hair: Red (temper is optional) Weight: 50kg Status:Single, no attachments, little baggage Work: Currently working for MIM Exploration (Mining Company) as a reception/admin person, previously the office co-ordinator at a mining research centre at the University of Qld, and a retired pre-school teacher/Director before that. Hobbies: Horseriding, rollerblading, love time with my friends, reading, movies, learning to play squash (badly), anything that is an open invitation for embarassment really. Other: Have a rather sarcastic sense of humour and enjoy people who are able to laugh at themselves. Take pleasure in mundane things like patterns in clouds, a hug or gentle touch. Terminally ticklish. Looking for: To meet wonderful people. That’s about it guys. ---
**Author:** ![Cyndar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cyndar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyndar)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/173 "2000-11-17T05:07:48Z")
DRY made me realize that my profile lists an address I don’t use much. If anyone out there wants to e-mail me, I can be reached at [erkittynurse@earthlink.net](mailto:erkittynurse@earthlink.net) Michi ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/174 "2000-11-17T06:20:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cyndar \* > \*\*DRY made me realize that my profile lists an address I don’t use much. If anyone out there wants to e-mail me, I can be reached at [erkittynurse@earthlink.net](mailto:erkittynurse@earthlink.net) > \*\* And you know, it was against every instinct I had, to have to point this out. ☹ Because, of course, I’d really love to keep Michi’s corresponding (and she’s a good correspondent, folks), more to **myself**! I made clear my opinion in my paean to her near the top of page 3 of this thread. Michi is beautiful and intelligent. And she is incredibly kind hearted and selfless. As as this thread from Fathom will show: [http://fff.fathom.org/ubb/Forum3/HTML/001220.html](http://fff.fathom.org/ubb/Forum3/HTML/001220.html) There are a lot of really nice, intelligent, attractive and talented people on this message board. I like to believe I have at least a handful of friends here. But Michi is one of my two very favorite SDMB people. [sub](I can’t mention the other one, but she knows who she is. Not that she needs **my** attention)[/sub] I won’t be submitting a profile here, as unworthy as I am. But I did want to post in praise of a friend. It is to laugh that Michi doesn’t have a significant other. Nay, a platoon of them. No wonder why those guys in Florida can’t elect a president! ---
**Author:** ![Cyndar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cyndar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyndar)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/175 "2000-11-17T06:40:26Z")
DRY, you are just TOO much! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/176 "2000-11-17T06:49:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cyndar \* > \*\*DRY, you are just TOO much! 🙂 \*\* 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wyldelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@wyldelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wyldelf)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/177 "2000-11-17T10:34:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dragonlady \* > \*\*All right, more folks with magical, color changing eyes! > Mine are hazel, usually green with a brown streak in each one. But sometimes they are all brown or a really great green. > > Carry on! \*\* I’ll have to go along with that too - mine are usually hazel but they go bright green when the weather is humid or I am really emotional. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/178 "2000-11-18T02:02:04Z")
[bump] ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/179 "2000-11-18T02:16:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slackergirl \* > \*\* > So, when are you going to abandon all those tile roofs (rooves?) to join the .com madness? \*\* No no. That’s not the question. The question is: When are you going to come to your senses and move down to the land where the real estate is expensive for good reason, not because 300000 yuppies won the dot com lottery. Why did your sister leave Santa Barbara? Why did she live here before? Surprisingly, not many dopers live in the Santa Barbara/Ventura area. There are plenty up north, and quite a few down south. But, aside from me, I think there is only one other person who lives around here, and I don’t think she posts anymore. (Well, if she does, I forget her name. She had just moved here to go to UCSB.) pat ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768/180 "2000-11-18T02:26:09Z")
Is anyone going to actually meet? Don’t tell me this thread will die without a winner! And, no, scratchie and Rasa, you two don’t count. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-service-5-free-for-registered-dopers/40768.md?page=10)