I've been solicited by a French gigolo!

Wow. I have an online personal and I got an email this morning from a very attractive frenchman:

Wow. Nice offer. From a travel man, no less! Except for that whole “generous” part.

Given the language barrier, I did explain to him how that was code in English, in case he was unaware. Which I doubt, but ya never know.

So I can’t decide whether I should be flattered (if he’s hand-picking the women to solicit, one might believe he was picking women he found do-able, so to speak) or offended (same token, women he thinks are desperate).

Either way, I’m amused.

Code for what? (too Vanilla for my own good!)

I think you should go for it! :slight_smile:

You were the one who was complaining about how no personal responses lived up to your expectations, yes? So…does this one pass muster?

Code for prostitution. Sometimes $ is substituted for the letter S in other places in the ad or response.

I like how he typed in English with a French accent. Now if only he’d typed “ze” instead of “the” ze illusion, she would be complete!

As in “generou$”?

I did not know that. Learn somethin’ new every day! :slight_smile:

Yep, that would be an example. Scan some Craigslist personals and you’ll see many, many examples that are often quite funny. My personal favorites are the ones that specify that they are NOT engaging in prostitution. The exchange of money is simply compensating them for their time and not payment for sex should it occur. (Yes, I’m easily amused)

I’m going to guess without actually trying that scanning Craigslist personals for hookers is probably not something I should be doing here at work… :eek:

When I get home, however…

Sorry, I didn’t mean at work. A number of the ads have pics included which are absolutely NSFW. cough Bad Russell, bad Russell…I’ll do a shot tonight as penance. (that’s it…the shot will be for penance!)

Well, I wasn’t going to get toasted tonight; but I can’t let you do penance alone!

AT least in paper publications that is (or used to be, it’s been a while since I devoted any serious attention to the Hooker Pages) a fairly standard disclaimer. Publications that run “Escort” or “Adult services” ads usually have policies against advertising illegal goods or services so by putting the disclaimer in the ad the paper is covered should there be any law enforcement inquiry. No idea what if any legal effect that such a disclaimer would have for the advertiser should they be arrested for solicitation but I’ve seen the same sort of disclaimer on individual websites too. Better to have it for what it’s worth than not, I suppose.

Until ze ghentleman in question shows up at ze front door and he is actually a dude named Murray from Jersey.

Most likely it is an email from Dominique de Villepin, the Prime Minister of France…I hear he likes ze ladies.

Did he mention how big his oui oui is?

Well, he’s responded to my response with more pictures (he really is quite attractive) and this:

Wouldn’t the place in which he “leaves” be Côte d’Azur anyway, rather than "Cote Azur? In which case, even if this gentleman IS planning to travel from France to meet you, he might be a very confused and lost sort of guy. :smiley: Not much of a “travel man” if he has trouble knowing where he lives. Perhaps he wants you to be generous enough to buy him a map. :smiley:

Oh well, a nice amusing start to the new year, I suppose. :slight_smile:

You mean the guy doesn’t look like Pepe Le Pew’s identical twin? He writes like he is. :slight_smile:

It would work much better if he was to add in a couple of “my leettle cabbage” and “my sweet peanut of brittle”, though.

A few things perhaps to consider here: (a) He’s genuine. Hey, it’s possible. (b) Because of his limited command of English, he spelled the words the way he would pronounce them, e.g.: 'ello, ladie, leave, etc… (c) He felt the place name Côte d’Azur would be better recognizable to non French speakers without the “of”.

Of course he could also be full of crap, in which case I’d be on the lookout for the inevtiable request to help him transfer countless millions to your bank account :slight_smile:

Yes, “generous” is definitely escort code.