# Sorry, I am not your monkey (Responses to personal ads) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 24, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341 "2007-09-24T20:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![InLucemEdita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@InLucemEdita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InLucemEdita)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/201 "2007-09-25T20:47:36Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] I have no idea what she was trying to do. I was and am reacting to how she sounds. I wouldn’t know whether that’s congruent with how she intends to come across. [/QUOTE] Do you know how you sound? ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/202 "2007-09-25T21:02:59Z")
[QUOTE=InLucemEdita] Do you know how you sound? [/QUOTE] Why, yes. Yes I do. Do you know how _you_ sound? If not, why not? ---
**Author:** ![InLucemEdita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@InLucemEdita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InLucemEdita)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/203 "2007-09-25T21:11:00Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] Why, yes. Yes I do. Do you know how _you_ sound? If not, why not? [/QUOTE] If you did, you’d stop. Unless you’re very unhealthy. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/204 "2007-09-25T21:16:28Z")
[QUOTE=InLucemEdita] Do you know how you sound? [/QUOTE] I kind of always imagined **Jodi** sounding like an effeminate Grover, actually. What? (I’s only me who hears that again, isn’t it?) . ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/205 "2007-09-25T21:23:50Z")
[QUOTE=InLucemEdita] If you did, you’d stop. Unless you’re very unhealthy. [/QUOTE] Gee, doctor, I’m going to have to see your credentials before I can take your diagnosis seriously. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/206 "2007-09-25T21:25:44Z")
This is the most childish exchange I have ever seen on the SDMB. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/207 "2007-09-25T21:26:18Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] This is the most childish exchange I have ever seen on the SDMB. ☹ [/QUOTE] You must be new here. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/208 "2007-09-25T21:27:46Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] I kind of always imagined **Jodi** sounding like an effeminate Grover, actually. [/QUOTE] I get that a lot, actually. Here’s my dance [recital](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4IlqVdbTKI), wrongly attributed to that poser, Grover. I get a lot of compliments on my arm movements while dancing, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![InLucemEdita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@InLucemEdita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InLucemEdita)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/209 "2007-09-25T21:28:14Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] Gee, doctor, I’m going to have to see your credentials before I can take your diagnosis seriously. [/QUOTE] You needn’t bother to take my diagnosis seriously. I don’t think I could help you. I’m sorry to have disturbed you. I hope you feel better. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/210 "2007-09-25T21:31:45Z")
I will give your diagnosis the attention it deserves. I’m not currently in need of assistance. No problem. I hope you feel better soon, too. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/211 "2007-09-25T21:34:26Z")
[QUOTE=Eureka] You must be new here. [/QUOTE] Well, I’m definitely not a 99er. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/212 "2007-09-25T21:56:33Z")
[QUOTE=Stoid] 1. Saying you’re bored. It’s the equivalent of announcing you are boring. [/quote] I think Harvey Danger got there first, back in the late '90s: _Hear the voices in my head, I swear to God it sounds like they’re snoring Well, if you’re bored then you’re boring The agony and the irony, they’re killing me_ But it doesn’t make it any less true. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/213 "2007-09-25T22:19:40Z")
[QUOTE=Stoid] Here’s the thing: I KNOW I’m smart and funny and interesting and have a great voice and something to say and you’d be very entertained by me. [/QUOTE] Have you tried e-mailing Rupert Holmes directly? ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/214 "2007-09-25T22:30:49Z")
alright that analysis of anger was TLDR. I have animals to kill, children’s parents to offend. Its not that I just don’t want to dissect the source of my hatred for those I haven’t met, I just already know my answer. I hate you because you sound like a bitch. Don’t worry I have tons of energy left over to hate lots of other things ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/215 "2007-09-25T22:37:01Z")
Hey, you remember that Rupert Holmes song where the chick answered the personal ad for someone who claimed to be smart, funny, interesting, with a great voice and able to entertain everyone— and it turned out to be her _own ad_? Ah, Rupert. I still can’t believe he choked to death on his own vomit. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/216 "2007-09-25T22:39:24Z")
[QUOTE=you with the face] If I were to read the same self-description from a “old and balding” man who mentioned, as you did, that his last relationship was with a woman young enough to be his daugher? Oh, the adjectives that come to mind. And none of them good. [/QUOTE] Shoot! And here I thought I had a chance – slim at it was – w/you ☹ Must admit though, that I do self-laudatory posts pretty well – should I tell about some more of my conquest?. Old and bald I am, but there’s a whole 'nother side to me: shallow, egotistical and narcissistic. Just like the OP. ‘cept I’m a bald an’ old dude and not a BBW. Seriously now, I’m not into the whole 'net, e-mail, chat scene in the least. I like to meet my victims F2F. So, when are you headed for the Caribbean and/or Spain? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/217 "2007-09-25T23:02:06Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] Hey, you remember that Rupert Holmes song where the chick answered the personal ad for someone who claimed to be smart, funny, interesting, with a great voice and able to entertain everyone— and it turned out to be her _own ad_? Ah, Rupert. I still can’t believe he choked to death on his own vomit. [/QUOTE] [Que?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Holmes) Surely you haven’t confused Rupert Holmes with Jimmy Hendrix…or is this a whoosh? I admit I haven’t read the whole thread, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/218 "2007-09-25T23:07:45Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] [Que?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Holmes) Surely you haven’t confused Rupert Holmes with Jimmy Hendrix…or is this a whoosh? I admit I haven’t read the whole thread, but still… [/QUOTE] I had the same reaction to that statement. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/219 "2007-09-25T23:10:48Z")
Ah, sorry. Now that I think about it, that wasn’t Rupert; it was I, and my vomit. And not quite to death, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341/220 "2007-09-25T23:11:25Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] Ah, sorry. Now that I think about it, that wasn’t Rupert; it was I, and my vomit. And not quite to death, I guess. [/QUOTE] I hate when that happens. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-i-am-not-your-monkey-responses-to-personal-ads/420341.md?page=12)