# Who's Single and Available? (aka the Chilling / Comfort Thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257 "2005-03-12T23:11:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/61 "2005-03-14T23:45:49Z")
Thanks, **Inigo**. Check your PayPal account! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/62 "2005-03-14T23:53:52Z")
Iā€™m male, 22, 5ā€™7", short black hair and green eyes. New York-born. Iā€™m a writer (starving journalist by trade) who loves to read, listen to music, and watch plays and movie. I love comedy and I try not to brag, but Iā€™m pretty sure Iā€™m funny. Iā€™ve got very particular tastes but I try to be open-minded. I love discussing all of the above with people and I love discussing ideas with people, which is probably why I post here. Big Marx Brothers fan. For fun I like to write, of course (I have so many half-finished things laying around), but I also go to concerts when I can and often write reviews. For publication, when I can. Iā€™ve been a guitarist for the last 8+ years and of late Iā€™m actually reasonably satisfied with what I can do, though Iā€™d like to be a lot better. Foods: Iā€™m a vegetarian of the completely non-pushy and -moralizing variety. I love cheese and Iā€™m very into pasta. Also Thai food and Indian food. Music: As I said, Iā€™m picky, but I wonā€™t pick on you or refuse to talk to you if we donā€™t like the same thing. I do enjoy sharing the music I love with people I like, but I try not to be pushy about that either. I like a lot of blues and jazz fusion-type things, plus some original blues guys like Howlinā€™ Wolf. Also on my list are the Allman Brothers Band, Derek Trucks, Zappa, Radiohead, etc. My favorite authors are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Douglas Adams, and Shakespeare. Iā€™ve mostly read biographies and real-life stuff lately, but Iā€™m trying to get back into fiction. Recent reading: _I, Robot_ (Asimov); _Portnoyā€™s Complaint_ (Rothā€¦ he sure did complain a lot); _American Dreams_ (Studs Terkel). Iā€™m kind of a compulsive reader in that Iā€™ll read just about anything thatā€™s lying around, from magazines to newspapers and cereal boxes. I hope this doesnā€™t sound too dweeby, but a friend described me as ā€œemotionally present,ā€ and I thought that was very apt. Iā€™m not a sad sack or a whiner, but I do listen to people. Itā€™s kind of what I do for a living. šŸ˜‰ > [@](#): > > Any more questions? Email me or comment in this thread! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/63 "2005-03-14T23:57:52Z")
Ummmā€¦ with all the bright and available folks in this thread, your think somebody would think to linkā€¦ A Photo! :smack: (not that we need another photo threadā€¦) šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/64 "2005-03-14T23:59:46Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Man, I hate it when call centers use tech-support fish. IT professionals shouldnā€™t eat their own poop. What theā€¦darn you mister sarcastic smartie pants! Rodger doesnā€™t eat his own poo anyway. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/65 "2005-03-15T00:03:54Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Iā€™m male, 22, 5ā€™7", short black hair and green eyes. New York-born. _drool_ I have a major weakness for green eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/66 "2005-03-15T00:11:35Z")
> [@Horrifying Howler Monkey](#): > > What theā€¦darn you mister sarcastic smartie pants! Rodger doesnā€™t eat his own poo anyway. Iā€™d flirt more overtly, but thereā€™s not much point since travelling any further North or East would almost certainly make my testicles ascend and my digits drop off. Iā€™m, uh, delicate. For a Canadian. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/67 "2005-03-15T00:30:39Z")
> [@monica](#): > > _drool_ > > I have a major weakness for green eyes. Well hi there. šŸ™‚ Send me an e-mail sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/68 "2005-03-15T00:39:34Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > _groooaaannn_ _Why_ do you have to be on the wrong coast? Hm, my mom and step-dad live north of SF, maybe itā€™s time to go visit them again . . . . Maybe itā€™s best for your own safety that there is a continent between us šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/69 "2005-03-15T00:49:31Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Iā€™d flirt more overtly, but thereā€™s not much point since travelling any further North or East would almost certainly make my testicles ascend and my digits drop off. Iā€™m, uh, delicate. For a Canadian. šŸ˜› Is it really true that you can go swimming all year outside and there are no biting flies? My ex boss was from Victoria, and I want to know if he was lying to me, or if I should be really jealous. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/70 "2005-03-15T00:49:31Z")
> [@Horrifying Howler Monkey](#): > > Fun! > > Me: > > 25 year old single gal. Donā€™t have kids, but I do have a fish I have kept > alive for 4 years. Lives in Ontario. Works in tech support. Also involved > with dog rescue. > > I likes: being silly, long car rides. Favorite food is pizza, Iā€™m a > vegetarian, not a vegan though. Love going to the cottage and if I was > allowed would spend the whole summer there in the water. > > You: > > Male, breathing, age not important, but easy going disposition is. Oh, a Texas accentā€¦that would be awesome (Iā€™m not superficial, honest) Too bad you live in another country, you sound like a nice catch and the type of woman I make an effort to approach and talk to in my day to day life. We can still talk though, my email is in my profile. Canā€™t use IM though because iā€™m out of Bloomington for the week and donā€™t have broadband. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/71 "2005-03-15T00:49:34Z")
Oooh, how exciting! This is starting to feel like _The Dating Game_ (but with me involved, it will probably turn out to be more like the dating game on _Whose Line Is It Anyway!_) **ArrMatey,** did you see the bit where I said I play the piano very badly? My ragtime is really. . .ragged! So donā€™t expect too much. Although if you listen to me play and tell me how good it was, I know youā€™re lying but you get lots of points anyway! My favorites are Dill Pickles Rag and Wild Cherries. I used to almost be able to play Maple Leaf Rag, but my piano skills have gone way downhill since I quit taking lessons, and now Iā€™m not even close. A few years ago, I could play Kitten on the Keysā€“now my kitten is crippled! > [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Dark? Check. Goofy? Check-check. > > I like to cook. Iā€™d like someone to cook for. > > Check, check, check, check, check, Iā€™m not sayinā€™, check (but Iā€™ll listen to rap, though I donā€™t own any). > > I like weird. Weird is my favourite thing. No complaining about my film gear all over the place. Weird is the new normal! šŸ˜ƒ I wonā€™t complain about your film gear if you donā€™t complain about my. . .whatever my project of the week happens to be. A few weeks ago it was sock monkeys, next week I need to work on a coat, after that who knows? A few more interesting things about meā€“I drive a stick shift, I can read upside down, and I can hear very high-pitched noises. I stay up too late so I can watch Headlines on the Tonight Show and reruns of the X-Files or Buffy. I just got _How to be a Domestic Goddess,_ so I need to do lots of baking. I do a lot of things, but Iā€™m not really good at anything. ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/72 "2005-03-15T00:57:34Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > That sounds like me. > > Canā€™t wait for my car to be restored so I can take long drives in it. And I live by the beach. > > But I like to eat dead animals. I just noticed that I posted mine twice, this Internetting business is too complicated for me (I didnā€™t think it went through the first time, honest) Iā€™ve never dated a vegetarian, other people eating animals doesnā€™t bother me šŸ™‚ as long as they arenā€™t one of those OMG you donā€™t eat meat!? Look I am eating a cute baby cow itā€™s funny! LOL! (my last ex thought that was hilarious ever time he did it) You have an MGB right? Or did I imagine that? ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/73 "2005-03-15T01:00:14Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Hi, **Horrifying**! Howā€™s it going? šŸ™‚ > > I have to warn you that I eat meat andā€¦ andā€¦ I live _south of 7_. > > \*\* krak-THOOOMMM \*\* Tsk shame, and you have such beautiful eyes too. Weā€™ll have to get you to move. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/74 "2005-03-15T01:14:25Z")
I am too intimidated to flirt with anyone here. Shocking! ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/75 "2005-03-15T01:14:46Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Well hi there. šŸ™‚ Send me an e-mail sometime. Check your email. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/76 "2005-03-15T01:25:40Z")
> [@monica](#): > > Check your email. Likewise. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/77 "2005-03-15T01:29:38Z")
Score! If anyone finds anyone they really like, report in. As for me, I kind of sort of have a crush on someone, but I donā€™t see him in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/78 "2005-03-15T01:53:45Z")
> [@Horrifying Howler Monkey](#): > > Tsk shame, and you have such beautiful eyes too. Weā€™ll have to get you to move. :: blush :: Thank you. šŸ™‚ Some of my friends live North of 7, and cousins, and my father, and my aunt, andā€¦ heck, I was _born_ North of 7, so ne problemas. Thereā€™s better scenery North of 7 anyways. šŸ˜ƒ ā€˜Dog rescueā€™? Is that rescue performed _by_ dogs, or _for_ dogs, or what? ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/79 "2005-03-15T01:57:15Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Score! > > If anyone finds anyone they really like, report in. > > As for me, I kind of sort of have a crush on someone, but I donā€™t see him in this thread. Ooooh- Iā€™m going to be nosy and request a name, here! ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257/80 "2005-03-15T01:58:19Z")
What the hell ā€¦ Iā€™m a 29 (soon to be 30) hetero female. About 5ā€™5" with brown/auburn hair and hazel eyes. Not glamorous by any means, but I like to think Iā€™m cute in my own way. šŸ™‚ Iā€™m a jeans and T-shirts kind of girl who will get prettied up on occasion but prefers to be comfortable. I have a journalism degree and a law license, but Iā€™ve never practiced law a day in my life. I canā€™t. My first love is writing, so thatā€™s what I do. For the last three years Iā€™ve worked as a legal writer/editor for a publishing company in South Florida. Iā€™d prefer to be in west central Florida with my family, but I had to go where the jobs are. Despite my complaints I really do enjoy my work. Iā€™ve always tended to be quiet around new people, but Iā€™ve noticed thatā€™s been happening less and less lately. Maybe thatā€™s something that changes with age. (_shrugs_) Iā€™m a big fan of silliness. Not constant weirdness, mind you, but just enough to be unpredictable. I love to make people laugh at the unusual ā€“ my big victory this past week was getting a cynical older coworker to do a spit-take in his coffee. The ā€œcows playing pokerā€ wallpaper on my work computer has gotten me more than a few odd looks. Iā€™ve also been known to chair dance in my cubicle. Alas, I must dance alone, as the Friday morning dance party hasnā€™t caught on. Interests ā€¦ lets see. Comics. Animation. Movies. Reading. Photogaphy. Cooking. Fashion design. Thereā€™s lots of things Iā€™d love to put on the list but havenā€™t gotten a chance to try yet, such as horseback riding, martial arts and community theater. Iā€™m an avid reader, and Iā€™m usually looked upon as strange because I read my books many times over. I also love to sew. Iā€™ve actually gotten pretty good at it over the last five years. My Halloween costumes have become legendary in my office. One of these days Iā€™ll throw together a really good one for a comic convention somewhere. As far as music goes, I have a wide range of tastes. My CD collection includes Evanescence, Sarah McLachlan, Meredith Brooks, Loreena McKennitt, Garbage and various anime soundtracks, just to name a few. I think thereā€™s a few classical and instrumental CDs in there somewhere, too. Iā€™ll even listen to country on occasion when I drive. It just depends on what kind of mood Iā€™m in. Generally Iā€™m very sweet, but I do have a temper sometimes. I guess thatā€™s one of my faults. Iā€™m also a perfectionist, at least when it comes to my work and my hobbies. I also overuse commas (see above for examples!), and, on preview, the word ā€œalso.ā€ So thatā€™s me, basically. The makeup-shunning, jeans-wearing, chair-dancing, book-reading, case-writing, Evanescence-playing perfectionist geek in the freaky costume. If anyone can sum that up with less punctuation, Iā€™m all ears. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-single-and-available-aka-the-chilling-comfort-thread/294257.md?page=5)