Sunday, April 5, 2009

More Personals from the LRB

The London Review of Books has the best personals ever. Just regular joes looking for an average date, assuming you are a crab-juggling fish nerd or a space goat.


My favourite one this week:

I subvert all the expectations built up in this column like a goat in space subverts gravy. Space-goat-esque gravy-subverting pervert (M, 51).

A goat in space subverting gravy? Ah, if only I was available....

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I got all excited for a minute..in Australia, LRB meant the "Little River Band".

Why are you all looking at me like that? They were cute.

A Novel Woman said...

Sorry, Alyson. Maybe next time!

Anonymous said...

Hi, Pam,

Long time, no see.
Just saw this today and wanted to share.

http://icanhascheezburger.com/page/59/

It's the second one down.

I thought of you immediately.

A. Dupire

A Novel Woman said...

Ah, Ms Dupire, I knows you ain't talking 'bout no cats. I'll make sure I don't leave coffee in the backyard.

Anonymous said...

That crab juggler is the one for me, if only he had a liitle more age to him. Now, if the 82 year old was open to...
You can't keep a girl from her fantasies.
Thanks for the smile, Pam.
Kathleen in VA