From: MPT@cup.portal.com (Michal P Todorovic)
Newsgroups: alt.personals.ads
Subject: Oh No!  Not Another One!
Date: Sat,  9 Jan 93 21:45:59 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Since subscribing to this newsgroup, I've noticed that 99.9% of the           
messages posted here are from young single men in search of young single      
women for various stated purposes.  Not wishing to break such an              
impressive trend, I decided to post a similar message here.                   
                                                                              
Whenever anyone reads a personal ad, many questions always come to mind.      
I'll try to anticipate some of the questions people reading this might        
have:                                                                         
                                                                              
Question: Just who do you think you are?                                      
                                                                              
I'm a single white male, 24 years old, and work as a partner in a small       
computer software development company.                                        
                                                                              
Question: What do you want that's so important that you're wasting my time    
          as well as bandwidth?                                               
                                                                              
I don't have enough female friends, and would like to have more.              
Exchanging e-mail with people around the country and world seems like an      
interesting way to make new friends.  Whether anything progresses beyond      
just e-mail depends on the circumstances and chemistry between us, just       
like with anyone else you might meet under other conditions.                  
                                                                              
Question: Why should I reply to your message when there are 2,643,287         
          other males on the net who'd wet themselves over e-mail from me?    
                                                                              
Everyone considers themselves (or will at least claim to be in a personal     
ad) intelligent/sensitive/sincere/caring/wonderful/sexy etc.  Whether         
those adjectives accurately describe me, I leave for other people to          
decide.  However, if you're interested in exchanging mail with someone        
who's real and knows where he wants to go in life, then perhaps you should    
consider dropping me a line.                                                  
                                                                              
Question: From what hole did you crawl from?                                  
                                                                              
I live in Ventura, California.                                                
                                                                              
Question: What simian-like creature do you resemble?                          
                                                                              
I'm human... and even look like one.  Specifically, I'm tall, fit, have       
brown hair and hazel eyes.  No one will mistake me for a model, but no one    
has run away screaming either.  Well, at least not often.                     
                                                                              
Question: Hmm... what's your e-mail address in case I get bored and have      
          nothing better to do?

It's down in the signature.                                                   
                                                                              
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Michal Todorovic         | The Laws of Thermodynamics, Paraphrased            
Terra Nova Development   | 
                         | 1. You can not get anything without
MPT@cup.portal.com       |    working for it.                                 
                         | 2. The best you can ever hope for through
"Justice is incidental   |    working is breaking even.
 to Law and Order"       | 3. You can only break even at absolute
      J Edgar Hoover     |    zero. 
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