Reason #3857 Why I Love My Wife
I sometimes hop the fence and see what other corners of the blogosphere are up to. Today I happened upon Blogs for Bush, an “online community and group blog covering the presidency of George W. Bush and organizing bloggers who support the President.” I read through several posts that offered essentially the other side of the same condescending “If you idiots could only wrap your little heads around this idea called reality, you’d finally see that we are right, and you are wrong” left/right coin. But that’s another story.
What caught my eye was the ad you see up top there, for Conservative Match, one of the growing number of online dating services targeting a specific demographic that desperately wants to get it on, get married, or just plain get out of the house. Being the curious guy that I am, I started to wonder what other clever entrepeneurs were out there, cashing in on this coupling craze. As it turns out, plenty:
singledogowners.com
“You don’t even need to own a dog to join, just love them.”actforlove.org
“activist? leftist? take action, get action!”adammeeteve.com
“Christian singles, christian dating, meet your personal Adam or Eve!”bikerkiss.com
“Our members include riders of Harley-Davidson, Yamaha, Honda, Ducati, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Gold Wing, BMW, Triumph, BSA, Indian Motorcycles, Choppers as well as all other motorcycles.”chocolatesingles.com
“Haven’t found your soulmate yet? Try a new flavor.”dharmadate.net
“DharmaDate is not about meeting the most people. You can do that on Match.com or Yahoo Personals. We’re about meeting people with a genuine interest in Buddhism.”Diving Singles Club
“The Diving Singles Club is a dynamic group of men and women centered in the Silicon Valley area of California who are single (unmarried) and who love to SCUBA dive.”Bodybuilders-dating.com
“Here the possibility to date single people interested in fitness and bodybuilding.”golfmates.com
“Golfmates is the world’s premier online dating service designed specifically for the golfing community. Let us help you find the perfect Golfmate.”gothicmatch.com
“Join GothicMatch to find someone to share your interests, your problems, your music and your spirit or even the perfect darkchylde to bring back to your lair.”
Being in a long term-turned-marriage relationship, I can’t say much about the effectiveness or philosophy of these types of things. One the one hand, it seems they’d cut out all the BS of trying to figure out if you have anything in common. On the other, sometimes it’s worth branching out a bit. What do you all think?
gosh, you’d think they had lives too! Weird.
Comment by slingshot — February 13, 2006 @ 2:47 pm
I used to have a negative opinion of these services, but have found that it’s incredibly helpful for a lot of folks in NYC–and I know people who’ve married people they met online and through such services, believe it or not. Hey, whatever works…
Comment by Johnny Palmetto — February 13, 2006 @ 3:54 pm
I need a new flavor.
Comment by Uncle Boodaddy — February 13, 2006 @ 6:11 pm
reason # 3858 i love your wife: she’s a christian buddhist, bleeding heart, biker kissing, goth golfer.
Comment by ceciel — February 16, 2006 @ 3:48 am
Ah, we have a new contributer! I guess that’s reason #3859 why I LOVE YOUR WIVES!
Comment by slingshot — February 16, 2006 @ 8:44 pm