28 Jan 05
This has to be one of the best singles ads ever printed. It appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good looking girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping and
fishing trips, cozy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelight dinners will have me eating out of your hand. I'll be at the front door when you get home from work, wearing only what nature gave me. Call (xxx) xxx-xxxx and ask for Daisy.
Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane Society about an 8-week old black Labrador retriever.
28 Jan 05
Originally posted by bambeeIts funny but its also rubbish ... doesnt anybody use snope.com around here?
This has to be one of the best singles ads ever printed. It appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good looking girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping and
fishing trips, cozy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelig ...[text shortened]... d themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane Society about an 8-week old black Labrador retriever.
As recently as late 2003, this joke was still bedeviling the Atlanta Humane Society:
The faux personal ad gives a metro Atlanta telephone number and says to ask for Daisy. Only careful readers get to the punch line on the bottom: "Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane Society about an 8-week-old black Labrador."
"We get one or two calls a week," said receptionist Heather Bowles, who had a Daisy-related voice mail waiting for her.
There are black Labs at the shelter. There are sometimes dogs named Daisy. But there is no black Lab named Daisy.
"We never placed that ad," said Katherine Christenson, public relations manager for the Atlanta Humane Society, who has fielded curious calls from newspapers in Florida, radio stations in Milwaukee and Reader's Digest.
Bowles thinks the e-mail must vary a bit.
"Sometimes they ask about a dog and sometimes they just ask for Daisy," she said. "When they ask for Daisy, I know they're not looking for a dog. I tell them it's a joke and don't let it get any further."
29 Jan 05
Originally posted by bambeeI forwarded that email 3 months ago!
This has to be one of the best singles ads ever printed. It appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good looking girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping and
fishing trips, cozy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelig ...[text shortened]... d themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane Society about an 8-week old black Labrador retriever.