false<![CDATA[They Call Me Naughty Lola: Personal Ads from the London Review of Books]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171425054m/98686.jpg986864I've divorced better men than you. And worn more expensive shoes than these. So don't think placing this ad is the biggest comedown I've ever had to make. Sensitive F, 34.
Employed in publishing? Me too. Stay the hell away. Man on the inside seeks woman on the outside who likes milling around hospitals guessing the illnesses of out-patients. 30-35. Leeds.
<I>They Call Me Naughty Lola</i> is a testament to the creativity and humor that can still be found among men and women longing for love and allergic to the concepts of Internet and speed dating. Here is an irresistible collection of the most brilliant and often absurd personal ads from the world's funniest-- and most erudite-- lonely-hearts column. The ads have been called "surreal haikus of the heart," and in an age of false advertising, the men and women who write them are hindered neither by high expectations nor by positivism of any kind. And yet, while hopes of finding a suitable mate remain low, the column has produced a handful of marriages, many friendships, and at least one divorce. Here are the young, old, fat, bald, healthy, ill, rich, and poor hoping that they can find true love, or at the very least, someone to call them Naughty Lola.9513328112006They Call Me Naughty Lola: Personal Ads from the London Review of Bookstotal:175|5:59|4:60|3:42|2:13|1:1|1756883146146falsefalseMon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007Mon Sep 10 20:00:29 -0700 2007Thu Sep 20 23:00:09 -0700 2007
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43falsefalseFri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009Mon Sep 01 22:09:58 -0700 2008Sun Jul 19 08:53:17 -0700 20091Tired of feeling patronised by the ads in this column? Then I am not the woman for you, little man. Today you may be benighted and insignificant, tomorrow you will be more so. Now off you go. Box no. 1912
This one is my favorite.
I have always struggled with the modern literary...more...]]>
41falsefalseTue Apr 10 20:10:56 -0700 2007Tue Apr 10 20:19:30 -0700 2007 "Gynotikolobomassphile (M, 43) seeks neanimorphic F to 60 to share euneirophrenia. Must enjoy pissing off librarians (and be able to provide the correct term for same)."
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Some of them were kind of funny- "My ideal woman is a man. Sorry mother."
Others were just plain stupid and still othe...more...]]>
20falsefalseMon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007Mon Nov 24 07:50:31 -0800 2008Tue Nov 25 04:15:01 -0800 20081 All in all, an amusing read, as long as you can appreciate wit. ...probably not a keeper, as the no...more...]]>
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London Review of Books. They're awesome. I really like 'I'd like to dedicate this advert to my mother (difficult cow, 65) who is responsible for me still being single at 36. Man. 36. Single. Held at home by years of subtle emotional a...more...]]>
30falsefalseTue Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008Mon Feb 11 11:02:22 -0800 2008Tue Feb 26 22:06:20 -0800 2008 Some excerpts from my favorite ads:
"When you do that voodoo that you do so well, I invoke 16th-century witchcraft law...more...]]>
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London Review of Books. My favourite opening line: "Gay, wasted Cambridge dandy"... it just inspires a desire to meet this Wildean character!]]>
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