This has got to be one of the best singles ads ever printed. It appeared in the Atlanta Journal:

A friend sent me this and I still can't stop laughing. Men are easy!!!!

1 posted on 04/14/2004 9:10:50 AM PDT by Arpege92

Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane Society about an 8-week old black labrador retriever...A friend sent me this

Sounds like urban legend material to me.

2 posted on 04/14/2004 9:12:27 AM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)

ROFL!!!

I love Labs!

3 posted on 04/14/2004 9:12:39 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)

Best personal ad I ever saw started with:

"Incredibly shallow man seeks gum-chewing bimbo...."

4 posted on 04/14/2004 9:14:22 AM PDT by Wombat101 (Sanitized for YOUR protection....)

"Sounds like urban legend material to me."

True or not....lighten up a little. Geez, you don't even find it remotely funny?

5 posted on 04/14/2004 9:15:06 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)

LOL.. and what's so funny, it probably worked...

This country, I tell ya.

6 posted on 04/14/2004 9:15:42 AM PDT by Freedom4US

7 posted on 04/14/2004 9:15:59 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)

Candlelight dinners? For a dog??

8 posted on 04/14/2004 9:16:33 AM PDT by Lancey Howard

To: Lancey Howard

I think it was the "eating out of your hand" part.

9 posted on 04/14/2004 9:19:31 AM PDT by Hildy (A kiss is the unborn child knocking at the door.)

It's kind of like the Domino's Philly steak pizza commercial where when the door bell rings and the men lose all train of thought and run for the door. Let's face it, we're all dogs anyway. Who let the dogs out, ruff, ruff, ruff!

10 posted on 04/14/2004 9:19:36 AM PDT by HELLRAISER II (Give us another tax break Mr. President)

To: Lancey Howard

Candlelight dinners? For a dog??

I am sure Bill gave Hillary a few Candlelight dinners over the years.

11 posted on 04/14/2004 9:20:07 AM PDT by chance33_98 (Shall a living man complain? Oh how much fewer are my sufferings than my sins;)

To: Lancey Howard

Sigh....forget it. This was supposed to be funny but if some feel the need to dissect this and analyze it....don't. Just keep going and pretend that you never read it.

12 posted on 04/14/2004 9:20:14 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)

To: HELLRAISER II

Naa...I don't think all men are dogs. I happen to think men are wonderful and because I do, I married one.

13 posted on 04/14/2004 9:22:11 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)

"Twice-divorced white female seeks short, fat, balding, self-centered and obnoxious man, for occassional dating, as a reminder to stay uninvolved."

14 posted on 04/14/2004 9:24:10 AM PDT by jdege

From Snopes.com:

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2002]

The following ad appeared in a newspaper:

SBF Seeks Male companionship. Age and ethnicity unimportant. I'm a young, svelte good looking girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods; riding in your pickup truck; hunting, camping, fishing trips. I love cozy winter nights spent lying by the fire. Candlelight dinners will have me eating out of your hand. Rub me the right way and watch me respond. I'll be at the front door when you get home from work, wearing only what nature gave me. Kiss me and I'm yours.

Call 555-XXXX and ask for Daisy.

(The phone number was the Humane Society and Daisy was an eight week old black Labrador Retriever. They received 643 calls in two days.)

Origins: We can't say for sure whether anyone has ever used this faux personals ad (attributed to many different newspapers) to lure a lonely man into adopting a homeless canine, but the basic gag is at least several years old and has appeared in many versions with slightly different details.

In 1996, for example, an Illinois newspaper reported the following ad had appeared in a Peoria shopper:

LOVABLE, AND LOOKING

SBF (single black female) seeks male companionship. Loves long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping and fishing trips, cozy winter nights spent lying by the fire. Rub me the right way and I will respond with tender caresses. I am a svelte, good looking female who loves to have fun. Call now. I'm a five-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."

While the Peoria version quoted above simply works this gag into the common technique of catching a reader's eye with an ad that initally appears to be one thing but is eventually revealed to be something else (such as the common scheme of printing of SEX in big, bold letters at the head of an ad, followed by copy reading: "Now that we've got your attention . . ."), the version quoted in the example block at the head of this page is an out-and-out deception. We hope that if anyone ever used an ad like this one to find a home for an ownerless dog, deception wasn't a part of it. Pets should be adopted by people making informed choices after due consideration and forethought, not by those jumping into spur-of-the-moment decisions after having an idea sprung on them by surprise (or by those making hasty choices in attempts to save face or spite those who made them look foolish).

We also can't imagine that anyone working for an animal shelter would want to subject himself and his co-workers to the torrent of crank, lewd, and abusive phone calls they'd receive in response to such a deliberately misleading notice. Humane societies so typically struggle with the twin curses of being extremely busy and woefully understaffed that the thought of voluntarily setting up an office to field one loopy phone call after another should be immediately rejected — it takes manpower to staff phones, and that's one of the many resources animal shelters are always short of.

Last updated: 1 October 2003

15 posted on 04/14/2004 9:27:29 AM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)

The phone number is legit of the Atlanta Humane Society... http://www.google.com/search?q=404-875-6420+&num=100

However this has been around for several years..... but still funny and would get responses I'm sure.

http://www.snopes.com/humor/nonsense/sbf.htm

16 posted on 04/14/2004 9:29:33 AM PDT by deport (("These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I have ever seen. It's scary," Kerry said.)

"Incredibly shallow man seeks gum-chewing bimbo...."

The best one I ever saw (in a Denver weekly) was, in its entirety, "Oversexed man seeks woman to whom this is not a problem."

17 posted on 04/14/2004 9:32:39 AM PDT by Ichneumon

I appreciate all of this information, but again....this is supposed to be funny. That's why I posted under the humor forum.

If this upset you in any way, I apologize.

18 posted on 04/14/2004 9:37:14 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)

I appreciate all of this information, but again....this is supposed to be funny. That's why I posted under the humor forum. If this upset you in any way, I apologize.

Who says I'm upset? I'm just checking the veracity of the email you received.

19 posted on 04/14/2004 9:39:13 AM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)

I happen to think men are wonderful and because I do, I married one.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume you are female.

20 posted on 04/14/2004 9:41:52 AM PDT by Graybeard58

this is supposed to be funny. That's why I posted under the humor forum

If its any consolation, I thought it was funny and I have seen it before.

21 posted on 04/14/2004 9:43:58 AM PDT by Graybeard58

:-} How very perceptive you are. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you are a male....females usually don't have grey beards....I said usually. ;-}

22 posted on 04/14/2004 9:44:06 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)

Thank you kind sir. My friend emailed it to me all the way from Texas, so I'm guessing it's been around for quite some time. Although, this is the first I've seen or heard of it.

23 posted on 04/14/2004 9:45:25 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you are a male

Or you could click on my screen name and see for yourself what a good looking old man I am!

I told my 4 year old grand daughter that she was getting prettier every day and she said, "So are you Gramps, so are you." Priceless!

24 posted on 04/14/2004 9:49:04 AM PDT by Graybeard58

Yep, you are cute. Your grand daughter seems to be big for a four year old. ;-}

25 posted on 04/14/2004 9:52:04 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)

I am sure Bill gave Hillary a few Candlelight dinners over the years.
Not a chance, those candlestick holders are ammo to her!!
Jack

26 posted on 04/14/2004 9:52:20 AM PDT by btcusn (Giving up the right to arms is a mistake a free people get to make only once.)

OK, I think it was funny!

Except for the SBF part, I might have called!
When I was single, that is.

27 posted on 04/14/2004 10:01:03 AM PDT by Redbob

Aw, chill. I thought it was funny.

28 posted on 04/14/2004 10:55:10 AM PDT by Lancey Howard

I thought it was hilarious, true or not.

29 posted on 04/14/2004 11:02:27 AM PDT by arjay ("I don't do bumper stickers." Donald Rumsfeld)

To: arjay; dirtboy

...ask for Daisy....

30 posted on 04/14/2004 11:08:45 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack ("We deal in hard calibers and hot lead." - Roland Deschaines)

It is indeed funny, and I would probably call too! Reminds me a great deal of my wife, who passed in 2000, except she was Dutch.

Truthfully, though, I've known some dogs who would be far better dinner companions than some dates...

31 posted on 04/14/2004 11:12:11 AM PDT by djf

those candlestick holders are ammo to her

She may have another use for them, but not gonna go there...

32 posted on 04/14/2004 11:25:52 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Because Democrats are liars, they assume Republicans are too...)

33 posted on 04/14/2004 11:41:32 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)

My condolences to you!

34 posted on 04/14/2004 11:43:08 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)

35 posted on 04/14/2004 11:46:08 AM PDT by BJClinton (PA, please defeat Arlen Sphincter.)

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