Woman Seeking Man: Sealed with a click
Five Herald reporters go looking for love in all the wired places. Forget eyes meeting across a crowded room, today's young (and not-so-young) singles are just as likely to meet their soul mates in a busy chatroom or via a sophisticated online partner-matching service.The timeless saga of boy meets girl has been dragged firmly into the 21st century. But does point-and-click romance match up to the rose-coloured promises?We sent five desperate and dateless Herald reporters*...
Woman Seeking Man: GRIZZLED GEEZER WITH GREAT GUMS SEEKS GOOD-TIME GAL (GRANDKIDS OK)
Personal ads are changing.People don't seem to be as choosy. You don't have to be a sleek, attractive professional anymore.You don't have to love jazz, taxidermy and fencing.These days, people are settling for less: Sybil: Divorced man searching for woman who doesn't hear voices.San Quentin: Single woman seeking man not currently incarcerated.I think the reason personals are changing is because the people seeking and...
Woman Seeking Man: Friday Fishtales
SCOOPLET du jour: Mayor Brown has at last picked himself a press secretary -- Kandace Bender, former political editor of The Examiner -- and she fits right into His Willikens' scheme of things: She drives a Jaguar XJS with dash and abandon . . . Master Brown is also correct in announcing that S. F. needs a ``communications czar.'' The mayor's office doesn't even have an e-mail address, folks, and that is a shocker to the cybernuts . ....
Woman Seeking Man: Don't Bug Me, It's Monday
NOBODY GETS away with nothin' 'round here: You've seen that Fixodent TV commercial in which a prima donna shows she can hit high C without losing her teeth? Well, music teacher Eleanor Pehrson would like to point out that she is actually singing an A, one and a half tones lower. What I deduce from this is that if the lady did hit high C, her choppers would go flying . . . Jane Fonda, a person in whose veracity I have complete faith, denies that a 32-yr-old...