So, are ya looking for a date? Here? How old are you? What is your drink of choice? Do you smoke? Redheads, blondes or brunettes? Or are you from the Sterling/Draper school and anything goes as long as it wears skirts?

Long term relationship wanted or just a "wham-bam, thank you, ma'am" night of fun? If someone gets pregnant, must she spend time in a mental hospital just to get over you? Are you married? Will any date with you be followed up with a visit from a vengeful spouse wearing a polka dot prom dress and waving a bottle of red wine?

Do you have problems with erectile dysfunction and will anyone who dates you have to spend time in the great outdoors shivering in a porcelain bathtub until you are, as they say, in the mood?

Are you rich? There is this one girl named Jane we would love to unload - um - I mean introduce to some unsuspecting - um - someone new.

But, perhaps I am wrong to assume "tom2000" is a male? There is a fellow named Paul you might like.....I am afraid we here at Maddicts Central are going to have to have a whole lot more information before we can hook you up with anyone.

....Well, Tomcat, you asked for it......Lady Z is on your case...big time!

And, er, what was that about "....tiny info"....?

How do you feel about older, cancel that, experienced women???

Match.com is down the hall...

Amen, flower!

Give me all your credit card numbers, bank account numbers and mother's madian name and maybe we can talk Tom 2000....

Wonder if Tom2000 is a robot like that movie about Cherry2000.

Give me all your credit card numbers, bank account numbers and mother's madian name and maybe we can talk Tom 2000....

Wonder if Tom2000 is a robot like that movie about Cherry2000.

Hubby jsut said Cherry would have double posted near the end...

Sheesh, he really remembers that movie.

Try e-harmony, that's how I meet my hubby, sorta like a special order. Exactly what I wanted. A six-two blue-eyed blonde, with a six-pack and I don't mean beer. Very yummy!!!

I haven't visited the forum since early December so imagine my surprise when I read the title topic Online Dating- Tiny Info from tom2000. His post has not one reference to Mad Men or anything remotely to do with the show,era,characters,etc. Fellow Maddicts y'all are much too kind to this poster.
After reading it and the other one he posted,it looks like he cloned it off of Wikipedia.
Sometimes,you can get off topic but this is crazy.He might believe that everyone on the boards just woke up from time travel from 1960 and need to be educated about modern times and online dating.
Anyway,I'll be glad when the new season begins in July and we'll have some relevant episodes to discuss.
Peace Out!

I'm so grateful I don't have to date in today's social scene. I wouldn't even know what to do now. Who pays? Do you HAVE to jump into bed after the first 15 minutes? At what point do you demand each other's STD history? And of course, you Google, Facebook and You Tube 'em.

Whatever we do, let's not click on his link for "Adult Dating" on his other post...probably links to something porno..or at the very least he would have info on us...who needs that?

Clayton, it's boot out time~ !!

Huh?

Jamm, stop by before July. Pretty please?

SCfan .......I don't think Clayton is around anymore, my last email came from John, no no not 'a' John....John something....sounded like "Frankfurt".........

Dating in this day and age sucks. Hmm, let me rephrase that. I hate it. I kid you not, on the last first date I went out on, he wanted to know my STD history and how long he'd have to wait before we'd have sex. Only he didn't say it like that exactly. He acted as though he was a gentleman and said, "I won't rush you into sex. I'm completely willing to wait until you're ready. But a deal breaker for me is no sex after 3 dates."

We only went out twice :-)

What a jerk, Nancy! Don't blame you in the least for dumping him fast.

Sounds like dating has changed to a completely different deal than in the '70's when I dated.

I'm glad I got my guy way back there when at least some men were gentlemen on dates (well, he wasn't always a gentleman...but, that's another story!) ha

.....WTF is "Tiny Info??"

The Lipp sisters would never have stood for this.....

Let's put it this way - if you're not photogenic and your "head shots" suck plus you don't have a relatively "perfect" body you're kinda screwed before you get out of the gate.

Of course, all dating kind of starts off visual, but that elusive "essence" of someone (charm, humor, klutzy, shyness, nervousness, gentleness, gracefulness, whatever) along with the tilt of a head, look in the eye, arch of the brow, tone of the voice, sound of the laugh or any other movement in conjunction with expressing yourself - that really can't be communicated other than in face-to-face meeting is initially lost through the internet.

Now, it's make out a grocery list of attributes, and pluck them off the "shelves" of the internet roster, sample, and put back to sample others. Seems a more pragmatic, dry, unromantic way to meet people. Maybe you just luck out if the "chemistry" happens in one of your picks.

Right on, jamm, and Hidy!...love it when you have time to post.

I'm just grateful I got mine back when dating was the old fashioned kind! My matchmaker was God.com, I guess. ha?

I think all those folks on the commercials (e-harmony, match.com, chemistry.com, etc.) are just about 1% of the folks that have met that way (and "clicked" after they actually did meet face to face)...so they are the ones they advertise as "look what happened to us!" to get people to spend their (isn't it $100 or so?) to sign up and start getting "matched") JMHO

I tried Match.com for 2 weeks. It just isn't for me (frankly I've never bought into the internet or personals for meeting people). It just seems so f--k'n coldblooded and planned out. My friend was bugging me that I might make a male friend or something and have some fun. So far, there doesn't seem to be any middle of the road behavior (like emailing for a while, trying friendship first through platonic "non-dating" activity). It's either shoot straight for the shit (true love, over the top commitment to lifelong togetherness, blah, blah, blah). I guess you have to be committed to commiting right of the bat - and frankly I'm not. Personally, I'm a commitphobe and I know it (hey, I better at the age of 55). It would be so off-the-wall for me to make a blind commitment to committing at this point since I've never married, never lived with a guy. The freedom aspect and not feeling suffocated or tied down is my overriding characteristic in ANYTHING. It was hard enough committing to the drudgery of a job.

My hairstylist informed me just this last week that Match.com is known as bootycall.com, so that kind of gave me the heeby jeebies. Ah, no thanks. Anyway, I'm really not in the mood to focus on any guy, romance, date or whatnot. If I can get through a movie, my golf game or the race track and be that focused, I'm doing pretty good for me. I can hardly carry on a conversation these days.

Also, I'm in the middle of quitting smoking (down to 2 cigarettes a day without patches). But man, oh man, have I been eating and hitting the candy. So, I'll have Part Deux of weight loss to cope with after the raging stops from the withdrawal. LOL

Sounds like you have a lot going on right now, jamm, maybe (unless you're feeling lonely to the point of miserable-ness) that's telling you to just go with the status quo for now.

But,what do I know? Not much, that's for sure (about the state of dating nowadays)...totally foreign to when we were in those dating years soooooo long ago. All the "rules" (are there any anymore?) have totally changed.

Aren't there any "meet people" sites that are just for companionship, I wonder? There should be.
That sounds like it would be something you might give a try.

Again, what do I know?----- nuttin' !!

I never really "dated" that much, though I had my share of love affairs, but I've been out of it for sooo.... long, that I don't have a clue. I'm pretty noncommital, but I'd like to make some more friends, both men and women. Is friendship among the middle-aged just unrealistic if you're not part of a couple? Too bad they don't have high school for middle age where you can just hang out in the cafeteria and talk or not to whomever you feel like without committing. I'm not lonely as much as bored with my life. Still wrestling with executor stuff and the stupid house. Actually, for whatever reason, I've been getting attention from men in public for some reason. Don't ask me why that's happening now, but it has been. Golfed a couple times with a man I met golfing, but he was so busy focusing on my flaws: what I ate; my smoking (he'd been a smoker until a couple years ago); my golf game (he'd only started last spring); my vocabulary. He didn't even know me! Basically, I told him to shove off. Who needs a warden/correction officer? Not exactly fun or laughs with that one. He basically screamed "controlling" by all of his behavior, and I just thought, "Oh buddy, I'm 54 years and single that should give you a clue what kind of woman I am - pretty independent".

jamm54, it may be something in the air. I haven't been putting out any signals, but have been getting noticed by men in public for the past couple of weeks. Last week as I was leaving the grocery store, a man in a very nice convertible gunned his motor at me - I looked behind me to see who he was smiling at me and it turned out to be me! No one has gunned their car engine at me since I was a teenager. It still makes me smile when I think of it.

I have the same question about friendship. I feel that's the real deficit in my life. It's why I come to this board so much - I feel this is my friendship circle. I'm not interested in pairing off, but I would love to have a group or friends like we did back when we were teenagers and in our early 20s. Just getting together to shoot the breeze, play board games, watch movies or even watch Mad Men together (no talking allowed).

Happy Presidents Day! Everyone have a great week.

magsby13, I love your gunned engine story - it would make me smile, too. It must be something in the air.

Yes, I miss having friends of both sexes, and being able to hang out, as juvenile as that sounds. I have a few, but not in a group or anything. I think, for me too, the forum gives me that sense of friendship, and being at some coffee klatch get-together, and yakking away about the series. Too bad we couldn't have that in person.

I don't think that sounds --- or is --- "juvenile" at all, jamm.

In fact, I think it is the primary reason we all love our MM forums so much!

We ALL love to come here and "hang out" at our Mad Men Cafe.

I feel like you guys are my friends and I am certainly yours.

: - D

Hey Jamm54 if you are still checking this post... why not have your hairstylist fix you up with someone. My hairstylist did just that and they know so much about their customers and so I trusted her that he wasn't a creep. Anyway I went out with him and had a really nice time. Now unfortunately I wasn't all that attracted to him but he was interesting to talk to and very nice. At the very least I have a new male friend.