Personal Ad Translations
A List of Abbreviations in the "Women Seeking Men" Classifieds:
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Code Word: 40-ish
Really Means: 48
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Code Word: Adventurous
Really Means: Has had more partners than you ever will
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Code Word: Affectionate
Really Means: Possessive
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Code Word: Artist
Really Means: Unreliable
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Athletic
Really Means: Flat chested
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Average looking
Really Means: Ugly
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Beautiful
Really Means: Pathological liar
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Commitment-minded
Really Means: Pick out curtains, now!
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Communication important
Really Means: Just try to get a word in edge-wise
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Contagious Smile
Really Means: Bring your penicillin
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Educated
Really Means: College dropout
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Emotionally Secure
Really Means: Medicated
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Employed
Really Means: Has part-time job stuffing envelopes at home
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Enjoys art and opera
Really Means: Snob
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Enjoys Nature
Really Means: Bring your own granola
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Exotic Beauty
Really Means: Would frighten a Martian
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Feminist
Really Means: Fat; ball buster
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Financially Secure
Really Means: One paycheck from the street
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Free spirit
Really Means: Substance user
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Friendship first
Really Means: Trying to live down reputation as slut
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Fun
Really Means: Annoying
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Gentle
Really Means: Comatose
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Good Listener
Really Means: Borderline Autistic
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Humorous
Really Means: Caustic
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Intuitive
Really Means: Your opinion doesn't count
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In Transition
Really Means: Needs new sugar-daddy to pay the bills
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Light drinker
Really Means: Lush
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Looks younger
Really Means: If viewed from far away in bad light
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Loves Travel
Really Means: If you're paying
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Loves Animals
Really Means: Cat lady
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Mature
Really Means: Will not let you treat her like a farm animal in bed, like last boyfriend did
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New-Age
Really Means: All body hair, all the time
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Non-tradional
Really Means: Ex-husband lives in the basement
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Old-fashioned
Really Means: Lights out, missionary position only
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Open-minded
Really Means: Desperate
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Outgoing
Really Means: Loud
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Passionate
Really Means: Loud
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Petite
Really Means: Wouldn't stand out in a pack of Munchkins
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Poet
Really Means: Depressive Schzophrenic
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Professional
Really Means: Bitch
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Redhead
Really Means: Shops on the Clairol aisle
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Reliable
Really Means: Frumpy
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Reubenesque
Really Means: Grossly Fat
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Romantic
Really Means: Looks better by candle light
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Self-employed
Really Means: Jobless
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Smart
Really Means: Insipid
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Special
Really Means: Road the short schoolbus
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Spiritual
Really Means: Involved with a cult
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Stable
Really Means: Boring
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Tall, thin
Really Means: Anorexic
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Tan
Really Means: Wrinkled
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Voluptuous
Really Means: Very Fat
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Weight proportional to height
Really Means: Hugely Fat
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Wants Soulmate
Really Means: One step away from stalking
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Widow
Really Means: Nagged first husband to death
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Writer
Really Means: Pompous
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Young at heart
Really Means: Old Toothless Fogie