Guys Hit Craigslist for E3 ''Missed Connections''
Love was in the air at E3 2010.
Here's the scenario: you're pushing through the hot, sweaty crowds of E3 2010, eager to make your way towards a brief hands-on with the new Nintendo 3DS. Suddenly you brush up against one of the hottest creatures you've ever laid eyes on. Glances are exchanged. A brief smile leads you to think something has passed between you, some unsaid connection. You both marvel at the 3DS gadget, flirt for a few moments, and then the love of your life disappears back into the crowd, lost in a sea of journalists and gamers.
While the scenario described above is total fiction, the fact that chances such as this are not, and they have led to ads placed in the "Missed Connections" section on Craigslist. Here's one written by Star Wars Girl:
"You are incredibly attractive, dark skinned, short with great hair. We exchanged glances several times while you were playing Star Wars at E3 on Thursday. We spoke briefly on your way out and you had the softest hands I've ever felt. You came back after you left and asked me for my email address and said you wouldn't forget. I hope you didn't. Mail me."
Here's another E3 attendee that was really liking a Capcom 1942 booth babe:
"E3 this week. Capcom 1942 booth babe - the one wearing suntan pantyhose with her costume. I want to get your number. I would love to take you out and get to know you. Please contact me here "
So what have we learned here? E3 2010 isn't just about games and hardware--it's about making connections, whether they're press-related, a brief fling, or a long-term love affair that will spawn more gamers that will in turn attend future E3 conventions.
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Those girls will never call or e-mail back.
Wow, and I thought you spelled it L.O.S.E.R.
WTF? Who gives a crap?
Ahhhh. The stench of virgin nerd desperation!
Darn, I was gonna make a joke about missed connections with a booth babe, but some looser at craig's list beat me to it. I hope that guy knows they are professional models, and, when not in the presence of overly shy nerds, probably get hit on every 10-15 seconds (say, at a boat show or something).
three words... DES - PER - ATE! but made me laugh.
"We spoke briefly on your way out and you had the softest hands I've ever felt."
Creeeeepy. It puts the lotion on its skin, or it gets put on my shaft again.
top one WAS a lady.
When you're on a holiday
You can't find the words to say
All the things that come to you
And I wanna feel it too...........
on an island in the sun....
All I have to say is, "you never know". Maybe there could have been a connection. Sure, I would just have pushed up on the hottie right there. Sometimes these hotties are just as shy and maybe they will look on CL for a "Missed Connection", you never know?
just one word: wow.
... I take off my wizard robe of clarity +1 ...
Now we have "The Great Nerd Spawning Grounds" where nerds come, generation after generation to find their mates and have chances to spawn a new brood of nerds. It will go down in history.
History Channel/National Geographic +10
This actually made me smile. Best of luck to all of them.
Losers!!!! Who checks the Missed Connection section anyways? I've never heard of someone actually getting a real reply back by posting one of these.
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This is a shame. Poor guys. Putting p**** on a pedestal.
Jesuuuss what the fruck !!!
Those girls will never call or e-mail back.
Speaking from experience?
virgin
Nah. What we have learned here is that E3 is about connections, from the kind of creepy ("you have soft hands") to the petascale creepy ("i would like to take you out to get to know you"). The gamer spawning will have to wait a long long long, long LONG time before it can be counted on to sustain the population. Until then, we will have to rely on bullies and complacent parents for producing the uber-dorks of the future.
Now we have "The Great Nerd Spawning Grounds" where nerds come, generation after generation to find their mates and have chances to spawn a new brood of nerds. It will go down in history.
Excellent. Good joke, nicely written. Now if only I can find my way back to the spawning grounds...
what hot model chick is going to a) give a damn about your pimply faced scrawny ass? and b) going to be so enamored with said scrawny ass that she in all of her hotness would go to craigslist to meet up with your worthless hide?
This woman you are pining for so much doesnt give a damn that you exist and if you think she does you should probably kill yourself because you are a paranoid delusional schizophrenic.
when i saw the picture of that guy who got married to his gameboy virtual wife, i thought this was gona be smthg as weird. unfortunately, it was just a bunch of desperate ppl that wana get laid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugk37TvIR8E
Ahhhh. The stench of virgin nerd desperation!
lololol stench of virgin nerd
The replies from the hopelessly jaded are way more entertaining than that article.
What's more sad is these days almost the only way to meet a woman is on the internet. I'd prefer the old fashioned way. You'll only meet left over women online.
what hot model chick is going to a) give a damn about your pimply faced scrawny ass? and b) going to be so enamored with said scrawny ass that she in all of her hotness would go to craigslist to meet up with your worthless hide? This woman you are pining for so much doesnt give a damn that you exist and if you think she does you should probably kill yourself because you are a paranoid delusional schizophrenic.
You eralize the first ad was from a girl, right?
Do those 'missed connections' sections actually work? What are the chances of the other person reading the same section?
You eralize the first ad was from a girl, right?
You're kidding right? That first add... written by a girl??!!
I have but one thing to say...
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