Comments on: Dear Chicago Word Pilferer,

By: Cheap

Cheap — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:57:24 +0000

Hahahaha how sad is that? Using someone elses content in your personal ad!

I hope you emailed the craigslist admin, asking for them to remove said post?

By: Spirophita

Spirophita — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:41:34 +0000

It scares me to think that someone was reviewing the Craigslist personal ads period.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:03:35 +0000

I hadn’t read your blog in a while and thought I would do some catching up and then I see this post… wow. I’m glad you found out about it though and I love your response. :)

By: GreenCanary

GreenCanary — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:23:54 +0000

Kris, I want to be your friend. I think my penchant for tripping over things and your nerdy glasses would make a dynamic duo. We’d be like superheroes. Only with cheap wine and a lackluster wardrobe. P.S. freckledk? Totally start that vibrator buddy phone tree. And sign me up.

By: DCBlogs » DC Blogs Noted

DCBlogs » DC Blogs Noted — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:14:10 +0000

[...] Dear Chicago word pilferer, I hope you’re still single. An open letter to the woman who cut and pasted a local blogger’s writing into her own personals ad. Not A Girl, Not Yet a Wino. [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:01:19 +0000

This must’ve been the same person who copied my real estate listing from Craig’s list. WORD FOR WORD. I know some people aren’t very creative and I’ve been told it is a form of flattery but I was SO mad when I saw their ad I wrote a scathing reply. I felt much better and they removed my copy :)

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:45:38 +0000

That is TOO funny and so crazy! Hope you had a Happy 4th of July, and I can definitely understand being angry, aggravated or upset!

By: Cyndy

Cyndy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:10:25 +0000

…your eighties WARDROBE! That’s really funny. I’m going to go try to make a link now.

By: Cyndy

Cyndy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:58:59 +0000

I am a lazy blog reader. Eventually I will make a link to your site from my blog because I love reading your stuff. In the meantime I am amusing myself by repeatly getting here from my usual link, where it says “UPDATE YOUR LINKS, YOU EIGHTIES….” something or other – I’m not a speed reader, okay? Anyway I think that it’s hilarious, and you are correct – at least about me. It’s like a subliminal message that keeps flashing before my eyes every time I visit your blog. But I’m not willing to succumb to it yet. Since I know it’s there, I just can’t resist going back to see what the rest of it says, so you’ll be getting a lot more hits from me in the next few minutes. Or maybe for the next few days…however long it takes!

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:25:03 +0000

Ohhh I hope she reads this and fesses up with some sort of bullshit apology so we can all contribute to the virtual beat-down.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:17:55 +0000

Seriously?

w o w…
I wanna see!

Hope you had a fantastic 4th.

By: hillary

hillary — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:20:45 +0000

oh my hell
this made me laugh so hard

By: Ulysses

Ulysses — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:11:03 +0000

Well, shit, I shoulda known something was wrong when I had to fly all the way to Chicago for the date…

By: Ryane

Ryane — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:01:30 +0000

Well, on the one hand, it’s sad that she couldn’t even write her own damn personals ad. But on the other, even if imitation is a sincere form of flattery (or however that damned saying goes) forgery just blows. What a hot mess that girl is. Boo.

By: freckledk

freckledk — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:48:35 +0000

Oh, and there should totally be a vibrator telephone tree. I know a few gals who would be eager to sign up for that list.

By: freckledk

freckledk — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:47:40 +0000

Yikes. That’s just wrong. I’ll bet she got a lot of responses, though. You’re a pistol, and those CL guys like a dame with spark.

Someone once posted a CL ad using my photos. A friend saw and alerted me but it had expired before I could get to it. I’ve no idea if the photos were even cute ones, and that (sadly) is what troubles me the most.

By: wildbillthePirate

wildbillthePirate — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:02:51 +0000

that’s location…

By: wildbillthePirate

wildbillthePirate — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01:53 +0000

Kris,

You just know that you are quoteable! Forgive her bumbling attempt (if she emails to apologise-she really should have asked you- I think you would have been flattered rather than miffed) some folks learn the Hard way tht being an Adult is not just a function of age…

Email me and I’ll be you’re Vibrator buddy, we’ll exchange keys and tell each other the loation of the Stash to dispose of. Mine is in the ….wait, I’m still posting!

By: Wilma

Wilma — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:15:19 +0000

I’m shocked to discover you don’t have a vibrator buddy.

Find a friend to make a pact with. If something happens to either of you, the other one sneaks into your apartment & disposes of all things potentially embarrassing.

By: kris

kris — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:15:41 +0000

Alas, the link has expired, party people. We can no longer gawk and create fake logins with which to respond.

In other news, this made my day: http://www.onehorseshy.com/highbrow/bad_grammar_makes_me_sic?p=onehorseshy.46737914
(Thanks T, for doing something right once in a while.)

Happy holiday weekend, y’all.

By: I-66

I-66 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:45:01 +0000

It’s kinda like Roxanne, except Kris is wayyyy better looking than Charlie. And her nose is wayyyy smaller.

By: Karen in DE

Karen in DE — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:37:25 +0000

Cleaning up my stash PRONTO. Yikes.

Link, please!

By: EDW

EDW — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:22:59 +0000

This is one of those stories that sound a like the premise of bad but beloved movie, possibly starring Katherine Heigl, although if Janine Garofalo was still doing roles as the quiry, unlikely, yet smart and sassy heroine, I’d pick her to play you.

By: You can call me, Sir

You can call me, Sir — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:09:32 +0000

Looking for love on Craigslist is both a truly horrific idea AND an excellent name for a country song.

Fail. Win!

Link, please.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:53:30 +0000

Omg, now you have me worried that my mom will find my vibrator if I die.

Also: LINK PLEASE!!