Cassandra calls for a contest!

Published on April 25 2005

Villainous Company: Book Lovers Read Cassandra's absolutely hilarious posting on personals ads in the London Review of Books--and the comments are even better!! I couldn't begin to come up with ads as hilarious as some of these!! I also followed her link to the LRB to finish reading. This was my absolute favorite:

I am the type of female that is thrilled by the tempestuous passions of a slightly mysterious swashbuckling financier who makes his living outfoxing corrupt capitalists and bullying bureaucrats then occasionally pulls away from the tumult in the Grand Cayman Islands. Box no. 07/04

Yeah. Me, too. Mexico wouldn't be bad either.