
I listen to Indie 103.1 a lot, cause I'm a size 26, worn out corduroy-wearing, ironically afro-ed tool with a Pez collection, and over the last few weeks I've been subjected to about a thousand listens of something I assumed HAD to be an ad for a new sketch comedy show.
Two girls "girl-talking" about their desire to find what is apparently the holy grail of dating... A GUY WHO SMOKES POT.
A partial transcript, from memory:
Girl One- What's up?
Girl Two- Just checking out potpartner.com.
Girl One- Potpartner.com? What's that?
Girl Two- Only the best new dating site around, made for people who love to 420.
Girl One- I love 420-ing! Oh man, it is so hard to find guys who are cool with me and my love of 420'ing.
Girl Two- 420-ing, 420-ing, 420-ing, 420-est...
Sidebar - I understand the urge to overuse a newly minted slang-verb is all consuming... but, spread it out a bit. After all, it only takes one time too many to ruin it for all the other 420-ers.
I'm stunned. Not a sketch, not a joke. A dating site for potheads. This was a product created to alleviate the huge problem that is, simply... the fact that not enough guys are sitting around getting high and those that are, are IMPOSSIBLE to find. A group at the top of a list, which, presumably, contains the equally sought after categories: unemployed men, commitment-phobes and dudes under 4'11".
Isn't the best way to market this the reverse approach? Guys looking for 420-ing (sorry, turns out it's fun to type) ladies?
Beyond that, is this honestly the quality in another person you'd like to single out as "what you're looking for"? I love to drink but I'd be pretty wary of a fuckin' "whiskybuddy.com," site.
Here are a few of the moments where I'd have assumed the people involved with this project would realize it's not a great idea. The moment they thought of the idea. The moment after that. The hour. The moment they told someone else. The moment before that person went to open their mouth to respond. Any time during the next hour. The moment before securing the domain name. The moment before it went live. Any sober moment.
There's also a resident "sexpert" on the site dubbed MaryFourTwenty who's there to answer all your sex and relationship questions. I propose we abandon the over-used "sexpert" in favor of "forni-caterer."
"A-fuckcionado"?
Your pick.
Shortly after the completion of this article, a sheepish, not-proud TheCoolerKing checked to see if whiskybuddy.com actually existed.
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