[TADSLOS]

Fortunately she missed my name on a lapdancing industry website which appeared when I wrote a story on a sheriff who was forced to resign after being caught in a sauna

That's his story and he's stickin' to it.

[TommyDale]

Nothing like starting a relationship with trust, is there?

[RockinRight]

Speaking of internet dating, I did try the internet personals route for a while.

I learned a few things. If a woman says she is 5'4, she's 5'2. If she says she weighs 140, she weighs 175. If she says divorced, she means separated. "Fun loving" means she's a drunk. "Music lover" means she lives and breathes Celine Dion. "Young looking" means she could pass for 60 (and she's 41)...

[linkinpunk]

"Six two, 195 pounds,
run 3 miles per day, currently
training for triathlon."

[Marauder]

Internet snooping is just a modern version of ancient human responses to feelings of insecurity and jealousy.

I disagree. If I were a woman and agreed to a blind date, I'd want to evaluate the odds of a dangerous encounter as closely as possible, especially if it weren't a double-date.

In fact, I wish the Internet had been around back when I met my ex-wife. Sure could've saved a lot of trouble, heartache, and money.

[schwing_wifey]

This is a good news - bad news situation.

The bad news is for young people starting out dating and doing this kind of thing before they get to know somebody and build some type of 1st level commitment.

The good news is that if somebody like me (married 20 years + 2 weeks) ever lost my husband, the first guy that comes sniffing around would be googled in a heartbeat...being I'm older and wiser with assets to protect. ;D

[Bear_Slayer]

The UK poll of 3,000 people by Onetel, a broadband provider, found women were far more likely to admit to snooping than men

Maybe they just can't keep a secret as well as men. :-)

[So Cal Rocket]

Well, I guess I'm safe so long as the woman doesn't know my other screen name of KingBoomBoomSexyMan.

Oh Oh.

[faq]

I've done it. I've even found pictures. But, now I've gotten to the point where I don't bother anymore because I expect blind dates not to work out and most of the fun is in the surprise factor. But, I'm a guy though. Would definately do a quick background check if I was a woman going on a blind date.

[Lancey Howard]

I heard an advertisement on WABC radio last week (I think it was during Levin's show) for a service where you can buy a kit to "swab your mouth and the baby's mouth" and then return the samples for a DNA test - - results are returned within two weeks.

Think about that for a minute.

[cyborg]

I wish I spied on my ex.

[Tall_Texan]

If some woman wants to Google my real name to "check up" on me she will find I am scratch golfer in Missouri, a mayor of a small town in Georgia and a registered sex offender in Oklahoma (I am *really* careful any time I travel through Oklahoma). Of course, I am none of these people but how can she be sure? She'll also find that I write a lot about baseball and football. She'll probably overlook those because they're "about sports".

[toldyou]

I have a friend who lists herself at 55 on a dating site, when she is actually 62. I cautioned her that ussearch.com has a free service that all you do is enter a first and last name, town where you live, "approximate" age, and bingo.....it provides your current age. Guaranteed all you guys and gals are on it.....I am!

[elbucko]

If only women would put a tenth of the time to inquire on the suitability of those they to vote for.

[MarkL]

For this concept taken to the limit, check out one of the funniest movies ever made, John Landis' "Amazon Women on the Moon." Steve Guttenberg and Rosanna Arquette are going out on a date, and she "checks him out."

Mark

[knak]

I put in to google a few days ago some personality traits of a "friend" of mine and found out it's called Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Fit him to a tee.

[Junior]

Ping.

[tortoise]

Many years ago, I had an intrusion detection system (IDS) and pervasive logging on my computer systems by default, among other things (at one house, the physical security systems were far more pervasive than just simple IDS, part of some experimental development work). A not insignificant number of girls I dated left their footprints all over the IDS at the first opportunity, snooping in places that they really had no business in. Not that they ever found anything -- there wasn't anything to find.

Not in one case did I ever let on that I knew they were doing it. I simply cataloged the fact and kept it in mind.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Hee,Hee, Hee, the gals are doing that too, huh???

[Kevin OMalley]

BFLR = Bump for later reading.