The Profile is the Message in the Medium

Well, you've just blown any chances you might have had with *my* female alts.

Pep (If I had any, of course. )

I love profiles where the pic is well-composed. It's the dorky ones with the avatar looking like Bert or Ernie from Sesame Street that always give me a laugh.

Kinda like "Here is Me in front of Leaning Tower of Ugbuggajin in Sim#2341. Don't mess with me! I am a Ninja Placemat"

Swiftly followed by "My heart's ache and my number one darling for life is Sweetums Pussycat - I'll NEVER betray her love for me!"

Meanwhile he's begging me to hurry up and undress and telling me he thinks I am the answer to tonight's prayer.

And this is a bad thing, how???

No value judgment intended.

Pep (But you are right; it's no bad thing.)

Pep's female alts are "sleeping dictionaries" as they used to say in the colonies.

I have unsuccessfully googled that reference

Andrew Jackson?

I didn't bother.

Pep (I knew it was nonsense.)

PS In which case maybe Mickey could translate it?

PPS I lied: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5oWyQaO_8c

"Fastest way to learn the native language is with a sleeping dictionary" -- I don't recall who, but it referred to a native-speaking bed partner.

It's an old saying outta India and Far East, I think. the advantage of being a "colonial" of sorts is I know all these expressions. Anyway, I reckon my Great-Grandfather had to run through the ABCs with my Great-Grandmother a few times.
But dont use it to a new girlfriend coz it's kinda cheeky.
Colonial administrators would have a girl they slept with who only spoke the native tongue to them. It's quicker to lear a language when you have sex - everyone knows that.

Ohhhhhhhh. My Japanese ex used to say something like that. Best way to learn a language is on the bed. Problem was that I never learned anything that was very useful in everyday conversation

Speak for yourself.

I literally laughed out loud at this, because it *is* true.

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I was

And how does this relate to Pep's alts again? Are you saying he has multiple personalities which speak different languages, but teach him new terms as they cyber? LOLz

Someone last night said I'd be a better person if I had a cat. I said, "You've given me paws for thought"
Ta dum!

I do not understand how reading information in a profile or placing information there makes for any less of an enriching first meeting experience and conversation. If anything, it adds ingredients to the conversation that may never had been included because they learned that they too are into a certain band or saw them live or believe in a particular bit of philosophical quote or whatever.

I get comments everyday - multiple times a day about the LULZ factor of my profile and how they agree with me. It has been a conversation opener for a while and since i rarely IM first, i appreciate when people reply to me about my profile and the information contained therein.

If a person were standing on a busy New York street corner and were tasked with starting a conversation with someone walking by, many would most likely pick the person with the floating sign over their head that had a few interests listed that were the same as their own as opposed to the other people walking by that give you no information at all as a starting off point.

Okay.No. I meant that Pep is always on about words. So his female alts would also be. So they would rattle on like dictionaries. So I then drew in the allusion to the sleeping dictionary of teh 19thC colonial administrator and soldiers.

Check out George Macdonald Frasers wonderful series of books "Flashman" - you'll see what I mean.

OK but my interpretation was more fun to picture

Exactly... It's only gonna work against you if you are so nuts that you can't hide that fact long enough to fill it in

As I said, speak for yourself

You are very cute, Smith. Are you Pep before he signed that contract in his blood with a certain denizen of the dark?

LMAO... We occasionally accuse each other of being our own alts... What does that tell you??? LOLz

Hm. I guess I could be classified as a 'profile stalker'. I glance at, if not read pretty much every profile of everyone I come across. I see it as a neat little tool to get a glimpse of the typists behind the Avi, even if it's a watered down, white washed version. After all we do that in RL, no? Present the best possible version of ourselves; especially when meeting new people? Why should that be any different in SL?

I also find it very entertaining. I've come across many profiles that were thought provoking, or clever as hell, or just downright funny, ("I'll cut you bi-otch!" As someone else said, if I read a profile that I think is really great I'll IM the person with a compliment. Especially if they made me laugh.

Something that bothers me is how some people seem to be all uppity about what goes into a profile, as if it's their frigging business anyway. For instance I've heard people say, "Picks is for places to visit, not friends..." or you have to have a photo, or not have one or whatever. I wish people would knock that off. A profile is for however the person wants to use it. Period.

*** I will now extend that particular admonition to myself because it SO bugs me that people put RL photos in their RL tabs...that is so face book/my space. UGH. I don't want to know what you look like in RL! But I'm an immersionist...so there ya go. Shame on me. *slaps own hand*

I don't feel that way. I understand how someone could be quite creative with their profile.

It's just that it honestly doesn't occur to me, when I see a person, to look at their profile. I almost immediately say hello or some other thing, and soon, since we're talking and since I don't have the habit of looking, I end up never seeing their profile at all, unless I look them up to send an IM or LM, etc.

I do occasionally read profiles. When Smith made his remark about his RL tab, I did go see, and was surprised to find a quote from Rimpoche. I certainly didn't expect that (it was and wasn't a surprise), and it's probably a good example of what Jig was thinking of when she began this thread.

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But... but... a few of us are real people... And...and... the tab is labeled RL !!! LOLz

Nobody has EVER mentioned my Rinpoche quote before... But I knew somebody interesting would