Today Jon Carroll, a columnist in the San Francisco Chronicle, quoted some personal ads from the London Review of Books. Does the following sound like anyone you know:
"I begin each sexual performance with a tympani roll. I find it steadies the ship. Less than buoyant canal-boat dweller, amateur percussionist and bon viveur (M, 57) seeks not-easily intimidated woman to 55 with no small knowledge of crank-shaft engines, blue-note fades and behaviour-correcting medicines. Box no. 12/03." -- Jerry Coleman, in Belmont, California -------------------------------------------------------- "There is a fixed amount of intelligence in the world, and the population keeps growing." -------------------------------------------------------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
