"SWF, on a budget, looking for Sugar Daddy.
Enjoy travel, shopping and going out to dinner.
Young, blond and beautiful, see attached photo.
Let's get funky. Please email me personally."

Looks like a few of you obviously did.

[edited to add travel - how could I forget! - to her expense list]

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I personally thought what she did was funny. You couldn't tell that was someone goofing around?

The girl has a sense of humor. I guess that's a huge turn off for some folks around here. That's too bad.

You gotta be able to laugh at things in life, and if you can take a poke at yourself, that's a plus in my book.

I never offer to buy beers for an Brit. It's a good way to end up broke.

=)

Wow .... this thing just keeps going and going and going ...

FWIW, all I'll say is that everyone who was at lunch is welcome back at my house any time, including BellissimAA.

The conversation was wonderful, everyone was a PERFECT guest, and we all had a chance to get to know each other a little better.

I'll be over at 12:45 tomorrow!

doh! did I really say any time???? Now if YOU were to bring lunch, chex, that would be just fiiiiinne with me...

"SWM, not on a budget, looking for hermoso Senorita (or Senora). Enjoy travel, shopping (NOT) and exquisite dining. Middle-aged, Wealthy. and "Feo y Loco". Please email me personally."

arturo's redy whin yu ar!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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oopsies. arturo apollojize fore awfindeng enywon wiff the abov postie. arturo wil attract hes postie ef et es nesasarie...........

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ef enywon kneed a foto of arturo, thin artuo es knot entiristed.................

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"all we are saying is give peace a chance"

[This message has been edited by jan_az (edited 06-24-2002).]

mdtony. Broke? Try offering to buy drinks for an OZZIE ...

As an aside it is quite a while since BellissimAA posted here. (Or perhaps anywhere else on FT?) And without taking sides in the issue, that is a real shame.

I have followed this thread from the first post. I have to say for a few days I tended to suspect the person in the original photo posted probably did not exist and had a feeling the post was simply a 'wind-up' that got out of hand. I had somewhat similar thoughts to dhammer53 when he posted way back on June 17. The airbrushed photo on the website looked too much like it was lifted off a magazine, and there was nothing else on the webpage except that photo. But as they say, 'a week in politics is a lifetime'.

Nice to see this young lady does exist, is clearly a very nice person and stuck to her guns at all times. She arrived when and where she promised, and it is rather sad to have read much of the preceding pages with that in mind. And given BellissimAA certainly does exist had every right to respond how she did - and how. Any of us would have done the same surely on a BB where you knew no-one and were getting a 40 gun broadside simply for being yourself?

I for one hope BellissimAA returns to posting here, and Joh and I for starters would be pleased to meet her and to buy her a drink if she makes it to SeaDoo4 in August. dhammer53 will be there, and hopefully lisamcgu and it would be wonderful if 2 months down the track all three could with the benefit of hindsight, sip a beer and laugh about this very unusual example of group dynamics 'a la cyberspace' at work.




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Flyertalk is something. Isn't it.

Since Arturo has asked me to comment, I will. (Arturo has the power).

I'm paraphrasing 2 of the 4 original sentences I wrote, so bear with me.

"Is that her original picture, or someone else?

I think it was a fair, if not too quick to judge, comment. I get plenty of mail from Classmates.com and other websites that have these really great pictures in the heading.
When B...AA showed that picture, I was sure it was a joke. I was really surprised that 'everyone was so gullible' (my original quote), but it looks as if I was the one who was had.

But aside from that, I'm really disappointed in many of you that 'encouraged' this, with your words... to go on.

It certainly is amazing from my above quote, and the above paraphrase that those 2 statements, (and relatively innocently said) were inflated to make a mountain out of a molehill.

And to think I was accussed of being prejudice. What was that all about?

If you could have seen the private e mail I received from B...AA you would have thought I was a witness to a crime, and didn't come forward.

I didn't read this post again till it was a few pages old. And I can assure all the naysayers that I will NOT be opening it again.

I have enough trouble dealing with the real world that I don't need the aggrevation of a post gone bad. Just not worth it.

I'm sorry that some of you may disagree with me. Oh well. I'll get over it.

So in conclusion, to B...AA, I'm sorry that this post got out of hand. But lets face it, the cyberworld loves this stuff.

I'd like to say thank you to the folks with the nice comments. And shame on the folks that egged this thread on.

spelling edit

Dan

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Very nicely said Mr Ozzie sir.

never mind.
jerry

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