Look At Him

[poliphilo]

We watched a DVD of Peter Sellers' home movies last night. They're like anybody else's home movies- look at my car, look at my kids, look at me holding the cat- except that they feature Princess Margaret.

Sellers once went on a trip to Disneyland with Ravi Shankar and George Harrison. Far out, man!

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It was kinda touching. There they were- Sellers and Brit and Margaret and Snowden in their big chunky sweaters- all pretending to be ordinary.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're all just like you and me, y'know... (Only not quite!)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"Money can't buy you love..."

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I know... I can cook, I've got my own flat, I look perfectly presentable and I have more money than I know what to do with (oddly enough...), and YET I can't get a date! :-S

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Did you ever answer or place an ad?

I'm not being flip. I placed an ad in the Manchester Evening News 15 years ago- and landed Ailz.

Did you really?

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe anyone could get so lucky! Maybe there is a God afterall?

Re: Did you really?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yup, I did.

I encouraged my sister to do the same and she met this lovely man and they've been together now four or five years.

It happens....

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

First of all it isn't really true that I can't find dates. I just can't find more than dates, which is of course what an uxorious creature like myself craves... And that, I figure, requires luck as much as anything.

And am doing some internet-dating, which is, I suppose, just an updated version of personal ads. Only trouble with it is that there is such a huge focus on sex, which is really secondary to me. (Secondary; not unimportant!) But finding someone who will appreciate an occasionally tweed-wearing, often bread-baking, constantly book-talking guy is, well... I suppose it's a niche market! :-)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I expect I'd have tried the Internet if it had been up and running when I was on the market.

Was it running? I forget. Anyway, I wasn't hitched up to it- nohow.

I'm not saying I found Ailz first time of asking. First time of asking was a little more problematical. I paired off briefly with a girl who was in the throes of breaking with her husband and wasn't ready to settle down again- at least that's what she said- but maybe it was more a case of her not being ready to settle down with me.

A niche market? Sounds like a really attractive niche to me. Sooner or later you're going to find your heart of gold.