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"Hi, this is Romi from Year of the Chick. Ryan asked me to fill in while he&amp;#39;s out terrorizing the girls of the Big Ten conference. Anyway, I want to let you in on a recent booze-fueled conversation I was part of:\nGirl #1: &amp;quot;I can&amp;#39;t stand that eHarmony commercial.&amp;quot;\nGirl #2:\u00A0 &amp;quot;I know, they find one hot-looking couple and suddenly I&amp;#39;m supposed to join?\u00A0 Pay no attention to every other freak that passed their screening.&amp;quot;\nGirl #3 was me, sitting in the corner with a drool-covered chin (side-effect of leering at a man with nicely-textured hair and sculpted forearms). Though I didn&amp;#39;t weigh in on the eHarmony bashing, I started to ponder...\n\nMy over-arching thought: I like that commercial. It&amp;#39;s not just the pseudo-realism that gets to me, it&amp;#39;s the big idea it represents: there ARE normal people in online-dating! This is a breakthrough, and even if the eHarmony screening can&amp;#39;t effectively cock-block all the socially challenged, criminally minded, &amp;quot;nice-face/scary-body&amp;quot; singles of the world, there are at least TWO normal (and cool-looking) people on the site!\nOr maybe this commercial is just a lie dreamed up by beady-eyed marketers. But lies aren&amp;#39;t always a bad thing. Take men&amp;#39;s underwear packages for example.\u00A0 Whether you&amp;#39;re buying a size &amp;quot;hottie&amp;quot; or a size &amp;quot;holy crap it took a lot of elastic to make your underwear&amp;quot;, the fella on the package will always look like this:\nPinterestFacebookThis is an Advertising LIE, but it&amp;#39;s perfectly acceptable to customers. Why is that? Well I&amp;#39;m not a dude, but maybe it&amp;#39;s comforting to have a chiseled fella as the Underwear Mascot...maybe one day you can look like that, too. As for me, maybe one day I&amp;#39;ll find a normal (and acceptable-looking) man in cyberspace.\u00A0 Or maybe not; maybe all that&amp;#39;s left are men with greasy comb-overs and murderous pasts.\u00A0 True as that may be, I need my lie. So thanks, eHarmony; I will continue on with my wedding plans, and you&amp;#39;ll take care of the rest (...right?). What&amp;#39;s your favorite media lie?\nPhoto: \u00A9RD/Dziekan/Retna"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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