WASP-date?
Here's the text of an e-mail I just received:
Welcome to Waspdate! Waspdate is a new daily email newsletter that chronicles the drama, melodrama and tragicomedy of the dating scene among NYC’s young elite and their wannabes. Each installment will feature a story about life and love in Gotham submitted by you, our dear readers, and dissected, bisected and vivisected by our crack staff of love experts–hopeless romantics, spurned lovers, and meth-addled swingers. Dating in New York can be like a taxi ride in midtown at rush-hour–you try to get where you’re going by fits and starts, much of the time you’re stopped dead in the middle of traffic, and then you finally speed up only to swerve suddenly and kill a pedestrian. Waspdate is here to help you avoid oncoming traffic, teaching, or at least amusing, by example. In short, we're resurrecting Dear Abbey and slapping on a Barbour coat and a pair of Manolos. But, you say, "I’m not white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant." And, that’s OK. Your ancestors may not have been on the Mayflower, you may not have even one pair of whale pants to your name, you may not know a single Muffy or Biff, you might actually have to work to make money, and if we told you to meet at us at "the club", let's be honest, you probably wouldn't know where to go. But, it doesn't matter. These days, being a WASP is a state of mind. So, if you believe that your rightful place is on top, whether earned or inherited, that you will get there because you are who you are, and you're looking for that special someone, or—gasp—have found him or her, we want your stories. All names and otherwise telling information will be changed to protect the innocent, and guilty alike. Waspdate will leave the trash talk for the squash court, thank you very much. Forward this on to your friends, so they will pass it on to their friends. Send it to your boyfriend, so he’ll send it to his boyfriend. And, we can get this fete started. To submit stories, send an email to submissions@waspdate.com. To subscribe, send an email to waspdate@waspdate.com with JOIN in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send an email to waspdate@waspdate.com with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. LAUNCHES 12.12.06Two things.
One, whether or not it's true that "being a WASP is a state of mind," a real WASP would never publicly disclose details of a date.
And two, I can't imagine why anyone would send this to me.....
