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Best Worst Email Response to Craigslist Apartment-Share Ad

062309oddcouple.jpg A friend of Village Voice staffer Emily Brady recently posted a Craigslist ad looking for a roommate, and got something much better instead: An epically incoherent response from a candidate who starts off citing her "mature sophisticated tastes" in movies, beginning with Superman and ending with Gone With the Wind. The 1,500-plus word tome-deaf message further elaborates on her hypo-allergenic cleaning needs, her flexibility "w/ bathroom time in the mornings so,. U can have it first if U need it, except if I need it in emergency... {esp. PMS intervals..} hahaha!!!" and her cryptic "P/T sense of humor ?? :)" Excerpting anything from this maladroit masterpiece is like reducing Joyce to CliffsNotes, so do enjoy it in its full glory. But here's our favorite bit: The candidate's exhaustive inventory of music preferences, which ranges from Arnie [sic] Guthrie to the Phantom of the Opera to "lots of new songs from the WPIX channel for the shows of Gossip Girl & One Tree Hill, & Smallville (Superman series on thurs nite.8pm), etc....& Supernatural.. They DO a great job at bringing in new music through these very 'happening' shows..." So when can Grandma move in?

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  • Matt Joyce

    This is what happens when the reality tv generation buys computers and hops on the internets.

  • jaycjay

    Can't say I took the time every word... but it's funny. Thanks for posting this, John.

  • jaycjay

    Er -- where did those words go? "the time TO READ every word..."

  • just saying

    She's back!! I think the potential roommate is that hipster grifter who was in the news a while back.



    Now what was her name?

  • Burg

    Seriously John. Stupid article and you are not cooler than the person who wrote that response.



    Douchebag.



    Write some real news please.

  • Gothampc

    I think there is something ethically wrong with someone who disseminates a response to a classified that really should be considered private.

  • dr zippy

    The Voice kept the ad response anonymous. I'd venture the response was troll bait.

  • drewo

    Agreed.

    Cheap laughs at some poor person's expense.

  • just saying

    Yeah, like it never happens on Gothamist.

  • americaonline

    http://www.dontevenreply.com/



    How is that news anyway?

  • Guest

    Slow news day?

  • pigeon

    She still sounds better than the roommate I had who shit on the floor and didn't clean it up.

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