Lonely Welsh farmers put personal ads on milk cartons

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:52 am

From the Washington Post:

"The mud. The long, wet, dark winter days and those cows, cows, cows demanding attention every morning and night. How's a lonely Welsh dairy farmer to find love?

Five single farmers -- three men and two women -- have become an overnight sensation in Wales by putting their photos on thousands of plastic milk containers on grocery shelves. Their "Fancy a Farmer?" stickers also list a Web site ( http://www.pishynwales.com/) where potential suitors can get in touch with them."

Entire article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01855.html

Hmmm...wonder if I’d get any responses if I stuck a personal ad on all bottles of allergy extract that we send out of our clinic...

Susan

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:47 pm

Give it a go, Susan... you might get a reaction!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:52 pm

Allergy extract....reaction....har.

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:56 pm

"Honey, I've got an itch I need to scratch . . . "

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:56 pm

Alan wrote:Give it a go, Susan... you might get a reaction!

Now you can see what we have to put up with in the chat room--he does this all the time! World's best/worst (and fastest) punster. (Although ideally you would have said, "Give it a shot...)

Susan

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:40 pm

They ran a piece about this on NPR about an hour ago, including an interview with one of the women (who sounded quite pleasant, if any guys out there are looking...)

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:47 pm

Got Milk!

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:37 pm

No time to post! Gotta check that website! I just adore farmers!

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:57 pm

susnfx wrote:
Alan wrote:Give it a go, Susan... you might get a reaction!
Now you can see what we have to put up with in the chat room--he does this all the time! World's best/worst (and fastest) punster. (Although ideally you would have said, "Give it a shot...)

Susan

Quite right, Susan!

I was rash...

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:25 pm

**ignores Alan**

Actually I dated a dairy farmer for a short time some years ago. Very handsome and a hard worker, but he had the roughest hands I've ever held! I'd better go to that website and clue those farmers in that they need some serious hand cream.

Susan

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:37 pm

We get the idea. No need to milk it.

djm

Tril Bluejacket · Post by **Tril Bluejacket** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:13 pm

Dairy farmers in the know use Bag Balm to soften rough hands. So do I. Works great.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:10 pm

Yeah, that bag balm does a pretty good job, but I always like rough hands, sign of a hard workin' man....

DCrom wrote:"Honey, I've got an itch I need to scratch . . . "

Sounds like the beginning of a good blues tune. ...

Honey I've got an itch I need to scratch, (guitar riff here)
And it ain't 'cause I've been throu' th' poison ivy patch...

Go for it!

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:55 pm

A local chain of warehouse grocery stores had pictures of a young Lindsey Anne, the daughter of the chain’s owner, on all the milk cartons as their in-house brand. At a family dinner with one of the milk cartons on the table, my sister gave a smirk and said something to the effect of after all this time, I don’t think they’re ever going to find her.