Monday, July 07, 2008

Trying to circumvent subscription

Trying to circumvent the subscription fees of dating sites is something that has a certain appeal to it, at least for me.

Google is our friend, but I think that even a mention of google is probably edited out.

I for instance, put quotation marks around a part of my profile, which, if googled (in quatations), will hit my blog.

My line is "I love God, Life and Calvin and Hobbes" - In quotations. The only thing in my entire profile that is in quotations.

If we spread the word silently, we might manage something.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Kestell, is your grandfather Harry Laurie, son of Joan Henderson Laurie of Scotland? I am a US relative trying to track down my cousins overseas.

Unknown said...

My grandfather's full names were Henri de Guise Laurie.

His father was Dirk Pieter Laurie and i don't know his mother's name...

He was definitely a descendent from scotland, but not first generation. We (the afrikaans speaking Lauries) came to south africa roughly six generations ago ~1850. The Laurie was a sailor en route to New Zealand (I think, might have been Aus), and they stopped in Cape Town for repairs of the ship. During this time (6-10 months) he met and married our ancestral matriarch. She had her first child on the ship towards New Zealand. She had several other children while living in New Zealand, but he died a couple of years later, so she returned to South Africa.

Die-lauries.blogspot.com has a photo of his tombstone.

In short... we may be related in a tangential way, but probably not.