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Hurrydate.com

I was just surfing the web and I found this one. And it offers a VALID and SELECTABLE option of

• "I am a: ( )man ( )woman"
• "I like to meet: ( )men ( )women"

I wonder why...

Interested? Heres a transcript from their site:

HurryDate speed dating parties let you meet people face-to-face to see if there is chemistry!

Each party is held at fun, cool bars and is organized so you'll meet oodles of people on a string of real live mini-dates. When you check-in, your HurryDate hosts will give you a SCOREcard and ID number that HurryDaters will use to identify you, and you'll take a seat at one of many tables-for-two.

When it's time to begin, you'll talk to the person across from you until your host blows the whistle to indicate your date is over (no matter how cute they are!) that's your signal that it's time to move on to the next HurryDater for another whirlwind conversation. And on it goes! Get the picture?

After each date, you'll ever-so-discreetly circle a "yes" or "no" next to each person's ID number on your SCOREcard to indicate if you want to be in touch. At the end of the night, you'll take your SCOREcard home to enter who you liked into our handy-dandy, super-secret online system. We'll then match you up with who is interested in you too! From there, it's up to you to get in touch through our secure email system to set up a real date!

Think you won't remember who was who after meeting all those people in one night? You thought right! Don't worry...everyone fills out a profile with a photo to help refresh your memory on those you matched with.

I don't know, it's kind of unfair considering the time constraints. You meet an unbelivably boring person and a mere twenty seconds is long enough (what if the host wants five minutes?) At least the thing you only get to remember their ID number.

You meet an interesting person and the host gives you five minutes... It usually takes uhhh five minutes to kick a conversation into high gear. Hope you remember more than their ID number.

And the concepts of scorecards... usually scorecards are reserved for pantywaisted pooldivers in Speedo. Though I wouldn't mind flashing a perfect ten to a supermodel. Hey, it could happen... you know, long days on the road with nobody to talk to but male models who talk about their Adonisian abs and hairless backs.

All in all, it feels like American Idol, without the Schizophrenic wannabe jumpstarts singing awful renditions of Barry Manilow... at least I think it is...

I think it's time we Filipinos steal... I mean adopt a new facet of Americana and develop our own Hurrydate. The concept is nice enough. Lets say we celebrate it on... St Methodius the First day?