12/30/2008 UPDATE: It looks like this dating site is pretty much a scam being run by someone with a history of scams. It makes for a fun post, but our original take was right – don’t register there.

Via Moldy Chum, we learned of the existence of CupidFish — an online singles site for those looking for a fishing-or-hunting savvy mate.

Sure, it’s a ripoff of the Underground’s own Catch.com concept site (which would be making millions now if only my readers had come up with some venture capital funding), but if it’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that the Underground’s always a couple decades years months ahead of the rest of the world.

It’s the burden of a wise man in a world of knaves. Or proof that satire simply can’t outstrip real life.

Still,don’t get too excited or fire up that credit card yet; Cupidfish.com is running a stream of photos across its home page, and it clearly wants you to think those hot women in bikinis are participants on the site.

Turns out at least some of them aren’t. We recognize a couple of the photos from our own “Bikini Wars: The Final Solution” post, and if the site’s mis-representing the willingness of their members to fish topless, then what else isn’t quite square?

UPDATE 12/17/2008: It’s starting to look like this site is a scam, at least if several emails are to be belived. My advice? Stay the hell away.


Same woman on Cupidfish header and the Internet. What else isn’t real?

And frankly, aren’t we looking at a tidal wave of poorly groomed, unwashed men versus a tiny ripple of women?

The Underground’s unsolicited online dating advice? Save your money. You’d meet more, better-qualified woman at Fly Girls – a Casting for Recovery fundraiser this Sunday in Red Bluff.

Once again, the Underground provides an invaluable consumer service to its readers, and we ask so little in return. Maybe a comment here and there. A few complimentary words among your friends. And the always-accepted white envelope stuffed with small, unmarked bills a nice little check.

See you anywhere but the dating sites, Tom Chandler.

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