ridiculous criteria that you've actually considered, when judging someone's potential to be your life partner:

board game compatibility.

also, just comfort level with pooping in general (which i wouldn't have considered, until one of my friends recently described being in a relationship where the dude had no comfort level with pooping, so that she had to leave his place any time either one of them had to poop).

oooo, the redheaded baby thing *is* important... I think I have some redheaded genes somewhere... can I get you preggers to find out? :P

@ajt: any of your grandparents/parents/aunts/uncles/cousins/brothers/sisters have red hair?

The ability to pull off wearing a scarf

@erinz: hmmm....much as i love scarfs, i have the feeling that i am not into boys who can pull off wearing a scarf, now that i think about it. i just admire them from afar.

but it's good, 'cause boys in scarves need loving that i can't provide.

@dld: must they know how to tie different kinds of knots? or are you very particular about the type of knot?

ability to use both legs, so as to be better able to travel.

oo, that makes me think of one too...

@rink: given a cross-section of the women I've run into these past few years? Using that criteria would leave me mostly a wallflower.

see's the purpose having a well stocked collection of books (not just a shelf) for an evening in of reading. must have the ability to comprehended and discuss novels.

@h55: yikes! i feel bad for you, man.

@carlton: yeah...that's true... although it seems ridiculous to me to decide that i couldn't be with someone simply because i like to read all the stuff in museums (so that i can easily spend around three times as long as most people in every museum-type place that i visit), while they prefer to go at a faster pace. which is really what i was thinking about.

employment as an investment banker.

ps pls note i am about to leave for dinner with an investment banker (a guy i went to high school with...thank you, facebook!), and i know he thinks it's a date but...it's not! because of my so-called ridiculous criteria.

@dld: oh jesus, if i dated someone who took longer than i do to get ready, then we'd NEVER leave the house!

@carlton: not ALL bankers/lawyers are bad....

@dance: whew. now I just have to figure out how to tie a bowtie.

Attached vs. free dangling earlobes.

Must not consider excercise or doing outside activities to be optional.

@DLL: I am dead serious. I cannot suffer attached lobes I am afraid :(

wait i have red hair, have been watching the olympics, and like board games and dont really mind talkin about poop.

hi there

@lamebrainz: so which is the dealbreaker? attached or dangly?

LAMEBRAINS... HAHAHA I love it. Personally, I cannot deal with attached. I need danlgers, like mine. Attached ones remind me of Sister Mary Edwards

She was an evil NUN! AHHHHHHHHH!

Sleep patterns, as in, does not sleep for 12 hours and then refuse to get up

Last year a guy made me a mix CD with Carly Simon on it. I knew things were doomed. I'm notoriously critical abut people's music taste.

How the hell am I supposed to connect with a guy who owns a carly simon CD?

@rink - see one of mine is must be LESS hairy than me.

or at least have a shorter beard.

i just have a molester mustache.

@purl: i own a carly simon cd...

@rink - hrm.... that might get all velcro-y with my beard... this might not work out after all.....

@rink - NOOOOOOOOOOOO. i just bought taboo, wanna play?

@rink - come on down, ill pour the wine. drunk boardgames are better than sober boardgames.

i only ask because i'm not used to being geographically "above" anyone on this website.

Must be someone my father won't like right off the bat.

@mooniker: but might like later on? or are you just really anti-your dad?

Oh, he would just frown upon the prospect, but get used to it eventually, I'm sure.

Oh, and I like this red-headed recessive gene prereq, too. If I could find someone with the redhead recessive but who doesn't look AT ALL red-headed, like me, then we could sell lottery tickets for our procreation. And if we ever scored a redhead, we'd have to explain to everyone that, no, we didn't adopt.

@rink - i'd love the south if it wasnt so damned hot.

@rink - HA. that first review is hysterical.

I hope the Wang tasted good.

@iceowl: hmmm...do they have to like lots of kinds of sushi?

i really like sushi, but only a few select kinds, as i'm not really into anything too fishy.