Sketchiest CL ad ever?

[moominmolly]

I'm willing to be dissuaded, with evidence, but I think that this is a pretty good candidate.


servalence photographer needed
servalence photographer needed
Reply to: gigs-473604350@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-11-09, 1:37PM EST


Short term servalence needed for photograps. call for details. 919-559-5750




* Location: jamaica plain
* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
* Compensation: no pay


PostingID: 473604350

Comments

[bluepapercup]

Y'know, I'm not even sure WHAT they want! Do they need you to come and take photographs of someone? (creepy) Do they need to come and surviell [not a word!] you so they can take pictures of you? (even more creepy!)

Highly sketchy, I agree.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I think the thing that makes it sketchy is that it's so FLEXIBLY sketchy. And for no pay!

[bluepapercup]

Yeahhh...some things in life are cheapened by the involvement of money...this is not one of them.

[vespid-interest.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, "surveil" is a real word for "keeping someone under surveillance.

[artricia.livejournal.com]

Hmm. . . it's not just "survey?"

I knew what servalence once sheerly from grading so much college writing. I once came across the word "ritious" in an essay exam. Five minutes later, I realized, "Oh, that's the same as righteous."

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

And here I would have assumed "riotous". Huh.

Grading a stack of college Roman history exams with the other TAs and a lot of pizza...good times, good times. Did you know the First Triumvirate was Caesar, Cato, and Catiline? Trust me if you don't know any Roman history -- this is hilarious. (And alliteratively delicious!)

[artricia.livejournal.com]

the First Triumvirate was Caesar, Cato, and Catiline?

Yes, and in eighteenth century plays, sometimes the characters lied about their genitals!