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|title=They Call Me Naughty Lola
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|pages=192
|publisher=Profile Books Ltd
|date=November 2006
|isbn=1861978294
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I wasn't certain that a book of personal ads from people wanting to find the love of their lives - or the next few months - was going to be amusing reading. Lonely Hearts columns have always smacked of sadness and desperation to me, so I was rather surprised to hear my husband howling with laughter. I'd left ''They Call Me Naughty Lola'' on the coffee table and he'd picked it up, and started flicking through it. "Just listen to this," he said:
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|comment= This sounds quite, quite brilliant, and reminds me of a Pyschology investigation one of my friends once did about the different ways men and women describe themselves in personal ads. I think someone should do something similar on internet dating tag lines ("willing to lie about how me met", that kind of thing).
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