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Title: Some of the long time posters take a look.... Post by: Philb on June 09, 2003, 04:00:00 AM http://romancero.net/cgi-bin/profile.pl?cmd=show&lang=EN&text_lang=&mem_id=&id=3839
I wonder if his prenup held up Title: a little research Post by: vagn on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003
[This message has been edited by vagn] 1. Mark Dante was the name of a character in the daytime soap opera General Hospital. http://www.geocities.com/akgrgators/EarlyYears3.html 2. Checking the archives I find a reference to the travel agency. http://www.planet-love.com/wwwboard/search/searchdisplay.php?page=russian&archive=000135&id=58936&bold[]=mdante99 3. Checking the whois database for travelandtrips.com we find: 4. A google search for the phone number comes up with another looking at the "about us" page we get a middle initial. "MARK S. ZAKI is an experienced photographer who has studied So how come his portrait stinks? 5. Google again for Zaki: we get a nice list of names
And following the thread, we find "She was a lawyer in her country" 7. In a later post we have 8. But wait! There's more! The same jennifer is not just ----------- A maze of twisty little passages. Title: Shorter link Post by: T P Cornholio on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003
FYI -- http://romancero.net/cgi-bin/profile.pl?id=3839&cmd=show&lang=EN Title: Portions in URL being replaced with paranthetical Post by: T P Cornholio on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Shorter link, posted by T P Cornholio on Jun 10, 2003
FYI- http://romancero.net/cgi-bin/profile.pl?id=3839&cmd=show&lang=EN cmd=show&lang=EN Title: It's Very Strange How That URL Translates . . . Post by: Dan on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Portions in URL being replaced with para..., posted by T P Cornholio on Jun 10, 2003
Differently on Opera than it does in IE. As translated in Opera (my prefered web browser), it is unworkable. As translated in IE (which I resort to ONLY because many web pages are optimized for IE), it works just fine. This is just part of the MS plan to dominate the world (well, at least, the browser --smile--). - Dan Title: Re: Some of the long time posters take a look.... Post by: Robert D on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003
I am trying to recall the guy. Is this the one with the very pretty Russian wife who was a travel agent? If so, she seemed rather nice, so I do wonder what happened. Robert D. Title: Yeah, that guy Post by: BubbaGump on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Re: Some of the long time posters take a..., posted by Robert D on Jun 10, 2003
He had the nice looking Latvian girl that had an internet travel agency and they tried to arrange travel for guys hunting for brides to the Baltic region. He annoyed people because he made a lot of posts that were misleading like: "You can get a wife for a little as $2500." He made his wife pay her own way over and the whole marriage sounded more like a business deal rather than a marriage where any love was involved. Title: Re: Yeah, that guy Post by: Alfred on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Yeah, that guy, posted by BubbaGump on Jun 10, 2003
Actually, she was Lithuanian, not Latvian. Same difference, unless you're married to her! Title: Re: Yeah, that guy Post by: Robert D on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Yeah, that guy, posted by BubbaGump on Jun 10, 2003
well not to cast him in a bad light, his pic looks like a person of strange convictions, or more like a person who might not be able to be trusted. Robert D. Title: Link Doesn't Work (for me, anyway) n/t Post by: Dan on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM Title: Nevermind (Browser Issue) n/t Post by: Dan on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM Title: I remember....He made his girl pay her own way here. Plus Post by: JR on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003
she started working within a week at his travel agency. The cheap F*** wouldn't buy her a car either, she had to use city transportation. Had the most ASS-O-9 pre nup too. She was going to have to pay him in a divorce settlement. She must of been pretty desperate. Title: Re: I remember....He made his girl pay her own way here. Plus Post by: Alfred on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to I remember....He made his girl pay her o..., posted by JR on Jun 10, 2003
Unfortunately, we have no information on how things turned out between them. It would be interesting to know what happened and what their intentions were. Perhaps is was never intended as a long term relationship... Title: Or perhaps... Post by: Patrick on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Re: I remember....He made his girl pay h..., posted by Alfred on Jun 10, 2003
The personal ad could be very old and either MDante never bothered to have it removed, or they never followed through with removing it. There's lots of very old out of date personal ads on many of these intro sites. I don't neccessarily think this means his marriage failed. However, I do think his claims of having a legitimate pre-nup that required his ex to pay him if she does not return to her native country after divorce were pretty outrageous and unbelievable. Title: You're right of course.... Post by: Philb on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Or perhaps..., posted by Patrick on Jun 10, 2003
The ad appears to be about 2 years old. His age is listed as 45 in the left hand column (this probably updates automatically) while in his discription his age is listed as 43. I had an ad on this site about 2 1/2 years ago. I sent an email to have it removed quite some time ago, but I had never gone back and checked. Anyway, while checking I came across his ad and thought it might liven things up a bit. Title: What? Post by: John K on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Or perhaps..., posted by Patrick on Jun 10, 2003
[This message has been edited by John K] Wow, now *that's* a discussion I missed! Geez, take a few months off from PL and I miss some serious dirt! Oh well, I had other things keeping me busy. :-) As far as ads go, don't be surprised to see your wife's ad periodically reappear on the web too. I found my wife's original ad reappear on the web a few months ago, along with several others that were on her original site at that time. Apparently, somebody lifted the old nonexistent website from somewhere out of time and started putting ads back out on the web. I thought it was funny, but my wife was less than amused. Getting her ad off was an ordeal too. They wanted a marriage photo of the two of us. Marina and I refused, as we didn't want to be a "success story" for some web site we never heard of. I ended up scanning our wedding certificate and sending that. They pulled her ad a few days later. The site that did this was called 1ForLove Introduction Services (http://www.1forlove.com/). There are a lot of ads on there that are at least 3 or 4 years old. I think that's one you might want to avoid... Title: Good poster...... Post by: Cold Warrior on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003
As i remember mdante was a good poster. I wish him luck in his marriage. Title: Re: Good poster...... Post by: Alfred on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Good poster......, posted by Cold Warrior on Jun 10, 2003
didn't mr. dante get a little combative in the end and get banned? Title: "a little combative" is a Gross Understatement . . . Post by: Dan on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Re: Good poster......, posted by Alfred on Jun 10, 2003
Mark was a looney-tune from the outset that just grew weirder as time went on. At the end, he was actively touting his wife's travel business and aggressively combative with anyone that suggested any disagreement to his ignorant perspectives. Now that I think about it - sounds a lot like another Mark on the board (who is not yet banned). - Dan Title: glad... Post by: LP on June 11, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to "a little combative" is a Gros..., posted by Dan on Jun 10, 2003
...someone remebers this whacko besides me, if his marriage blew up I'm not surprised. Hey Danny, I'm in-country doing the piece right now. Off to Kherson soon for the kill. So much more to the place than chix, these guys oughta open their eyes. Just spent a week inside the zone, a fascinating experience. (Only about 2 rem so far) Standby, details to follow. Title: coming to think of it....... Post by: Cold Warrior on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to "a little combative" is a Gros..., posted by Dan on Jun 10, 2003
I think I confused Mdante with MDM. Title: I'm going to have to go back to the archives myself... Post by: Griffin redux on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to coming to think of it......., posted by Cold Warrior on Jun 10, 2003
Like they say, the second thing we lose is memory. :-) Title: Re: "a little combative" is a Gross Understatement . . . Post by: Alfred on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to "a little combative" is a Gros..., posted by Dan on Jun 10, 2003
I was trying to be kind: I wanted to bring out the point that he was banned without making strong statements about someone who can not defend himself. This board is a much nicer place now that our combative posters have been banned, moved on to greener pastures (ie other boards) or their combative ways behind. My original post was not intended to start a discussion of our formerly combative / competitive posting wars, but to remind the board of why a particular (former) poster is no longer with us. Let's keep it to that, please. Title: I recall the flame wars Post by: tim360z on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Re: "a little combative" is a ..., posted by Alfred on Jun 10, 2003
he became very combative with others and for reasons which made very little sense to me. The board is much better now without the bullsht. Title: Re: I recall the flame wars Post by: Alfred on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to I recall the flame wars, posted by tim360z on Jun 10, 2003
Yes, I remember the flame wars too. My post was intentionaly understated. Some of the people who have participated extensively in flame wars are still amongst us. I would prefer not to provoke another flame war. Title: Can't remember..... Post by: Cold Warrior on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Re: Good poster......, posted by Alfred on Jun 10, 2003
I'll have to check the archives. Title: Eeeeeak Post by: BubbaGump on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003
Didn't he have a pretty hot wife? I think he pushed his luck more than a little. I also think he wants a working wife to help support him. Wsbill and me are way better looking! Title: What ever happened to Mark? Post by: Griffin redux on June 10, 2003, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003
Your post implies divorce. I hope not. |