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Bachelor's Friends Use Billboard To Find Him Dates

Well, you know what it is like to be single in Church after 30. This guy isn't worried at all about being single but his friends are, so they decided to make a billboard to find him dates! What do you think? Do the friends went a bit too far?

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- Friends say Lance Archibald is a tall, handsome former college basketball player and graduate of Harvard business school.

He's also still single at 31, and so they're hoping to speed things up with a billboard and Web site.

"I'm Lance, Let's go out!" reads the billboard on an interstate near Lindon, about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.

"It kind of came out of discussions we had, that Lance is such a good guy but not married," said Morgan Lynch, CEO of LogoWorks, where Archibald is the director of marketing. "Someone threw out the idea of getting a billboard."

So why the concern over Archibald's marital status? As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose members typically marry in their early 20s, the 31-year-Archibald is approaching the male-equivalent of an "old maid."...

https://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/25/bachelor..d.ap/index.html

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This is a great idea (and is also a movie by Mary-Kate and Ashley, called "Billboard Dad"), especially for a guy with "credentials." Sometimes, it takes friends to help push a friend out of their comfort zone. He sounds like he's a bit too comfortable

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Have any of you kept up with this one. Last time I checked in, he had been on good morning america, and had received over 1500 applicants from woman that were ready to go on a date with him. How about that?

Larry

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Well, good for him! I hope he's worth it, and that he doesn't let it all go to his head. Perhaps he'll actually find a suitable lady... Apparently he's got plenty to choose from.