Thanks for asking, geneusutwerk. In Canada there is a "national" newspaper called The Globe and Mail. It assumed a fairly educated readership and became the go-to place for university professors to look for partners after it became no longer acceptable to date students, grad students, lab assistants, research assistants, and so on. I met a math professor who liked me a lot. I met a toxicologist (no kidding) who I liked a lot, and various polymathic men. I even posted an ad at one point that included the line "Looking for someone who has read a book" and "Looking for a man with a REALLY BIG vocabulary." The newspaper would include a mailbox # in the ad and then forward the letters that came in -- for only a month. I clipped the ad described in my blog and started to answer it, but put it aside as my step-father was dying and I was focussing on family. The night he died, I pulled out the ad again. My family had really come together for my mother and step-father. The experience was profound and I decided that I wanted to have a family myself (after being separated from a previous partner/baby daddy for about four years (four great years, mind you). I answered the ad, about 20 years ago, April 26, 1993. You can actually see us at the bottom of this blog.