Friends Mount Billboard for Mormon Bachelor

[Champ]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The friends and co-workers of Lance Archibald say it's time for him to get hitched. To help the process along, they've mounted a billboard campaign and created a Web site where interested women can log in and apply to be selected for a date. The billboard is located on Interstate 15 near Lindon, about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.

"I'm Lance, Lets go out!" the billboard reads.

The Web site gives biographical information, a photo gallery and testimonials of Archibald's date-worthiness from those well-meaning friends and co-workers.

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 a status as the male-equivalent of an 'Old Maid.'

"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."

The sign went up a week ago. Archibald first saw while riding shotgun with a co-worker on a lunch-run plan to cruise him past his Mount Rushmore-sized mug.

"His eyes got bigger, and he leaned forward and said, 'What in the world?' " co-worker Noelle Bates said. "I think he was shocked that we actually pulled it off."

Friends say Archibald is marriage material: He's tall, handsome, has a degree from Brigham Young University - where he played on the school's basketball team - and the Harvard business school. He's also a returned missionary for the Mormon church.
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[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. What if, unbeknownst to his friends, he was, um... you know...

Seriously though, this doesn't surprise me. I had a class in school that was about 10 percent Mormon. There was SERIOUS peer pressure among those men who were not married to get married during that time.

Something like this would not have surprised me.

[MissB]

2. Um....

That was the first thing that crossed my mind as well. :rofl:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Sadly enough, they'd prolly still desparately want him to marry.

[MissB]

3. See his website at

datelance.com

[tjdee]

5. The site also hawks their company too, LOL!!

Most of the people there are people he works with at LogoWorks--and they have a blurb where you don't have to date Lance, but work with him by clicking on a link that takes you to the company. And of course, the company designed the website.

:rofl:

Um, I don't think he's that handsome--but I'm sure he's someone's hottie.

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[tjdee]

9. "Friends say Archibald is marriage material: He's tall, handsome..."

His friends brought it up, I'm just saying I personally don't find him to be handsome.

[Champ]

12. Banned

4th one I've seen in the last 2 days.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Wow. That was, like, the quickest flameout ever. I thought the

comment was stupid but I didn't see incontrovertible evidence of troll-ism there, though my spidey-sense was tingling.

[Champ]

13. The quickest flameout was yesturday

Someone under the username hsubwegroeg - 2 posts.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. Must've known they were going down fast, didn't even bother to choose a

non-random username lol.

[Champ]

18. It's not that random

Read it backwards

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. heh, wow I guess they really got their message across. In our face!

[tjdee]

14. Yeah...

I thought the comment was kind of brief and.... freeperly phrased. But I didn't want to assume the wrong thing.

It was QUICK!

[Champ]

15. LOL love that phrase

"freeperly phrased"

Gonna have to use that one sometime

[RetroLounge]

21. "freeperly phrased"

:rofl:

RL

[gmoney]

8. Typo! What Lances "Friends" Say

Not only are they missing the apostrophe (Lance's) but putting quotes around "Friends" sure makes it sound like "so-called friends" -- they do it a couple places on the site.

Oh, shit. They say he's a "really nice guy" -- the poor guy is doomed, doomed as doomed can be! (Just ask anyone on DU.)

[tjdee]

10. I tried not to notice that, LOL.

I am very much a harpie about apostrophes. But the quotes....oy.

[LisaL]

7. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

[Deja Q]

17. Couldn't they just mount the bachelor instead?

:rofl: :spank:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

20. Oh NO YOU DIDN'T!

:spank: