Back before Craigslist killed the dead-tree personals, we had almost the same thing appear in the Boston Phoenix--same maybe-fake fetish, same basic "you bring x, I bring y" phrasing, ended in "no weirdos."
"No weirdos" is a very, very old personal-ads joke. Berke Breathed did it in Bloom County in the early 80s. And I don't think he was anywhere near first.
Yeah, Opus working the Personals desk and the woman is all "seeking midget Eskimo, must like naked skydiving, no weirdos." But the ad I'm talking about was the same bird-feeding fetish, phrased the same way, except it didn't specify pelicans and herring.
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