…charismatic, good looking, single, straight male lawyer.
No, it’s not for myself, silly, it’s for CLEO magazine’s 2009 50 most eligible bachelors edition. Apparently they can’t find one in Australia. Or so says Roll On Friday, exhibiting an e-mail from the editor of CLEO as evidence.
I must say I’ve never really seen the appeal of that kind of thing at all. No wonder I don’t read women’s magazines. I did once send a calendar of bare-chested AFL stars to a very proper English friend, but I added speech bubbles with bizarre quotations, the source of which she had to guess. I understand she hung it behind her door at college; she was too embarrassed to display it openly, but too polite to discard it. I am a naughty tease.
My favourite quote was, “Everything is atoms and the void” (emanating from a particularly gormless looking fellow). Much less fun in these days of Google, though…
Update:
Sounds like one of the shortlisted “bachelor boys” is single for a reason. One of the female judges of the competition alleges the shortlisted nominee assaulted her in a nightclub. Ugh. Sounds like one of those unpleasant fellows who thinks he is God’s gift to women and that accordingly, any woman must want his attention.
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“Everything is atoms and the void”
From Lucretius “De Rerum Natura”, first book I think, and only a few pages before intimating Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. He was an Epicurean, but Epikouros fragments are hard to find, and Lucretius’ work is the most complete statement.
Besides, Latin is easier to read than Greek!
Did someone finally close down “The Bachelors Club”? Once temped as a legal secretary and remember a couple of particularly annoying young barristers were in there being hooray henries. Or perhaps Cleo is just being more demanding and expecting their candidates to really be single rather than just unmarried. Had a colleague in publishing who got into a Hottest Single Men in Britain list even though he’d been in a stable relationship with the same girl for several years.
You should see men’s magazines if you think women’s magazines are bad. The types of articles they run in women’s magazines are diverse and not the slightest bit stereotyped in comparison.
Bravo, Dave! Here ’tis.
My searches for the text alerted me to the interesting fact that Karl Marx’s doctoral dissertation was on the difference between the Democritean and Epicurean philosophy of nature. Somehow that is not what I would have imagined.
Democritus fascinates me – I wish he could have known he was right about atoms…
DEM, I think there was a furore a few years ago when one of the “bachelors” turned out to be in a long term relationship. I think they genuinely want “single”, which makes it harder.
Conrad, my husband picked up a car magazine the other day in the doctor’s surgery for lack of anything else – it was beyond parody. Neither of us had ever looked at such a magazine before. Semi-naked women sprawled over cars, and the articles were written in the blokiest manner possible.
While going to work on train the other day, I thought the guy sitting across from me was reading pr0n – turned out to a men’s magazine (Zoo I think).
In the olden days it would have been p*rn – hell, half the music videos on TV would have been p*rn. Perhaps that’s why the p*rn market needs a bail out – what was once a rare commodity is everywhere.
LE@4 said “Democritus facinates me”
But Epikouros had more to say about ethics. And you would have loved the way he admitted women into his “inner circle” (which many contemporaries considered scandalous).
LE also said “Bravo!”
It was a no-brainer. It’s one of my fave books as listed in facebook, and I unofficially tutored 3rd yr hons philosophy students for their “Classical” unit – usually pulling out originals to point out defects in translations.
Ah, it seems I have to look into Epikouros in more depth now. This is what I love about blogging – I learn all kinds of interesting stuff.
I’ve a few who would be perfect choices, IF they have remained straight!
ha ha ha! The first lawyer who came to my mind is a gorgeous guy…AFAIK he’s single at the moment, but doh! he doesn’t fulfill the straight requirement.