So I get this mail from friend in the USA, who for some reason reads British newspapers, can’t think why, and having exchanged e-mail on the dearth of good, single men in the DC Metro area in a previous e-mail, she sends me a Grauniad URL with the note
Apparently there’s a problem all over. J
No 2,451
Men
Wednesday April 7, 2004
The Guardian
Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Well might you ask, Bonnie. We at the Office of National Statistics share your concern.
Where’s the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds? Isn’t there a white knight upon a fiery steed? There may be, Bonnie, but if there is, he ain’t on the 2001 census.
What? You may recall that when the results of the 2001 census were published, it appeared we had somehow misplaced about a million people, mostly young men.
And have you now found them? Down the back of the sofa? Lurking in the pocket of your spare coat? No, no, they’re still out there. Somewhere.
…read more at [www.guardian.co.uk]
I contest this, as I suspect I should contest her other letter; being by the laws of humour permitted to make wild generalisations, I submit that there are few if any single women over the age of 30 in the UK.
I invite readers to comment with hypotheses as to why this might be so.
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