From: DAVID CHEIFETZ <davidcheifetz@rogers.com>
To: Ken Oliphant <ken.oliphant@oeaw.ac.at>
obligations@uwo.ca
Date: 02/11/2009 21:58:23 UTC
Subject: Re: outlandish torts
Coincidental proof on the speculation in Berkoff:  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/nerd-as-sexy-why-brainiacs-are-babe-magnets/article1344216/
 
"The world gasped last week as rotund, owl-browed author Salman Rushdie, 62, attended a writers gala – with 26-year-old Harvard grad and stunner Min Lieskovsky on his arm.
 
And later
 
"Photo after photo shows the author with his porcine arm around his latest, much-taller conquest."
 
Ah, well
 
David

From: Ken Oliphant <ken.oliphant@oeaw.ac.at>
To: Mamari Stephens <Mamari.Stephens@vuw.ac.nz>; "obligations@uwo.ca" <obligations@uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2009 4:38:21 PM
Subject: RE: outlandish torts

From: Mamari Stephens
"In fact, some of the best looking women have been known to marry and date absolutely ghoulish guys."

 

 Okay, I've got to get in with this before anyone else does...

 

As has been judicially observed (Berkoff v Burchill [1996] 4 All ER 1008, per Lord Millett):

 

"It is a common experience that ugly people have satisfactory social lives - Boris Karloff is not known to have been a recluse - and it is a popular belief for the truth of which I am unable to vouch that ugly men are particularly attractive to women. "

 
Best, Ken