# I propose a new axiom... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-propose-a-new-axiom/367845 "2006-08-08T12:14:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-propose-a-new-axiom/367845/1 "2006-08-08T12:14:11Z")
…called the **Joe Francis Principle**. To wit: If you physically assault a reporter, unprovoked, while he or she is writing a profile on you, you will then, quite fairly, end up looking like a complete shithead. [Cite.](http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-gonewild32aug06,0,2664370.story?coll=la-home-headlines) ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-propose-a-new-axiom/367845/2 "2006-08-08T12:31:44Z")
And he seemed like such a class act! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-propose-a-new-axiom/367845/3 "2006-08-08T15:00:45Z")
I see nothing to debate. Off to **IMHO**. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-propose-a-new-axiom/367845/4 "2006-08-08T15:13:33Z")
Then again, she didn’t know about the qwerty keyboard! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-propose-a-new-axiom/367845/5 "2006-08-08T15:42:01Z")
> [@](#): > > And Francis is getting a bit old for spring break. He says he’s tiring of the eternal vacation. “It’s really the worst thing, in my mind,” he says, comparing it to a trade show or a convention. “It’s fun for everybody else but me. I just get hounded by kids. It was more fun not being famous on spring break.” Aww, poow baby. Being a disgusting sleazebag is no fun anymore? Tough shit for him. ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_McCello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Alistair\_McCello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alistair_McCello)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-propose-a-new-axiom/367845/6 "2006-08-08T16:56:40Z")
> [@](#): > > And Francis is getting a bit old for spring break. He says he’s tiring of the eternal vacation. “It’s really the worst thing, in my mind,” he says, comparing it to a trade show or a convention. “It’s fun for everybody else but me. I just get hounded by kids. It was more fun not being famous on spring break.” Did anyone else think of [Slurms MacKenzie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurms_MacKenzie) here? “He’s obligated by contract to party all day, every day.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-propose-a-new-axiom/367845/7 "2006-08-09T17:47:53Z")
[QUOTE=Alistair McCello] Did anyone else think of [Slurms MacKenzie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurms_MacKenzie) here? “He’s obligated by contract to party all day, every day.” [/QUOTE] Or perhaps a young Hugh Hefner. Although I don’t think Hef says “Whimmy wham-wham whozzle” (that I know of). ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-propose-a-new-axiom/367845/8 "2006-08-09T18:41:10Z")
I think Francis feels trapped and frustrated in a lifestyle that no longer appeals to him, but feels obliged to live out because of the huge amount of money involved. You see this with a lot of businessmen…they can’t ask themselves honestly: how much is enough? They think walking away from a cash cow is for fools, and in a business sense, it is…but in a personal sense, it can be confining. Yes, I realize Francis does himself and his reputation no favors in this interview (as well as others), and I realize he’s about the least sympathetic person in the public eye. Still, he exhibits the same cynicism found in other adult industries: he makes a huge pile of dough on an industry that is regularly derided by a disdainful overclass, but hey…_somebody’s buying it_. Everybody’s against it, and yet it still sells… :rolleyes: And Jesus…a journalist not knowing about the qwerty keyboard? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-propose-a-new-axiom/367845/9 "2006-08-09T19:21:00Z")
[QUOTE=Malienation] And Jesus…a journalist not knowing about the qwerty keyboard? 😕 [/QUOTE] We’re a full generation past the point where the electric typewriter became common, so it’s not unreasonable for people not to know the story. Mocking somebody for not knowing it makes about as much sense for mocking people who don’t know how to drive a manual transmission. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-propose-a-new-axiom/367845/10 "2006-08-09T19:57:33Z")
This is just a variation on Grenier’s Rule: Never pick a fight with someone why buys ink by the barrel.