The local paper said Ben Affleck made People’s “Sexiest Man” title this year, and hurrah for that, I guess. It also said Donald Rumsfeld made the also-ran list. Can this be true? If so, the absurdity of it taints the whole spectacle. Vote-hackers have surely taken the day. This is a scandal of ipecac proportions!
I’ve been shuddering all day. :eek: :smack:
Every year there seems to be someone who doesn’t exactly fit the mold. And it’s usually some power guy of the day, or some novelty TV show guy like Bob Villa. But, for an old dude, Rumsfeld is doing alright. He’s kind of got that “rat pack era” atttitude going.
…also, never underestimate the prevalence of fetishism and assorted perversity amongst the people answering the questions…
Aw, come on, he’s not THAT bad. He’s just old. In my public relations class, we each had to pick a famous person to do PR for, and I picked Rumsfeld. In the process of researching him, I found some pictures of him when he was in college in Newsweek, and he was pretty good looking. He’s not someone I’d go for now, though, but apparently lots of older women think he’s cute.
Oh, and stop reading now, people who who get grossed out over Rumsfeld.
President Bush allegedly calls him “Rumstud,” because so many older women find him attractive.
Rumstud.
Yeah, it’s not like we’re talking about Strom or anything.
Besides, power is sexy.
GACK!
Ben Affleck sexy? Puhleeeze… He doesn’t even blip on my radar.
Well, I recall that, a few years ago, Howard Stern fans were constantly entering the name of Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf whenever there was a survey for “most attractive celebrity” in a magazine or online.
Supposedly, People magazine was flooded with votes for Hank as “Most Beautiful Person of the Year,” before the editors decided to ignore ballots and pick their own list.
Personally, I don’t see why Stern’s choices were any sillier than the usual choices. You can usually tell, from the end results, what the editors’ criteria were. “Well, look, we HAVE to have one current star who’s popular with the young crowd… Ben Affleck or Matt Damon will work. We HAVE to have one black star… Denzel Washington should be safe. Then we have to have one older gentlemen… Sean Connery? Nah, we did him last year. I dunno… how about Rumsfeld?”
Well, Ol’ Rummy does kind of ring my bell.
In a strange, older, powerful, conservative sort of way.
I wouldn’t ever want to see him in the buff, though.
Liar. Admit you’d be curious to know whether “Mr. Star Wars” could shoot straight.
Does anyone else find that the least bit suspicious? I think there’s more going on between those two than they’re letting on.
Someone actually collects [URL=http://www.geocities.com/rummyfan/pics.html] pictures of Donald Rumsfeld. Well, anyway, if you click on the first zipped folder of photos there, it includes one of Rumstud as a student at Princeton (file name is rumsfeld’54-pre.jpg).
I think he’s (Don) a really nice looking, conservative, intelligent fellow and am glad to see him on the list.
Butt Ben Aflack? You’ve got to be kidding me.
Ooh! “Mr. Star Wars” - that will flesh out the fantasy nicely…
:: drool ::
Gak! I’ll have you know, I’m grossing myself out for humor!!! 
Someone must have thought he was da bomb!. <groan>
c’mon gang.
Ben Affleck way not be your type, and he’s not really what I’m into either, but to say he ain’t good-looking?!
IRRC, People’s Sexiest Man is not determined by a vote, he’s chosen by the editors of the magazine. And just like the Most Beautiful People and the Most Intriguing People, he’s chosen based simply on his current popularity, and how many magazines he’s likely to sell. Since there have been a lot of media jokes in the past year about Rumsfeld being the sexiest member of the Bush administration, Rumsfeld made the list. Also, people who have big new movies coming out, etc. I bet Harry Hamlin, who was once voted the Sexiest Man Alive, isn’t even on the list, because he hasn’t been in the news much lately.
Besides, everyone knows that Pierce Brosnan is the Sexiest Man Alive.
Ben Affleck’s a fraud, though. Wear a hairpiece.
“It’s not as clumsy or as random as a blaster…”
It’s obviously rigged because I haven’t won yet.
Just another example of the powerful stepping on the necks of the common man.
Donald Rumsfeld is an intelligent and powerful man has more real world masculinity in his little finger than most Hollywood and media pretty boys could ever have in their wildest dreams. Many mature, discerning women who like real men respond to this. Each to their own.