posted 06-16-2002 06:07 AM               

The Top 50 Bachelors -

posted 06-17-2002 02:43 PM               

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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
From the June 24, 2002 issue of PEOPLE Magazine:

The Top 50 Bachelors -

RICHARD LINNEHAN ASTRONAUT/VETERINARIAN
Age: 44 HEIGHT: 6'2" STATUS: Never married RESIDENCE: Houston EDUCATION: University of New Hampshire, B.S.; Ohio State University, D.V.M. THE SCOOP: At age 34, Linnehan left his job as a marine mammal specialist in San Diego to undergo a year of astronaut candidate training for NASA. In 1996 he flew his first of three space shuttle Columbia missions, conducting life-science experiments. In his own words: "When I'm sitting in a nursing home," he says, "I'd like to be able to say I had been to Mars." The ideal woman: He wants someone who's "intelligent, articulate, kind, sensuous, athletic, sleek, with the fine lines of the Botticelli painting of Venus rising from the sea." In San Diego getting a date wasn't a problem, says Linnehan, but "in Texas every woman I meet is under 8 or over 80." What a catch: "Richard has strong values," says his sister Colleen Duffy, an administrator for the city of Las Vegas. "Once he finds that perfect, elusive woman, he would definitely be a one-woman man and settle down."

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Hmm ... maybe the guy shouldn't like his values and convictions so much ... which are, after all, dead and unspecific things ... but real women .. which tend to be imperfect, as all humans, maybe smart, but not athletic, maybe honest, but not smart, in other words: settle for the real.

Jürgen (equally 44, equally unmarried :-) )

posted 06-17-2002 03:32 PM               

You know the old saying.

"the girls look better the later it gets"

Don't wait too long.