(DAILY MAIL) 23 August:

Why is it that tall women seem to have short husbands and boyfriends? A recent article in the Daily Mail seems to think that tall women have what short men have always wanted: height, and that that is the attraction. Short men are grateful for the attention and that is why tall women like them.

A pity that they didn’t consider the opposite: If the tall and the short only ever married like with like then the population would diverge, the tall becoming ever taller by the generations. But that’s just a wild idea.

What they did miss is that all of the short men they used as examples (Tom Cruise, Salman Rushdie, Rod Stewart) also have one other feature. They’re rich. Adds inches, that does.