Allan Milne Lees
1 min readNov 1, 2019

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Harpers Magazine ran an article in the 1950s giving “how to catch your man” advice which perhaps you’ve already seen. Along with guaranteed-to-succeed tips such as entering a room and falling forward in order to scatter the contents of your handbag so that a big handsome man can help you up again, and putting up canvas and easel outside an Engineering school (lots of guys with excellent earning potential inside!!!), they had “try standing on a street corner with a lasso.” Another sure-to-succeed tip was to sit on a park bench crying until a suitable man sits down next to you and offers you his handkerchief. And if none of these brilliant and hardly-sexist-at-all pieces of advice actually work you can at least make a fortune by turning them into a compelling game for iPhones and Android phones…

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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