Having watched a couple of clips of "Mystery" in action on YouTube, it's no real mystery why his "system" works -- albeit, on only a certain segment of the female population: He's a fast talker who comes across as possibly gay, both in his dress and speech (thus automatically lowering the threat level), and is able to get women of fairly shallow emotional/intellectual composition to become interested in him because he is smarter than them and they're obviously desperate for basically any attention. He exploits this like a used car salesman. Is he "successful"? Sure. However, as to whether the quality of woman he is able to ensnare is worth anyone's time is questionable. If all you want is to get laid, save your time and money on the "Mystery Method" and find a hooker. Or just be filthy rich. Hey, it works for a genuine goofball like Donald Trump.

If, though, you are looking for a woman of substance and quality, whose sexiness comes from her true self confidence, intelligence, sensitivity, genuine sweetness and sense of worth, I suggest the Scorpio Method: Be yourself. If you find that this is insufficent to attract such women, then work to improve yourself on all levels. This will lead to an increase in your own true self confidence, which will in turn increase your attractiveness to high-caliber women.

The Scorpio Method, unlike the "Mystery Method", doesn't require that you memorize a lot of situational tactics, phony "openers", etc. It does, though, require that you be inherently a person of substance, keen intellect, biting wit, varied interests and skills, deep generosity and profound wisdom.

Being devilishly handsome doesn't hurt, either.

:)

Lots of discussion here about the age difference of the couple. Here's an interesting piece from Wikipedia on this subject:

Age disparity in sexual relationships

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Your-Age-Plus-Seven_Rule

And here's a piece I really like:

Cate Blanchett Prefers Dating Older Men

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005446104

P.S. I'm with Val Kilmer.

Living in the Bay Area and being a rabid 49er fan during their rise from the bottom of the heap to greatness was just the best. Walsh's coaching genius and the incomparable Joe Montana made us all feel like the world was finally as it should be.

God, it was beautiful.

Excerpt from The Invisible Hand (of the U.S. Government) in Financial Markets by Robert Bell

The U.S. Treasury holdings of Japan and China are essentially a consequence of a trade imbalance between the U.S. and these two countries, with the balance heavily tilted to the latter. To maintain the imbalance, which they both clearly want to do, both countries must keep their currency pegged against the dollar at a lower rate than it might otherwise be...To keep the items relatively cheap, the central banks of those countries keep their currencies cheap by buying a corresponding amount of dollars, thus supporting the dollar against their currencies. The dollar may essentially collapse against the euro, but not against the yen and the yuan. With the dollars the Japanese and Chinese central banks have bought, they can buy something denominated in U.S. dollars; the item of choice is U.S. Treasuries since it is like holding dollars that pay interest. So this has the effect of pumping the price of Treasuries too. Because the items made in China and Japan are cheaper than those of corresponding quality made in the U.S. (in the case of many Japanese items, there may not be U.S. items of similar quality), the effect is to create manufacturing jobs in those countries while simultaneously losing them in the U.S. In effect the jobs are exported and foreign currency is imported to buy dollars and then Treasuries. This has an advantage for the Bush administration, which has the ruinously ridiculous policies of simultaneously cutting taxes and waging wars or building up for them. In effect, the basic racket is: the Bush administration exports jobs to these countries, and in turn they finance Bush’s fiscal deficit so he can continue his wars and cut taxes for his friends. For the Chinese, the basic racket is too delicious and too ironical. They industrialize their country at the expense of the de-industrialization of the U.S. Not only is it sweet revenge for more than a hundred years of humiliation at the hands of Europeans and Americans, but also at the end they are relatively strong and the U.S. is relatively not. What do they care if the deal isn’t quite as good as it would be in a perfect world and they lose a third, half, two-thirds of their savings in U.S. Treasuries? Besides, in an even mildly less imperfect world, the U.S. President would not make such a blatantly corrupt bargain against the people of the U.S. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett calls this system of indebting U.S. citizens to foreign governments “a sharecropper’s society,” to distinguish it from Bush’s supposed “ownership society.”

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/reality/2005/0403.html

@Cosmic Mojo - re: "Cate Blanchette Is 37 and married to a 42 year old man."

Duh.

But she SAYS (excerpt):

Cate Blanchett recently said she would rather go to bed with a man in his 60s than have sex with a boy toy who doesn't know what he's doing.

The 37-year-old actress, who is married to writer Andrew Upton, 42, can't understand why some women - like brunette bombshell Demi Moore who, at 45, is 16 years older than husband Ashton Kutcher - want to date younger guys. Instead, Blanchett would much rather get her hands on an older man who has more life experience.

She said, "I just don't understand women who go out with men who are younger than them - even if they're just five years younger. It's not something I can relate to. I would understand sleeping with a 60-year-old man more."

http://www.exposay.com/cate-blanchett-prefers-dating-older-men/v/5914/