Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader sees that an Imperial College of London study seems to show that food and wine are the best ways of wooing a woman. Expensive gifts of stuff don’t seem to work as well as a nice dinner with wine.

Well… Duh… Of course the wine helps when pitching woo. It loosens you both up. With luck and enough wine the woo can lead to “other” stuff.

That said, your Maximum Leader infers that the type of dinner the study seems to be showing works well is a nice fanc dinner. In a restaurant that has a somalier, and linen napkins, and requires reservations.

Actually, your Maximum Leader’s personal experience would tend to bear this out. He always felt more comfortable offering an expensive dinner than some sort of bauble or trinket. He supposes that subconsciously he knew that even if the date went south he’d still get a good dinner out of it.

Plus your Maximum Leader can’t stand shopping for baubles or jewelry or trinkets. It is a particularly loathsome activity.

In closing, thanks to the good people at Imperial College London and their (hopefully vigourous) application of the scientific method men now know that wining and dining work better than the $99 heart-shaped diamonique pendant from Kay Jewelers.

Carry on.