So to speak. Especially when it comes to sperm. From the China Daily, Chinese women's top picks for sperm donation:

1. Andy Lau
2. Bill Gates
3. Takeshi Kaneshiro
4. Liu Xiang
5. David Beckham
6. Li Ka-shing
7. Tony Leung
8. Louis Koo
9. Lee-hom Wang
10. Brad Pitt 

Imagethief is scandalized (scandalized!) not to have made the cut, especially after all my passionate lobbying. Millionaires and playboy actors as usual. Once again bloggers get the, um, short shrift. I mean, c'mon, Beckham? Beckham? Have they heard the guy talk? He sounds like Mickey Mouse with an English accent.

In other sperm related news, Chinese college students are apparently lining up to donate sperm despite the persistence of some parochial beliefs about sperm donation:

Myths such as "one drop of semen equals 10 drops of blood" prevent people from donating sperm, said Chen Zhenwen, director of the bank, affiliated to the National Population and Family Planning Commission of China.

Thankfully, college students don't share any such belief and "are more willing to help", Chen said. "Many of them are Beijing Olympic volunteers."

Olympic Volunteers? God bless 'em! Just because you can't compete doesn't mean you can't still beat! Let's get that on a big, red banner for the games.

In fact, the willingness of college students to donate, despite two months bureaucratic pre-donation rigmarole, makes pretty good sense to Imagethief. After all, if there is one thing male college students have both a nearly inexhaustible supply of and an overpowering urge to get rid of, its sperm.

Imagethief has long been of the opinion that with a ready supply of just a few simple materials --latex, magnets, copper wire, dirty magazines and male college students-- the world's energy problems would be all but solved. Now that I am older and married I have slowed down a bit, but when Imagethief was in college...well, I'll spare you the details. But trust me, this could be a gold mine!