Some holiday charity schemes expect you to give away your money with only pride in return. They think you’ll be happy just knowing you’re a good person. But La Presse has a better idea. They’re offering this:
Up for auction are 10 lunch dates with their most popular journalists, including cartoonist Serge Chapleau, sports columnist Réjean Tremblay and teen heartthrob Patrick Lagacé (seen above with semi-exposed chest).
Though the auction is far from over, it kind of disturbs me that Lagacé and this woman:
(food columnist Marie-Claude Lortie) are bidding far below this guy:
Pierre Foglia.
What does this say about our society?
The auction continues until Dec. 6. Proceeds go to Sun Youth, the Société Saint-Vincent-de-Paul and Moisson Montréal.
So far the leading bidder for a date with Lagacé is “R. Martineau“. Surely you can do better than his paltry $550.
UPDATE (Dec. 6): The auction’s over, and despite his incessant pleading on his blog, Lagacé brought in the least of the lots, only $1,900. (Foglia brought in $4,500.) He’s still a winner in our book though.
No Rima Elkouri? No bid!
What does it say? It says that we’ll take an old crabby guy from france who rides a bike over a pretty boy any day!
Foglia is actually from Italy but I concur, and am glad that people will take substance over pop-stuff!!!
teen heartthrob ?!?!?!?
Young adult heartthrob?
Or is it just me and Richard?
Tu ne comprends pas, babe. Foglia is hot stuff.
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