In 76 television episodes, lasting from February 1969 to May 1973, the bachelor boy Stan Butler who lived with his mother (Doris Hare) was always pitting his wits against Blakey, the twitchily neurotic bus inspector played by Stephen Lewis - and usually coming off bruised but not beaten.
And so, the new regulation setting right this historic injustice was immediately baptised as Cliff's Law, in recognition of the perennial Bachelor Boy's tireless campaigning for the right to keep adding to his £50m fortune until, in the case of his later recordings, well after his 140th birthday.
I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny.
Ms. Kaling (a writer and star of "The Office") divides bachelors into boys and men, while Ms. Dratch (best known as Debbie Downer on "Saturday Night Live") separates nice guys from "the Fonzies," but the arc of discovering which ones to pursue is the same.
There are officially a couple of words to describe people who are single: bachelor for the boys or spinster for the girls.
Christian Troy Julian McMahann) is the bad-boy bachelor.
Mr. Sheen asked Mr. Lorre how long he saw the relationship between the bachelor and the boy lasting.
Within the year, Rohays had married the 57-year-old bachelor, who became the boys' rather austere stepfather.
There were mothers and maidens, dads and boys, spinsters, bachelors and cranky hermits – but all had come to give thanks for harvest, and almost all had some claim on the land.
In a way, Jock exists on the same hapless-but-lovable loser continuum as Jim, the everyboy hero of "American Pie"; and his father is only degrees removed from Will, the selfish bachelor in "About a Boy," whose life is programmed into half-hour chunks, the better to avoid entanglements.
