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01/31/2007: "But Does He Get A Discount If He Decides To Buy Her?"
The rent-to-own concept is all the rage for people who can't afford that 60-inch plasma screen they really want. One guy in China, however, has taken the idea to its illogical extreme ...
The physics student, who gave his name as Zhu Lijie, posted a notice on a bulletin board at Peking University offering 1,000 yuan ($130) to a woman who would pose as his girlfriend for the trip home for the holiday, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Zhu had told his parents, who were pressuring him to get a girlfriend, that he had been studying too hard and had no time to meet a potential partner.
Somehow, I think all that time buried in a physics book has made him miss the point ... 
