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The news is full of titillating stories which don't necessary denote trends, but we can't help but note the recurrent theme of decent to hot adult women sleeping with underage boys.

The latest culprit is Janice Gates of Nampa, Idaho, who was recently arrested for having sex with a male under the age of 16. Gates worked for the boy's mother, and her relationship with the youngster progressed from text messaging to intercourse in a public park. Eventually, the boy told his parents about the tryst and they contacted the authorities.

While a lot of guys espouse the "Where was she when I was 14?" philosophy, our first reaction is to feel sympathy for the single adult men of Nampa and others like them. We are just as perplexed as they must be by the ease at which awkward, premature-ejaculating teenage boys infiltrate their dating pool.

Take a look at some of the other women involved in these high-profile cases and help us decode the phenomenon.

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    11. Winston Churchill
    Prime Minister, author, Nobel Prize winner -- Sir Winston accomplished more on a typical hungover Sunday than most of us do during our entire lives. We can barely be bothered to go out for brunch most weekends.

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    10. Slash
    Though no longer a raging alkie, have you ever seen the artist formerly known as Saul Hudson not pictured with a bottle filled with something or other? And, of course, there was his memorable obscenity-laden acceptance speech at the1990 American Music Awards. Well, memorable to us anyway. We doubt Slash remembers much of anything that happened during the early '90s.

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    9. Nick Nolte
    Even before his infamous mugshot, Nolte perpetually looked like he'd just come off a six-week bender. For a lesson in the perils of heavy drinking check out Nolte's performance opposite Julia Roberts in "I Love Trouble," a film that could only have been made while heavily under the influence.

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    8. Dorothy Parker
    Parker famously said that "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." But they do go for gals who can fill glasses and then drink them under the Algonquin Roundtable, and Ms. Parker could down a vodka gimlet faster thanyou can say "the dry wit of Robert Benchley."

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    7. Dudley Moore in 'Arthur'
    As his theme song says, "Arthur he does as he pleases." (And most of what he pleases involves hard liquor.) If you're gonna be a sad drunk, might as well also be a billionaire with a loyal and caustic British butler.Though all the alcohol in Arthur's liver isn't enough to make "Arthur 2: On the Rocks" even remotely watchable.

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    6. Janis Joplin
    So associated with hard drinking is Miss Janis that it's hard to listen to her sing without feeling your liver fill to the brim with Southern Comfort. (The phrase "booze-soaked vocals" was practically invented for her.) Janis still makes Amy Winehouse sound like Miley Cyrus.

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    5. Andy CappEveryone's favorite comic strip rummy has been tossing back pints and threatening his long-suffering wife Flo with violence since 1957. Seriously, isn't it time that Social Services took a long, hard look at that marriage?

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    4. Ernest HemingwayThe prototypical hard-drinking author, Papa Hemingway has given generations of mediocre writers an excuse to wail into their beers about their unpublished masterpieces. Still, as fine an author as he is, we figure his fondness for creepy, multi-toed cats must have had something to do with large quantities of alcohol.

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    3. Betty Ford
    Although Gerald Ford was renowned for falling over all the time, it turns out Betty was the one with a drinking problem! While we would never make light of Mrs. Ford's struggles (excluding the joke above), it should be noted that having a rehab center named after you definitely earns you a place in the pantheon of hard drinkers. Plus, she's currently the third-longest living former First Lady. Top that, Mamie Eisenhower!

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    2. Bender from 'Futurama'
    Bender's name doesn't just refer to his function as a robot who bends things: Liquor is his life's blood. Now if only he'd get toasted and punch out that wussy robot from "Lost In Space."