Tom Cruise Emulates Chris Tiberius (TC vs CT)

So I awoke this morning to this:

Tom Cruise Proposes to Katie Holmes
Jun 17, 6:10 AM (ET)
By SOPHIE NICHOLSON

PARIS (AP) - Actor Tom Cruise said he and girlfriend Katie Holmes are engaged, after he popped the question early Friday morning atop the Eiffel Tower.

Cruise, speaking at a Paris news conference with Holmes, said: "Yes, I proposed to her."

The couple often shared smiles and blushes as Cruise turned to look at her, with a massive diamond ring on her finger.

"It was early this morning at the Eiffel Tower, so I haven't slept at all," he said. "Today is a magnificent day for me, I'm engaged to a magnificent woman."

Asked why he chose the famed Paris landmark, he said: "I've never been to the Eiffel Tower. It's Paris, it's a beautiful city, it's very romantic."

...Yawn. So TC has proposed at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Been there, done that.

You may recall, long before the days of blogging, but well into ChrisCam's 3rd year, that I proposed to a girl at the top of the Eiffel Tower. And I did it with some panache: it was Dec. 31 1999. CT top's TC. Oh, and MY fiance was within a generation of my own age.

And by the way? That engagement didn't, shall we say, "work out". So once he comes down of his obviously drug-induced high and calls of the engagement, I will have been TC's forerunner twice over.

And for my next trick, I will make Katie Holmes fall in love with ME. Oh, wait. I'm married.

And honestly? I can only find a couple people who remotely care about this topic: James Joyner and that guy at Gay Orbit.