Odd Couples Sure, The Jackson-Presley Thing Is Pretty Weird But Think Of All The Other Strange Combinations Cupid’S Bow Could Make

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it.

They did it.

But we don’t. Get it, that is.

We’re talking about the tying of the knot by the King’s only kid, Lisa Marie Presley, and pop star Michael Jackson, the King of Weird.

“I think if Elvis were around, he would love this,” said Mitchell Fink, a senior editor at People magazine.

The union of Presley and Jackson continues a long, historic line of odd pairings in the public eye.

As Helen Fisher, author of “Anatomy of Love,” wrote, Americans marry for love, but also to “accentuate, balance out or mask parts of our private selves.”

“This is why you sometimes see a reserved accountant married to a blond bombshell, or a scientist married to a poet,” she said.

Or why buxom Guess? model Anna Nicole Smith married an 89-year-old Texas millionaire, or maybe why pretty woman Julia Roberts married soulful songster Lyle Lovett.

Superstar Elizabeth Taylor raised eyebrows when she married construction worker Larry Fortensky at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in 1991. Then again, celebrity watchers wondered when she wed U.S. Sen. John Warner. And when she married … oh, never mind.

The relationship between Mary Matalin, deputy manager of President George Bush’s re-election campaign, and James Carville, strategist for then-candidate Clinton, also caught the media’s fancy, as the odd couple in Washington, D.C. They married last year.

Jacqueline Kennedy’s classy reputation was tainted by her marriage to earthy shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Glamour queen Marilyn Monroe was married for a while to a beloved, dapper sports figure in Joe DiMaggio, but her third and last husband was nerdy playwright Arthur Miller.

Edward VII probably could have had any woman he wanted in his day. He gave up the throne for American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

While Presley and Jackson likewise may appear to make strange bedfellows as far as their public image, Fink said he did not think the marriage was really so weird.

Jackson needs to rework his image in the wake of allegations of child molestation, and what better way than to get married to a woman who is a famous name about whom little is publicly known, he noted.

“I will not believe this is a real marriage until they have a child together and the child looks like (Jackson) used to look,” Fink said.

We considered the possibilities of some other odd couples. OK, so some are already married to other people - at least at this moment - but we still would like to see:

Madonna and David Letterman. Imagine the Top 10 lists.

Roseanne, who never met a publicity stunt she didn’t like, and shock jock Howard Stern.

Shannen Doherty and Gumby. She can treat this character any way she wants.

Tom Arnold and Tonya Harding. May they make beautiful movies together.

John Wayne Bobbitt and feminist attorney Gloria Allred.

Sylvester Stallone and Barbie - the ultimate supermodel guaranteed to never age, lose her figure or talk back.

Fabio and Gloria Steinem.

Prince - his new symbol is not on our keyboard - and the Princess of Wales, Diana.

Prince Charles and ice princess Nancy Kerrigan?

Fallen TV evangelist Jim Bakker and alleged Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.

Jim Carrey, “The Mask” star with a face and body of Play-Doh, and Cher, “Mask” star also known for a variety of bodily incarnations.