Is there just one easy question we can answer? Let's try this one, smoking preference. Translation: Do you smoke or don't you? For most of us this is easy, unless you are one of those people who smoke but don't inhale.

I don't smoke, I don't inhale, and I don't walk around with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in my shirtsleeve, so I put down, "doesn't smoke." Easy enough. I also put that I am looking for a nonsmoker. So what does this one goober do? After our second date he confesses that he does smoke even though he said he didn't on his ad. Well, that clarified things; I just assumed he was wearing his "lady killer" nicotine-based after-shave.

Marking "no answer" on smoking is another Einstein moment (or I should say "Clinton" moment.) What? You pull it out of the pack, light it, put it up to your lips, and then sit there like the Mona Lisa? Or do you only inhale on Thursdays. I know, you only smoke when you go out drinking. How far can you stretch denial, my friend?

When you select "no answer," do you think we're going to assume you don't smokeor that you haven't made up your mind about starting yet? Odds are that you do, in fact, smoke. These are ads I usually delete because if a person isn't big enough to admit he smokes, he's not big enough for me to go out with.

Other general questions can include religion, political views, and education, drinking preference, group affiliations and profession. These are categories that people actually excel in answering, and there's not much to make fun of, so I'll move on.

There are sites that actually ask if you have anybody piercings, tattoos or other body art. Jiminy, they're eliminating all the surprise elements, aren't they? We'll know so much about you that we won't even have to meet. And Heaven forbid, a little rose tattoo on your butt may cause someone to delete you immediately (even without getting to know you) if they're not a tattoo kind of person. This certainly could have been a Seinfeld episode unfolding here.

On some sites they ask for an income range. Personally, I feel this is being a little too nosy. Unfortunately, this is something that's also known to be used as bait. Years ago, income was never brought up in conversation on dates, it was considered inappropriate. I know some of the most intimate details about some of my friends' lives but I would never ask them what their income is.

Know this: when someone puts down that they make over $100,000, it doesn't necessarily mean that they really do. You could be answering an ad based on false pretenses. Just keep that in mind when you see those six figures. It goes both ways with men and women. If you want a guy who wants you for your money and not you, go ahead and share your income and wait and see how many times he offers to buy. It shouldn't take you too long to figure it out. That is unless you fall "in loooooove," then you'll be blindsided, he'll take you for everything you have and when you fall off of cloud nine, Mr. Gigolo will already be in Tahiti and you'll be looking for a lawyer and a guest spot on The Rich Lake Show.