Today's forty-year-old is much younger than the forty-year-old of twenty years ago. But it doesn't help make it any easier for us to tell people we are forty. Again, it bothers us more the fact you lied about it than if you were older and told the truth. If you look younger than your age, we will notice by your photo or when we meet in person. If I was designing a matchmaker Web site, I would have an age range as opposed to having you put up just one little, lonely number. But who am I? I know of a couple sites that now do, in fact, allow you to list an age range, so if you feel you don't want to let people know exactly how old you are, maybe this is the way to go.

How about ethnicity? Again we should all know what we are. Now there are some people who are just pure "muts." (And I mean that in a good way.) They're half Irish, a quarter Asian, an eighth Puerto Rican, and an eighth American Indian. If this is the case, I say it would be okay to put "Other" in this section. Another option could be, "See photo" or "Call mom for verification."

Hair and eyes. Giving this some thought, I realize this isn't going to be that easy either. Hair, that's the little fuzzy, shafty thingies that grow out of your head. Either you have them or you don't. If you do, you generally list what color. On some sites, for you folically challenged people, they have skin-toned as a choice. If that's not politically correct I don't know what the hell is.

Then we have all this hair dye, and highlights and hair extensions, wigs, and Mohawk stuff happening. What if you have a red Mohawk but the shaved sides are blonde. What do you put? I guess some of the sites came up with the "mixed" choice for you creative creatures out there. If you highlight your hair, do you put the most prominent color or the one you want to be most of the time? Do you put "natural" blonde or "it came out of a box" blonde?

I saw a guy's ad where he described himself as being a blonde but also stated he was Jewish. In his photo, he had what appeared to me, and probably the entire sighted population, the dark features of a Jewish man. He had the same hair color in the other four photos as well. So am I missing something here, folks? Is this the case of another typo? Is he a wannabe blonde? Maybe color blind, I really don't know. This is simply wearing me out!

Eyes, that's easy for most. Not for me, though. When people ask what color my eyes are, I go into my, "They're brown around the center and hazel-greenish on the outer edges, and for some reason only God knows about, I have one green contact and one blue contact." So I usually end up putting, "Just look at them when we meet and come to your own conclusion."

Location, a.k.a. where you reside. If you live in a small suburb or a town people may not recognize you may want to list a large city that's close by to give a general idea where you are. I answered several ads from guys who listed that they lived within miles of me, which I thought was fantastic, considering a six mile commute could mean an hour drive in LA. Well, come to find out these bozos put down where they worked. Why? To throw our scent off track if we happen to be stalkers? Either that or maybe they don't want us to run into their wife and three kids playing in the front yard.