“How did you select him?” asked my friend as she scanned the form of my new beau.

“Oh, he’s usual type”, I replied “Tall, dark, skinny and brainy, and – this time – with curly hair”.

The young man was delighted to overhear that he was considered ‘brainy’. Meanwhile I cast a glance at TPR and he winked back at me. There was no way that this young man could be considered clever. I was merely flattering him.