Dating Dilemmas Detective Mugs

Randy's dating secrets #289: When your date says 'What're you thinking about,' you must be able to answer.

"I may be obsessive and I may be compulsive, but no way am I obsessive compulsive."

'I was attracted to you but your online photo, but now that I've seen you in High-Def...'

'I need someone who is willing to make a commitment not someone who's just interested in ruffling my feathers.'

"I'm not against going to couples therapy, but it feels weird to do it on a first date."

"That's no death grimace, Perkins. I think what we're seeing is a 2.8 million-year-old tight smile of spousal event obligation!"

'It's hard finding a caring,sensitive and good looking man. Most of them already have boyfriends.'

"If someone winks a you forty or fifty times, are they coming on to you?"

"You're not at all like your answering machine."

'Your dilemma is fabulous. Imagine what a dramaturge could do with it.'

"Before we take this any further, I'd like us to open about our internet history."

"Now we'll see what my husband has to say about this!"

'When it comes to romance, Sherlock doesn't have a clue!'

"I want someone whose inner pain is totally hot."

Body language interpreters - "He likes you and wishes to dance with you." "That's a get lost."

"I can tell when you're just kissing me to get some of my lip balm, Josh."

'My wife! The therapist we hired to help us reinvigorate our marriage!'

'You want to understand women?...I granted you a wish, not a miracle!'

"He's either 'still water runs deep' or an oxygen-depleted dead zone."

'Some have a love life - I have a 'can't-stand-for-the-man-to-be-right' life.'

'We had the perfect marriage until we took the magazine quiz.'

"Hola! Tia Carmen's psychic hotline! Can I tell you where your lousy cheating boyfriend is right now?"

As an experienced counsellor, she could see that their relationship had been doomed from the start.

Avoid boys who spend more on hair products than you do!

'You asked her to go out with you?', 'Yes, but she says there's a lengthy approval process.'

'Is this the Lonely Hearts Club?'

'Girls! I won't understand them if I live to be six.'

Cheapskate b*****d told me he'd laid on a box for me to watch the races.

"I'm guessing it's too soon in the relationship for me to totally creep you out."

"So - we meet at last."

"He's your type--gorgeous, successful, and totally unavailable."

Second dates are trickier. They ask the same questions as on the first date, looking for inconsistencies.

'Well? Where is this mystery man we've been hearing so much about?'