"You promised me Barbie...You gave me Chuckie!" I wonder how many people brought together by the machinations of online dating agencies have thought that gazing at their "perfectly matched by computer partner"

There's a series of ads on the Tube showing a very smug couple, and to be honest, if they're that good-looking then they're the last people to want dating agency alchemy, gazing cow like at each other with the strap line that this will be one pair who'll not be wanting their money back. The implication that the digitalised reconciliation exercise this particular agency puts everyone through ensures perfect soulmating, and if it did n't, oh the rare chance, then it's moneyback. That's the poetry; I think the painful prose needs showing...