I met my wife via OkCupid, in Seattle. So it certainly worked for me (with more ...

junto · on Jan 15, 2013

I'm glad to hear you "met" a few Miss Tarts before you settled down. ;-)

You need to get that sort of thing out of your system before you finally settle down.

rexreed · on Jan 15, 2013

Maybe it was a joke, but you missed the implicit hyphen between mis and starts. So, not Miss Tarts, but rather Mis-starts.

Maybe @nmcfarl meant to say near-misses? or rather, just misses. But not as in ladies, but as in horseshoes.

junto · on Jan 15, 2013

The first time I read the sentence I misread it, giggled like a school boy, and quickly replied to the post tongue-in-cheek.

However, HN did not appreciate the joke, and to be honest it was rather inane. I should try to remember that puerile humour belongs on Reddit and not HN.