Did you watch the Daily Show last night? Kristin Schaal, of Flight of the Conchords fame, opined to hilarious effect on cougars, the slightly sexist name for older women who date younger men. The internets have been abuzz with today, so it’s only right that Tango readers get in on the action. Clip below.

A mediocre-looking guy recently approached my sister, a hesitant JDate subscriber, online. After a brief chat, the strangers decided to take things to the next level. Sex? No. Facebook? Yes. They exchanged names and allowed the inter-network stalking to begin.

A day or so later, my sister burst into laughter at a Facebook message she’d received—a video message from the JDate boy. Playing the piano and singing (in a surprisingly good voice, I might add) he began: “Here I am writing strange girls messages via video, via song, but only because you look liked someone I’d like to talk to more.”

His performance was as lame as the online dating scene itself—not a far cry from a singles bar, where you go with the intention of meeting people and get creeped out when strangers hit on you. The performance was funny, honest and apparently effective. Two verses and a bridge later, my sister had responded with a request to meet in person.

MSNBC.com reports that there are over 40 million potential mates online. With options mounting as online dating grows in popularity, and only seven nights a week to actually meet people, an affinity for long walks on the beach is no longer adequate information to secure a date; it is becoming increasingly common for online daters to increase their appeal through creativity.

While the JDater’s serenade may have been shot down by Esquire.com—which recognizes a profile-rapping bachelor on it’s five worst online dating video profiles—we say if an online daters want to ruin his or her own chances, go ahead. At least after watching a person in action, you know that what you see is what you’re going to get.

Quick hit for the day: Even if you’re not going to cheat on your man, why don’t you set up a “private” rendezvous with him and make like you are? Check out these five-star spots courtesy of concierge.com, perfect for discreet check-ins and dirty little secrets.

Text him the address, the room number, the time, and nothing else.

We won’t tell if you won’t.

Should sexual history determine if a woman is girlfriend or wife material? Also, how long do these guys wait before sex: One date? Two dates? Engagement? Marriage?

If you’ve ever felt an attraction to someone whom you’ve only heard and never actually seen, it may be because our senses are trained to pick up a potential mate’s genetic health and reproductive fitness—reflected in the symmetry of one’s body—via the sound of his/her voice.

In a recent study, published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, participants listened to previously recorded voices and rated their levels of attractiveness according to nine traits, including approachability, intelligence, sexiness and warmth. The group concluded that men whose voices ranked as most approachable, intelligent, sexy and warm—and women whose voices were deemed most approachable, sexy and as most likely to get dates—were the most attractive overall.

The voices rated as most attractive were from those whose bodies were the most symmetrical. But, a sexy voice—and thereby sexy body—has nothing to do with the attractiveness of one’s face, according to one of the lead researchers.

So, this means a couple of things: those cruelly tagged “butter faces” out there must sound super sexy over the phone and James Earl Jones has one crazily symmetric body. Who knew?

What are the specific qualities of an attractive voice? When researchers used machines to try and objectively quantify the characteristics of a “sexy voice,” the results were inconclusive. Just like our sense of smell, apparently our perception of sound is just another way our sneaky genes are inherently playing matchmaker for us.