Baby Dating

No, I'm not suggesting a dating service for babies, or even a controversial new technique enabling scientists to determine the age of a baby by cutting it in half and counting the number of rings inside.

What I am proposing is an alternative to Speed Dating, in the same line as Dark dating (where you chat people up in total darkness while a night vision goggle-wearing waiter serves you food), and 'Lock and Key' parties, where you have to find a woman who's lock fits your key (ooh err).

Baby Dating would require that you, and everyone else booking themselves in for the event, email a photo of themselves to the Baby Dating Corp. Using Photoshop, or some such image-editing program, Baby Dating Corp.'s team of designers then create a montage of what each potential couple's baby would look like. Then, come Baby Dating event time, rather than meeting potential partners, you rotate around a room (one for men and another for the ladies) looking at framed photographs of what your offspring would look like with each of the potentials, and give a tick or a cross.

I think it's a great idea and someone should buy it off me. But remember where you read it first - look, I've got: (c), TM, and Patent Pending on it. Just writing those symbols means it's mine, even though I don't know what they mean.

I can't help thinking maybe I need to work on the name a bit.