From DateSpaces.com in New York, this is Thursday Edition.

Our Thursday Puzzle this week comes from DateSpaces.com’s own Derek “Eat my Shortz, Will” Blackton.

Provide two rhyming words to appropriately fill in the blanks in the following love-related sentence:

If you put a ring on ______, she’d be your ______.

This one’s pretty easy–we’re sure that anyone with a radio Knowles the answer.

First correct response gets a standard set of public-broadcasting-worthy prizes: a canvas DateSpaces.com tote bag, a cumbersome reference book of some kind, this great Carmen watch,* and a date with Carl Kasell.**

1. DateSpace of the Week
Our DateSpace of the Week this week is Sweetiepie: “a brand new dessert joint in the West Village, [which] serves another obscure alcohol that is making a smashing debut in the U.S., now that it has been legalized. We are referring, of course, to…absinthe.”

Never had absinthe? Think Rimbaud meets Ecto Cooler meets black licorice (as if those things weren’t already obviously related.)

Been on a really great date lately? Suggest next week’s DateSpace of the week by emailing eric@datespaces.com.

2. This Week at The Daily Dater

Letty’s advice for a former Bad Boy seeking a Chaste Church Lady. Hey, to each his own, but show us where the Good Book says, “Thou shalt not get freakay.”

Also, Mr. Online Dating Matches on if and when to call. Whatever you decide, just remember that, timing aside, one message is probably enough.

Coming up: our Top 10 Stores for Holiday Shopping!

[Support for Thursday Edition comes from the Donald D. Daitor Charitable Trust--dedicated to finding and fighting the causes of bad dates. On the Web at www.dddct.org.]

*Anyone?.
**Mr. Kasell has not confirmed his participation, but we hear his nickname in college was Carl Kasanova.