When it comes to romance, women prefer someone who tickles their funny bone while men opt for those who catch their eye, according to an international survey. The survey, (1) by Canadian romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises, asked men and women (2) about traits they liked or disliked and how they went about trying to meet Mr. or Ms. Right. (3) differences between countries in the way people tried to impress (4) Australians and British men (5) too much, while about half of German and Italian men said they had lied about their (6) . Spaniards were the most likely to use appearance to (7) . Eighty percent of (8) men said they had lied about their (9) or relationship status, as did seventy percent of German women, the survey said. When it came to (10) , a majority of respondents preferred to (11) friends for introductions. The Internet was not a popular hunting ground (12) , where about half the surveyed men and women opted to find people online.’ Both Spain and France suffered (13) Thirty percent of Spanish men, but no Spanish women, looked for love online. In France, forty percent of men but only ten percent of women (14) to meet someone, but they did have one thing in common, both sexes rated looks as more important than (15) in other countries. When it came to that first meeting, a majority of men polled said beauty was more important than brains, while women put (16) at the top of their list. (17) was the top priority for men in France, Brazil, Greece, Japan and Britain. And while forty percent of Portuguese men rated intelligence over looks (18) , no Australian men did so. In the United States and Canada, (19) the most important trait by both men and women, getting (20) respectively.