If there's one quality that most New Jerseyans possess in spades, it's bluntness.

Short Hills native Patti Stanger certainly fits that bill. As owner of The Millionaire's Club, an elite matchmaking service in Los Angeles, Patti doesn't mince words when it comes to her occasional frustration at finding perfect mates for her clients.

"I'm here to spread the message of love, but remember — the (insert name of male genitalia here) does the picking," Patti proclaims in the second-season premiere of "The Millionaire Matchmaker," which returns at 10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, on Bravo.

Patti's problem, you see, is that most of her clients — the vast majority of which are male — don't immediately take her advice to heart. Take 28-year-old David Golshan, for example.

"I am the kind of man other men want to be, and I am the man that women want to be with," he declares in a voice-over as he's shown driving around Los Angeles in a sports car, blowing kisses to himself in the rear-view mirror.

When Patti goes to visit him at his home, she's immediately struck — and not in a good way — by the wall-sized painting of the infamous Britney Spears/Madonna kiss that David has so lovingly recreated.

"I don't know if I'd put it in the living room," she tells him. "It might scare women away."

"What scares them away?" he asks incredulously. "My incredible talent?"

"Do you want to marry a bisexual?" Patti says, clearly exasperated. "Bisexual women are not the women you want to be the mother of your children."

It's no wonder David is still single. But it's Patti's job to find him the perfect woman, even if he is "a total Bragasaurus," as she puts it.

Out of the mouths of Jersey girls . . .

The second episode features another frustrating phenomenon of the dating world: men who are obsessed with younger women. Bill the Canadian steadfastly clings to the belief that he must date a woman in her 20s. Bill, by the way, is 45. That's 4-5.

After speaking with him, Patti — and us viewers, too — can tell a woman's age is more important to Bill than practically anything else.

"I am, like, sick to death of men being ageist," Patti declares.

Things change when Bill meets Heidi, however. Heidi is a millionaire herself. While Patti initially is hesitant to take a woman on as a client, once she meets Heidi she can't help but root for the 41-year-old single mother of a toddler. And sparks definitely fly when Bill and Heidi finally meet.

As usual, it's a lot of fun watching "The Millionaire Matchmaker," and that's entirely because of Patti. While some people might find her abrasive, I thoroughly enjoy her straightforward manner. It makes me wonder what would happen if everyone in Los Angeles was as honest and realistic.

Note: Patti is the author of "Become Your Own Matchmaker: 8 Easy Steps for Attracting Your Perfect Mate," which was released by Atria Books in January.

JERSEY UPDATE

Not sure if you know this or not, but Plainfield's own Father of Funk, George Clinton, has "Gone Country."

I mean that quite literally. The funkmaster has joined the cast of "Gone Country 3," which airs at 8 p.m. Saturdays on Country Music Television.

For the record, George is not the first Central Jersey boy to pursue a country-music singing career. Oh, no. Lincroft's Sebastian Bach (and former Skid Row frontman) actually won "Gone Country 2" last fall.

We are two episodes into the season, and George is proving to be an extremely amusing addition to the eclectic cast (which also includes Sheila E., Mickey Dolenz and Taylor Dayne). George's roommate, Justin Guarini of "American Idol" fame, commented, "I love my roommate George — but he snores. He sounds like a wildebeest."

"Uncle George," as the cast prefers to call him, also has a sweet tooth. The second episode features George pouring himself a liberal helping of Fruit Loops and then dumping sugar over it. It doesn't end there, though. He takes a single bite (or so it appears) and immediately breaks a tooth.

"Oh, my God," he says. "The toothache was really hurtin'. But the toothache, the earache and the hemorrhoids — it's (insert garbled word here) you don't want to deal with."

The cameras follow Uncle George as he goes to the dentist and proceeds to fall asleep. He returns to John Rich's mansion and starts eyeballing some treats.

"Oh, wow, Oreo cookies," he gushes. "I love them cookies."

(Insert crunching sound here.)

"Ohhhh!"

Will George spend the rest of the competition in the dentist's chair? Tune in next week to find out.

Meanwhile, Spike TV's "DEA" hits the streets of Newark in its second season. The program follows a group of Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA, agents and task force officers in Newark as they fight to keep illegal drugs off the streets. The program, which is produced by Al Roker Entertainment, Inc., debuts at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10.