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Post by StarOpal on Jan 9, 2009 16:08:50 GMT -5
So I've been holding onto this discussion topic for a while:
What's the worst pick up line you've heard?
I got to thinking about this because way, waaay, back before Christmas I'm in the grocery store minding my own business. I had to reach in front of this guy to get something off the shelf, "Excuse me."
What do I suddenly hear? "I know what I want for Christmas."
It was a new one on me.
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DTH
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Post by DTH on Jan 9, 2009 16:47:37 GMT -5
ha ha ha! I love chat up lines. They are the most awesome jokes  But, don't be too harsh on people who use them, it can be pretty nerve racking to break the ice. I never used one myself, not even as a joke. Although, thinking about it, I actually kinda did once, in a roundabout way. It is pretty embarrassing. But I suppose I'll throw it out there to at least demonstrate how hard it can be to be funny when entertaining new ladies... I was in a bar (of course) and, having ingested a bit _too_ much dutch courage, I sat down with these two girls. An acquaintance I barely knew decided to be my wingman (that was weird enough) and so we both chatted away to our respective ladies. I actually started out ok with the usual "So what do you do?", general getting to know you small talk. It seemed to be going well, so I decided to crack a joke. This lady asked me my name, so I wittily replied "My friends call me Titan!" ... she didn't find it funny. |
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Post by orangejesus on Jan 10, 2009 10:02:59 GMT -5
Hmm. . . I did once hear a guy open a conversation, with a woman he did not know, by quoting the opening statement of Law & Order, then adding "but I could represent you all by myself." To this day, I don't know what that means.
As for my personal favorites, I'm partial to introducing myself as the guy who designed Easter Island or by informing whomever I'm speaking with that "I know I don't look like the smartest guy in the room, but I'm very good at arithmetic."
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jan 12, 2009 13:42:05 GMT -5
I can honestly say I was never one to use pickup lines, nor ever had any good ones used on me. But I know two women -- one friend, one ex-girlfriend -- who both display an inexplicable vulnerability to the cheesiest lines I've ever heard. You know the type- "Are you tired? Because you've been running through my mind all evening" or "Your daddy must have been a burglar, because it looks like he stole the stars from the sky and put them in your eyes." One of them told me, dead serious, how impressed she was when a casual acquaintance shook her hand and, while doing so, said "I guess I must make you pretty nervous, huh?" When she asked "Why?", he replied "Because you're shaking!"
......yeah.
-D
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Post by shansurri on Jan 13, 2009 11:56:20 GMT -5
I don't know about the worst line, but I'll tell you the BEST line I've ever had used on me, and also the best line I've ever heard. Years ago (back when it was worth trying out pick up lines on me-- now men are too afraid I'll go for it) I was racing my horse back to the trailer to change from English to Western clothing and tack. In the interest of helping everyone but Sue understand (she already knows) sometimes classes at shows require different outfits. It's like being in a play, and having to do a quick change. ANYYyyyyyyyywaaayyyy.... This boy shows up and offers to hold my horse. I agree, dive into the trailer, change into Western motif, and leap fully formed and covered back into the saddle. As I begin to ride away, a voice behind me says, "Hey, miss?" I turned back, and he says, "Your hair shines like gold in the sun." Best pickup line I've ever heard-- and if that 8 yr old had been legal age, I'da been ALL over him......  ;D |
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Post by dex on Jan 13, 2009 13:23:35 GMT -5
Best pickup line I've ever heard-- and if that 8 yr old had been legal age, I'da been ALL over him...... That's one way to look at it. Or you could say you were too old even then... This serves as my evil deed for the day, my welcoming you to the forums and as a transition to Horrible Pick Up Line In A Movie: when Bill Murray compares Andie MacDowell to wine that improves with aging. Terribly pretentious and quite unfitting. |
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Post by pfrsue on Jan 13, 2009 13:38:31 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this qualifies, and if he reads this, I'm dead meat, but . . .
Many many moons ago, when my firstborn was still of a size to sit in a shopping cart seat, he'd wait until we were in the check out line, smile brightly at the cashier (whether she was 16 or 106--didn't matter) and say, "My name is [insert first, middle and last name here] and I think you're beautiful. Would you like a phone number?"
I suppose it was a good thing that when they took him up on his offer, he gave them a random number, usually only two or three digits long.
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Post by Rett Mikhal on Jan 13, 2009 23:23:48 GMT -5
I don't understand this strange concept of 'pick-up lines'. Picking up what, exactly? How can a line of dialog physically move something besides the air vibrating at the frequency needed to make sounds into words? How does this relate to Protoculture?
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jan 14, 2009 0:08:24 GMT -5
It's probably best you just leave it to the big kids, son. Don't concern yourself with such things.
-D
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Post by BlackCatWhiteCat on Jan 14, 2009 2:45:17 GMT -5
[insert Turing Test joke here]
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Post by thewhiteknight on Jan 15, 2009 19:30:16 GMT -5
Pickup Lines only work if you aren't serious. But my fav:
"If I told you you had a nice body, would you hold it against me?"
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jan 15, 2009 22:50:20 GMT -5
There's always my personal favorite, "I lost my phone number, can I have yours?"
The closest any girl I've dated ever came to using a pickup line on me was when I was working at Princeton U.'s athletic facility the summer after graduation. A girl I'd never seen before introduced herself as also working there and asked if it was true that another coworker and I accidentally walked in on two alumni having sex in a meeting room during Reunions. To which I could only reply, "Yes, sadly that is all too true. Er... so would you like to go see a movie or something sometime...?"
Thank you, drunken alumni.
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Post by drew on Jan 16, 2009 3:15:57 GMT -5
There's always my personal favorite, "I lost my phone number, can I have yours?" The closest any girl I've dated ever came to using a pickup line on me was when I was working at Princeton U.'s athletic facility the summer after graduation. A girl I'd never seen before introduced herself as also working there and asked if it was true that another coworker and I accidentally walked in on two alumni having sex in a meeting room during Reunions. To which I could only reply, "Yes, sadly that is all too true. Er... so would you like to go see a movie or something sometime...?" Thank you, drunken alumni. -D The Ivy League athletics nerd has to ask... Jadwin or Dillon? Yale volleyball owns Dillon. 2008 Ivy League Champions! |
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jan 16, 2009 21:45:34 GMT -5
Dillon. (Although I spent every day after middle school and high school at Jadwin... dad's one of the track coaches.) As for volleyball, feh... Yale can have it. Come see me if they ever manage to win Heps. -D |
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Post by theprettydead on Jan 24, 2009 12:07:16 GMT -5
"Wassup? How'z about me 'n you get to doin' somethin'-somethin', y'know what I'm sayyan'?!"
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But, don't be too harsh on people who use them, it can be pretty nerve racking to break the ice. 
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