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- ... we are
- meeting again this year at Englishtown (same place...next year?)
-
- After going to the trouble of thinking up an original opening line, the most
- common responses are:
-
- "Do you come here often?"
- and
- "Where do you live?"
-
-
- My favorite "famous line" is one that appeared in this very newsgroup some
- months ago:
-
- "I'd really like to lick apricot brandy out of your navel."
-
- Other opening lines that I have heard recently (that are famous or near-famous):
-
- "Hi. I'm Big Brother. I've been watching you..."
- "Where have you been all my life?"
-
- And one that I used recently, as I was standing next to a woman looking out the
- window at Rochester's first snowstorm:
-
- "Would you like to join me in the Bahamas next week?"
-
- My only defense is that it was said in a way that made it clear that I wasn't
- serious and that seemed like the thing to say at the time... (She said yes, by
- the way).
-
- "Would you like to see my Congressional Medal of Honor?"
- ...then, after fumbling with finding it,
- "Oops! I must have left it at home."
-
- This can only be used in certain situations, but it worked on me: "You shouldn't
- run around looking like that or one of us sex-starved young men might attack
- you." This was said with a grin. I was wearing a halter top with a blouse open
- over it and jeans. He didn't attack, but we ate dinner together and were good
- friends through college.
-
- Think you can dance in those shoes?
- (Nice, macho line. Works best on mean women you've seen once or twice before,
- instead of "Have I seen you somewhere?")
-
- Ok, you can stand next to me, as long as you don't talk about the heat! (From
- "Body Heat". Perfect if you've obviously gone waaay out of your way to talk to a
- woman standing somewhere else.)
-
- Did you have a color television when you were a kid?
- (Flesh this out with the old "settle an argument" trick, ask her what color Fred
- Flintstone's dog Dino is. This has *never failed* to generate further
- conversation.)
-
- You're "no parking", aren't you?
- (Another two-parter. Explain that you're trying to guess her sign. This is so
- stupid that it's almost bulletproof in the right kind of bars.)
-
- Excuse me, I don't want you to think I'm ridiculous or anything, but you are the
- most beautiful woman I have ever seen. I just felt like I had to tell you.
- (Then walk away!! Casual sincerity is crucial. Next time you walk by, you can
- go for something mundane: "What's your name, occupation, have you lived in
- fooville long, etc". This works best on well-scrubbed ex-cheerleader types.)
-
- The cutest one I've ever gotten (from my current girlfriend) was after our first
- date. She got up and turned off the light, and then said,
-
- "Why don't you surprise your roommate and not come home tonight?"
-
- One that I'm stealing from "Red Bricks", an op-ed comic strip formerly seen at
- Purdue, is:
-
- "What's your blood type?"
-
- "I'm into semiology. What's your sign?"
-
- My favorite lines:
-
- In the produce department, "How can you tell if these things are ripe?"
-
- At the laudromat, "How much bleach should I put in with my good suit?"
-
- "You don't sweat much for a fat girl."
-
- "Hey, doll, is this guy boring you? Try me instead! I'm from a different
- planet!"
- -Zaphod Beeblebrox, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
-
- Once, I was in a coffee shop and while the waitress was pouring my cup of coffee
- she said, "Say when." Response: "As soon as I finish this coffee." All it got me
- was a nasty look.
-
- I liked the pick up lines used in the movie Gregory's Girl:
-
- "You know when you sneeze, it comes out of your nose at a hundred miles per
- hour. Choo! just like that." and, "D'ya know how they make veal? They hang babay
- calves upsode down and slit them from top to bottom and let the blood drip out."
-
- Needless to say, both were useless.
-
- We mustn't forget the one used by Les Nessman in WKRP: "Hi, I'm incredibly
- rich."
-
- Well, ok, I'll tell a story on myself. I once had a lover confide to me that
- she had had many men tell her that she had a beautiful smile, but that I was the
- first to tell her she had a "terrific grin". I guess it worked!
-
-
- overheard in a rural bar:
- "Hey, I know you! You were Miss Ohio last year, weren't you?"
-
- overheard on a NYC street:
- "Wow, I like your jeans. Did you design them yourself?"
-
- "What a lovely dog! Does it have a phone?"
-
- The next one maybe doesn't qualify, except as a counterexample. College
- cafeteria, enormeously long tables with benches for seating 40 on each side.
- Girl alone at one end of bench, no one else sitting at either side of the table.
- Prospective picker upper(?) approches, carrying tray with lunch.
- -"Excuse me, is this seat free?"
- Girl looks slowly over him, from head to toe, waits till he's almost ready to
- put tray down.
- -"No."
- Girl lowers her eyes back into book.
-
- "Lie down; I think I love you."
-
- "Want to go to my place for some data? 1600 BPI -- the good stuff!"
-
- Gee, you look like my sister
-
- For example, if you are italian, you would say:
-
- Want a little italian in you?
-
- Holds true for whatever ethnic group you belong to.
-
- 'Course there's always "Your face or mine?"
-
- What's a nice girl like you doing on a face like this?
-
- >We at the NA40 Institue for Advanced Research in Pop Culture have come
- >up with the following classick lines:
-
- >If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?
-
- >I can sense that you're a terrific lover, and it intimidates me a little.
-
- >Let's have breakfast together; shall I call you or nudge you?
-
- >If I weren't so romantic, I'd shoot you.
-
- >I can't help noticing that you left your peas.
-
- >The first time I saw you, I could sense that there was a strong emotional
- bond between the two of us.
-
- >Isn't my father your tax attorney?
-
- >I bet you have delicious thighs.
-
- >If you went swimming with me, I'd lick you dry.
-
- >Do you believe in love at first sight? How about the synchronocity of
- multiple orgasms?
-
- >You've got the bluest eyes I've ever seen.
-
- >My lenses turn dark in the sunshine of your love. [from the forthcoming album]
-
- >My friend and I have a fifty-cent bet that you won't take off your blouse in a
- public place.
-
- >I only have a month to live, and I feel like I've never really lived before.
-
- >My appendix is about to burst, would you drive me to the hospital?
-
- >I've just received government funding for a four-hour expedition to find your
- G-spot.
-
- >Not only am I rude and tasteless and trying to get you into bed, but I'm also
- being paid for it.
-
- >Can you believe that just a few hours ago we'd never even been to bed together?
-
- >Have you ever had sex underwater?
-
- >You look remarkably like our gardener.
-
- >Shall I wait for you in my car or will the closet suffice?
-
- >I know a great way to burn off the 300 calories in that pastry you just ate.
-
- >I'm learning Latin; would you like to come home with me and help me practice
- oral declinsions?
-
- >Nothing you've ever done before counts. The only thing that matters now is
- that we're together.
-
- >I've been slightly depressed ever since my vasectomy.
-
- >Do you wanna fuck or do you have herpes?
-
- >You look nice and clean.
-
- >You've got nice tits; wanna fuck?
-
- >Alex Stein
- >Dave Niguidula
- >Eric Wolf
- >Bill Petty