# Bad questions / conversation starters for a first date. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954 "2004-01-25T04:40:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Intent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5e9695/32.png) [@Intent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intent)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/21 "2004-01-26T05:40:00Z")
Taken from a dilbert comic… “You know, some people say you should stop dating when you marry a mob boss.” ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/22 "2004-01-26T06:02:07Z")
Has anyone ever told you about Amway? If a cop asks you where I was last night, would mind saying your place? Would you mind picking up the check? My bookie hasn’t paid me yet and my goddamned child support payments are eating up my cash. Do you want to plant the dead fly in your food or should I? ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/23 "2004-01-26T06:03:12Z")
Hey, I hope this isn’t too forward or anything, but would you mind if we just go and have a quickie in the bathroom? I’m parked in a handicapped space, and I feel bad for all the cripples I’m making wait. So, Azerbaijani reform politics…yay or nay? Hey, I had a unibrow once too! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/24 "2004-01-26T14:12:30Z")
“Just so you know where things stand, if anything developes between us, it’s going to be Smack first, you second.” “Do you mind if we make a quick stop before dinner? I need to pick up my herpes medicine.” “You know, I’ve heard a lot of good things about skull fucking…” ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/25 "2004-01-26T14:45:31Z")
“see these lumps? theyre the spiders underneath my they started moving again last night. I hope they dont go in my brain again.” “do you like dead things?” “…and thats why I can never work with children again…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/26 "2004-01-26T14:53:39Z")
damnit! Spiders under my **skin!** preview paul, preview! ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/27 "2004-01-26T15:16:46Z")
Some of these are pretty funny, but how many of you have actually had them said to you? Mine are all genuine, I’m proud to say. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/28 "2004-01-26T15:57:07Z")
My three favorite hobbies are bedwetting, starting fires, and hurting small mammals. What are yours? ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/29 "2004-01-26T16:15:20Z")
> [@KidCharlemagne](#): > > My three favorite hobbies are bedwetting, starting fires, and hurting small mammals. What are yours? i wonder if anyone else will get that. ---
**Author:** ![katerina2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce73a5/32.png) [@katerina2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katerina2)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/30 "2004-01-26T16:19:59Z")
True: "So, do you have any medical conditions? No? Well let me tell you about mine. I have this disease, it’s genetic, it’s called blahblahblahblah, and it means my blood doesn’t clot very well, so if I get a bruise, it can pretty much send me to the hospital. My son has it too. So he can’t play any contact sports or anything. My ex-wife, Mary, she got pretty bent out of shape when I started playing paintball. But, you know, she’s my ex-wife now, so I don’t have to care what she thinks about it. It was one of the ways she was trying to control me and manipulate me. […] No, I think you are still a Christian. You may think that you aren’t a believer any more, but in your heart of hearts you know you are one. I’ve had whole years when I haven’t talked to God, and the way I see it… […] Oh yeah, and one last thing [this is 2 hours of him doing all the talking while slobbering up vodka and tonics as if they were water] I have a half sister. My dad, he got a girl in town pregnant. They were having an affair, and then he broke up with her. Turns out that her husband divorced her because of it, and my dad never paid child support, never owned the kid until about three years ago, but that was why we went to live with my grandparents for a couple of weeks when I was five, and I am really angry about it, and really ashamed. I mean, there were rumors in high school that she was our sister, and apparently, my sister knew about it because my mother told her in high school. In HIGH SCHOOL! Can you believe she dumped that on a teenager? I have been feeling really angry about it So what do you think I should think about it? That’s ok, you can be my shrink [after I told him I don’t like to play shrink for people]. [later, in my apartment] I used to have a bookcase like that. Mary got it. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/31 "2004-01-26T19:39:39Z")
> [@sunfish](#): > > Some of these are pretty funny, but how many of you have actually had them said to you? Mine are all genuine, I’m proud to say. :rolleyes: It’s amusing to see absence of contrast between jokes and reality. However, your comment does leave open the question, **sunfish** : “Have you ever owned a pair of white go-go boots?” **Katerina2** , after that speech, how did he wind up in your apartment? ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/32 "2004-01-26T20:41:36Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > i wonder if anyone else will get that. As long as one person got it, it was all worth it baby! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/33 "2004-01-26T21:26:24Z")
“Although I truly am glad to see you, I’m afraid that **is** a gun in my pocket.” ---
**Author:** ![katerina2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce73a5/32.png) [@katerina2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katerina2)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/34 "2004-01-26T21:32:07Z")
> [@Billdo](#): > > **Katerina2** , after that speech, how did he wind up in your apartment? He was a good kisser. I didn’t give up hope until the bookcase comment. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/35 "2004-01-26T23:01:15Z")
> [@katerina2](#): > > He was a good kisser. I didn’t give up hope until the bookcase comment. I do hope you originally clamped your mouth over his to shut him up. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/36 "2004-01-27T00:11:02Z")
> [@Billdo](#): > > However, your comment does leave open the question, **sunfish** : “Have you ever owned a pair of white go-go boots?” NOOOOOOOOOOOO 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/37 "2004-01-27T00:45:44Z")
The following is true. Although it wasn’t a date, I said this: [seeing a girl walk by wearing red horns for Halloween] Me: “Horns, eh?” [girl begins walking faster] ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954/38 "2004-01-27T01:02:34Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > i wonder if anyone else will get that. ARound here? You can pretty much count on it. The real question is, how many others share those three interests! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-questions-conversation-starters-for-a-first-date/225954.md?page=1)