# Effective Pick-Up Lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effective-pick-up-lines/75370 "2001-08-07T22:50:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effective-pick-up-lines/75370/41 "2001-08-09T16:19:50Z")
The guy at the food stand (startled me, too, since there were like 8 girls around) started talking about pickup lines. One I thought was funny was to walk up to a girl, pinch a bit of her shirt (not her!) and rub it a little and ask “Say, is this felt?”. After she responds no, say, “Well, now it is!” _snicker_ Or the ever classic “Get over here, biatch” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effective-pick-up-lines/75370/42 "2001-08-09T16:26:39Z")
Ooh! I had one work a couple of weeks ago. I was dancing/flirting with a girl, and another group of girls asked if I would dance with them (apparently I was emitting large doses of male pheremones, because I don’t know WHERE that came from). I declined, saying that I was busy flirting with the girl I was dancing with. In my experience, if you let the girl know that you are flirting with her, the better your chances. But you have to do so in a playful manner. For instance, if at any point the two of you are holding hands/dancing close/face touching/etc., refer to her jokingly as your girlfriend. When she denies that you’re not dating her, ask her, “Then what was up with all that hand holding/dancing close/face touching/etc.?!?” I swear to God that this has worked. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effective-pick-up-lines/75370/43 "2001-08-09T17:11:55Z")
I was standing in line at an ice cream counter at some food court at some mall in Minneapolis. There was a beautiful- I mean stunning- I mean drop-dead gorgeous woman in front of me. I remembered recently being told that “you regret the things you didn’t do more than the things you did.” So, I screwed my courage to the sticking point, tapped her on the shoulder, cleared my throat, and smiled at her as she turned around. She smiled back. I thought, ‘Woohoo!’ “Excuse me, but do you like chips?” She raised one eyebrow questioningly. “Do I li-” “Because I’m Frito-Lay,” I quickly interrupted. She paused, tilted her head quizzically, then smacked me with a slap so forceful that it spun Casanova over in his grave. She stormed off, choosing not to purchase any ice cream. I stood there, blinking at the shock, and bought my ice cream. For the life of me, to this day I can’t figure out where I went wrong. I mean, Frito-Lay! It’s a priceless line! ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effective-pick-up-lines/75370/44 "2001-08-10T01:09:30Z")
I once had a college crush track me down at a local pub. She snuck up on me, put her feet in my lap and with a playful look asked me if I had time to help her with P-Chem. Duh. I sucked at P-Chem. So what do I do? “Uh, I would, but I’m meeting friends in a few minutes. Besides I think so&so knows much more than I do.” Yeah, ‘so&so wasn’t a dumbass like Waverly. At least that mistake didn’t earn me a beer shower. Rule of thumb: never invite two different girls out for drinks on the same night, at the same bar. They were good sports… they _laughed_ as they threw every drink in sight at me. But hey, as **LNO** said, better to take flight and crash and burn than sit on the tarmac. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effective-pick-up-lines/75370.md?page=2)