# Geek pick up lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892 "2005-03-10T20:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sweetfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@sweetfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweetfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/21 "2005-03-11T00:05:37Z")
> [@Keapon Laffin](#): > > Ooh, it looks like **sweetfreak** ’s ports are pretty easy to access. > If you guys don’t want to \*mount \* your hard drives, I’ll give it a shot. > 😃 How many gigabytes can your hard drive handle, hmm? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/22 "2005-03-11T00:06:44Z")
Hey, baby, how about you and me go paint the town #FF0000? ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/23 "2005-03-11T00:08:40Z")
> [@sweetfreak](#): > > _eyes glaze over_ > Would you both show me your hard drive? > _in a faraway, dreamy, sultry voice_😉 01000001 01100010 01110011 01101111 01101100 01110101 01110100 01100101 01101100 01111001 00101110 00100000 01010111 01101000 01101001 01101100 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01010010 01000001 01001101 00101110 ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/24 "2005-03-11T00:15:42Z")
> [@sweetfreak](#): > > How many gigabytes can your hard drive handle, hmm? 😉 Trust me, mines huge. Many other geeks are envious of my large… hard disk. So… your desktop or mine? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/25 "2005-03-11T00:18:46Z")
Would you like to see my data stick? ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/26 "2005-03-11T00:47:32Z")
> [@](#): > > **Keapon Laffin** said: > Only if I get to grep your directories and fork some processes. Long as you don’t try to spawn any child threads. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/27 "2005-03-11T00:50:35Z")
> [@catsix](#): > > Long as you don’t try to spawn any child threads. Yeah, well just don’t you turn into a daemon process. ---
**Author:** ![sweetfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@sweetfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweetfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/28 "2005-03-11T00:50:43Z")
> [@Keapon Laffin](#): > > Trust me, mines huge. Many other geeks are envious of my large… hard disk. > So… your desktop or mine? 😉 How about your “laptop”? 😉 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/29 "2005-03-11T00:52:16Z")
Hey baby, I’m gonna scan your ports and get my token through your firewall! Rowrrr! ---
**Author:** ![NillyWilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@NillyWilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NillyWilly)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/30 "2005-03-11T00:56:34Z")
Go away or I’ll replace you with a very small shell script. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/31 "2005-03-11T01:09:33Z")
Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo would work on the right girls. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/32 "2005-03-11T01:49:37Z")
Hey baby, what’s your THAC0? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/33 "2005-03-11T01:52:22Z")
Hey, baby, wanna hear me recite pi to a hundred digits…backwards? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/34 "2005-03-11T01:53:43Z")
And this has actually worked: Hey, baby, want me to show you how to multiply by base -1 in any base below 10 on your fingers? Oh, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/35 "2005-03-11T02:57:19Z")
> [@](#): > > **Monstre** said: > Yeah, well just don’t you turn into a daemon process. Don’t worry, I have a very user friendly interface, and I’m fully plug and play compatible. ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/36 "2005-03-11T03:06:36Z")
I was gonna try and come up with something involving rm -rf, but it was just too horrible . . . ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/37 "2005-03-11T03:07:30Z")
Is your network interface in promiscuous mode? ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/38 "2005-03-11T03:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > **Cleophus** said: > Is your network interface in promiscuous mode? I only allow connections from certain IPs. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/39 "2005-03-11T05:51:53Z")
> [@catsix](#): > > Don’t worry, I have a very user friendly interface, and I’m fully plug and play compatible. In that case, would you like me to fill your PCI slot with my upgrade? I have a new power supply that will keep me running all night long. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-pick-up-lines/293892/40 "2005-03-11T08:58:55Z")
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