# Ideas For Great Opening Lines That You've Had

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-great-opening-lines-that-youve-had/302344>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 4, 2005, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-great-opening-lines-that-youve-had/302344 "2005-05-04T09:03:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-great-opening-lines-that-youve-had/302344/21 "2005-05-15T15:17:35Z")

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There is no direct route to Santa Fe. You can only fly as close as Albuquerque, and the train stops in Lamy. Even the interstate seems to shrug as it sidesteps the city that stopped keeping a calendar in 1967.

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**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-great-opening-lines-that-youve-had/302344/22 "2005-05-16T02:47:30Z")

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“So we pass her, no matter what the outcome?”

## “You ask me that as if we had choices. We don’t have choices left. We have to pass her.”

As I am sure is the entire flavor of this thread… its the one book you want to write, but the elements never shake out quite right. (Not to mention this was a Sci-fi/Fantasy plotline… thats not too overcrowded, not at all! :eek:

No, I don’t read too much Orson Scott Card, why do you ask?

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-great-opening-lines-that-youve-had/302344/23 "2005-05-16T02:58:37Z")

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“Dear Penthouse Forum. I know it sounds like I’m making this up, but it’s all true…”

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**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-great-opening-lines-that-youve-had/302344/24 "2005-05-16T03:00:26Z")

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The bugs on my windshield were having a better day than I expected this one to be for me.

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