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What’s the worst pick-up line you’ve ever tried or heard? What was the best?
Editor’s note: Two responses to this question came up so many times that they deserve special note. The first: At least two dozen people cited this as the worst pcik-up line ever: “Are your legs tired? Because you’ve been running around my mind all night.” And the second: At least that many women insisted that the best line is some variation of, “Hi, my name is ____, and I wanted to meet you.”
The worst is “Hey can I borrow a quarter? My mom told me to call her when I fall in love.”
“Do you know karate? Cause that body’s kicking!”
Worst: “Your father must have been a thief: He stole the stars from the heavens and put them in your eyes.”
Worst: “If you were yogurt would you be fruit at the bottom or stirred.” Best: “I’m in a band.”
Worst: “Nice shoes, wanna f**k?” Best: “Hi, my name is (insert name), and I’ll be going home with you tonight.”
Best: Someone told me that they wrote the screenplay for the movie
Beer Pong. I don’t even know if there is such a movie or if it really needed a
screenwriter, but I gave him points for originality.
“Didn’t you used to babysit my best friend?”
My guy friend likes to use, “You’re almost as pretty as my mom.” I like that one.
The best was my ex, he told me my eyes were mezmerizing.
I’m a ginger, so anytime a dude says he has a “thing” for redheads, I get a little skeeved out. I try real hard to resist the urge to retort with, “Well, maybe you’ll find one someday who has a ‘thing’ for creeps and live happily ever after.”
Bad: “Do you wanna fuck or do I owe you an apology?” Good: “How was your day?”
“Do you work for UPS? Cause I saw you checking out my package.”
This article appears in Mar 3-9, 2010.