There was a lad I knew who went into nightclubs, wandered up to the best looking girl he could see and said, "Hi. I'm Jeff. Wanna fuck?"
He would get rejected - sometimes very aggressively - nineteen times out of every twenty, but if there were more than twenty good looking girls in the club, he tended to end up going home with one.
Not one that I've ever tried, but it amuses me:-
"Excuse me Miss, I wonder if I could ask you a question? I'm doing a study on corny chat up lines, and I'd be grateful if you would listen to the following, three examples - and tell me which you think would be the most effective.
"1 - What's a nice girl like you doing in a dump like this?
"2 - If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? and
"3 - Excuse me Miss, I wonder if I could ask you a question? I'm doing a study on corny chat-up lines..."
Although what didn't work is sometimes more memorable (I've heard some doozies!) It's the out of the ordinary ones that stand out and at least held my attention a little longer:
"Your bracelets are pretty. Do you make your own jewelry?"
"Would you like to join me in a duet?" (Karaoke bar.)
The guy at the kareoke bar who carried the mike over to my table as he sang and got down on one knee during the chorus to the Beatles' "Michelle." (Oh, my fluttering heart!) (That was a banner evening.)
Honorable mention to the guy across the bar who just played eye contact games for about ten or fifteen minutes before coming over and introducing himself. He had a very nice smile.
Yes, I'm a flirt.
I can't say there is really one line that stands out but if someone doesn't know you at all and they come up to you and show some level of sincerity and honesty on whatever they say, that is the start in the right direction.
I knew a guy in university who we called Peter the Pig, I can't remember his last name but Peter appeared to be average in every way, except he knew how to talk to women and take them home. It was a nonstop parade of women with Peter, usually very beautiful women, except on Tuesdays because Peter reserved Tuesdays for ugly women because he said even ugly women should have a good time. This was not an arrogant thing, Peter was a kind hearted person, a genuinely nice guy and he just thought that it was fair.
I never learned just what he used for a pick up line but somehow I don't think he used a line, nobody ever heard him use a pick up line, he just talked to women, made them laugh and treated them with respect and they wanted to go home with him.
Ben Franklin said that men should not forget older women for they could be quite appreciative.
He wasn't wrong.
Excuse me, but does this rag smell like ether?
Oy!
Nice Shoes.
@John_Tyrrell "madam, i can see by your shoes, you have some sense. ?'
There's got to be a better phrase - what are you picking them up for - what are you picking them up from and what do you intend to do with them afterwards? I saw someone the other day picking up gutter trash - is it comparable?
Don't read so much into it. We are just having fun here.
Interesting thought about the trash pickup.
@SkagwayKim It's a terrible thought, but you wouldn't normally pick anything up unless it had been discarded and that raises a ton of other questions.
@SLBushway exactly! This line of thought requires more thought on my part.
Would I be an odd ball, if I said, I never heard one that worked? Here is funny story...during a hard time at the beginning of my divorce I was at a dance hall, where some friends and I often went! This guy was also in the middle of a break-up! And as we were talking over our terrible lot in life, he ask me to go with him, as our exes, were surely off having a great time of their own! At first I said no, but he finally convinced me, so we left the dance hall, and found a motel near-by! As he gets ready to get into the bed, I went to the restroom, and as I ponder the situation, I found that there was no way, I could do this! So I came out and told the guy, I simply couldn’t go through with this and he would need to get his money back for the room! He was on the mad side, now! So we went back to parking lot of the dance hall, where his car was parked and he jumped out and slammed my car door so hard, I was surprised it didn’t break something! End of story! I was never easy to p-up! Lol