“Your dad must be baker, ’cause you’ve got a nice set of buns”, “Wanna come sit on my lap and see what pops up?” and so many many more of cringe-inducing hiliarity. I love pickuplines for their crazy ideal that saying it might get you to score a chick. The strong drive to have sex is posed against the silly and lame desperation of the pickupline. It works so well, and makes me laugh whenever I read them. I’ve not used one yet, but I think here’s a way to make them work.
Here’s the deal: hot/cute chick sitting at the bar. You want to strike up a conversation and break the ice, but there’s no apparent observation to launch one. By all means don’t start talking about the weather. Either you wait for a chance or climb into your brain to find something to say. You might not have the time. Get up there and crack a pickupline… but wait! Before you do it. In my opinion pickuplines aren’t about the content, but about the delivery. If you can make something already silly, funny and cute or intentionally corny, I think it might work. Everyone’s knows pickuplines suck, but you should convey that. Make a silly face or laugh at yourself.
Alas, this post is probably futile, for I’m giving advice on something that I haven’t done yet. I’ve not yet struck up the courage to crack a pickupline. Perhaps I’ll do it soon and I’ll let you guys know. What’s your opinion on pickuplines? Does it work? Will the delivery change anything?
Before I go, I need to share my very own pickupline. I’m so proud of it that I immediately had to put it on Twitter. Here it is: “Hey, you must be a Nokia user, ’cause I’m gonna Knock-Ya up”. HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR! HOHOHOHOH! HAHAHAHAHA! Ok, it’s crude and really lame and needs a little bit of tongue twisting, but I liked it.
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Try it some time, it’s really a lot of fun.
A few years back a friend and myself decided we’d see if pick up lines are any good so off we went to Bourbon Street, armed with a few. The friend chickened out but I tried one that said something about…me being a ball and the dude could score…and I ended up making one of my best friends because of it.
I mean, even if that doesn’t happen at least it’s something to laugh at later :)
Yeah, that’s what I reckon as well. You’ve got nothing to lose… perhaps a sore cheek from a slap, but mostly people will laugh at it.