Pickup lines that worked. (Sorry, Wetzelbill for the copycat, but I think it's fair.)

[Redstone]

Though the replies will be nowhere near as funny as the replies to your thread.

Not to be immodest, but I've actually had women pick me up, and I never minded that. Some that worked:

"You have beautiful hands."

"I'm a painter, and I want you to pose for a nude portrait." (She later claimed that she said that because I'm long-waisted.)

Another woman was sitting at a table with a group of people, and one of them was (I shit you not) one of those WWF-type "professional wrestlers." I'm not a small guy, but this dude was a fucking Man Mountain, with arms like legs, the mullet on his head, the lace-up boots, the whole bit. He walked up to me where I was sitting at the bar, and rumbled, "There's a lady over there who wants to dance with you." I explained to him that I don't dance, because I have a plastic kneecap, but tell her I said thank you very much anyway. Two minutes later, and he's coming back again, and I'm thinking, "OK, this is the part where I die." But he just re-rumbled, "You don't understand, she REALLY wants you to dance with her. And I think you should." So I said something on the order of "Yessir, yessir, three bags full, sir," and followed him to the table, and I'm glad I did. I ended up having a wonderful relationship for a while with a great woman, and if it weren't for the arrival of Mrs on the scene, might be with her yet.

But the best pickup line was no line at all, at least no verbal one. She sat next to me in a bar in New Jersey, and slipped her hand into my pants pocket. Nothing overtly sexual, just put her hand there and let me feel how warm it was against my leg. I ended up driving to Houston (from Philadelphia) a month later to find her, did, and lived with her for a year and a half.

Your stories?

Redstone

[anti-everything]

1. It's not a pick up line,

but the first time I hung out with the love of my life, I made her watch the uncut version of Caligula. When she didn't run screaming, I knew she was for me.

[Redstone]

3. Jesus, at least you learned that she doesn't have a strong gag reflex, didn't you?

That sort of thing comes in damn handy when you have kids and it's diaper-changing time.

Redstone

[anti-everything]

5. And she doesn't have much of a gag reflex...

[Ptah]

2. n/t

[Redstone]

4. Hey, we finally got some Spring around here. Now we get to see if this is the year that I can

actually get some poppies to grow.

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Ah, I don't have any pickup lines, my dear Redstone...

But I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed hearing your stories!

Those are awesome, and I think they tell me something very important about you...

You are a superb man, and any woman who gets her hands onto you is damn lucky, IMHO...

Jus' sayin...

:hug:

[Redstone]

7. Nah, it just says I spent a lot of time in bars when I was younger...the funny part is that

no matter HOW much I try, I simply CANNOT remember what I said to (the then-to-be) Mrs R when I was standing behind her in the line for breakfast at the hotel where we were both attending that tradeshow in California in 1989; but it must have worked a charm, yes?

Nor can I remember for the life of me the speech I made at our wedding, the speech that inspired one of my cousins to propose to his girlfriend on the spot after listening to me. But at least I know that it must have been damn good.

Redstone