Pick-Up Lines - Friend or Foe?

When initiating conversations, it may seem like a good idea to use a standard pickup line to avoid the effort of coming up with something genuine to say to a girl who interests you. It's a lot easier to just spout off a random line from your little book of openers, but is it really the best way to go? Your questions regarding pickup lines, shall now be answered.

Let's see...there are a few ways I could phrase things to tell you exactly what you need to know about pickup lines, but I think it would really be the most effective if I simply said:

Don't use them.

As clever as it may seem to make a crude comment about some part of her anatomy using a very lame (and utterly unoriginal) pun, it does not spark any attraction, unless it's so ridiculous that it's purely humor, and it's obvious that you are using it as such. No they're not astronaut pants. No, her daddy was not a carpenter. No, it didn't hurt when she fell from Heaven. Ok, so mayber her father WAS a carpenter...they're out there, but how much do you think it will endear you to her to poke fun using her father's profession?

But the point is, avoid pickup lines unless you're using them for pure comedic value, and it's obvious in your delivery that you're not seriously trying to pick her up by making a pun relating a judgmental rating to the name of a state. I don't care how funny you think it is, chances are very, very good that you are NOT going to get anything but scorn and ridicule by using these.

Pickup lines are corny. They're lame. They don't work, as a general rule. Stay away unless you're extremely sure of your ability to use them, and if that's the case you don't need them to get girls, as you've already unlocked the hidden vault within yourself that holds your most valuable possession: a good sense of humor.

The main other thing from this article that I want you to remember is that above most other priorities, you must not, I repeat NOT, seem desperate. Casual is the word. Funny is the word. Confident is the word. So what if there are a few "words?" They're important....and "desperate" is the word to avoid.