Pick-up Lines Used for Dating, Do They Work or Should They Stop?

"Men use pick-up lines to break the ice," author Stacey L. Moor explained to the Chicago Relationships Examiner, Shamontiel. "Either they're going to get a desirable reaction or they're going to get none."

And that comment was what led me to ask, "Do these pick-up lines work?" Women like myself roll their eyes constantly and call men corny for using these lines. Whatever happened to "Excuse me?" "What's your name?" "How are you doing?"

"'What's your name?' 'What's your sign?'" Moor repeated. "That never works. The best pick-up lines have to be original. It has to be extremely funny and extremely outlandish."

And some of the pick-up lines Moor shared with Shamontiel were indeed outlandish.

"You can't be smiling at me like that unless you're gonna give me some," was the line Moor said his brother used to get a lady's attention. "She starts cracking up, next thing you know her hand is on his arm, she's talking to him...she wrote her number down on a napkin."

Moor also laughed about another pick-up line his brother used in order to get a woman. He sat down at a table with her and some friends and said, "Oh, so once you f-k a brother, you just forget you know him." And from that line, according to Moor, the woman left the club with the brother, amused at his bold behavior.

And since it worked, Moor, who claims to have only used a pick-up line once in his life, used the one about smiling too.

"You damned straight," he laughed. "You remember s-t like that." However, Moor admits that using the line "didn't work the same as it worked for [my brother]."

Brandon Frame, instructor and social entrepreneur, also had original examples to add to the pick-up lines collection.

"I have heard all kinds of pick-up lines...'If I were a booger, I would pick you first,' to 'Hey, I like you," Frame said. "In some cases, both can work."

But is a pick-up line legitimate? How would a woman know when a guy is giving her a pick-up line that's not outlandish and when he really means it sincerely? For example, the line about "Hey, I like you," could sincerely mean that the guy is interested in that woman.

"When a guy approaches a woman to begin with, it is solely based off of looks and looks alone, especially if when he approaches you, it takes place in a club atmosphere," Frame said. "I think to gauge [whether he really likes you] would actually come after the initial pick-up. Does he talk to you for five minutes before he actually asks for the phone number? I think this is the key to show if he is at least somewhat interested past your looks."

There's only so much a guy can say about looks before having to have an actual conversation with the woman. And at a place like a nightclub, chances are slim that the guy is going to have a deep conversation about politics, the family, or social events. Sometimes it may be difficult for someone to tell whether the guy is hunting for a one-night stand, to get the number and go, or is he really trying to get to know her.

Although it may take a few dates, if any at all, to find out the truth, Frame does have some advice for women at clubs.

"A woman should always watch and see if, after he speaks to you and you give him your number, he runs game on other women in the club," he said. "That is also a good indicator if [his] initial come-on to you was legitimate."