This week's question is
What are the best pickup lines for scientists and science-savvy folk?
Asking a geek this question is like asking a McDonald's chef for the recipe. Geeks don't pull. Or maybe, that's just me. Besides, I was married for nearly 20 years and I'm well out of practice. But for my money, the pickup line a woman would get me with (apart from "Are you busy?") would be:
"Would you like to find a table and discuss species concepts?"
Actually, a very nice woman asked me just that, but to my mild dismay, she actually wanted to discuss species concepts...
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I'll go narrow-church: low mutational load baby, look beyond the proximate and focus on the ultimate.
"Is that a new species emerging in your pocket are are you just pleased to see me?"
Oh, no. So if I asked you your opinion of species concepts, you'd think I was hitting on you?
This is going to put a chill on our future conversations, you know.
I dunno. Wanna recombine our DNA? Any pickup line that doesn't get me hit or arrested is a good one.
I dunno about science pickup lines, but I once knew a graduate student in music theory who, when he went to a bar, used to spread out his Schenker graphs (the approximate musical equivalent of diagramming sentences) all over his table in hopes of attracting music theorists of the female variety.
No word on whether he succeeded.
I have actually picked up girls, after performing the Beta oxidation rhyme/song in drunken conversation, it works. One of them was another friends date at a formal dinner . . . . . that did not turn out so well in the end.
you can get it here
http://www-biology.ucsd.edu/classes/bibc102.SP06/songs/song-tavern.html
Seeing as I don't hang around physics types, I can't ever see myself giving this one a try:
"Say, isn't that Schoerdinger's Dress you're wearing -- and I don't suppose there's a chance that perhaps later on I might get to collapse your waveform?"
Yeah, I know. LAAAAAME.
Don't worry, Paul. You aren't my type. I'd only talk species concepts with you anyway. Even if you were trying to get into my pants...
Schroedinger's dress, huh? Now that's a mental picture. Kink-eeeee!!!
Remains to be seen if it will ever replace the black lace teddy, though........
Thing about Schroedinger's dress, though, is that it's very hard to buy. You don't know if it's in the box or not until you open it.
To paraphrase Woody Allen in "Crimes and Misdemeanors":
"Do you want to exchange ideas or bodily fluids?"
"Don't worry, I've worked through my physics envy."