Chuck wrote:
Ok Ok! I did the math, this one might work:
"Say, uh, did you know that the hair in your nostrils serves to protect against inhaling insects and other foreign particles? Yes, er,.. and BTW, your keratinized scales are resplendent in this 4000 Angstrom wavelength. How about we juxtapose our orbicularis orises?"
Nah! Tried that one. It never works, because I've never met anyone that knew what "scales" were.
And no, never officially married, and she had to seduce me.
Back to the "pick up lines". Even here, in full virtuality (sorry Sins, I can now begin to see the outline of the WC forming... does it need a door? I'm not fussed), I can't do that. I craft my words so carefully that I either a) say nothing, or b) say something so totally lopsidedly ambiguous that a unique "meaning" gets across, and it's not what I was trying to say.
Last time this cropped up was... around 2000... when I was propositioned, somewhat, by a 23 year-old. It took me a week to manage a hesitant "yes", by which time it was too late.
Talk about self-analytic... I invented the groundwork for the rigorous calculus of mind.
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