The Origins
When I was in college, my roommates and I got tired of looking at the bare cinder block walls of our apartment.
So, we started writing down and hanging up all the cheesy pick-up lines we knew or had heard. Our friends and visitors contributed their own cheesy pick-up lines to the wall.
Pretty soon, our Pick-up Line Wall of Shame became something of a miniature tourist attraction in our apartment building.
As I was going through my quote file the other day—looking for something else entirely—I came across a rubber-banded bundle of paper that was the remains of the long-since dismantled wall of pick-up lines.
Because reading them made me laugh, I here present choice selections from the Pick-up Line Wall of Shame, circa 2003.
The Pickings
Will you hold me? I’m a fermata.
~Nathaniel
Is your name Visa? ‘Cause you’re everywhere I want to be.
If I said that you had a fine body, would you hold it against me?
If I were Peter Pan, you’d be my happy thought.
You are a peach. If we cantaloupe, lettuce marry. Weed make a swell pear.
Are your legs tired? Because you’ve been running through my mind all day.