When a person you are trying to pick up asks you what do you do.....

[WCGreen]

What do you say....

Over the years I have replied...

Why I write those letters for Penthouse, you know the one's that start out I never thought I'd be writing to you.....

Those are all mine.....


Or then I have replied, I am deep undercover, would you like to join me.....

Or, What would you like me to do......

[Droopy]

1. I don't try to pick up anybody

But if I did and they asked me that I'd just be honest. I'm a truck driver. And no I don't make a lot of money, but my charm and good looks should count for something, right?

[BikeWriter]

19. I have told women I was independently wealthy...

and working my ass off as a hobby. Mostly I told the truth.

[Richardo]

50. That's hilarious, BikeWriter

:rofl:

[BikeWriter]

59. Thank you, Pard. I enjoy making people laugh.

It works with the women, too. :)

[tigereye]

55. you are a sweet and honest person, D

that is very cool

:thumbsup:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. These are all very smart-ass answers, my dear WC!

And quite appropriate as well, IMHO....

Did you REALLY? omigod....

:rofl:

[WCGreen]

3. Oh yes, I was quite the stud in the old days.....

right.......

[KitchenWitch]

4. "I hit on people for a living"

:evilgrin:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. How's that working out for you?

:shrug:

[WCGreen]

14. Worked okay actually

About 50% of the time......

[expatriot]

6. "What do I do? Oh, it's not what you do today that matters,

it's what you do tomorrow that matters. I know what I'm going to do tomorrow and the next day and the next year and the year after that. I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm going to see the world. Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, the Colosseum. Then I'm coming back here and go to college and see what they know . . . and then I'm going to build things. I'm gonna build air fields. I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high. I'm gonna build bridges a mile long."

[WCGreen]

8. But then you should say.....

But I'm free tonight.....

(Good answer BTW, sounds like a speech from the howard hughes movie)

[expatriot]

21. "But, George, they'll vote with Potter otherwise."

Guess again.

[WCGreen]

23. I should have realized that..........

Wasn't thinking about that... not christmas and all.....

[hfojvt]

27. I want the moon

Do you have your lasso handy?

I hate that they make that a "Christmas movie". The movie's not "It's a wonderful Christmas".

[LastKnight]

7. as little as possible

cause life is about livin, not workin.

thats what i say, honestly. but im a college student, and anyone im interested in is the same, so that question has never come up.

[WCGreen]

10. Cool answer....

[hfojvt]

30. too many of my co-workers feel that way

Even as a college student I worked. I mean that I studied, not that I worked my way through college. Okay I played alot of 500, Risk, and watched alot of TV too, but when I wasn't studying, I was worrying about the next test.

[LastKnight]

36. dont get me wrong,

i do my studying, but when im done, im done. i dont do that overpreperation stuff. get what i need to understand it, and then chill. theres something to be said about a little relaxation.

this coming from a kid who did homework on friday nights and all day saturday every week last year. only reason i stopped at saturday was i usuially ran out of it... youre options for passing time are limited for the party days when you dont drink...

[enigmatic]

9. I always said I'm a starving artist

Because I mostly was; when I owned my restaurant I just said I was a starving Restaurateur..

[WCGreen]

12. Did it work.....

[enigmatic]

16. 50/50

depending on whether I belived my own BS at the time:)

[WCGreen]

18. Really that has a lot to do with it......

[tigereye]

56. great

:rofl:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

11. I say I'm God. Otherwise known as an IT Consultant .........

[WCGreen]

17. That's ah, real good..... bet it works all the time......

I'd say hey I'm crazy, wanna guggen my heim

[Crazy Guggenheim]

20. HA! Sometimes, with a very straight face I ask them why they

didn't bow?

:popcorn:

[WCGreen]

22. That's the topper......

You slay me...

[expatriot]

13. "I harvest organs from otherwise living people. " nt

[WCGreen]

15. That's what I'm talking about people

[expatriot]

24. Do? What do I do? **lightheartedly**How about I do you?**friendly smile**

Is that better?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Over the line? well...*um* er uh...

HELL YES, IT WAS OVER THE LINE!

good grief....

:wtf:

[WCGreen]

26. Just slightly....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. Much better....much less over the line......

Thanks!

[SarahB]

28. Honesty usually works best.

Then again, I'm so normal, I'm weird (around here anyway). :crazy:

[expatriot]

29. "Right now, I am a telemarketer but I am in between professions.....

....hey, why are you walking away? You forgot your drink!"

No, sorry... honesty wouldn't work for me right now if I were on the prowl.

[SarahB]

31. Not every woman is shallow.

Not every attractive woman is shallow. I'd rather be with an honest man with a lousy job than a man with an ok job who lied about it to make himself appear more impressive. Then again, if you're just looking to get laid and you don't care about her character either, go for it. :shrug:

[WCGreen]

34. Good point....

But usually they realized I was kidding....

I mean honestly, who would write letters for Penthouse.....

[expatriot]

38. if you lie about your profession you aren't looking for anything else

other than getting laid, right? I mean I am sure there are exceptions but how long could you pull off a relationship lying about what you do. People can be so gullible, non-analytical, etc. that I am sure people have pulled off the charade and years but you'd have to be pretty hollow inside. And, for the record, I've never lied about my current employment in order to get laid. As for my current employment, my wife knows full well where I work.

[SarahB]

39. Very cool!

Glad she knows. :thumbsup:

I'm sort of touchy on the honesty thing I guess. I just find it to be really important. :)

[WCGreen]

40. Come on SB, do you really think someone would believe

I wrote letters for Penthouse....

[SarahB]

41. Hey, there are some amazing writers in our midst.

One never knows. :D

[WCGreen]

42. Well, it worked for me but before we got home she knew

I was an inventory clerk in a major midwestern university.....

[hickman1937]

33. I tell them the truth. I'm an hourly Ford worker.

A shop rat. It only backfires if they meet my family and find out that I'm the black sheep.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

35. Check your PM...

[the_spectator]

37. Architect

or "importer-exporter."

Those are cool.

[In_The_Wind]

43. I tell them the truth.

Fiction is lovely to read ...

or share together ...

if you both like reading the same type of fantasy ...


But anything less than total honesty ...

is insulting!



BTW ... I LOVED reading your letters to Penthouse

*giggling ~ as I skip off to the kitchen to fix my coffee*

[WCGreen]

45. You're the one.....

[In_The_Wind]

46. ~ thank you ...

[Lilith Velkor]

52. I write fantasy

That's the truth, even though I don't make a living at it. (Those letters to Hustler are me.)

[In_The_Wind]

53. Writing 'fantasy' must be very exciting!

I would be interested in reading some of it.

[datasuspect]

44. i've been a disbarred attorney

defrocked priest

"applications developer"

renegade accountant

photojournalist freshly back from tibet (works best in granola-people venues)

[tigereye]

57. renegade accountant

ha ha

[Patiod]

47. I had a short guy ask me if I were a basketball player

(he had alerted his friends that he was going to mess with the Tall Girl, which made it worse)

"So, are you a basketball player?"
"No, why, are you a jockey?"

His friends tortured him mercilessly all night.

You so don't mess with the Tall Girl about her height. Like Cyrano, I've heard all the comments, and I've got a comeback for all of them.

Had two South Philly greasers comment, walking by me at the Amazon Club, that I must be one of the Amazons. "Yeah, and I'm guessing you two are pygmies".

Note: My policy is to never bust on short men unless they start on me first.

[no name no slogan]

48. I just say, "why do you hate America?"

[tjdee]

49. I'd rather know who someone IS, not what they do. Who cares what they do?

I find that question mildly offensive (but I expect it), depending on when it comes in the conversation. If the most interesting thing to talk with me about is my job, I'm not that interesting, am I.

What someone *does* for their work is not the same as who they *are*. The "What do you do" thing is kind of a fakeout--just because someone's a lawyer, doesn't mean he's all John Grishamy or in any way worth knowing. Using a job as social currency, I'm not particularly into.

Though, I'm getting older and I have a kid, so I guess I kind of do care what they do. I mean, I'm not looking to hook up with a crank dealer or some guy living on the street (while he's living on the street).

[seemunkee]

51. "About what?"

[skygazer]

54. And how have those answers worked out for you?

Not good, I'd imagine. :)

[WCGreen]

58. Actually, all of those lines were spur of the moment

comebacks to steer the night away from so what do you do....

What do you do....

Kind of crap....

And yes, they were successful when I let them fly....

I am charming when I want to be....

I know they could sound snarky to some, but with my winning smile and my total look of buffoonery at the moment of delivery, no one in their right mind would take those lines seriously.....

[khashka]

60. I usually answer

"Whatever I can get away with without getting arrested...."

or

"I'd rather show you than tell you"

or

"I'm a secret agent lover man"


Khash.

[Joe Chi Minh]

61. A bloke I knew in the army didn't

comment on any kind of ocupation, but told girls his name was Marmaduke Fishkins Wixall and that he lived in a disused railway carriage; the intention being to play on their maternal instincts.

Of course, after twenty-five years of far-right misgovernment, such accommodation would be highly coveted by all too many of us, and indeed probably viewed as something of a "bijou residence".

He was recruited by the SAS, and I suspect would have slightly more appeal on that basis - though, for a variety of reasons their marriages tend to be fraught and short-lived.

[TomInTib]

62. I'm a sales rep - sex toys and bibles, mostly...

[kodi]

63. i have said "What I do does not define who I am"

it worked.