A Nod to Thoreau, Emerson, and Dickinson (with apologies)
So I've been reading the Transcendentalists with my sophomores, and with Homecoming, a Sunday dinner conversation, and recent experience with bad pick-up lines, I have been inspired to present you the list of Transcendentalist pick-up and break-up lines:
Pick-up lines:
“I’m working on finding ultimate truth, but I lost my intuition. Can I have yours?”
“I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too?”
“I’d like to stop your heart from breaking.”
"My transparent eyeball detected you."
"Would you like to march to the beat of my drum?"
Break-up lines:
Thoreau: “I’m trying to simplify, and you just make life too complicated.”
Emerson: “It’s time for me to rely on myself. Sorry.”
Dickinson
I'm asking my students to submit some tomorrow, so hopefully I'll come up with something good out of there. I'm also happy to take any of your suggestions!
posted by KBush @ 3:33 PM
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5 Comments:
How about "You're name must be Dante because you're really hot."
Since I'm probably out of my league with the Transcendentalists, I'll give a historical psychological break-up line that no one that no one wants to hear...
Freud: Sorry, mom's hotter.
Commence egging.
American Revolution pickup lines from my discussion with Kristin last night:
"going out with me is common sense"
"we hold this truth to be self evident: you're the hottest thing in the room"
"I'd like to pursue my happiness with you"
Tim, you're as creepy as ever...
Even physicists/astronomers have pick-up lines (which explains why they have so much time to devote to science):
"You're equal to the divergence of attraction."
"If you were a polytrope, your gamma would be five-thirds."
"You're an eigenfunction of love."
Wow, your friends are something else. Here's a few I could imagine ol' Ralph or Henry pulling out thanks to Roy Anker and US Lit 311:
"Hey baby, I know where we can go be civilly disobedient!"
"I'm an abolitionist, but I'll be your slave any time."
"A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects, and from this angle you measure up to me."
"Can I hitch my wagon to your star?"
"I can help you go confidently in the direction of your dreams."
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