Gothic Pickup lines

I keep all of my most important poems and drawings in this little book....

Awww... Reminds me of the time I asked a rather older lady if we could "complete the kiss we started" the night before when we were both extremely drunk. Her answer was "The kiss of death?"...until that time I never really understood the Gothic Personality. The look in her eyes and her deadpan expression was perfect. I was 24 at the time -I don't think I'd better say how old she was!

Simon Harvey

This line was said to a friend, Rachel, who did go with the guy, she borrowed my leather collar and chain, to add to the effect. When she was displayed the frat went, "Ooooo, ahhhhh". Then they let her go.

Bob Rosenberg

I find this really amusing actually. Having played rugby I've spent too much time around frat boys and their European equivalents and I can tell you that this guy was pretty mild. Some of my favorites have included:

• "So I was in this bar last night and I see this cute girl. I walk up to her and tell her she'd be pretty damned good looking if she didn't have that ring through her nose. So what does she do? Fucking kicked me in the shins!"
• "Yeah. They're all here tonight. The elviras... vampire wanna be chicks..."
• "That woman in Shakespeare's sister would be pretty damn good looking if she wasn't a goth"

Listening to them talk about alternative women is only slightly less amusing then watching them try and mosh.

Chad

"We're going to dance to one song..."

She was pretty cool, and I really couldn't say no to a line like that could I?

Petro

Well I've got 1 better than that. (maybe) I was sitting at the bar talking to a girl I used to date she says
"this is my friend girl's name"
I say "hello girl's name"
girl says "what was you're name?"
I say my name.
she says "you know I sure would like to fuck you."

Well whats a boy to do?

Arnold Friend

"Hey babe, whats with the teardrop thing?"

Though I will have to say it didn't work; as the guy preceded to almost blind me along with taking a good chuck of my makeup of (the "teardrop").

Sad but true.

Laurissa

I was in Geneva for some reason that I don't really remember and was wandering around being incredibly bored. I went up to this punker girl and simply said "I'm bored. Entertain me and I'll buy you a beer." Unfortunately she didn't understand a word of English and I don't know french. But she seemed to get the idea of beer alright.

Another time I was at a party and just started nibbling on this woman's thigh. I think I screwed up on this one though cuz she married me.

Chris

My all time favorite was at this party. I had just shown up and this foot gothic amazon goddess came up to me and said... "You're mine" and walked away. 3 hours later she came up to me and said "Let's go". I didn't get out of her house for four days. I couldn't walk right for another three. It was a good week...

Chris

When approached by a spike-and-leather clad dominatrix at my favorite club, I said, "Wow. That outfit must make a lot of noise in the dryer, huh."

I imagine she'll be calling me any time now.

Anson "Dr. Doom" Davis

And anyway, I've a feeling it would only work if you were trying to chat up Shirley MacLaine.....

Valerian

Hrm.. the lines that have worked on me haven't really been that clever -- just honest and non-threatening. For instance, I once had a guy come up and say, "I just wanted to tell you I love the way you dance." I said, "thank you," and then he smiled and walked away. Enough to make me notice him and seek him out later.

Hey, it happens. I am generally very shy, but even I have approached a few guys. Of course, they usually did something to make me notice them and let me know they were interested before I did so. We all have our little insecurities. There was this one guy who went to a club I frequented. He showed up three weeks in a row, sat in a dark corner by the bar and watched me. I actually don't know why I didn't find it creepy... Perhaps it was because he wasn't leering or drooling? Whenever I would look his direction, he met my gaze and kept it, sort of giving me a sardonic and questioning look... My curiousity finally got the best of me, and I gathered the nerve to approach him and sweetly ask, "So, are you ever going to talk to me, or were you just going to continue to stare?"

jC

"You have the academic look that I lust after."

A beautiful person once asked me:
"What do you think of me? Because I know I want to kiss you right now." She had boots. I swooned.

Further developments: My roommate was also entanged by this person awhile after my experience. We were talking about her the other night, and he mentioned that they started seeing each other when one night she turned to him and said, "You know, I could kiss you right now..."

Literati

When I was visiting a friend recently we were walking down the street & someone shouted out "Hey! You two are pretty hot for a couple of dead chicks!" I took it as a compliment.

Those are the only ones I can remember, in fact, i think those were the only times I've been hit on verbally. Most just smiled. (it was that special smile, of course.) I keep thinking that once I'll just reject one of these women just to see what it feels like to be on the other side, but I always forget about that when the time comes.

I guess the moral here is that, at least from my experience, the guy is the one who gets to face rejection. Of course, whoever makes the first move gets to pick the object of attention, so there are rewards for bravery. so Ladies, kiss those Frogs!

Charles Taylor

"You sure move fast for a little boygirl"

That always seems to get a few in our glove compartment!

xmal

Hey. I recently had a guy come up to me and say "You should come home with me. We match."

That's exactly when my husband appeared a scared the shit out of him.

Too bad. Would have liked to invited him to my place and shown him my dungeon just when he thought he was going to get lucky!

Marina Black

Not gothic per se, but good anyways:

you:	Do you think it's too forward to ask for someone's phone number in a insert odd place here?" (club or bar might not work)]?
he/she:	no....
you:	Good! Then ask me for mine.

This actually worked on a friend of mine.

Voron

"Hey, would you like to dance??"

(if they say:) NO, you're sick and I'm hitched

No, no, no...I don't think you understood me... .....I said you look fat in your pants

This is the ultimate because they start to question themselves and it's unisex meaning it works on guys and girls both. Just make sure they are wearing pants or it may bomb.

Element

The one i used last night:

stranger i find attractive in a sid-vicious-about-to-die way walks up to me and kisses me

i kiss him back and say:
"if i was going to sleep with a heroin addict it would definitely be you."

and walk away....

Alison Gorbould

I was (maliciously) advised to go up to a Goth guy at a New Year's Party and ask him about something Goth, and that if he didn't know it, he'd explode. I thought this would be cool to see, so I said,

"Mike said you know everything about Goth."

"Ok..." (confused look)

"What do you think of the principles of Sacred Geometry with respect to Gothic Architecture?"

He laughed and said, "I have no idea what you're talking about." and nothing else happened. So I said, "Oh, damn. You were supposed to explode." and explained what Mike said. He laughed some more, and we started discussing Gothic architecture, Germany, The Sisters of Mercy, and Russian grammar. It was sublime. Of course we were both on acid... But we've now been together for 4 years. He proposed to me at the Glasgow Necropolis. Another silly goth love story...

Cousin Melanesia Addams

Why does this remind me of the guy at The Wreck Room who walks up to me out of nowhere, and unsolicited says, "Hey, that's a really great costume -- you guys always wear such great costumes."

My response? (I mean besides my initial stunned silence) "Gee, I think your costume is really swell, too, Beavis."
(he was wearing jeans, t-shirt, and I-shit-you-not, a fucking John Deer baseball cap!)

If I ever win the lotto/lottery, I'm going to pay off the doorman there to keep the fratboys, the debs, the preps, and the grunge-muffins the hell out of "our" club. sigh

Gomez

I used this line once. (a variant on my usual... " would you like to go home with me?" {97% success rate}). To my surprise (and delight) the response was yes. They were incredible too.

Exile

Successfully used this line on exile.

-Jen

If the woman seems like an introspective intellectual type who will be more attracted to your way with words than your looks under the hot lights, why not say, "Why don't we go somewhere where you and I can talk?"

The last time someone said that to me at a party we went to a bar and talked for about 4 hours. Two years later I married him.

Actually, now that I'm thinking it over again, he said "I think you should take me somewhere" and held out his hand. That was quite good, don't you think?

Lauren Goodlad

The worst line I ever heard was sad because it wasn't really a "line"; I think the guy was really sincere. This was at The Mission, a tiny little goth club that, when I used to go there, never got crowded. I was there with two other female friends--all very, very gothed out. And this guy came up to us and just stood there gawking for a few seconds. When he saw that we had noticed his staring and didn't like it he said, "I'm really sorry for staring at you. But I just got back from the Bahamas..."

????

He later explained that there are no goth women in the Bahamas.

Lauren Goodlad

This reminds me that the most annoying line of all for female goths is when a group of them are together and some non-goth guy comes up and says "You must all be sisters, right?" This has happened at least five times in my life. Do goth guys hear this from non-goth women (or gays) I wonder?

Lauren Goodlad

Last night at Dominion, a gent walked up to me and asked if I was wearing a black bra. "Why," I asked. "Well, the DJ is giving a free cd to the first man coming to the booth wearing a bra and I couldn't think of another way to start talking to you..."

He got the cd and my phone number....gotta give him bonus points for sincerity...

Heather White

'Do you want to see my stone collection'

It is a variant of the stamp collection' Belive me or not, it is still working. If you don't have any stones, then use your skulls, SM-equipment, eyeliners, poems or Sandman trade card (yuk).

Abstract Blue

After I had been travelling for a while, I came to a city after a long drive. I was dirty, unshaved and tired... I parked the car, walked around a corner and saw a girl. I said something like: "I am lost here, will you help me out" and she did

Abstract Blue

I found my girlfriend in April last year. She kind of picked me up in a weird way.

I was in the park crossing a small wooden bridge and she was sitting there with one of her friends. It was late afternoon, so the sun was still up, but the leaves had just turned green shading the sun. When I passed, she sang: 'It isnt very good in the dark dark wood' - Those who are into current 93 know what song I am talking about.

And my soul was sold

Abstract Blue

"I want to scale you."

Said to a very tall goth girl from a very short man.

Siobhan

I'll give you one I used that someone else fell for. Prospective date #1 sees me necking with prospective date #2 on the dance floor, so he doesn't call me.

Next time I see him, I say "Why didn't you call me?"
He says "well, I saw you out on the dancefloor with whathisname....."
I said, "Oh come on, I was high, he was drunk and I'm a slut. It doesn't mean I don't like you."

Mistress Lily

I think this is one of the best pickup lines. Anyhow, I was at a concert with my ex who dumped me about 2 weeks earlier (I won't name the band...). Anyhow, I was talking to this woman, or girl since she was 17..... and after about ½ an hour of talking she asked

"I know I have only known you for about ½ an hour, but can I stick my hands down your pants anyway?" [insert innocent smile here].

Well, I was kinda bored with waiting in a queue to get in and my ex wasn't talking to me so, I kinda fell for it......

Adam Florence

My roommate went up to a record store employee who he is now dating and said "I'll make you famous" and it worked. Bastard...

Well...
"You really can do a cartwheel."
worked for me.

oddlystrange

This from my friend, Guy:

Guy:	You wanna have wild, sweaty sex?
Woman:	No!
Guy:	Would you mind holding still while I do?

And she went home with him...

Al Golagnia

I remember one time, when a person I was supposed to be going out with on a date stood me up about half an hour before he was due to pick me up from my place, and I sat in my room (with freshly-shaved legs, great makeup and nice underwear, 'cos I'd been practically ready when he'd called and feigned illness) and wrote out a list of names which constituted my "Failed Relationship List". It was a really self-destroying thing to do in the situation. Basically, I was torturing myself because I somehow believed that it was my fault that he didn't want to go out with me.

Two days later, I was telling a good friend all about it whilst out at a goth club. I told him whingingly how I'd gone out and bought brand new satin sheets and pillowslips in anticipation of this particular date and then been stood up at the last minute...

"So, I've got these lovely new satin sheets and no-one to share them with", said I.

"Well.... I'll share them with you..." said my friend. He did, too.

Barbarella

May I headbut you?

My friend and I found it to be amusing entertainment for the night (it was a slow nite & we were both very drunk) although it left huge bumps the next morning.

Leanore

What flavor are you?

I don't remember what my response was. Here are some responses i've gotten:

• sweet
• bitter
• dark
• you'll have to taste me to see

Alan Killenbeck

I have been dreaming of you, and writing erotic fantasies about you for the entire year since we met. Will you come and sit with me and let me tell you one of them?

The story was incredible. A medieval clandestine encounter. I am still drawn into another world when I think about it. If he used the same story on a hundred people, I would never have been able to tell. He was a writer for White Wolf, married, and pretty unattainable, so all I heard was the story, and nothing more.

Yosa

Someone once told me he had an entire relationship based on this really good non-sequitur.

Try that one the next time you need to confuse someone, right out of the blue. Pickup lines are just silliness anyway, so a non-sequitur is just the epitome of pickup lines, especially if it's a good one.

Bruce

I'm just moved here from portland....do you know any other good clubs around the area?

It was a good pick up line because it got me talking to him...seemed harmless enough....till he started buying me drink after drink after drink....and we started smooching at the bar.

(warning label: easy when drunk)

Eileen

well okay I have to admit that lines have workd on me in the past, when i was young and naive...but even then it was more for the sincerity and nervousness behind the line that was attractive. The only line that that ever worked on me for real was, oh, about four years ago. his name was James... This little kid (okay he was 19 I was 22) had been staring at me all night, and came up to me when I went to get something to drink and said,with copious stutterings and blushes, "I just got paid and i was wondering if it would be enough money to get you drunk enough to even talk to me....."

isn't that sweet in a sick cheap sort of way?

anti:pathy

I was visiting Savannah, Ga last year and went out to a Goth night at a local club - not knowing a soul. At any rate, this really cute girl who is wearing a leash & collar walks up to me, hands me the leash and says:

"Want to be my Master for the night?"

How could a guy refuse...

She was a very bad girl that night (and I a very bad boy) and had to be punished...

Only time I've been picked up in a club. Honest! (cough, cough)

Jonathan

This guy at a coffee shop came up to me yesterday and leaned across the table and said "I can eat girl for 2 days straight" With this big dumb grin on his face. I sipped my coffee and sweetly said smiling "So can I." A male friend who was sitting with me litterally fell out of his chair laughing. And the guy just stammered a bit and left. It was priceless.

Illiza Dane

I've also been able to use "Pardon me, do oyu mind if I sniff you? Something smells nice here and I want to see if it's you" to good effect as well. I think maybe you have to be a certain level of cute before that one will work.

Sinister Dexter

This is kind of like a line I got once but I actually thought it was funny. There was a really cute kid in our "set" in college who was at a party I was also at. I was feeling brash so I wore my green lace bra under a white shirt and only tied the shirt at the bottom, so you could really see the whole bra. So I get to the party, and this kid is already pretty tanked. He dashes up to me (and he NEVER dashes), drops to his knees, and says, "I just want to say, you have the most amazing breasts." Then he took off.

Not really a pickup line, but I liked it. For some reason, it worked.

Megan the Red Queen

Ren, if I ever hear any of these words spilling from between your lips I shall fall to floor and choke to death on paroxysms of laughter.

But maybe I'm just bitter because the pick-up line I got from you was slightly less eloquent. "Wow! I like your corset! Can I touch your breasts?"

zoe

The Line said to me by a drunk, tight jean wearing, big haired and cowboy booted Lass..

"You know I never Fucked Satan before"

All I could do is eek out the comment "But my Dear, even Satan has his standards..." and proceeded to throw back 4 Stoli and Cranberries in a row..while trying to block out the song, "Uptown Girl" that was being played by the DJ....

Algernon33

The setting: A dark club

I had one hand on the bar...some guy comes over...strokes my hand once while saying "that's really nice nail polish...what color is that?" I swiftly remove my hand....look at him oddly and answer.... and go back to the conversation I was in feeling really icky cause I don't like strangers stroking me in any way shape or form.

Eileen