Tell someone that you know three (3) jokes about their job/occupation even though you don't know WHAT it is yet. When they tell you what it is you will have learned a little bit about them already. Then follow it up with stuff like this:
1) Why do authors (sorry there, OSC!) have large nostrils? Answer: Because they have fat fingers.
2) Do you know how to save a drowning author? Answer: (After they answer, "No.") Good!
3) What do you call 37 authors on the bottom of (Here you need to put the name of a local lake, ocean, bay, etc.)_________? Answer: A good start!
At this point, you perhaps should apoligize for the humor ("A shamless series of jokes at your expense. Please forgive me.")and follow the council of someone who posted above and make a valid, real comment about the job or occupation given, showing real interest.
It could very well work. Who knows? Or do you think those jokes are too gross?
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Humor does not equal jokes. Jokes, in fact, are the DEATH of humor. Jokes are humor for toddlers and old people, and unless you want the person with whom you're flirting to think you're a toddler or a card-carrying member of the AARP, you'll stay well away.
What you want is WIT. This is like being clever, only it's easier to fake.
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You are a wit to wonder by, these past moments - nay months. Perhaps years.
The roll of your sly-fox tongue leads me to bleetings of exhaltation repleat with cuneiform canoodlings.
And, you have the fairest of eyes. Though I've never seen them. Perhaps, someday, they might blink upon my cowardly countenance with something less that derisement (?) and the so-called "stink-eye".
I bid you farewell, my fondest.
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*points up* See, that's how you flirt. It won't get you in her pants, but it might make her look up the word "cuneiform," depending on her background.
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That was one of my vocabulary words a while back in Language Arts.
Anyways, good idea, I need wit!
Where can I buy wit? (Or is it possible to learn it, I think I already have a small amount of wit, but I get too nervous around her still, I need more confidence builders)
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I'm not saying that it's the best reason to learn to play. But any reason someone wants to teach themselves an instrument is alright by me. Hopefully he'll keep playing after he realizes it offers more than a way to break the ice with women (especially considering it's not that great at icebreaking).
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Flirting is not something that can be put on paper or learned from a book. Flirting is a state of mind. Flirting is letting go of your social inhibitions and enjoying a conversation with someone without actually thinking about the fact that you're having that conversation. Flirting is a smiling, smirking way of connecting with someone that only comes through trial and error practice. You'll only ever become good at flirting when you can say to yourself "I just want to talk to this girl. I'm not going to try and hit on her or be witty or anything, I'm just going to talk to her and get to know her. If I happen to be flirty while I do it, all the better for me."
Don't try it. Just do it. If you 'try' and do it, you'll just fail. You'll be too focused on what you are doing instead of being focused on the person you're talking to that it'll all just come out weird.
Seriously, just have a conversation with a girl and you'll be fine.
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