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I heard someone using it at Baja Fresh tonight. Now, I love just about everything about Baja Fresh. But when guys I don't even know are using Who Lies More - and lamely - it's irritating. It's not that hard to create an opinion opener (if you want to use that kind of opener) that's actually real.
Pick something from you and your friends' recent experience that relates to as much about personal relationships/drama/gender differences/relationships as possible where there could be a couple of different ways a somewhat reasonable person could take it.
Now, take the situation out of its specific context. If your situation is that your friend's girlfriend got really drunk and made a pass at you and now you don't know whether to tell him, it becomes a longish story to introduce that specific situation properly. So start with "Hey guys...how drunk do you have to be before hitting on someone doesn't count?" Or if it's a mixed set you can address the guys with "Hey guys...if your girlfriend got super drunk and hit on your friend but she was so drunk that she probably didn't mean it, would you want to know?" [Don't use this at a bar or where the women in the set could be drunk, it might make the guys defensive]
Those are quick general lead in questions that set the bait for them to ask for details. Then you tell your quick story.
Can we please retire Who Lies More? It's not fantastic of an opener to begin with, most people do it wrong, and in Hollywood anyway it's becoming like What's Your Sign?
On the plus side, I did get to go to Baja Fresh tonight.
Friday, January 12, 2007
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I got food poisoning from Baja Fresh last night and spent the last 24 hours with my head in a toilet.
So, thanks for reminding me.
also time to retire
-- palm reading.
--"do you know why you suck?" --"nice nails are they fake?" --jealous girlfriend routine
--elvis routine
--dressing like mystery
--stacked negs to open 9's and 10's
-- new rock boots
In Italy
I never used it (I used a variant). Wait a little, I will use it this week-end to try how it works then you can retire it.
(I will make a whistle when I've done it so you can proceed).
Anyway... does someone finally find out "who lies more?". I say: the women.
Oops! I've just used the "Who lies more" opener... now you can retire it!
If you think about it, "what's your sign?" must have worked well for a little while, or it would not have become the catch all cliché for pick up lines. I suspect if a woman hears the same "spontaneous" question from two different people, she will suspect that something is up.
I have used it as a nice lead-in to a story that works wonderfully (DHV, AMOG). If I have practiced it once or twice per day over the previous several days, it does very well at hooking sets and DHVing.
With good body language and playfulness, I think you can pull off an innocent routine that they have heard before, as long as the women are decent sports. Thus, there are some things you can get away with if you have a good frame.
If you need a replacement (and are in America, not tested in other nations), you can try: "I have a question for you; turkey or tofurkey?"
I have used it as a nice lead-in to a story that works wonderfully (DHV, AMOG). If I have practiced it once or twice per day over the previous several days, it does very well at hooking sets and DHVing.
With good body language and playfulness, I think you can pull off an innocent routine that they have heard before, as long as the women are decent sports. Thus, there are some things you can get away with if you have a good frame.
If you need a replacement (and are in America; not tested in other nations), you can try: "I have a question for you; turkey or tofurkey?"
You know it's kinda funny... If a set is premeditated (that is to say, I see it, take 2 seconds to pump up and go in), I never use who lies more. But when my wing says something like "3-set on your six o'clock, two 8s and a guy go!" I almost always default to who lies more.
....Then again, I live in Dayton, Ohio and pickup is all but non existant here. There's maybe 5 of us total, so it's still fresh here.
I find "Hey guys, which is better: sex with a midget stripper or beastiality?" to be a big hit with the ladies. ;-P
Seriously though, right on man, let's use our independent thinkers and start coming up with some revelant opinion openers if we're going to use them.
Baja Fresh Food Poisoning at Gresham, Oregon. Two Mahi-mahi Fish tacos at 9pm April 16 2009: in 12 hours exactly I became sick,
This wicked fish poisoning lasted for four days and I feel better but, the pain from the gas and bloating are still causing discomfort into day Five. Mexicans are Idiots they want to trash this country and are not welcome to turn every small town into a Tijuana trash hive. Just last year my friend walk into a Mexican Restraunt in Portland and witnessed a stupid Mexican using a Toilet Brush to clean the whole sink. Hire one and you get what you deserve! Shoddy Crap work with a side order of dangerous ignorant working conditions. How come Baja Fresh only hires Mexicans? talk about discrimination!
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