Twitter nerds unite to share pick-up lines before Valentine's Day

But, I hardly know you!   (Marco Gomes / Flickr.)

Warming up their underused love circuitry for Valentine's Day, members of the online nerdocracy have begun feverishly passing around their best pick-up lines via Twitter. 

"If I were an enzyme, I'd be DNA helicase so I could unzip your genes. [bphuff]

Whoa, there fella! Yes, in the nerd tradition of online sharing, all lines are open source and freely available. Browse them at HashTags.org, where the meme has become one of today's most popular, generating more than 2,000 tweets. All that creativity must've taken a lot of nerd energon cubes!

I own an island...in Second Life [bitfaker]

One has to wonder, however, if in their excitement, the nerds aren't doing themselves a romantic disservice. Come Feb. 14, the bars in Silicon Valley are sure to be teeming with self-styled Cupids -- faces newly washed, pants pressed, Jägermeister quaffed -- armed with a quiver of new lines and ready to deploy them. But then when a poor nerd lets his best shot fly, like:

"Roses are #ff0000, violets are #0000ff. all my base are belong to you," [aleivag] [tshirt]

... he's sure to hear the object of his desire, the one to whom his bases belong, answer back:

"Eww, nerd! That's like the 5th time I've heard that tonight! What, are all you nerds sharing lines on Twitter or something?"

You see, my nerdy friends, a line is only as good as it is fresh, and by cycling and recycling all the good ones online, you're just stepping on each others' penny loafers. And that kind of un-smooth behavior will never get you in position to get to the last level, where you could drop a game-winner like this:

"I like Battlestar Galactica. Wanna frack?" [nuclearbastard]

Help us -- I mean help these nerds out a little by offering a few original lines in the comments ... Maybe if we add a few thousand more to the list, there won't be as many repeats, and a few lucky nerds will gain some experience points.

Here's mine, for you advanced nerd lovers out there:  0100100101110011001000000110100101110100001000000110100001101111011101
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1101101011000010110101101100101001000000110110101100101001000000111001
001100101011000010110110001101100011110010010000001101110
01100101011100100111011001101111011101010111001100111111 

-- David Sarno

Comments

[Twitter_Tips]

@JoeSchmitt on Twitter started this great meme

[Joe Schmitt]

Credit for starting the meme is shared by me and @luckyshirt. He wrote the first two, then I started and got other people in on the game. Some of the best lines can be found here:

http://tr.im/nerdpickuplinesonfavrd

And @HotAmishChick started her own meme of #amishpickuplines which can be found here:

http://tr.im/amishpickuplines

[@benmarvin]

Actually it was @luckyshirt that started it.

[Lucky Shirt]

This is @luckyshirt. I started #nerdpickuplines for @baileygenine, and to raise awareness of the nerdmance crisis that our generation faces. Oh, and because I'm starved for attention. Please give all you can.

[Nuclear Bastard]

I created one of the examples they used in the article. This article claims that nerds are doing themselves a disservice by sharing these lines with each other. I disagree. I do not think a bunch of nerds, no matter how socially inept, will literally say "Roses are #FF0000..." to a potential partner. In fact, this whole meme is ironic because nerds everywhere contributed and repeated each other for almost 72 hours now. This is a demonstration of just how un-socially inept the so-called nerds really are. Because the nerd culture that is being satirized in this meme is all but mainstream by now, these lines actually have the possibility of working, but only when delivered with confidence and style. And truly, is that not the whole point of a come-on line?

[Sarah]

BEST. MEME. EVER.

Love the Twitter nerds!

[Amy]

Good one, David, though a bit over 140 characters. The object of your desire would totally stop listening after 010010010111001100100000011010010111010001. Nerds must be brief in their attempts to pick up. It is their blessing and their curse.

[Lise]

Is it hot in here, or do you just make me really nervous?

[VeronicaMcG]

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00100000011101110110100101110100
01101000001000000110100001101111
01110100001000000110100101101110
0010000001101000011001010111001001100101

@VeronicaMcG

[baileygenine]

@luckyshirt started nerd pick up lines for me because i told him about my blog "8 reasons why i'm single" which i posted the day before the meme was on twitter. @luckyshirt is playing his role as cupid for nerds out there everywhere. much more efficient than craigs list missed connections. whoa, don't all start following him at once for his advice..actually, yeah, you can, he has enough to go around.

[kimproper]

By far the most successful, infectious, and just plain hysterical meme I've seen yet.

The best of the #nerdpickuplines on Favrd: http://tr.im/nerdpickuplinesonfavrd (per @joeschmitt)

General search for #nerdpickuplines on Twitter: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23nerdpickuplines

-- @kimproper

[Nicki Laycoax]

Brian Huff (@bphuff) is such a cool guy! I'm excited to see his name and line in this article!

For all the Hoosiers that are reading this, please join our Twitter #Indiana Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=46371562809&ref=ts

I am @nickilaycoax on Twitter!

[Eyba Leave]

"talk nerdy to me" t-shirt design
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=204216&id=838306247

[Brian Huff]

David, Thanks for picking my line for your blog entry and thanks for writing about this great meme!

I'll reiterate what Nicki mentioned about our fellow Indiana Tweets: join us!

Twitter #Indiana Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=46371562809&ref=ts

[John G]

Here are some more cool nerd pick up lines that I haven't seen on this page:

* Yeah, I still have an Atari. You can come over and touch my joystick at any time...
* Can I put my flash drive in your high speed port and download some stuff?
* You auto-complete me.
* If it doesn’t work, try blowing on it and putting it back in...

For a lot more pick up lines check out this really funny pick up line site:
http://www.funny-pick-up-lines.com
And here you can learn how to REALLY pick up and attract women:
http://www.funny-pick-up-lines.com/pick-up-and-attract-women.html