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

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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.

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‘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:

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‘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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01011000010000001101111011100100010000001100100011011110010000001111
00101101111011101010010000001101010011101010111001101110100001000000
1101101011000010110101101100101001000000110110101100101001000000111001
001100101011000010110110001101100011110010010000001101110
01100101011100100111011001101111011101010111001100111111

-- David Sarno

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