That's classic.. I heard the Megan Washington song, and it made me ponder... and I think -- the Arthur Miller- Monroe thing is not something I'd want to emulate at all.
Think about it .. "You'll be my Arthur Miller" (What?? Like any girl in her right mind would want some old dude thirty years her senior with hopelessly dour and dreary ideas about "Tragedy and the Common Man" ..?)
"I'll be your Marilyn Monroe" (What?? Like any man worth his salt would pick a girl thirty years his junior with absolutely nothing in common. James Dean might have been a better match for Monroe. They could have whined and pined together for a while and then popped themselves off with their respective miseries.. or better yet -- retraced their steps and gone back to their pre-stardom midwest lives, become cheerful anonymities, and not bother western civilisation further.)
Gosh Andrew. You are grumpy today.
Accoridng to Wikipedia, Miller left his wife to have an affair with Monroe. So if a man asked if he could be my Miller, I'd say, "No thank you."
Miller and Monroe ended up divorcing and not long after that she suicided. Tom, there is a nasty subtext to your chosen pick up line. I'd stick with just asking the girl to a movie.
I enjoyed the comments even better than the post.
I don't know if a lot of girls would appreciate the comparison. And it's only self-deprecating if they think that one of the century's great playwrights is actually a tool. Perhaps not everyone does. So you might be saying "I am talented and clever and you are young and pretty so can we exploit each other for (at best) mutual gain." Romantic to some for sure, but possibly not for all.
You all over analyse. Though I was pretty sure you would.
If I was saying it to a girl I want her to hear "You're hot, I'm not, but I'm good with words, let's get married."
All the affairs and bad marriage and age gap stuff, I was hoping she won't go into.
I wish I could write like Arthur Miller. He was insanely good.
If only there would have been 30 years difference in their ages or even 34, the marriage would have lasted, but there was only 10 years between them.
In any case, in this day and age how many girls know who Arthur Miller was, seeing that he did not sing or kick a ball?
Think of a better pick up line, Tom!
Did Arthur Millar write Death of a Salesman? If not then Steve is right. Some young woman may be clueless.
I'll give you a good pick up line - "you and me babe, how bout it?"
Not that I wouldn't go for some amazing writer wanting to pick me up. But he would need to be a good writer. Not like Ian Flemming. Why don't you try that line Tom? Can I be your Ian Flemming?
... My remarks were rather grumpy Jane...
(I won't say anything about Ian Fleming.)
I actually like Arthur Miller..
I think its not so much about pick-up lines really.. By definition I think they almost never work. I'd say its just about who you are (character, confidence) - and eye contact. Think of Dave Hughes; all he would need to do I'd imagine would be to say "arrr" in his usual bemused inarticulate manner, with a twinkle in his eye, and he'd be there. There's no recipe, I think.. it just takes a bit of time.
My friend David met his last boyfriend when he went to the Christmas Party at a hostel where he knew one of the nurses. One of the residents walked up to him as soon as he entered the room and said "I am HIV positive. I have dementia and I'm impotent. Want to be my boyfriend?" Whimsical and romantic as always, David replied with a simple "ok". That was the start of a final love affair for both of them.
I think Arthur Miller's plays are wonderful.
Ian Flemming's James Bond character enjoyed reasonable success with the ladies, so maybe it would be worth studying Flemming's writing for good chat up lines. He also wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which is just a piece of interesting trivia.
"Did you know that the creator of James Bond also wrote children's books?" Now that's a good pick up line if ever there was one!
Well this hasn't been a totally loss. I have at least three new pick up lines. One of which is contingent on me being HIV-Positive, mentally ill, impotent and gay. So that might take a little bit of work. But the other two I'm going to keep up my sleeve.
Things change Tom. No point throwing away potentially useful pickup lines prematurely. Not when they're as good as that one.
I came back to see what other comments had been made, and noticed your last line. So, here you go: http://www.auslan.org.au/
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