Pick up line of the day #shorts #pickuplines

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Published on January 5, 2023 5:41:01 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktb0l6YV5WQ

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A pickup line is a planned effort (which usually doesn’t work) to start a conversation with a stranger in romantic or sexual pursuit of them.

Since at least the 1600s, to pick (someone) up has been used as slang for having a casual sexual encounter with a person. The slang inspired the adjective pick-up, used to describe a line, or rehearsed remark, used to strike up a conversation with a person in order to pursue them romantically or sexually.

One notable early instance of pickup line was used in 1979 to describe a line of dialogue in the classic 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, when Joe Buck (Jon Voight) says to a rich lady: “Beg pardon, ma’am, I’m new here in town, just in from Houston, Texas, and looking for the Statue of Liberty.”

The term pickup line spread in the 1980s and by the 1990s had become associated with men’s ill-advised efforts to talk to women at bars (e.g., a man asking a woman “Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?”). Pickup lines typically begin with a question followed by a punchline (e.g., “Do I know you? ‘Cause you look a lot like my next girlfriend.”).