Can Studying Turn Geeks into Casanovas?

ABC News ^

[Millee]

Go into almost any nightclub across the country and you'll see great-looking women and hungry men on the prowl, craving chemistry, connection — and a phone number. They're all looking for love. But the oldest game in the world can be brutal.

"Either you have it or you don't. Some guys are smooth, some guys aren't. That's it," said an attractive clubgoer in South Beach, Miami, named Kristi. "There's the losers and the winners." Maybe that's right, but there's also a movement afoot that says the art of seduction can be learned.

One of its students is Joel, a successful software engineer from Denver. He's clean-cut and nicely dressed, and has been practicing a scripted routine — learned in a three-day workshop that cost him nearly $2,000.

When "Primetime" co-anchor John Quinones asked him why he enrolled in the class, Joel said, "A woman would come up to me…and she'd be really interested, and I could see this, as soon as I opened my mouth, she… would suddenly start backing away, and [say] 'Oh, I got to go.'"

Joel studied at a workshop run by a man who calls himself "Mystery" — a kingpin in a new multi-million dollar industry where hundreds of so-called seduction experts promise love and romance to hapless Lotharios.

[Dashing Dasher]

I met one of my childhood idols and he said,

"You know we're going to do it - don't you!?"


Nice, subtle, direct - and to the point.

[Dashing Dasher]

For a nominal fee, I'll give an FR course on how to woo the chickees. ;o)

Can't they just buy the book you use?

[pissant]

I don't want to create a bunch of mini-pissants without fair compensation. ;o)

[Tijeras_Slim]

one of my childhood idols

Who? Tell us or we'll make stuff up.

[pissant]

I think that's how that old fart got Anna Nicole Smith, if I recall. ;o)

[Dashing Dasher]

She is one full on GEEK!!!

[Dashing Dasher]

Feel free to make stuff up -

You wouldn't know him anyway.

[pissant]

Book Schmook. The Pissant Method is a simple 3 step plan.

[Millee]

Subtle????? : )

Man! My childhood idols just handed me restraining orders. Damn you Donny Osmond!! Damn you!!!

[EX52D]

Are you sure you don't mean a 12-step program? :)

[Tijeras_Slim]

Just don't destroy my illusions.

[pissant]

No. That's the method you'd need for post-pissant recovery.

[Millee]

Barry White voice...sigh.... She was obviously gay.

[tuliptree76]

You never had your pigtails pulled in elementary school?

I don't remember that ever happening.

[EX52D]

And the 3 steps are?

[Dashing Dasher]

The Pissant Method is a simple 3 step plan.

Guessing here....

1. Blonde Joke...

2. ?

3. ???

[pissant]

See post #43. ;o)

[Mr. Jeeves]

For a nominal fee, I'll give an FR course on how to woo the chickees. ;o)

Can't they just buy the book you use?

Well, sure, but pissant's copy of American Poultry Almanac, 2005 is getting a little frayed. ;)

[Dashing Dasher]

Donny is living proof that Mormans don't have a sense of humor!

;-)

[PaulaB]

**LOL**

Ok you just made me think of 80's hairband concerts...

lets not go there or this thread could get dangerous!!! ;)