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Can Studying Turn Geeks into Casanovas?
ABC News ^

Posted on 09/30/2005 8:19:15 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: dating; geeks
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To: tuliptree76
SUre...."no" means "Yes".

snicker

snicker

gurpf!

Bwahhahahahahahah! Sorry. I couldn't type that with a straight face...

81 posted on 09/30/2005 12:49:48 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Mike Bates

Sorry, but I have very sensitive.......skin......


82 posted on 09/30/2005 12:50:22 PM PDT by Millee (As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!)
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To: Millee

I recall, I recall.


83 posted on 09/30/2005 12:51:25 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
Dumb blonde jokes work great when picking up blondies.

I don't know about that. Being blonde and in PR, I get a lot of dumb blonde jokes. I usually give a polite little laugh and automatically write the guy off.
84 posted on 09/30/2005 1:02:28 PM PDT by RockyTop4GOP
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To: RockyTop4GOP

I'm blonde and I agree.

I automatically think they are neanderthals and not worthy of a second look.


85 posted on 09/30/2005 1:05:54 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Normal enough to know that I'm weird...But too damn weird to do anything about it!)
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To: Dashing Dasher

Q: What's brown and black and blue?

A: A brunette that told one too many blonde jokes.


86 posted on 09/30/2005 1:10:53 PM PDT by Dinsdale
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To: RockyTop4GOP

I was joking, playing off "the neg" method.

:-)


87 posted on 09/30/2005 1:25:23 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: wagglebee; Blurblogger
I remember a friend of mine in college telling me: "No matter how good looking you think she is, just remember that somebody, somewhere is sick of her sh*t!"

Or no matter how much smack he can throw down,
just remember that somebody, somwhere is sick of his sh*t!

The river runs both ways!

88 posted on 09/30/2005 2:23:43 PM PDT by apackof2 (There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers)
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To: najida
I hate dating.

I might hate it if I did it more
LOL!

89 posted on 09/30/2005 2:28:30 PM PDT by apackof2 (There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers)
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To: faq
Most people like to talk about themselves

Isn't that the truth!

I had a date one time with this guy who was shy at first so I started asking him questions and before you know it, it was all about him all the time....I couldn't wait to go home

90 posted on 09/30/2005 2:32:20 PM PDT by apackof2 (There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers)
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To: Blurblogger; pissant; Mr. Jeeves; faq; Army Air Corps
What do women really want?

Baby, don't turn out the light
I wanna see you look at me
Whisper only truth tonight
Not just promises and empty fantasies

I don't need a bed of roses
'Cause roses wither away
All I really need is honesty
From someone with a strong heart, a gentle hand
Who'll take me as I am

Baby, I need for you to know
Just exactly how I feel
Fiery passions come and go
I'd trade a million pretty words for one touch that is real

I don't need a bed of roses
'Cause roses wither away
All I really need is honesty
From someone with a strong heart, a gentle hand
Who'll take me as I am

From someone with a strong heart, a gentle hand
Who'll take me as I am

Faith Hill lyrics

91 posted on 09/30/2005 2:52:53 PM PDT by apackof2 (There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers)
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To: Millee

This reminds me of something George Costanza would do. Notice that the article doesn't say anything about the woman's reaction when she finds out!


92 posted on 09/30/2005 4:16:03 PM PDT by scott7278 (You are stuck on stupid!)
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To: Millee
Can Studying Turn Geeks into Casanovas?

No, but it can turn them into millionaires and thats good enough.

93 posted on 09/30/2005 4:17:15 PM PDT by maui_hawaii
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To: apackof2

We could have used your wisdom here earlier today!

;-)

Dasher


94 posted on 09/30/2005 4:37:36 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Normal enough to know that I'm weird...But too damn weird to do anything about it!)
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To: Army Air Corps
"I have never been prone to insult women to who I was attracted; that behaviour always struck me as being counter-intuitive."

You would think it would be counter-intuitive. I know I would prefer compliments over insults.

95 posted on 09/30/2005 6:09:06 PM PDT by tuliptree76 (I'm not sure what I want. But I'll know it when I see it!)
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To: Smokin' Joe
SUre...."no" means "Yes".

When I say "no", I mean "no".

96 posted on 09/30/2005 6:11:13 PM PDT by tuliptree76 (I'm not sure what I want. But I'll know it when I see it!)
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To: Millee
Maybe here's the author. Great lines too.

a real classy guy

97 posted on 09/30/2005 6:26:10 PM PDT by kcar (The UN sucks, but a runaway federal government's not much better)
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To: Dashing Dasher
We could have used your wisdom here earlier today!

Thanks, sorry I had to post & run...

98 posted on 09/30/2005 6:35:28 PM PDT by apackof2 (There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers)
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To: tuliptree76
I know I would prefer compliments over insults.

Everyone does.... any man who uses this techique is not a man but a boy, defintely not mate material

99 posted on 09/30/2005 6:38:32 PM PDT by apackof2 (There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers)
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To: najida
I hate dating.

I would have to agree... but unfortunately.....it IS a necessary evil. *chuckle*

100 posted on 09/30/2005 6:58:13 PM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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