If you're lucky. Often the lovely French lady responds, "oh, but you do!", in which case you're set. Or they ask "where are you from?", again, set.

<i>&quot;Peut-etre un petit peu, mais je voudrais apprendre le parler.&quot;</i>

Was that mec attractive, Leely?

Actually Gekko's suggestion could be twisted to this: &quot;Vous pourriez me enseigner de le parler.&quot;

You could teach me to speak it. [You could teach me to do all sorts of things. ]

well, I have been on the receiving end of some of them, and some are a lot subtler than others. Do NOT do what a guy in Caveau de la Huchette did to me who was trying to pick me up whereupon he asked how old I was, and when I responded (I am sure I was about 10-15 years older than him), he sort of fumbled a bit and said that I was &quot;bien preservee&quot; . Oh, yeah, that's sure to impress a woman.

Voulez-vous couchez avec moi is a bad pop song, and not a pick-up line, it is a proposition. There is a difference. Some of the worst lines are guys trying to be too sexual with a stranger, like a guy who asked me off the bat if I would have sex with a guy on the first date or something. This is not appealing to most women.

here is a test just for you to judge whether you are a bon dragueur.

http://adosurf.free.fr/test/dragueur.html

<b>&quot;mon mec fou&quot;</b>

I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard <i>that</i>.

Oh Christina, you should have answered, &quot;Avez-vous un preservatif?&quot;

Chuckle.

I must agree that the lines I've come up are not pick up lines. Maybe I'll have to do a pickup line in English and then switch to &quot;Voulez-vous coucher avec moi.&quot;

I looked at the dragueur test. It's a little tough going for me -- I guess my French is just not that great.

111op, so why exactly are you conducting this &quot;research&quot;?

Oh, yeah, it's for your blog. Mmm-hmm.

I'm a little disappointed I don't recognize any of these, but then again it's so easy to get the gist of things when you're being picked up even with limited French. I guess if I were trying to pick people up I'd love to go with &quot;So, do you live with your parents?&quot; Especially at my age.

Well, I'm still working on it, but here's a draft:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?X38D227FB

I do agree with Christina that none of the examples I gave is really a good pickup line, but the blog entry tries to be a little literary and funny (and irreverent).

Maybe people will see the humor in it.

I'm going to think about it more and see what examples I can use from this thread.

It does make the work day go faster. Hey, it's 1:45 pm already!

Of course you will know the motto of the French navy

Set sail, it is time
or A l'eau c'est l'heure

Get the book &quot;Wicked French&quot;. The phrase on the cover translates &quot;I am only an earthworm without you&quot;!

wtggirl, that's funny:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0894...18#reader-link

Voulez-vous prendre un cafe avec moi? (the cafe should have an accent mark)

(Would you like to have a coffee with me?)

This one was asked of me more than once by French guys, so it must be a popular one. One guy once asked me for a cigarette (that one I think is popular too), and when I said &quot;Je ne fume pas,&quot; then asked me to marry him, in front of Notre Dame. He was very funny; I couldn't help but laugh, it was so cheesy.

But if I were an American guy wanting to meet a French girl, I'd stop her and ask for directions. With a big charming smile. Then ask about a coffee. I'd be fascinated to know if someone would actually fall for that.

&quot;Fall for that&quot; ?
Maybe it's exactly what she wanted you to say? Or, she was about to suggest it herself.

This has made me wonder what IS a pickup line.

Mostly I've had DejaVu's experiences, being asked to have a coffee, sometimes wine. Of course it's so much nicer when the whole thing includes a lot of flattery. But &quot;my French&quot; (hah!) is so rudimentary I can only follow the invitation.

I'm hoping there's plenty of charm in these pick-ups. Anyway, there seems to be a general air of bemusement.

Also, 111op, why no link for this one?

&quot;Mes l&egrave;vres ont besoin d'explorer tout ton corps.&quot;

As I wrote, &quot;this one has a little personal history,&quot; Leely.



The blog is a little anonymous, but I'm getting more and more indiscreet.

It's a nice line, isn't it? I could reconstruct it only -- normally I try to check whatever I write.

Yes, I know. That's why I want the link.

I should have put the winky smiley in.
Because of course I'm just kidding!

Interesting, though, I very rarely see anonymous blogs.

I guess it depends on what you want to accomplish. There're all sorts of people fired for blogging -- and I guess the poli sci professor at U of C who keeps a blog was denied tenure:

http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/002353.html

(A friend told me about this.)

I'm not sure if I want my employer to know that I'm wasting my time on Fodors or on blogging, but I think that it's actually very easy for them to check on how much time you're spending on the net.

Actually I'm a little surprised that you say that you've not come across with that many anonymous blogs, Leely. People usually don't seem to include that many personal details. Occasionally they attach a picture, but that doesn't mean much.

In fact I include quite a lot of personal details on some level, and I'm pretty sure that people who know me will know that I've written my blog (even though I don't sign my name anywhere).

“Eh, bebe – ma petite chou, desirez-vous faites le hoochy-koochy avec moi? Heh, heh, heh!” (This should be said while twirling your moustache and wiggling your eyebrows up and down. It takes a certain level of sophistication to do this effectively.) ;-)

I like your blog... here is something a little higher level:

&quot;la sagesse est d'etre fou lorsque les circonstances en valent la peine&quot;